Fast food restaurants have taken over the world. Everywhere you look there are adverts for the next cheapest meal, but how can something so unhealthy be so popular? Of course it's the taste we love, but we need to go beyond taste and prices and look at ourselves and our health. How could we be so blind to the effects? Twenty-five million Americans suffer from diabetes, and one of the main factors is fast food. Three hundred thousand people die every year from diabetes because they succumb to the unsatisfying diet of fast food. Burger King, a very popular fast food restaurant around the world, is an example of the causes of health risk. One culprit of this imbalance in the human diet is Burger King as the foods it produces do not meet the nutrients needed by our body. This means that if we get rid of this culprit, we can take further steps towards healthier diets that will open the doors to further improvements. The main problem with Burger King is that the products they produce do not satisfy the needs of our body. The contents of Burger Kings food are unhealthy and put you at risk for health problems due to the high amount of fat, cholesterol and sodium (Appleby). If someone ate Burger King every day they would begin to accumulate excess body fat, suffer from blocked arteries and develop high blood pressure (Appleby). This is shown in Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit where Drew Manning, a personal trainer from NASM, decided to eat unhealthy foods, such as Burger Kings, for six months and then shows how to lose all those pounds afterwards (Manning). He did it to demonstrate how it is possible to get back into shape after eating foods that only negatively affect the body. Because of this he documented his experiment with images... in the middle of paper... in the 1970s. The only thing these restaurants, like Burger King, provide is health problems and underdevelopment of people as they are not getting the amount of nutrients they need or the excess nutrients of things they don't need. A quote from Schlosser was: "Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk." This shows how we have embarked on a path of unhealthy diets that leads to disease and cancer. If we were to get rid of Burger King, people would start eating healthier foods or start cooking for themselves, but we can't just get rid of fast food. Better restaurants should be created that serve healthy foods with nutrients that our body does not receive such as omega, the number one nutrient that we need but do not receive.