DANGER OF FAST FOOD

Fast foods are the foods which can be prepared and served very rapidly. Characteristically, fast food is referred as food that sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the consumer in a form of package for take-out/take-away. Nowadays, fast-food consumption has increased dramatically. Daily unhealthy eating and inactivity are responsible for more deaths than other all combined factors including alcohol, illicit use of drugs, sexual behavior, and firearms. Fast food statistics suggest that fast food is not good for your health while eating more than once a week.
Fast food creates a double whammy on health when you lead a deskbound lifestyle. Ton of calories are present in fast food and so eating this can cause needless weight gain, obesity, and overall poor health especially by greasy burgers and fries. In the US, Fifty million people are dependent on fast food that means lot of people eats a poor diet. America is not the only country having fast food chains, because although America is the most consumer, the continent number one is Europe with more fast-food chains in which highlight United Kingdom and Ireland. Other continents which have a great number of fast food chains are Asia followed by North America. However, the statistics of fast food on overweight Americans will cause you to consider they are the leaders in fast food industry although America is not the pioneer in those chains of fast-food because McDonalds, Subway and Burger King are the fast food restaurants which are situated in most of all the major cities of the world.

Percentage of overweight in each one country:

What about the money ?

In U.S, more than 50,000,000 people depend on fast food. Over 110 billion dollars are spent by Americans alone for different types of fast food in which we can include not only restaurant but also some coffeehouses, ice cream palors and pizzerias as:

-McDonalds (Oak Brook, Illinois) … US$21.6 billion,
-Yum! Brands including KFC (Louisville, Kentucky) … $9.6 billion
-Starbucks (Seattle, Washington) … $7.8 billion
-Darden Restaurants (Orlando, Florida) … $5.6 billion
-Brinker International (Dallas, Texas) … $4.2 billion
-Wendy’s (Dublin, Ohio) … $2.5 billion
-Burger King (Miami, Florida) … $2.1 billion
-Domino’s Pizza (Ann Arbor, Michigan) … $1.6 billion
-Applebee’s International (Overland Park, Kansas) … $1.3 billion