Whether you are rich or poor, fast food is bad for you (Alter and Eny 2005). The amount of fast food consumed is obviously important, but the supersized nature of these foods and the relative ease with which large quantities of fast food can be purchased does not help the consumer (Stender 2007). But it's part of Americana. Fast food organizations plan where to build their franchises. McDonald's explicitly stated that they wanted a McDonald's “within a 3-4 minute drive for the average American” (Lubow 1998). A study in the American Journal of Public Health found that fast-food restaurants are fairly evenly distributed in predominantly white and African-American neighborhoods (Morland 2002). There is a lot wrong with anyone making arguments about fast food based on this study. First, the United States is literally more than black and white. Second, the same study explicitly states: “Our findings highlight the importance of including characteristics of individuals' local food environments in future studies to gain a better understanding of barriers to healthy eating” (Moreland 2002). Indeed, even if we oversimplify the population of the United States as black and white, we cannot ignore other factors that may make these black citizens more susceptible to increased fast food consumption. These factors were expounded by Naa Oyo A. Kwate in 2006: “money, power, prestige and social connections” (Kwate 2006). Explain why these factors have