Fast Food Makes People Fat Essay

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Imagine someone is walking into a mall and is about to go through the spinning doors when they get stuck, because they are too fat to fit. Lots of people throughout the world go to fast food restaurants for most of their meals because they are fast and cheap. What these people don’t know is that the food they are constantly eating is one of the most fat and sugar filled meals on the planet. The fat that is in the meals they are eating is not the healthy saturated fat that comes from avocados and nuts, it is unsaturated fat which comes from unhealthy processed food like french fries. This type of fat is full of LDL (cholesterol) which causes blood clots, that eventually lead heart disease. There are over
610,00 people who die from heart attacks …show more content…

Fast food has a generally high concentration of fat and sugar, both of which - in excess - can overload the body’s metabolism. In the article, “ What Happens To Your Body When You Stuff Yourself Like A Turkey On Thanksgiving,” Macrina Cooper-White states, “For those who eat a well-balanced diet and have no metabolic disorders, excess dietary carbohydrates are converted by the liver into complex chains of glucose called glycogen. Glycogen is stored in liver and muscle cells and is a secondary source of energy to freely circulating blood glucose.” This means that cells eat food, like sugar and fat, but if too much is in the blood your cells can’t eat it. Your body will take that excess food and store it as glycogen: Body fat. The more body fat you have, the more obese you become.
In the article, “Slow Food,” the author states, “... It isn't just the fast food that's killing people, it's what they termed a ‘fast-food lifestyle’ that includes inactivity, gluttony and doing everything - including eating - too fast.” Thus meaning, eating a great deal fast food tends to bring with it an unhealthy lifestyle, one of excess, eating too much too quickly. Not only does this increase the amount of glycogen you make, but it decreases your

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