fast food should not be criticized

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Pragyan Shrestha

GP 2                10th March 2008

Fast food should not be criticized; it suits the pace of life today.

Fast food in today’s world is the most consumed food by people because it is prepared faster, is cheaper and easily available, but does it mean we put our health and environment that we live in, in jeopardy? Fast food is any food whose preparation time is less and can be served in a short period of time. Fast food has affected every sector from the economy to the environment. It has left no stone unturned and is gaining popularity even though the negative effects of fast food is more.

We all know that today, specially in developed countries the pace of life has gotten extremely fast. The people have no free time and are always consumed by work. They are so busy that it is affecting their food habits. People want to eat food that are easily available and can be prepared the fastest. Plus fast food are tasty as well so we should not criticize the fast food and its producers as people try to make a profit and supply more of what the people demand. The pace of life is so that the people are forced to consume these types of unhealthy foods.

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Health of the people who consume fast food is the real victim. There are no nutrients in fast food. The human body has to consume the right amount of nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and fibres. Fast food basically contains huge amount of carbohydrates which the body is unable to digest and stores as fat which causes obesity. How can people work efficiently if they aren’t healthy? To keep up with the hectic life of today people should be healthy and fast food is doing the exact opposite. In the context of health, fast food is a slow poison ...

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