Blog:An essay Planty once wrote (Off topic)

'''Planty once wrote an essay about fast food for his school. Now it's the perfect time to share it with the guys like you!'''

Fast food has been around since ancient times, but the type of food had become popular in America since companies like White Castle and McDonald's were all in the rage. Fast food is marketable because of the taste and is not that expensive which made the likes of Burger King and Wendy’s to be everywhere mainly because they are well known for the inexpensive combo of burgers and fries. Statistics even show that more American men tend to eat more fast food than women at least once a week, especially those who are younger. Although it’s ok to eat fast food, consuming tons of the type of food can be fatal. Most folks don't realize what kind of ingredients the chefs put in the so-called "fresh" meals, how dirty the places are that serve fast food, and the consequences one’s health can suffer. A customer would need to know that fast-food restaurants can fool customers who would think an item from the fast-food menu is excellent while also containing some of the most atrocious ingredients. One example is when Dr. Joseph Mercola in “Dirty, Rotten Fast Food Secrets” lists many secrets of fast food eateries, stating, “Eating the food at nearly every fast-food chain ... means you are likely consuming feedlot animal meat - flesh that comes from animals raised in crowded, unsanitary conditions, fed massive doses of antibiotics and unnatural “Frankenfeed” full of GM crops and some others are truly disturbing ingredients” (Mercola). Not knowing what’s exactly in your food is dangerous, because the meals can contain some elements that wouldn’t sound right for a food item. Those additives are just there to make money and boost the fast-food flavor while also damaging the human body. You also got Renee Jacques who also shows his concern about fast food ingredients declaring “Some things that are in this special blend include glycerin, a solvent found in soap and shaving cream, dimethylpolysiloxane, a silicone that can also be found in Silly Putty, and calcium silicate, a sealant used on roofs and concrete” (Jacques). An ingredient that can contain anything that would look harmless can turn out to be nasty to the point where the food becomes utterly disgusting once you know what the ingredient is. The ingredients are fine when put on certain materials but putting the ingredients on food would be considered unhealthy. Jacques also explains how fast-food restaurants can be sneaky when he comments “Unsurprisingly, most fast-food restaurants don't list the exact ingredients in their lettuce -- you wouldn't think they'd need to -- but many places dust their salads with propylene glycol to keep the leaves crisp” (Jacques). Just because you see a healthier option does not mean anything like a salad wrap at McDonald's is healthy, the exact ingredients must get analyzed before consuming the so-called “healthy” food item. With that in mind, the customer must know what to eat before eating food that boasts trickery. One of the most disturbing truths about chowing down on fast food at a restaurant is that unclean areas tend to play a role in the restaurant and affect the customer. According to NBC News, an article called “Dirty dining” conveys “Health inspectors cited a Virginia Burger King for 14 separate critical violations: employees not washing their hands, uncovered food in the fridge, grime and debris found on this ice chute, and the drink machine at the drive-thru window” (Dirty Dining?). If the restaurants don’t clean up after themselves, then stuff like bacteria will affect many guests. To extend the point, instead of the restaurants relying on health inspectors, the restaurant workers would need to know the restaurant in whole before health inspection. The NBC news article also showed proof that health problems do exist examining “After eating at this McDonalds in Erwin, Tenn., last March one hundred people became violently ill. Some ended up in the hospital, dehydrated and even hallucinating” (Dirty Dining?). Sickness is not a joke when someone gets sent to a doctor after going to a restaurant and somehow becomes sick. True, not many people would easily get sick, but instant nausea at a restaurant can be scary if an individual magically gets sent to a hospital all because of the lack of cleanliness in restaurants. One other factor that can cause restaurants to be unclean would be how NBC knows what causes most restaurants to be unclean assuming “The Centers for Disease Control says sick restaurant employees very likely contaminated food with a virus, although McDonald’s disputes that” (Dirty Dining). You see, even one of the most well-known restaurants can suffer from the fate of customers getting a virus. The people who work in these fields need to notice how one sick worker can cause a customer to get instantly ill. Just look at how sick people must go to a fate where a customer would possibly rush to a health clinic because of how despicable dirty restaurants can be. One last thing that fast food fans don’t seem to care about is how their health can suffer from the dangers of fast food. A critic named Roger Ebert expresses his thoughts on a movie called Super-Size Me which is about Morgan Spurlock who experiments with fast food explaining, “I approached Super-Size Me in a very particular frame of mind, because in December 2002, after years of fooling around, I began seriously following the Pritikin program of nutrition and exercise, and have lost about 86 pounds” (Ebert). This movie teaches viewers about the disadvantages of deciding to eat fast food very often. As a documentary talking about fast food dangers, Morgan is more than just experimenting with fast food. The movie progresses when Morgan experiences health factors with Roger illustrates how the doctors “recheck him regularly during the filming, as his weight balloons 30 pounds, his blood pressure skyrockets, his cholesterol goes up 65 points, he has symptoms of a toxic shock to his liver, his skin begins to look unhealthy, his energy drops, he has chest pains ...” (Ebert). The doctors examined Mogan’s health after he eats at Mickey D’s more often to find the true side effects. Eating fast food most of the time is shocking due to how a fast-food restaurant can have food that possesses side effects that leads to health issues. The movie gets more interesting when the doctors said that Mogan’s health was so bad, the critic points out, “At one point his doctors advise him to abandon McDonald's before he does permanent damage” (Ebert). If an individual were to eat so much fast food, the health damage would last so often; there’s no escape. A fast food-only customer would need to take health more severe or else the customer would suffer. If a careless customer thinks fast food can harm a body, wait until the customer watches Super-Size Me. Going to a drive-thru and getting lunch is not wrong, but just being used to fast food most of the time is not necessary. Having a fast-food-only diet leads to numerous problems such as experiencing the worst attributes to be found in food, getting queasy from food that is exposed to unwell workers, and being infected by side effects that can quickly kill the human body. Fast-food fans need to realize no one can’t just live on fast food; the consumers need to eat fast food in moderation to avoid what trouble could happen to a healthy body. Anyone including the people who work at fast food can agree that toning down fast food indulgence allows the customers to play safe. Want to know what a healthier alternative for food is, ask the workers or go to the official site of the restaurant to find out. As bad as Fast food is, people would question the fast-food restaurants knowing the dangerous properties of fast food. To make the story short, the customers would need to research who handles the fast-food restaurant to get to know the place better before eating out.

'''And there you have it. That was my essay! The formatting was better on Google Docs'''