Fast Food in Today's Society

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Joe Joe Professor Joe Joe Eng 1020 10 September, 2009 Fast food in today’s society cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes: An Annotated Bibliography. Cantor, Stuart L. "Designed for diabetes: the type 2 diabetes epidemic--evil offspring of the obesity epidemic--is a global scourge that is a leading cause of kidney disease, heart disease, stroke, blindness and amputation. According to the '2011 National diabetes fact sheet,' published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), diabetes affects nearly one in 10 (26 million) Americans." Prepared Foods May 2013. General OneFile. Web. 16 Sept. 2013. This article is from an online database source that I found on TTU library. It is divided up into 4 different sections that talk about healthier materials that can be used to make foods. Some examples of those are corn fiber and agave nectar. The corn fibers are used in sugar free foods and the agave nectar is used to sweeten foods or drinks without the need for sugar. For the way the economy is this statement by Stuart Cantor, “The growing problems of obesity and diabetes around the world offer manufacturers’ opportunities to formulate food and beverage products that can help reduce these conditions and, thus, improve human health.”, tells me there is an open market for healthy goods that are at a reasonable price. It is not just the fast food industry that needs to change its processed foods manufactures as well and the means to do it are out there. (153) Gerdes, Louise I., ed. Diabetes. San Diego. Greenhaven, 2003. Print. Diabetes is a book from the TTU library about diabetes, it is divided up between chapters that have sub section in them. The book goes through several different aspects of diabetes, and what effects they have on different groups of people. I focused on a section on type 2 diabetes in women. The editors of the Harvard Women’s Health Watch

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