Fast Food & Health - What Are the Choices?
We have all seen the documentaries about fast food restaurants on low-income areas and how they cause the residents in the area to become obese.
The simple fact that the restaurant is there is very bad for the residents.
Poor men and women are presented with few choices when it comes to eating out due to the rising prices of food all around.
Selection is thin when there's only so much that one is able to spend.
They tend to go for the good deal and for a place that is close by.
A one dollar hamburger looks like a great deal at the local fast-food joint but is terrible in its calorie content and awful for your health.
In fact, there hasn't just been one documentary done on this story.
There has been an ample amount of involvement in the cinematic world, and many documentaries and TV specials have chronicled the problems that people face with respect to these issues.
New York's Area Council got involved and made new labeling laws that it hoped would help gain people's awareness of this problem.
By letting people know what they were eating, the theory was that people might begin to think twice about any poor nutritional habits that may exist.
Unfortunately, the result wasn't what they were hoping it would be.
Even with the new labeling laws in place a recent survey showed that there was virtually no change in the diet habits of New York's poor people.
They still continue on the same track of a poor diet, eating the same bad foods that they've always eaten without any serious regard for what it does to their bodies.
Companies such as McDonald's and KFC seem to think that this is wrongful information however and report that men and women are ordering food that is lower in fat and calories.
This makes no sense.
How could they have such different information than the independent survey? One thing that could be setting the figures off is the fact that chains like Subway have much healthier low cost foods and the chains with the unhealthy foods like McDonald and KFC are using the healthy reports in their equation.
This will definitely throw the numbers off for an accurate report.
What the metropolis is doing is using the reports from wealthier neighborhoods where better food is more readily available and group those reports with those from the poorer neighborhoods that don't offer the healthier food.
All-in-all the City's statement is useless.
The poor are still making bad food choices.
The simple fact that the restaurant is there is very bad for the residents.
Poor men and women are presented with few choices when it comes to eating out due to the rising prices of food all around.
Selection is thin when there's only so much that one is able to spend.
They tend to go for the good deal and for a place that is close by.
A one dollar hamburger looks like a great deal at the local fast-food joint but is terrible in its calorie content and awful for your health.
In fact, there hasn't just been one documentary done on this story.
There has been an ample amount of involvement in the cinematic world, and many documentaries and TV specials have chronicled the problems that people face with respect to these issues.
New York's Area Council got involved and made new labeling laws that it hoped would help gain people's awareness of this problem.
By letting people know what they were eating, the theory was that people might begin to think twice about any poor nutritional habits that may exist.
Unfortunately, the result wasn't what they were hoping it would be.
Even with the new labeling laws in place a recent survey showed that there was virtually no change in the diet habits of New York's poor people.
They still continue on the same track of a poor diet, eating the same bad foods that they've always eaten without any serious regard for what it does to their bodies.
Companies such as McDonald's and KFC seem to think that this is wrongful information however and report that men and women are ordering food that is lower in fat and calories.
This makes no sense.
How could they have such different information than the independent survey? One thing that could be setting the figures off is the fact that chains like Subway have much healthier low cost foods and the chains with the unhealthy foods like McDonald and KFC are using the healthy reports in their equation.
This will definitely throw the numbers off for an accurate report.
What the metropolis is doing is using the reports from wealthier neighborhoods where better food is more readily available and group those reports with those from the poorer neighborhoods that don't offer the healthier food.
All-in-all the City's statement is useless.
The poor are still making bad food choices.
