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Title: The Social and Economic Impacts of Fast Food


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The Social and Economic Impacts of Fast Food
  • By Jeanette Graham

2
What is Fast Food and Where Did it Come From?
  • Inexpensive, non-nutritious, quickly prepared
    food
  • Introduced in America on July 7, 1912 Automat,
    NYC
  • First restaurant was White Castle
  • Most successful walk up was McDonalds
  • They based the restaurant on the principles of
    high speed, large volume, and low price (Ritzer
    2004 p. 38).

3
Social Impacts
  • First regarded as a treat
  • Social gatherings birthday parties,
    celebrations, etc
  • Discovery Zone, Chuckie Cheese, playpens in
    McDonalds and Burger King
  • The Consumption of fast food by children
    increased dramatically from 1970 to the
    mid-1990sits estimated that children now get 10
    percent of their total energy intake from fast
    foods, compared to 2 percent in the late 1970s
    (Robinson 2004 para.1).

4
Social Impacts
  • Nutrition

5
Social Impacts
  • Health problems Obesity, hypertension, asthma,
    malnutrition, high cholesterol
  • the odds of becoming obese over a 15-year period
    increased by 86 among young white
    adultsvisiting fast-food restaurants more than
    twice per week (Bowman 2004, para. 20).
  • Start eating as a child, continue to adulthood
  • More than 100 million adults are considered
    overweight, and 44 million considered obese

6
Economic Impacts
  • Large profits
  • new, convenience, appealing to children
  • Employment
  • The large number of people employed in fast-food
    restaurants accounts for over 40 percent of the
    approximately 6 million people employed in
    restaurants of all types. Fast-food restaurants
    rely heavily on teenage employees- almost 70
    percent of their employees are 20 years of age or
    younger (Ritzer, 2006, p. 171).

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Economic Impacts
  • New markets
  • Diet pills and weight loss supplements
  • Extra strong products
  • Heavier flights have created heftier fuel
    costsSo many of us are obese that weve created
    a market for a whole industry supplying us with
    extra-large and reinforced car seats, giant
    chairs, super-heavy bathroom scales(Spurlock,
    2005, p. 10)

8
Fast Food
  • Positive influence for economics
  • Jobs, profit, new markets
  • Negative influence for health
  • Disease, obesity, nutrition
  • Ok in moderation
  • Will continue to have the same affects if no
    changes are made

9
References
  • Bowman, S., Gortmaker, S., Ebbeling, C., Pereira,
    M., Ludwig, D. (2004). Effects of
  • Fast-Food Consumption on Energy Intake
    and Diet Quality Among Children in a National
    Household Survey. Journal of The American
    Academy of Pediatrics, 113 112-118. Retrieved on
    November 10, 2006 from Entrez PubMed on the
    world wide web http//pediatrics.aappublications
    .org/cgi/content/full/113/1/112
  • French, S., Harnack, L., Jeffery, R. (2002). Fast
    food restaurant use among women in the
  • Pound of Prevention study dietary, behavioral
    and demographic correlates. International journal
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  • (2004-2005). Nutrition Facts for your McMeal.
    Welcome to McDonalds.
  • Retrieved on November 5, 2006
    http//app.mcdonalds.com/bagamcmeal?processflash
  • Ritzer, G. (2004). The McDonaldization of
    society. Thousand Oaks Pine Forge Press
  • Ritzer, G. (2006). McDonaldization. The reader.
    Thousand Oaks Pine Forge Press
  • Robinson, V. (2004). Fast food and obesity- is
    there a connection? Health and Healthcare
  • in Schools 4, 12. Retrieved November, 3, 2006.
    from Health in Schools on the world wide web
    http//www.healthinschools.org/ejournal/2004/feb4
    .htm
  • Spurlock, M. (2005). Dont eat this book. New
    York G. P. Putnams Sons.
  • Wexler, B. (2004). Weight in America. Obesity,
    eating disorders, and other health
  • risks. New York Thomas Gale.
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