Fast Food Effects on Health

In todays age of convenience, fast food needs no introduction. Everyone

from a 2-year-old toddler to a 60-year-old grandpa seems to be enjoying
it every chance they get. And why not? Its delicious, its filling, is really
affordable, and readily available just any time of the day, being only a
drive through phone call away. What more can you ask for when you are
living life in the fast lane?
Well, plenty fast food is all good tasting, except that it is not
nutritionally balanced and, therefore, unhealthy in the long run if
consumed on a regular basis.
Fast food is loaded with calories from refined sugar and fats (especially,
the artery-clogging saturated and hydrogenated fats, which are
repeatedly reheated to high temperatures for frying purposes).
It is also very high in sodium, coming from common salt and other
additives. On top of all this, fast food is deficient in dietary fiber and
essential micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals.
To make matters worse, heaps of fast food are normally guzzled down
with gallons of sugar-rich colas which many fast-food restaurants serve
free with food as an incentive.
To make a long story short, all this results in piling up of unused empty
calories in the body, which get stored as body fat till one day you look in
the mirror and realize that your great figure has been replaced by this
creature in the mirror.
But thats not the end of the story, its just the beginning consuming too
much fast food not only turns a handsome guy into an unsightly obese
man, but as Eric Schlosser points out in his book it is a big health hazard
too.
And being physically inactive only adds to the problem of obesity. Not
many people who love fast food are ready to acknowledge that obesity is
not simply an eyesore it is a major risk factor for a large number of
deadly diseases like hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart
disease, and even many types of
cancers.
Recent scientific studies have shown that high-calorie foods rich in fats,
refined sugar and salt could reconfigure the hormones in the body in such

a way that they make you crave for such foods and always leave you
asking for more.
In other words, fast food is kind of addictive; you get hooked on to it and
continue consuming it in an uncontrolled way in spite of knowing that it is
unhealthy. The more you consume, the more difficult it is for you to opt for
healthy foods.
The situation is worse in case of children who from a very young age get hooked
on fast food. Making them change their food habits from fatty and sweet foods
and develop a taste for health-promoting fruits and vegetables is a task easier
said than done. Such children would grow up to be obese adults who have never
felt the advantages of being a healthy weight.
To sum up, consuming fast food on a regular basis leads to many health hazards.
But bringing about changes in eating habits is not easy.
To start with, a simple change that one could make is to successively reduce the
frequency of eating fast food and eat more frequently home-cooked food, with
plenty of fresh foods and vegetables.

If your a female there is a great suport group called Diet Bug. It's free,
leave you credit card in your purse and click this link for Diet Bug.
Slowly, as you start experiencing the health benefits of this change, a day will
come when you will have lost all your desire for junk food and a mere thought of
that fat-dripping greasy food and the consequences of eating it will be revolting
to you.

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Fast Food Effects on Health

In todays age of convenience, fast food needs no introduction. Everyone from a 2year-old toddler to a 60-year-old grandpa seems to be enjoying it every chance the
get. And why not? Its delicious, its filling, is really affordable, and readily available
just any time of the day, being only a drive through phone call away. What more ca
you ask for when you are living life in the fast lane?

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Fast food is loaded with calories from refined sugar and fats (especially, the arteryclogging saturated and hydrogenated fats, which are repeatedly reheated to high
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To make matters worse, heaps of fast food are normally guzzled down with gallons
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food not only turns a handsome guy into an unsightly obese man, but as Eric
Schlosser points out in his book it is a big health hazard too.

And being physically inactive only adds to the problem of obesity. Not many people
who love fast food are ready to acknowledge that obesity is not simply an eyesore
is a major risk factor for a large number of deadly diseases like hypertension,
diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, and even many types of
cancers.

Recent scientific studies have shown that high-calorie foods rich in fats, refined sug
and salt could reconfigure the hormones in the body in such a way that they make
you crave for such foods and always leave you asking for more.

In other words, fast food is kind of addictive; you get hooked on to it and continue
consuming it in an uncontrolled way in spite of knowing that it is unhealthy. The mo
you consume, the more difficult it is for you to opt for healthy foods.

The situation is worse in case of children who from a very young age get hooked on
fast food. Making them change their food habits from fatty and sweet foods and
develop a taste for health-promoting fruits and vegetables is a task easier said than
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when you will have lost all your desire for junk food and a mere thought of that fatdripping greasy food and the consequences of eating it will be revolting to you.

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