Fast food has been in America for generations, the tradition burgers, fries and a coke or a shake has been a staple in the American diet. Since 1953, the iconic McDonald's logo has been pulsating the people living with close to 40,000 chains and pop ups in the United States according to The Guardian. The average American spends one thousand two hundred dollars on fast food a year stated by Daily Mail. Since 1970 the restaurant business has doubled and more than 300,000 fast food establishments are in the United States alone. Just last year according to stateofobesity.org, Kansas was ranked 7th in the obesity rate of adults, high schoolers, and toddlers. This puts United States 12th in world ranking with a 35% obesity rate. Thats is over 100 million people obese in America. Fast food is having a negative impact on the consumer’s physical health, the purchaser’s spending quantity, and childhood obesity rate.
As a person gets bigger, they can either do two things: get exercise and burn off the extra calories, or sit and turn potential muscle into fat.This is a major problem for Americans especially in the recent years. Ambition and motivation for going to the gym has declined. According to the Kansas City Star, 4 out of 5 children under five years of age are considered obese by poor dieting in the United States. This is not a problem, it is an epidemic and has to be changed fast before our generation
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Individual Americans spend over billions and billions of dollars on fast food every year. A study by The Daily Mail carried out this statistic and asked 1000 adults. found that the average american buys and consumes fast food on two occasions every week, spending around $12.50 per meal. The report, which looked at the average spend for 50 weeks, also found many who go for the fast food option do so because they are either too busy, or too impatient to create a wholesome home-cooked