One of the first thing most of my new students say when they arrive in the US is that North Americans eat too much junk food, but is this image really accurate. Have eating habits changed over the past 25 years or so? My first job over 25 years ago was at a fast food restaurant, and the menu was basically limited to burgers, fries, and drinks. Now, the same restaurant offers healthier food choices including salads and fewer fried foods. Yet, does that mean more people are eating better? What about in your country? What percent of people now eat out at fast food restaurants than before? If so, what are the reasons for this change? Share your ideas.
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China has the history of 5.000 years. One of the most famous features is its various foods. Fast food always plays an important role in most Chinese’s life. The current rushed life style makes more and more people to eat fast food. Fast food not only is widely popular, but also brings people conveniently, and the most important point is its traditional cuisine.
ReplyDeleteIn China, fast food is so popular that it can be found nearly anywhere at meal times. A survey shows that the amount of restaurants is the most in all stores. At the street, people can very easily find a place to eat. Besides, school provides all students and teachers meals. Rarely do they cook by themselves during school. Yet people work at companies, hospitals, factories, or stores which have many canteens to provide workers with meals instead of their going home or somewhere else to have meals.
The fact is that fast food meets people’s need. Although Chinese food is delicious, family prepares for each meal at least one hour. It is really hard for people to spend long time cooking each meal because of working or studying. They need fast food save their time. In addition, the reasonable price makes fast food popular. Usually, people just spend about four Yuan to ten Yuan (about 0.33$-1.2$) buying a portion of fast food including rice, vegetables, and meat.
I believe that the most important reason for people eating fast food is because of its traditional cuisine. People feel fast food just like food at home: home style cooking and food including rice, vegetables, and meats without baking and with few fired. Furthermore, eating fast food just seems like eating familiar meal at home expect for holding different plate. Chinese traditional eating form is that people put each vegetable and meat to each plate and the main food rice independently put in a bowl. However, fast food put all food together in a metal plate or a once for all plastic plate.
While fast food is accepted by most Chinese people, people avoid it as long as possible because of personal taste and its much oil. To make the taste delicious, fast food is added much oil into vegetable and meat with cooking, so it is not very healthy. However, because of above advantages, in a certain time, fast food is still accepted by more and more people.
I belong to an underdeveloped country of Asia where nowadays people's dos and dont are totally influenced by the western world especially USA.
ReplyDeleteDining out is not only a great fun in my country these days rather a need ,the important reason behind this which I think is that today ,not only men but women are also participating to cope with the financial needs of a house by working impartially with a man and she is too busy to cook frequently unlike in former days where the women were only supposed to be domesticated and restricted to daily household cooking and normal chores.
There fore previously in my country it was a bit unusual to eat in restaurants if they had to then only on certain occasions unlike today .
In VietNam, people eat junk foods much more than many years ago.That is a result of the social development.Most people are busy and they think that junk food is convenient and easy to eat, even children. That's the reason they consider fast food like the best choice.
ReplyDeleteMy native country is one of a developing countries in the southeast asia.
ReplyDeleteIn my country, we have fast food like burgers, potato chips drinks as well as our tradional fastfood like fried beans, snacks and vegetables and some our traditional cusines.
Nowadays, all most all the people there like to eat out. Because of the financial problems, all the middle age household members need to have a job.
So, some work in their own town, others work far away from their home.
For those who stay far away ,they stay alone there or share with their friends.
Because of the inflation rate, they think that eat fastfood make them less costly and no need to spend time and energy to cook meals. And they can look for an opportunity to get more part time jobs, they will earn much in this way and they will save their money by eating fastfoods.
For those who has jobs in their town, some bring lunch box if they have senior setizens in their house, others can eat in small shops near their jobs.
Therefore almost all in my country they use to eat fastfoods whether they like them or not
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We enjoy or not, we have to eat fast food in this rushed life. But I would rather have been preparing several delicious meals myself. Because I always doubt about the meals eaten outside. In fast food restaurants, salads are also being sold, but do we know if the lettuces or other ingredients are washed enough. I think eating at home spends time but it is more healthy.
