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Emily RoatEmily RoatCAS 100A Effective Speech CommunicationsCAS 100A Effective Speech Communications

Penn State HazletonPenn State HazletonOctober 10, 2011October 10, 2011

OverviewOverview

I.I. What is Addiction to Fast Food?What is Addiction to Fast Food?

II.II. What creates addiction to Fast Food?What creates addiction to Fast Food?

III.III.What are the signs of addiction to Fast Food?What are the signs of addiction to Fast Food?

IV.IV.What’s addicting in Fast Food?What’s addicting in Fast Food?

First, what is addiction?First, what is addiction?

According to dictionary.com According to dictionary.com it is:it is:

““The fact or condition of The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.”substance, thing, or activity.”

What makes fast food What makes fast food addictive?addictive?

CravingsCravings Advertisements glamorize fast Advertisements glamorize fast

food, stimulating our sense for the food, stimulating our sense for the foodfood

ConvenienceConvenience Fast, cheap, and easy to getFast, cheap, and easy to get

““Binging on foods that are high in fat and sugar Binging on foods that are high in fat and sugar may cause changes in the brain that make it may cause changes in the brain that make it hard to say NO.”hard to say NO.”

““By stimulating the brain's natural opioids, By stimulating the brain's natural opioids, large doses of the foods can produce a high that large doses of the foods can produce a high that is similar, though less intense, to that produced is similar, though less intense, to that produced by heroin and cocaine, they say.”by heroin and cocaine, they say.”

According to Jeremy Laurance:According to Jeremy Laurance:

What are the signs of FF What are the signs of FF addiction?addiction?

Signs of fast food addiction according to Gigi Signs of fast food addiction according to Gigi StarrStarr

1)1) Craving of sugary or oily foodsCraving of sugary or oily foods

2)2) Feeling of weakness stemming from Feeling of weakness stemming from structural changes in the brainstructural changes in the brain

3)3) Feeling of euphoria and completion after Feeling of euphoria and completion after a fast food meala fast food meal

4)4) Habit of eating fast food more than twice Habit of eating fast food more than twice a daya day

What’s Addictive in Fast What’s Addictive in Fast Foods?Foods?

According to Gigi Starr the following are…According to Gigi Starr the following are…

Salt, Sugar, FatSalt, Sugar, Fat high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated and partially high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated and partially

hydrogenated oilshydrogenated oils Casein-“nicotine of fast food”Casein-“nicotine of fast food”

refined and concentrated form created by adding refined and concentrated form created by adding calcium hydrogenphsophate to concentrated milk solidscalcium hydrogenphsophate to concentrated milk solids

Monosodium GlutamateMonosodium Glutamate flavoring agentflavoring agent According to the book: “Nutrition For the Normal Adult”- According to the book: “Nutrition For the Normal Adult”-

MSG may also interfere with appetite suppression and MSG may also interfere with appetite suppression and cause you to feel hunger even after you've eaten a large cause you to feel hunger even after you've eaten a large amount of foodamount of food

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Emily Roat

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ReferencesReferences Aldrdige, Temesha. Big Mac Nutrition. 14 June, Aldrdige, Temesha. Big Mac Nutrition. 14 June,

2011. 2011. www.livestrong.com Images from googleImages from google Laurance, Jeremy. Fast Food is Addictive in Same Laurance, Jeremy. Fast Food is Addictive in Same

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Matinez, Jessica. Matinez, Jessica. What does it mean to have a What does it mean to have a balanced diet? balanced diet? 14 June, 2011. www.livestrong.com]14 June, 2011. www.livestrong.com]

Tyson, Ashley. Addictive Ingredients in Fast Food. Tyson, Ashley. Addictive Ingredients in Fast Food. 14 June, 2011. 14 June, 2011. www.livestrong.com