Today life is on the fast track. People are always on the go and don’t have time to properly take care of themselves or their families. For most Americans, fast food and junk food are ready to grab for a snack or a quick dinner. They don’t slow down to think about how the foods they are eating effect their long term health. Fewer and fewer families take the time to prepare a nutritious meal and are passing down bad habits to their children.
Due to the authority of advertisements, notice boards and commercials of many kinds of eatables, outfits, well-furnished homes and cars. Family members are involuntary buying the items regardless of their needs. They consume most of the wealth to acquire contentment. Moreover, globalization affects the member’s mindset from general to personal. In the former times, the whole household gets involved in cooking competitions in the town and settle together for consuming the meals but currently each member has his own selection of food and choice that weather he have to eat indoor or outdoor with friends.
Some people blame fast food for America´s overweight and laziness problems while others could not live a day without a double el maco or subway. Fast food was originally intended so serve working class citizens at a fair price for food when they were hungry. Today even
Many people are having problems with their bodyweight and health conditions these days. The problems are mostly caused by the unhealthy food they consume, increase in fast food and the restaurant industry. One of the dramatic change occurred recently in food consumption is increase in the amount of processed foods. Nowadays, more children consume processed food at home or in school with no fresh fruits and vegetables like the ones eaten by previous generations. It is more common today when in a family both parents are working.
You can buy a bag of chips for a dollar that might last you a while or buy a piece of fruit for the same price that will not last near as long. This is the delima people have to deal with everytime they go to the store because they only have so much money to spend. They want to use their money on something that might last whether on something that might not. Even though the food may be unhealthy if it fills up people's families more efficiently and for the same price as the healthy foods they there going to choose this option. Most people will always pick the cheaper more efficient option of the to regardless if it is good or bad.
Body What is obvious is that obesity should be blamed on an individual because an individual is responsible for what he/she consume and for how much physical activities he/she is into. Because people are responsible for what they eat, saying that fast food restaurants cause obesity is very erroneous thing to say. Since dieting is available to everyone and is accessible all the times, many precautions can be done in order to avoid weight gain. For example taking and the stairs instead of an elevator and walking every day can help out tremendously. People who are obese might try to blame anyone for their weight especially fast food restaurants, but there is no one to blame other than themselves.
Introduction There’s no doubt that fast food has become an important part of modern living, especially among teenagers. According to research, in the UAE of meals are eaten outside the home. And more than 50% of teenagers eat on average more than one hamburger every three days. The percentage is high and nutritionist are worried, but is fast food really harmful as they say it is? We search in our society in the UAE to make sure that fast food is bad for our health for many reasons, fast food give us a very little nutritional value, lots of children suffer from obese and there are many reasons that make fast food loved by our children, that’s way families and schools should care more about the children food and produce for them a healthy life.
These kinds of restaurants have minimal table services so the customers have to do all the things alone. As we all know fast food restaurants are becoming more popular day by day and people and small children are getting addicted to these types of fast foods. ‘People nowadays are always in hurry as they are having a lot of work to do, it maybe their job or they have to take care of their families, hobbies, and many other interesting things. However, in a constant hurry, there is always not enough time to eat in a proper manner. Therefore, fast food became an important part of our everyday life in most of the countries.’ (Anonymous, 2017).
Living in this day and age with low income becoming more and more common, brings issues such as obesity. The only thought of hungry people is how and when they will be able to fill their tummies next. They are disillusioned that the only important thing is filling their bellies, which in turn leads to fast food and highly processed government subsidized foods. Fast food is more expensive than a supermarket alternative, processed foods are packaged fats, and all of these foods will just lead to health many health issues making it all more expensive in the long run. The fast food industry with mouth watering commercials and very convincing prices has tricked many into thinking that it’s the cheapest way to fill a hungry tummy.
These are customers who work full days and don’t have time to cook food for themselves or their families. Since their service is quick this makes it easier for working families. With social class, McDonalds use to focus mainly on upper and middle class but is starting to focus on the lower and working class as well by supplying economy meals. With personality traits, McDonalds markets to outgoing, extrovert and ambitious customers that usually hang out with friends and family in restaurants and other entertainment destinations. (Haider, 2018) & (Khan,