While we were eating since there was only two of us, we decided to observe while we both participated so that we could each talk about how we felt about the time we were in there, and what we both observed while we were eating. ... Towards the end of our time we finally had one of the employees at Mcdonald's ask us why we were eating the way we were eating, they actually asked us if we were on our way to prom. ... We both said the fact that even though the people weren't eating the way we were, it definatley made things easier to do what we were doing because of just the type of clo...

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In the past, it was unthinkable to eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner at a fast food joint, because it was more common and traditional to eat at home with your family. ... Not only has the total amount of food spending increased, but the frequency of eating out has increased as well. The idea that the frequency of eating outside the house had increased, was observed through a research study. ... Aside from utilizing advertisements to lure and attract people into buying their products, fast food businesses have begun targeting children through toys, websites, and social networks. ... George Ritzer...

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Under this orientation, obesity and other eating disorders are conceived of as resulting from disturbances during the oral phase. ... Quite a few of them were borderline or frankly schizophrenic. 1, 8 Psychoanalytic inquiry has facilitated recognition of the manifold unconscious and symbolic meaning of food, both in voracious uncontrolled intake and rigid refusal to eat. ... Preoccupation with food may appear as helpless dependent clinging to parents, or as a hostile rejection of them. 1, 4 Hamburger, on the basis of psychoanalytic investigation of obese patients, reported also that symbolica...

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