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Fat: Bigger Than Ever
Posted by Kerry Trueman on November 14, 2005 - 2:18pm.
Sorry, South Beach diet, it’s over. You were just an aberration for the Fast Food Nation.
Sales of burgers, fries, and doughnuts are soaring, according to Business Week. Fried chicken’s selling so well that KFC’s even thinking about spelling out its name again.
Americans are back on the junk food bandwagon in denial or defiance of all the warnings about high fat diets. But are the fast food outlets really to blame?
Morgan Spurlock morphed in one month from lean and vital to lethargic and doughy with his all-McDonald’s-all-the-time-diet in “Super Size Me.”
Now comes “Portion Size Me,” a documentary from James Painter, professor at the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University, who makes the case that the true culprit is oversized portions.
A new study from Cornell University backs up Professor Painter’s claims. Researchers found that “large portions of food push people to overeat—even to overeat foods they don’t like.”
In the study, moviegoers were given medium and large buckets of stale popcorn. Those with the big buckets ate 34% more than participants with medium buckets, even though the popcorn was two weeks old.
Evidently, if you serve it, they will eat. And eat. And eat.
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Despite these recent studies, fast food chains help maintain the obesity of Americans. When all else fails fast food chains can always increase the size of there meals in order to boost sails. Take the Hardee’s Thickburger for example, this burger has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1300 calories and an entire daily allowance of fat, not to mention that it is a massive portion. Fast food chains know that as long as they continue to provide cheap, food in massive portions, America’s gluttony will keep the masses lining up.
Fast food is awesome…it’s fast..its instant. At McDonalds, they litterally give you your food in ten seconds. However, at certain chains, such as Taco Bell, the vast majority of their employees do not speak english very well. This causes the incompetent person behind the counter to repeatedly misunderstand one’s order. However, the spanish speaking employees provide Taco Bell with an authentic mexican environment. (Not that anyone wants to go to Mexico anyway). Although the contents of the food may not be up to grade A standards, the food is still as high quality tasting as a fine dining experience.