Fast food chains should be banned from America because of their unhealthy foods and drinks. The fast-food industry is one of the most productive industries in America, producing billions of dollars each year from their harmful meals. Because they make so much money from their fatty foods, fast food chains have done little to provide foods beneficial to the body, and there has not been enough emphasis on the problems that fast foods can stimulate.

Fast food chains have been linked to over three hundred thousand deaths a year. Many foods store different types of fats, which cause Americans to become obese. For example, Burger King serves the Double Whopper with cheese, consisting of more than half the calories and almost all the fat needed in a day. A regular Burger King meal, which includes a Whopper burger with medium sized French Fries and Pepsi, contains the total number of calories and fat needed in a day. More than sixty-four percent of Americans are fat or obese, and most eat at fast food chains. Studies have proven that if a person eats at these chains everyday, without cardiovascular exercises, the person will become fat and eventually obese. Fast foods are packed with transaturated fat, the most harmful kind of fat, and have been shown to have no nutritional values. Fast food chains have been proven to cause deaths, and if these fast food chains are banned, the rising death rate will decrease.

In many fast food chains, they also promote unhealthy liquids like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Root Beer. These drinks have excess amounts of sugar, and are shown to harm your body in at least one hundred and forty-six ways, including weakening your bones and causing heart disease. In fact, studies show that one out of every five calories are gained from liquids. America and England, the largest sugar consumers, have the most fast food eaters, and if fast food chains should close, the consumption of sugar will immediately decrease and people will lead healthier lives.

In addition, fast food chains not only promote damaging foods, but they start an unhealthy life for children. Different chains like McDonalds lure children in with toys and their “Kid’s Meal.” In America, more than thirty and a half percent of children from the ages six to nineteen are fat or obese, and most have been shown to eat at fast food chains almost everyday. Most of these children eventually become adults and deal with health risks all their life. Children do not understand the unbeneficial effects and the damage that fast foods can cause, setting terrible eating habits for life. It is almost impossible to keep away from fast food chains once they become part of daily life because fast foods become an addiction.

Finally, fast food advertising has played one of the most important roles of leading children to an unhealthy life. Mascots like Ronald McDonald from the McDonalds fast food chain encourages children to eat their food by expressing its “good” taste and selling “fun” toys received as a reward of eating at the chain, despite their harmful effects. The nutrition remains a secret to children, and they are lured in and eventually become obese. Parents do not have any control of their children’s eating habits because fast food chains are widely spread throughout America and to eat at fast foods.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans die because of fast food chains. Children lead unhealthy lives because McDonalds and other chains promote their food as “tasty” and “fun.” Unfortunately, many chains ignore and disregard their food's harmful effects and do nothing to change their deathly foods. Obesity becomes a greater problem every year, and more sugar is being taken in everyday, all because of fast food chains. There is one solution to saving three hundred thousand lives: banning fast food chains from America.