The growth of the fast food industry has reached a staggering number. If there are so many millions or even billions of hamburgers, or chicken nuggets, or French fries sold each year, then imagine all the packaging that is thrown to waste. "One poll showed that Americans believe fast-food packaging takes up between 20 and 30 percent of landfill space, and expanded polystyrene foam between 25 to 40 percent. However, the Garbage Project found that fast-food packaging accounts for no more than one-third of one percent of the total volume of the average landfill." This is an issue that has been unfort

The final and most common effect fast food has is obesity. Some scientists have claimed that fast food has an addicting effect on people. The average person reports eating fast food at least 3 times a week. "Americans, both adults and children, are more overweight than ever and being overweight carries with it some very serious - indeed life-threatening - adverse health effects. It has been said that we Americans now suffer from malnutrition of affluence. We have more economic resources to purchase food, so we eat more. But of course, that is only half of the nutrition equation. We also utilize fewer calories through exercise, and the result is excess weight. With these extra pounds we face increased risk of myriad ailments, including diabetes, heart disease, even breast cancer (obesity in middle-aged women is an established risk factor for breast cancer)."

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