"Fast food and Junk food" : Andrew Smith on what we love to eat

•“Fast Food and Junk Food”: Andrew Smith on what we love to eat, Whyyradio, March, 19^th 2012.

Abstract:

This article talks about the new book by Andrew Smith entitled “Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat”. This book discusses the history of fast-food restaurant. America consumes more food rich in calories and low in nutrition.

Quotation:

« In the last half century, junk food and fast food have come to play an extremely important role in American economic, historical, cultural, and social life. Today, they have a major influence on what Americans eat—and how healthy we are (or aren’t). Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat tells the intriguing, fun, and incredible stories behind the successes of these commercial food products and documents the numerous health-related, environmental, cultural, and politico-economic issues associated with them.

With more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries, this two-volume encyclopedia contains enough listings to allow readers to research a wide range of fascinating topics. The author treats the massive amount of subject material within this reference title in a fair and balanced manner. A secondary focus of this encyclopedia is to chart the spread of some American fast food chains and commercially produced junk foods internationally. »

Index terms:

Junk food, fast food, encyclopedia, nutrition.

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