ReplyDeleteThe trend of having fast food has been there for years. People take the advantage of it for saving time and effort of cooking. Fast food should to be always unhealthy such fatty meats and drinks. Nevertheless, it can turn its bad name into a good one. With more vegetable and low-fat meat, the fast food can be both healthy and efficiency for us.
ReplyDeleteI think it's all about business. Business men, for some reasons, may try to save expenses or satisfy customers by providing junk food rather than taking care their health. We consumers should show our concern to this kind of the public issue.
Fast food is also cheap food. Fast and cheap are two of the most needed things in today's busy and expesive world. So, fast food is unavoidable. That said we should make healthy choices when we can--choose smaller sizes, foods with less oil, fat and sugar, and learn to keep healthy convenient snacks at home, i.e. fruits, nuts and cereals.
ReplyDeletethe junk foods are a very convenient for eat .. you can eat this foods and dosen't matter the times .. but healthy food needs a lot of times for cooking or preparation that .. some people prefers junk foods because it doesn't need time for preparation .
ReplyDeleteIn my country, unfortunately young people really like to eat fast food, because it is convenient and fast with reasonable price.
ReplyDeleteBut adults prefer to eat traditianl food. They like traditional food because they believe that they are more delicious than fast food.
So, they don not think about healty.
I am sure that next generation in my country will never know the name of any traditianl food because their parnents who are young people now just think about their convenience and do not have any idea about healthy foods.
McDonald's is my favourite fast food shop as it provides quality food at lower price. Also, the environment as well as decoration are attractive. The washroom is probably clean. Children like going there for food and the selective toys.
ReplyDeleteK.F,C. is also a chain store but the food is not tasty. Moreovere, the selection is quite limited compared with other fast food shop.
In my country ,usually the people don't eat too much out of their home,becuse dinnig out is too expensive but if usually they eat sandwich or pizza beacuse they are less expensive than Kebab.
ReplyDeleteBut most people would rather to take their home food to the work.
My native country is Taiwan.
ReplyDeleteAll over Taiwan , there many fast food resterants. And it is so popular to eat fastfood.
So am I , although it is not healty
,but it is so tasty.
I'm Italian and I think Italy is famous, over other things, by its food. Many food experts say Mediterranean diet is the best to live in health: olive oil, pasta, tomatoes, cheese, bread, meat, wine. Every single Italian area has its own cooking tradition, and this made Italian cooking one of the most various in the world.
ReplyDeleteI think the spreading of "American" fast-food has changed the way Italians eat. In the past, even in the canteen, traditional meals were served. Nowadays many chains of fast food restaurant operate to serve food in lunch break. There are the American ones (McDonalds', Burgher King), but also italian (serving pizza, sandwiches..). In the last years many food stalls owned by immigrant have appeared: Turkish kebab, Chinese restaurant etc..
I prefer my mum cookery, but I'm a student and I often cook by my-self. I choose to eat fast-food only when I haven't time to go home and cook by myself.
We are Spanish people and here in Spain we eat the best food in the world. Our Mediterranean diet is wonderful for healthy lifestyle. It consits on a lot of fruit, vegetables, legumes, and the main base is the olive oil. In Usa you only eat rubbish food and you are not fit. We invite all the nice American women to eat Spanish food with us.
ReplyDeleteI am Italian, too. I think that Italian cuisine offers such a great variety of dishes even easy to prepare that it would not be necessary to go to fast food restaurants. Nevertheless, more and more people, especially children and young people, enjoy eating junk food. McDonald's are very common, but also Italian fast-food restaurants such as Spizzico (mainly serving pizza) are becoming widespread. However, most Italians appreciate typical and traditional Italian food, that's why restaurants and pizzerias are still crowded.
ReplyDeleteThe problem still exists for lunch, especially for working people, who do not have time enough to sit in a restaurant: they prefer to eat burgers or sandwiches, but very common in Italy are self-service restaurants, where you can rapidly find more complete food, such as pasta or risotto.
In many cities in the US now I see restaurants advertising themselves as "slow food" restaurants. I find that amusing - it seems to imply that fast food is the norm, and anything prepared in the traditional way is considered "slow" food! What is more amusing to me is the way food is described here. Food should be described in terms of their nutrition quality, their tastes, their flavors, and not their speed!
