Fast food

Fast food is nowadays becoming more and more popular everywhere, and most people are unaware of the real risk this may cause.

We can’t deny fast food is the perfect thing to eat when you’re in a hurry and you don’t really have time to cook something by yourself or to go to a restaurant to have it cooked. You just have to go, ask for what you want, wait for a few minutes and it will be ready to eat.

So, what’s the real problem about this?

 

The big problem is that eating too much fast food is really unhealthy. Not only you put on weight (that is something everybody knows) but you can also suffer from serious health problems like cholesterol, and the worst thing is that this type of food is totally addictive.

Eating it once in a while is not bad, but when you eat it everyday you get addicted without even realising. Just one fast food meal gives you half of the energy you need for each day, and this means that, with all the other meals, your total energy is superior to what you are supposed to have. Your body gets used to all that stuff.

We can use drugs as an example, because the biochemical reaction your brain suffers is quite similar. Everybody knows that once you get addicted to drugs, is really difficult to give it up, and sometimes even impossible without the proper help. It’s the same with fast food. Once you get used to eating a lot, it’s really difficult to have a balanced diet again, because your body asks for more fast food.

If somebody’s wondering if this really happens to anyone, just think about the Americans.
America is the place where fast-food more problem causes, as many Americans are used to eating this kind of food everyday without thinking about the effects it may cause.
So, while thousands of people are dying of hunger in many poor places, rich countries are getting fatter and fatter for the bad eating habits.

This problem is getting bigger everyday because now every country has many fast-food multinationals such as McDonalds, Burger King or Kentucky fried chicken.

There are several films about this topic which may help you realise the real problem:

- Fast food nation
- Super size me

Try watching them and judge yourself… is it really worth it to eat so much fast-food when you can eat much healthier things? It’s up to you.