The Negative Effects Of Eating Fast Food

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The main cause of eating fast food is that we are running a fast pace life and we seem to find no time in the day to sit down and prepare a healthy food for ourselves. Therefore, fast food restaurants are continuing to grow their business and we are continuing to put our health at risk as consumers. Thus, in my opinion consuming fast food is not a wise choice for any of us and we should stay away from eating it because it has many drawbacks than the benefits. The changes in lifestyle worldwide from past few decades have shown a great impact on the pattern of food consumption. One of the most common trends in consumption of fast food is eating food outside the home. Family work pattern has also changed and as have family structure,

The saddest part of this trend is that fast food is not safe to consume daily. The first negative side that should be considered about the healthiness of fast food is that it involves too much oil, salt and calories that are not beneficial to our health. Moreover, the chemicals that are being added to increase shelf life of the foods are dangerous to the health. According to a New York Times article “window cleaning chemical injected into fast food, hamburger meat” by Mike Adams, the health ranger, he mentioned that the beef is being injected with ammonia, which is a chemical commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning products. The USDA doesn 't seem to be paying attention to the fact that people are eating ammonia in their hamburgers because for them Ammonia kills the e.coli

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