Fast-food
restaurant. For most Americans, you
can't live without them, but can you live with them? They dot the
landscape of our country, city after city, but with a nation on the run, with
countless single parents, or couples trying to split time between work and the
demands of a heavy family schedule, those fast-food restaurants can offer a
quick and often cheap, filling meal. Fast-food restaurants are not
entirely to blame for our nation’s growing weight problem. Many offer
healthy options, but studies show that most of us turn them down because of
other reasons. As a result, we are facing obesity as an issue. The
combination of lack of exercise and high fat foods is causing us to be
obese. The long-term problems of obesity are great. They include
heart disease and diabetes. The bottom line here is we have to do
whatever we can to control obesity.