Weight Loss: Fast food, Junk food or bad food

Before we get into the details about is fast food a bad food or not? first lets talk about the term fast food, the term was coined by Michael Jacobson who was the director of the centre for science in the public interest 1972 .its is a informal term which is perceived as a food which contained little or no nutrition value and have ingredients which is unhealthy if we eaten regularly but in today’s life where every one is busy, professionals living alone in the city away from their home or family , at the end of a hard-working day, when one returns home all tired and hungry, there is nothing better than a ready made meal. No matter how much the chefs praise the benefits of fresh food a pizza or a burger can be god gift. Besides the time an individual has to spend in the kitchen, cooking a meal also requires one to make a trip to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the dish. Then there is the added effort and time consumed in washing and peeling the vegetables. All this makes eating fast food more preferably over cooking a meal for a busy individual and its also cost saving which give fast food an edge over the conventional dish or meal prepared in the kitchen if one lives alone fast food is a batter option instead go supermarket and cook at home you can also estimate the popularity of fast food in the world as only in united state of America more the 13000 MacDonald and 8000 KFC restaurants are working.

Apart from these huge Advantages success of fast food which we discuss prior there are many more disadvantages of eating fast food which make it so unhealthy and bad food that even one can not considered. And the greatest disadvantage of eating fast food is the adverse effect that it has on one's health, that’s is so true that fast food is more unhealthy then a home made food because it contains higher value of salt, oil, sodium, salts and sugar which have a longer shelf life. And these ingredients are harmful to the human body because they cannot be broken down and therefore they build deposits in the body. Along with that they also prevent the absorption of important minerals and nutrients in the body and therefore directly affect a person’s immune system.

According to the study by Paul Johnson and Paul Kenny conducted at The Scripps Research Institute in (2008) says that junk food consumption alters brain activity similar to a person is addictive to drugs like cocaine or heroin.

One of the main reason of obesity in youth is because of fast food which leads to obesity because in this days when children prefer to play on video games, Xbox or play station and elders used to watch TV laying on a coach leads to reduced physical activity which do not allow the food to be broken down and there fore fats deposits in the form of layer which cause obesity.

Fast food is the invention of modern world and like every thing else it has also advantage and disadvantages. However by making smart choices while placing order and follow an active life style we can minimize the negative effect of fast food and minimize the effect of fast food which makes it bad food.

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