Fast Food Restaurants Should Sell Healthier Food or Be...

There are one hundred sixty thousand fast food restaurants in the United States of America. Everyone should think twice before deciding to eat fast food. Fast food restaurants need to sell healthier foods and tell the people what is actually in the food. Fast food restaurants should be banished in the US. The fast food restaurants should be taxed more. A person’s health is one of the most important aspects about them. People want to be skinny and have a perfect body, people cannot eat fast food all of the time and maintain a good healthy body. The average calories intake for a fast food meal is one thousand. The average intake for calories in a day is about two thousand. This means that if a person eats a fast food meal once in a day then†¦show more content†¦Fast food restaurants try to get the children to come there by offering the kids toys or fun meals. Children ages six to eleven saw three to five fast food ads on TV every day (Orciari). This means that more and more children want to go to fast food restaurants because they see something cool or funny on TV that advertises a fast food meal. Now fast food restaurants are targeting children because they are so easy to draw them in to eat at their restaurant. The children that ate fast food consumed more total calories, more calories per gram of food, more total a nd saturated fat, more total carbohydrate, more added sugars and more sugar-sweetened beverages. The children that ate fast food consumed less milk, fiber, fruit and vegetables. This is why there are more obese children in the US than there was in the 1950’s. Obesity rates in children have more than tripled in the past three decades. Most fast food restaurants stepped up advertising to children and teens. Most advertising promotes unhealthy menu items and takes advantage of young people by advertising something cool or a toy to get them to eat at their restaurant, making it even tougher for parents to raise healthy children (Harris). The average preschooler sees almost three ads per day for fast food; children ages six through eleven see three and a half; and teens ages twelve to seventeen see almost five (Harris). This shows how important it is for fast food