It is time to change diet

When we speak of McDonald’s, we will consider it as cheap food or Junk food. But if we go back to more than ten years ago, everything is different, Including our impression of McDonald. When I was a kid, I thought McDonald was the best restaurant in the world. If my mom tell me that we are going to eat some hamburger, I would be wonder and happy for whole day. Without paying attention what time, the public blamed McDonald and other similar restaurants for their food. They call it junk food. But because of the low price , good taste and better convenience that those restaurant provide, numerous people in US still prefer those food. Hamburger, pizza, bread, salad and other fast food even establish the American diet style. Mark Bittman,whose “Minimalist” column ran in the Dining section of the New York Times for more than 13 years, is a lead writer for the Time Magazine Dining section. In his “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” published at September 2011, he clarified a public misconception on Junk Food--Junk Food is cheaper than Real food. By comparing both the total price and the net price after measuring by calorie, he proved that real food is cheaper than Junk Food if you cook at home. He also claimed the food that cooking at home was healthier than Junk Food so he asked for political act to persuade home cooking.

I agree that Junk Food has been became a big problem in our society, It is the time we should make some changes as a whole society and the political support will be a powerful force to lead this food revolution. But I don’t think cooking at home is the best alternative to Junk Food, because cooking at home doesn’t exactly equal to cheap and health. To persuade more people eat healthy food that they can ...

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...sed of junk food, like Bittman said, they are additive to it. They also bring the cooking method of junk food into their home made food. To turn the tables, we need to learn other’s cooking methods to balance our diet.

Different with Mark Bittman, I don’t think food that cooked at home can completely replace junk food. People will still partly rely on that because they are lack of time on cooking. However, they can simply make changes on their diet and benefit future. Instead of forcing themselves entirely abandon junk food or cook at home. they can make a change little by little. All they do is add something they eat too less, subtract the thing they have too much and develop cooking methods for delicious food . Because the change is step by step, they don’t spend extra money or energy on change so that they will has less resistance to balance their life.