ReplyDeleteIn my country, there are many kinds of fast food. For example, there are burger, fried chiken and noodle. I have seen a comedy movie about fast food. A man ate only fast food for a month, then he became fat. From this we can see that if we eat fast food everyday, we could become fat. Fat is not healthy because it cause some serious diceases. In my opinion, we can eat fast food, but not everyday. If do so, it is convinient and important food for our life.
ReplyDeleteIn general, there are two kinds of fast food restaurants in Taiwan-Chinese and western style. The well-known western fast food stores are Mcdonald, KFC and Burgerking. I think that the portion of every kind of nutrients is one of the biggest differences between Chinese and western styles. For instance, Chinese fast food stores usually provide a variety of vegetable choices and meat. However, The large portion of calories in a regular cheese burger is meat and less portion in vegetable. Although many western fast food stores start providing salad nowadays, there are still less vegetable choices in Mcdonald than in traditional Chinese fast food. Although large vegetable choices make Chineses fast food seem heathier than the western one, the overuse of animal oil and food hiegyne are the common problems in both styles of fast food.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the education from the medical reserch, some healty organization and movies such as"Super Size Me" directed by Morgan Spurlock, more and more people start paying more attention on what they eat than before. However the changed eating habit caused by busy and rush lifestyle forces people to eat either Chinese or western fastfood rather than cook at home. Fortunately, the health organization starts regulating the restaurant in many aspects such as food hygeine and labeling all nutrients in the food. Therefore, consumers can make more wise decision on their meals.
The modern the society is, the much fast food the human being like. The reason of this is its convenience and compromised price.
ReplyDeleteIn Vietnam, young people more and more like that kind of food, however, everybody also realizes it fatty and not much nutriens. Moreover, last but not least, it is easy to get fed up with and the people can not abandon the habit of traditional meal with hot rice and fresh vegetable which help us avoid being out of shape. Thanks God !
Hi all, It's my first comment I left on randall...anyway I think fast food, meaning hamburger, fried chips, and onion or other grilled vegetables, is one of the best food in tasting. As everything It's a double edge sword, for Its high content of fats, sugar (e.i. in drink), too much spicy and at the end "heavy stone" for our stomach. But these food chains've understood the customers are also healt conscious. As conseguence they've made a lager offering of food, like salad and other genuine foods.
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For my side, I tought that people just don't want to cook. Life in the US is a very harried life. If you don't, you will be late... so many people enjoy stopping in a fast food restaurant either in the morning or in the evening. They enjoy eating in their car... it is a save of time. Can we realize the consequences? Why don't we take only 45 minutes a week to cook our meals for the week?
ReplyDeleteOne thing that changed me during my two years stay in Hawaii was the food. I love burgers. I used to go to the local bars in the afternoon and enjoyed a burger which was only 5 something during happy hours. A Big Mac just can't tell you too much about American food. Now I am back in Taipei, when my friends ask me where to dine? I usually say "let's have burgers."
ReplyDeleteRecently,I read a interesting news when surfing which probably said that all of the US people are becaming fatso in 2048 if the current trend is not change.Some research appear that 70 percent of US people is overweight now,that obviously is serious.I don't know if it is true or not.Whatever,Having a nice eating habits is really important for everyone.In China,Just few people like kits or children like eating at fast food restaurant ,for example Mcdonald's.the adult rather have lunch or dinner at a natural restaurant with some friends or colleagues for one or two hours.In there ,they can talk with each other and get some information what they are interesting or what they could't get in another situation.Sometime,When someone is alone at lunch time,like me ,i might eat the fast food like Japan food or China style fast food.But i don't really like the Mcdonald's and KDJ.I don't think just fries , hamburger and salads can make me health enough.About what percent of people now eat fast food than before in china,I guess maybe it is 1 or 2 percent and the fast food culture was influence by US fast food culture.
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In Taiwan,there are variety kinds of fastfood,such as Subway,KFC,and BurgerKing.we have a lot of choice when decide not cooking at home.However,the most fortunately i feel is that we have also chinese fastfood.They're not only tasty,convenient but also less fatty and greasy.
