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  • Essay / The fast food industry: culprit or scapegoat? - 994

    Because they want a cheap meal that will fill them up, they will go to fast food. In a video called "The Dollar Menu," a family shows that fruit can and will cost more than a burger from the dollar menu, candy or even soda and they blame their busy schedule for missing it healthy choices. The father in the video suffers from diabetes and is worried that their youngest daughter may also have it since they eat mostly fast food meals. The family says healthy foods are not only more expensive, but they don't fill them or their children. The family struggles with their income and discovers that fast food is the cheapest way to feed their family. Fast food affects your energy levels, your liver, your heart and can lead to diabetes. These fast food restaurants make it incredibly easy for this family to get food without spending a lot of money. The reason fast food is so cheap is because it's unhealthy and they don't care what they're doing to people's health; they just want the money. Fast foods are killing it