Fast Food

Now fast food has grown in popularity as the years have passed. As work schedules have become more demanding and more and more families have less and less time to cook and spend time in the kitchen fast food has become an almost standard way of putting food on the table. This can mean that a family may not have a single home cooked meal throughout the whole week.

This would not be an issue if fast food was good for you, however this is not the case. Fast food has a great number of additives, saturated fats and other such nasties that your body can’t absorb properly. So by having a great deal of large unhealthy meals your body will begin to put on weight, this weight will not be muscle, it will be purely fat.

Many studies have been done to look into the different effects and problems that arise from a habit of eating fast food and all come to the same conclusion. Though it is indeed okay to have the odd one, perhaps a few times per month, having one regularly can severely damage your health and deprive you of essential fibre, vitamins, minerals and in many cases protein as much of the meat is severely processed and lacking its meaty qualities.

The other problem with fast food is its addictive qualities (addiction will be in my next blog entry). Many additives have been found in close to all fast food products in different establishments to be using ingredients that after a time without them they begin to produce a sort of withdrawal affect which can become increasingly problematic as time goes on, some people even begin to crave things such as McDonalds after eating their food over a few days.

This was shown to great effect in the film ‘Supersize me’, if you have not watched it yet I strongly advise you to do so. It is an amazing documentary that goes into great detail about a man who eats almost only junk food for a period of time. You get to see the severe decline in his, originally, perfect health. By the end his doctor tells him that if he continued to eat that way he would no doubt have a heart attack. Now think, he was in perfect shape, after a diet of fast food he became overweight AND at a great risk of a heart attack.

I’m not going to be a nanny when it comes to food though, I enjoy the a KFC or Burger King as much as the next guy, however try not to over indulge and is can prove to be deadly in the most severe circumstances.

For information on Super Size Me:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390521/

General information on fast food:

http://www.fastfoodfacts.info/

Also Would the picture below be considerred fast food?