ReplyDeleteIn my country, we usually says "Eat in Eastern style but live in Western style" There is a lot of healthy foods in Eastern. Especially, I prefer fish instead of meat. I'm saying that fish is better than fast food. Sometime it is useful to have fast food when we run out of thime ;however, it is not good for our health if we eat fast food often.
ReplyDeleteWell, fast food is really a health problem, but it is soooo delicious!!!!!
ReplyDeleteChile is a developing country so everyday we have more white collar workers and so, fast food restaurants are a growing industry. Now more and more Chilean people eat fast food instead of going home and have lunch
ReplyDeleteWorkers only have half and hour or one hour to have lunch so most of them decide to eat outside, also a lot of students who don’t have the time to lunch end up eating a hotdog or a hamburger. Besides, on weekends most people eat a lot of junk food after parties.
Even children eat a lot of this food because it’s delicious and cheap, but it’s bad for their health. Some children have lunch at home and a few hours later they’re already eating fries, hotdogs and sodas. There weren’t a lot of fast food shops before, but with the growing number of people, fast food chains are becoming very popular in my country.
There sure are a lot of fast food places around the World, but unfortunately we cannot do anything about it.
ReplyDeleteWe already made them sell healthy food but people still order junk food. I am not saying that that junk food is bad because I eat it too, but for a healthy life we should have a little more variety on our diet.
But diet is not always a good solution because is just half of a healthy life, to make a diet work you have to back it up with sports or any kind of exercises at least an hour every day, not always a conventional sport like you may think. Every movement we make works out as an exercise, even walking to your work can help you to lose some weight.
In my personal opinion I would say that fast food is not the one to blame of all our weight problems. It is our own fault because we eat that food and stop taking care of our bodies.
Chilean eating habits:
ReplyDeleteChileans have experimented several changes of their eating habits, we give ourselves less time to eat, we eat food with a small variety of nutrients and also we don’t distribute properly the strongest foods. In the past years obesity has grown in a 56% in the kids between 8 and 10 years old, and 30% in adults.
I’m from Chile, and I think that some Chilean people enjoy eating junk food in fast food restaurants more than eating in their house, but some other Chileans have changed their eating habits in these last 25 years, eating more “light” food, vegetables, fruits, etc. There are some schools that sell just fruits in their kiosks, so now their students don’t buy junk food there and this is because there was an obesity problem in the country.
ReplyDeletePD: Randall's is the best website in the world for English students!!!
In our country about 4 million of people have overweight and more than 9 millions will have problems of overweight by the year 2010 if they maintain their present eating habits; but I think the real problem is the children obesity, that’s alarming!! According to a report on obesity by an Institute of Nutrition in Chile, the obesity affects an important number of children and nowadays it’s the cause of decreasing life expectations of adults and boys. As the report indicates, in Chile there will be for this year more than 4 million obese persons, of which 1 million will be children. Nowadays obesity is called the epidemic of the 21st century.
ReplyDeleteIn Chile, we have a big problem with food in general , we don’t eat well. I think that this is a serious problem specially for children and teenagers who are the ones that eat everything.
ReplyDeleteOften, the more recent the food is, the more likely it is to be less beneficial or even directly harmful for people, because we eat what we have in front of us, that means FAST FOOD, like McDonald’s, french fries, pizza, chips, canned food ,etc . But people don’t realize the problems that all this food causes. IMO I think that on one hand is for the fact that’s more quickly and easy to buy or prepare fast food, and on the other hand it’s yummier.
For example in Chile we have a dramatic rise in cancer, diabetes, stroke, heart attacks, obesity, etc. that are problems that we have to struggle with. We have to change our diet and the way that we think about the healthy food and the fast food.
The problem in Chile is that we don’t have a good eating education. Chileans don’t know what is good for their diet; we eat a lot of fatty food low in nutrients. These things plus a sedentary lifestyle cause obesity, especially in children and women. And obesity causes more health problems and other diseases.
ReplyDeleteI think we can eat junk food, but not always and we have to complement it with exercise.
Under my observation, the fast food restaurants in HK can be divided to 2 types: Junk Food and Familial Meal. Their main customers are teenages and workers.
ReplyDeleteSO they have fixed profits.
