Fast food, a major cause of obesity – Part 1

Fast food is a term used for the food which is available at restaurants and cooked with the preheated and precooked ingredients. These fast foods are usually made of a lot of cheese, fried chicken and meat, Chinese salt, sugar, sausages, mayonnaise and salt etc.

After 1951 there came new trends of fast food centers or take away. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, the word Fast Food firstly used in 1951 and get introduced in Merriam Webster Dictionary. This term has a plenty of meanings in it: preheated and precooked food, foodstuff which gets prepared in no time and contains high calories but scrumptious in taste etc.

In United States and United Kingdom, the concept and the business of fast food are much flourished now. People use fast food stuff which contains low calories and also the high calories food. Around the globe, one can also find these fast food eateries and take aways at every nook and corner, filling stations, outside schools and colleges etc.

Fast food has got many advantages so far, people can get food in no time, it saves time to cook meal at home, and it has an awesome taste, delicious and juicy which you cannot find anywhere. These take aways and fast food restaurants always have a cooking secret which make their food famous for its mouthwatering taste.

These fast food centers are somehow destructing the health of people in United States. As the people become fast food addicts and cannot switch to the home made food. Taking fast food also got some disadvantages e.g. cholesterol problem and obesity. The speed of gaining weight among men, women and children is on rapid pace which is causing many diseases.

The National Bureau of Economic research (2012) has reported that in United States the rate of obesity has been increased in last three decades.  The rate of become obese has also increased the rate of ailments related to overweight.

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Posted by Zeeshan Gohar on Apr 20 2012. Filed under Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.