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The document discusses bad table manners including having one's napkin on one's lap, elbows on the table, speaking with one's mouth full, reaching over others, flatulating loudly, and eating in front of the television.

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Fast Food

The document discusses bad table manners including having one's napkin on one's lap, elbows on the table, speaking with one's mouth full, reaching over others, flatulating loudly, and eating in front of the television.

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Bad Table Manners:

 napkin free laps


 elbows on the table
 speaking with the mouth full
 reaching over someone else to grasp the salt when they could have just asked for it
 flatulating loudly
 expelling stomach gas from the mouth
 eating in front of the television

Why do we eat fast food?

It’s an unanswered question because even people who know about the danger
continuous to eat fast food. Researchers, from the University of Minnesota, surveyed
560 adults and asked about their attitudes towards fast food and their consumption of
fast food.

They found that younger people, singles and males ate more fast food than older
people, married couples and women. They also found that people who think fast food
is convenient, and those who dislike cooking, were considerably more likely to eat
fast food.

Interestingly, people who thought fast food was unhealthy ate as much of it as those
who didn't think this. The researchers believe that this indicates the current health
messages just aren't making an impact:

These findings suggest public education regarding the unhealthfulness of fast food
may not influence fast food consumption. Interventions targeting the issue of
convenience and quick or efficient preparation of nutritious alternatives to fast food
could be more promising.

With a different study (Eating Among Teens, involving data from 2,500 teens, also
from the University of Minnesota) showing an increase in the amount of fast food that
America's teens are eating, it's crucial that the right messages are being sent. Teens
and college students, in particular, are unlikely to listen to "don't eat fast food because
it's bad for you".

So perhaps nutritional bodies - and concerned adults - should be putting forward more
positively-framed messages:

 Home-cooked food can be just as cheap as fast food - and much better for you
 Anyone can learn to cook
 You can prepare a nutritious snack or meal in minutes

What is it fast food

Fast food (also known as Quick Service Restaurant or QSR within the industry
itself) is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While
any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the
term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked
ingredients, and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away.
The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951.

Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food
restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchise operations which are
part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from
central locations.

The capital requirements involved in opening up a non-franchised fast food restaurant


are relatively low. Restaurants with much higher sit-in ratios, where customers tend to
sit and have their orders brought to them in a seemingly more upscale atmosphere,
may be known in some areas as fast casual restaurants.

Nutritional deficiencies of fast food

If you are going to eat at Fast Food Restaurants, you are not going to get all the
vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids, etc. etc.  There are forty nutrients that
cannot be made in the body. They are essential fatty acid, 15 vitamins, 14 minerals,
and 10 amino acids. Collectively these forty nutrients are spoken of as the body's
requirements. From these our bodies synthesize an estimated 10,000 different
compounds essential to the maintenance of health.  All the forty nutrients work
together, therefore, the lack of any one might result in the underproduction of
hundreds of these essential compounds. Probably no one nutrient is ever totally
lacking from an otherwise adequate diet, but partial simultaneous deficiencies of
many nutrients is common.

Is fast food any good

No, even the selections that they deem "healthy" are loaded with fat, carbs, and
sodium, often more than you should consume during an entire day. Having said that,
if you' re pretty healthy and take care of yourself, the occasional fast food visit isn't
going to do you any harm. Keep it in moderation, along with a normally good diet and
exercise, and you should be fine.

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