“Hi! May I take your order, and would you like to supersize your meal today?” Every time we go through a dive thru these are the familiar words we hear through the intercom. So many times today they don't even have to ask what you would like; we already know. On average "Around 28% of Americans say they grab fast food at least once a week. Sixteen percent are hitting their favorite restaurants several times weekly" (Lake). It is extremely common for the average person to swing by a drive through because it is convenient, cheap, and there are options for the whole family. Yet primarily, I believe the main reason we continue to go through the drive thru time after time is because fat, salt, and MSG's lead our body to believe we need these things. …show more content…
His reasoning behind the law suit was the obesity epidemic in the United States and he him self was a larger man who had suffered from a recent double heart attack. John Banzhaf, of George Washington University Law School in Washington DC states, "Some scientists are starting to believe that bingeing on foods that are excessively high in fat and sugar can cause changes to your brain and body that make it hard to say no". This gives the reader a reason to believe that not only is fast food cause an obesity epidemic but people are unable to stop. Think about all the people that have tried to lose weight and have been unsuccessful the main reason I believe they can't lose weight is because the addiction is so strong. Think of the most intense carving you've ever had it was probably some kind of fast food, because the salt and sugar I golfed in those food take over a part of our brain that tells us to say …show more content…
John Hoebel, a psychologist at Princeton University has shifted his focus from drug abuse to "whether it is possible to become dependent on the natural opioids released when you eat a large amount of sugar" (Martindale). It is important to address that not everyone's body reacts the same to sugar intake but it is a fair point to make when surgery levels in fast food are so large. Physiologists Hoebel states, "'The brain is getting addicted to its own opioids as it would morphine or heroin'" (Martindale). When the reader relates fast food with illegal substances the scary reality of fast food addiction becomes a very possible outcome. Ann Kelley, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, "found that if rats' opioid receptors are overstimulated with a synthetic enkephalin, the rats eat up to six times the amount of fat they normally consume. They also raise their intake of sweet, salty and alcohol-containing solutions, even when they are not hungry" (Martindale). This gives the reader an example of fast food addiction on a smaller scale but an accurate representation of how sugar and fat continent in food can effect the human body. Although the research is limited many scientist believe it is worthy of more effective