* Fast Food, Slow Death

Every day, about a quarter of Americans are pursuing hamburger, fries and sodas, the basic food of American fast food.

US residents spend more on fast food than films, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and records.

Americans spent over 110 billion dollars on hamburgers, fried chicken, and other similar products in 2000, compared with $ 6 billion in 1970.

This obsession with fast food is detrimental to adults and children, said Eric Schlosser, a journalist who wrote Fast Food Nation, subtitled The Dark Side of American Flour.

The bestseller, just in the pocketbook book, argues that fast food has changed, as Americans eat, and is partially blamed for obesity, diabetes,  heart disease, and deaths from E-coli bacteria. 

Its author suggests that people basically boycott fast food until restaurants begin to prepare healthier foods.

"People should know what they eat and how it happens they should spend their money in places that make good food," said Schlosser Good Morning America.

"Nobody forces people to eat this stuff, and fast food places will change when customers demand change." Even if 2 to 3 percent of customers complained, this would lead to a sharp drop in sales, said Schlossberg.

What is good for them in the short term is not good for us in the long run.

As a fast food nation came out, McDonald's gave this answer: "His opinion [locksmith] is exaggerated from 45 million to 1 every day because that number of customers around the world choose to come to McDonald's for our menu of variety, value, and quality," said the statement.

Healthy and cheerful meals? American surgeon David Satcher launched a "Call to action" in mid-December and said that about 300,000 deaths a year are associated with obesity and the elimination of fast food schools.

"Fast food really moves in schools, which is awful because eating habits are formed when you're young, so when you get fat, you've started a battle of life," Schlosser said.

Fast food is not the only cause of obesity, but locksmiths say it is one of the factors that makes the United States the largest country in the world, with enormous health care costs and associated mortality.

The typical drink of soda contains the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar.

"Fast food attracts children with toys and film links," said Schlosser.

Every day in the United States, approximately 200,000 people are infected with food-borne pathogens.

Of those who get sick, 900 are sent to the hospital and 14 are dying every year.

According to Schlosser, the meat infected with E. coli and other pathogens are widespread due to industrial production and inadequate state monitoring.

Today, food processing methods, in which parts of many animals enter a single hamburger, can increase the risk of infection.

Schlosser cited a 1996 Department of Agriculture study, which found that 78.6% of the ground beef samples from the country's processing plants contained microbes, which were predominantly scattered from the droppings.

Another problem is that fast food chains tend to be unskilled immigrant workers who end up working in unsafe conditions but do not know how to ask for improvements.