Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Whats eating you!!!

                Fast food makes you unhealthy. What is really in your food if you get fast-food.  Children eat five times more fast food today than they did in 1970. One out of three young people aged four to nineteen eat fast food. Almost 20 percent of children aged six and up were overweight in 2003-2004. Being over-weight can lead to many health problems 2 type of diabetes. In 1994, only about 5 percent of children with diabetes had the type 2 kind.
                Why do young people seen to be heavier- and unhealthier- than ever before? One they ride the bus or find a way to get to school instead of walking, and play video games instead of sports. Ages of eight and eighteen sit in front of the TV for more than three hours each day, watching television is not only making children gain weight.
                Fast-food restaurants spend millions of dollars a year on their commercials. Like burgers, fries, shakes, and other foods that they sell look delicious. But fast-food restaurants are everywhere you see when you drive somewhere where you live or going to another state. Eating fast-food is ok once in a while if you make healthy choices at fast-food restaurants.
                Krispy kreme and other fast-food restaurants appeal to families cause of their low prices and quick service. Americans were spending more than $136 billion per year on fast food. Fast food restaurants  isn’t cooked there from scratch, a lot of it is mass- produced in big factories.  Most fast-food is loaded with fat, calories, sugar, and salt.
                -fat, your body needs some fats for energy and to help it grow. Who are overweight are more likely to have asthma.
                Ask your-self these questions
·         How often should you eat fast-food?
·         What are the least healthy items at fast-food restaurants?
·         What are the healthiest items at fast-food restaurants?
·         How can you modify your fast-food meals to make them healthier?
·         What portion size should you order?
·         What is the best way to lose the extra weight, gained from  eating too much fast food?

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