Nothing is HEALTHY Anymore

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Even though fast food restaurants are fast and quick in an emergency, getting rid of fast food should lower the over population of overweight people. Provided fast food restaurants usually don’t use real meat, and without real meat there are more fats and preservatives than our body needs. At HELPGUIDE.org they say that just one meal at a fast food restaurant can hold enough calories, sodium, and fat for that entire day! (Paul and Robinson 1) Not only are they unhealthy, but they are unclean. An illustration is that when you go to get your drink, look up the ice dispenser. Many times there will be mold. There is a way to eat healthier at a fast food restaurant, but it will not be as enticing.
If humanity gets rid of fast food, we would be healthier. First of all drive thru’s aren’t as instantaneous and accurate as they use to be. Plus the order accuracy, on average, has dropped drastically. In 2013, the drive thru industry was at 88.8%, but this year our percentage decreased to 87.2%. Sure that is only 1.6%, but they are also nine seconds slower. This was the first decrease in 15 years! Their reason for being slower is that now they make 12 ingredient sandwiches, which is a more complex sandwich, that takes more time to make than a normal 5 ingredient burger, says USA Today. A new fact about our drive thrus presently is that 60-70% of their business is done at the drive thru. Most people will say that they can wait that extra nine seconds to get their complex sandwich, but that complex sandwich doubles in fat grams, sodium, and carbs. Other people say that the 1% drop in accuracy is not a big deal, until their sandwich/hamburger gets messed up. (www.usatoday.com)
There are ways to eat healthier a...

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...ss the restaurants up their game, clean things up, and order actual meat. In conclusion getting rid of fast food restaurants should help our well-being, and hopefully aid us to make beneficial decisions.

Works Cited
Maya W. Paul, and Lawrence Robinson. "Healthy Fast Food." : Tips for Making Healthier Fast Food Choices. N.p., Nov. 2013. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.
Horovitz, Bruce. "Fast-food Drive-thrus Are Getting Slower." USA Today. Gannett, 30 Sept. 2013. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.
Barrett, Mike. "Shocking: Fast Food Hamburgers Could Be as Little as 2 Percent ACTUAL Meat | NationofChange." NationofChange. N.p., 2 Aug. 2013. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.
Crouch, Michelle. "13+ Things Your Fast Food Worker Won’t Tell You." Reader's Digest. Readers Digest Magazine, Nov. 2012. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.

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