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 Blogpost # 8 Why fast food is bad for your health?

Fast food restaurants are popular because they serve tasty convenient foods for a reasonable price. Many people visit these restaurants frequently to eat their main meals. They don’t realize that these type of food items are bad for health.

According to an article “Fast food still unhealthy: What you can do” from the site www.huffington.com by Dr. Lisa Young, Fast food is known to be high in fat, sugar and salt and frequent consumption of fast food may contriute to a diet of poor quality which may raise a user’s risk for overweight and chronic diseases that are diet related. French fries and burgers are loaded with fat and salt and oversized sodas and other sugary drinks are full of sugar. And most traditional fast food meals are loaded with calories.

“Fast food is known to be high in fat, sugar and salt”says Dr. Lisa Young

Most of the fast food meals contain high levels of saturated fat. This type of fat is mostly derived from animal products such as meat, eggs and butter. Palm oil and coconut oil also contain significant amounts of saturated fat.

Another article  “How unhealthy is fast food” from the site www.criticalbench.com by Karen Sessions, Fast food is considered a normal eating venture among the average person. People aren’t just eating out on special occasions or weekends anymore. They are eating out all the time. Fast food is simply tasty, ready to cooked meals packaged to go. Fast food has been around since the early 1900’s but its popularity sparked and grew in the 1940’s with the birth of good ole’ Mickey D’s. Quick food priced cheaply. Withing a few years similar fast food operations popped up everywhere in the blink of an eye. To say fast food has a “nutritional value” is an oxymoron. There is absolutely nothing nutritional about fast food. Fast food simply feeds hunger and or your immediate craving. Fast food does not feed your body in the form of usable lasting energy or building materials , the essence your body thrives on for life itself. Fast food is highly processed with a wide array of additives. The concept of fast food is obviously, food ready to eat and served quickly. To ensure fast food’s low cost to the consumer, the fast food products are made with highly-processed ingredients to give it shelf-life, to hold consistency and to enhance flavor.

“Fast food simply feeds hunger and your immediate craving” says Karen Sessions

Hunger is the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food. Eating fast food is not good to your health.

Eating too much fast food is bad for your health because they contain more calories, more unhealthy fat and more salt. They can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, coronary heart diseases and some health problems.