Junk food

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INTRODUCTION

The term Junk Food appears in 1980, it refer to a bad food on the diet plan in particular because of its low nutritional value and high fat or sugar. Symbolized by fast food at first, the definition of fast food has been extended to a broader criticism denoncing also the productivist and the consumer society. With Fast food and the import of the American model in Europe, the expression " to eat of the shit " is not any more a metaphor but a sad reality, because the grave food poisonings due to the presence of feces in the meat of hamburgers has already killed the children. Instead of wanting to proceed to changes so that this kind of problems do not reproduce, the industrialists of the Fast food and of agro food make everything to hide these problems, their responsibility and buy the politics by financing their campaign so that they keep silent and assure their immunity as by this law which in the USA forbids to criticize fast food. What are the effects on the health?

The causes The famous hamburger - chips is on the base of all the meals in the fast food. For some years, appeared some salads, chicken, fish for a new variety. In the USA, the small portions are the equivalent of our big portions in fast food. McDonald's multinational defends itself by asserting that a moderate consumption of its products would not be fatal for the health and that it is the excessive consumption of hamburgers and lack of variety that can turn out bad for the body.
Fast food are often indicated responsible for the obesity at the young people because the proposed food is considered as of the "junk food". Indeed studies show that there is a resemblance between the evolution of the obesity and that of the food served in fast food.
In 50 years:
- The average hamburger multiplied its size by 5
- The chips by 3
- Drinks until 6 times
In a restaurant (Heart Attack Grill) situated in Arizona, hamburgers are free every day, from morning till night. The only

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