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 * 3rd Quarter Benchmark**

Consider the expensive meals and obscure ingredients favored by a number of celebrity chefs, none of the fast food restaurants use these ingredients in their food. Fast food is cheap and killing or fattening people all around the world. I believe the fat epidemic in America is caused by the fast food restaurants. In this essay I will show you why that is. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that these fast food companies are targeting children because if they get the children then they get the parents as well. If these kids get hooked on fast food they will keep eating fast food when they are grown up. If a kid eats there a lot they are going to get fat. Some believe it is not the fault of the parent who let the kids eat unhealthy, it’s the fault of TV advertising. The kids are being hurt for life before they even understand how to spell. These fast food companies such as McDonalds know they are hurting people and they don’t care. They care about making money! David Zinczenko says “fast food companies are marketing a product with proven health hazards and no warning labels”. They don’t care about any ones health; they are like the tobacco companies using nicotine to get buyers addicted. McDonalds is using artificial flavoring to make really bad food taste good so people come back for more. The fast food industry has made an epidemic that is the downfall of America. America was once the greatest company in the world and now is the fattest country in the world. The fast food companies now have “healthy choices”. Kids prefer McDonalds packaged carrots to normal packaged carrots. This means the kids are going to McDonalds to have something from the healthy menu but will more than likely get something from the normal menu as well which is why people are still getting fat. Most the choices at fast food restaurants have a lot of calories and they cancel out the good things from the healthy menu. Overall it is not healthy. For some poor families fast food restaurants are often chosen because the food is cheap and easy to get. They get fat because they want cheap and easy food. In this essay I have shown how these fast food restaurants are a big problem in America and how if we get rid of fast food restaurants we can turn America from the fattest country in the world to the greatest country in the world