In recent years, FFR try make changes and quality-improvement.All the changes are for the custimers' needs. They need the various food to choose and experience the excitement. So their meal size is more larger and they try to improve the recipes. For example, include more ingredients and special elements in the burgers. Next, their menues add other natiobs special such as Japan bento, Chinese dim sum and American pies.
Nowadays, in Chile people are eating more junk food than ever. This happens above all with little kids because there are many fast food restaurants everywhere and a lot of people eat in those places.
ReplyDeleteBesides, in schools there are kiosks that only sell fatty food and that is bad for children’s health and I think that their parents have to care about the food their children eat. Because in these days there are many sickness related with the way we eat, like obesity, bulimia and anorexia, and all those sicknesses affect especially to children and adolescents.
But at the same time nowadays some people are worried about the health of their family and are eating more healthy food, like fruits and vegetables and cut back on the fatty foods. Also, in some schools are selling healthy food, like fruits, milk, cereal and yoghurt.
I’m from Chile, and I think that one of the most important problems in Chile is that the people prefer to eat fast food. Why? That’s because people that work or study don’t have so many time to go to their house and have a good lunch. And they are often in a hurry, so they prefer to go to the nearest place that offers something to eat, and usually these “nearest places” offer junk food. I think this is the main cause of obesity in Chile. I think that the most people don’t have a healthy life. When people begin to work, they usually have a sedentary life; besides the junk food that they eat make people fatter. Chileans need to eat more vegetables, fruits, and they need to go to eat to their houses more often. In that way, they will feel like a million bucks.
ReplyDeleteWell, in Chile has an enormous percent of people that eat fast food. The majority go out to eat junk food because they don’t have time to prepare they own food. They prefer to eat a hamburger rather than a chicken soup or some other type of healthy food. If we talk about healthy food, Chilean people prefer to eat junk food anyway…
ReplyDelete25 years ago here people used to eat healthier because they don’t have companies of fast food or don’t have to buy junk food in the supermarket.
The reasons for this change… I think is because the lifestyle is changing faster than years ago.
In Chile, undernutrition has virtually disappeared, but rising obesity rates and risk factors for chronic diseases indicate the need to modify existing programs and emphasize prevention of diet-related chronic diseases.
ReplyDeleteHere fast foods are popular not only at meals time but the whole day.
Kids are too fat and too young , they prefer fast foods in Mc Donald´s or other places famous in the junk foods.
The reasons are that fast foods have good prices.
When these kids grow up they do not even know the names of the traditional foods of this country.
Parents should create conscience in their children because it will be too late in a few years when their weights maybe will be over the top.
I cut back eating junk foods with my brothers and we are healthy as a horse.
In my country Chile, the fatness problem has started to grow with the time, the principal reason is the fatty food and the sedentary live.
ReplyDeleteThe problem begins in our house because the modern parents have a quick lifestyle and they do not have time to cook or give children a healthy food. That is the reason why today they give children fat food.
But they don’t know the danger this meaning in the live of children for a future. All the diseases as for example to be hypertense, obese, suffer a cardiac attack etc.
To resolve this problem first of all in the house or at the school we have to begin for having a good nutrition, make exercise, drink a lot of water, and the most important is avoid junk food.
In conclusion it is necessary to have a way of life more natural.
Thirty years ago, in Chile was not exist the habit of eat a lot of junky food at night. Now the people eat faster and don’t enjoy the lunch, another people don’t eat a good breakfast or only don’t eat a breakfast, and we know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Also in Chile exist a lot of sedentary, we prefer take a bus, when we can walk and do a little of exercise.
ReplyDeleteAlso we don’t eat a lot of vegetables and fruits, because is not so yummier like fast food and this type of food doesn’t need time for preparation. IMO we need take conscience about how has a good healthy lifestyle, because in that way we can prevent illness like obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart attacks etc, and live much better.
In my country the obesity is a big problem for the junk food
ReplyDeleteBecause the restaurant almost offers this type of food that is cheap and fast
Some parents even give their children fast food on a regular basis because it’s more easy for working parents they haven't time to cook something healthy
to fix this problem
schools should incorporate physical fitness into their life style
and that children should simply eat healthier foods and cut back on the junk food
and the parents should worry about
what eat their children
In Chile the most people daily buy the food faster because the life here is accelerated for the job, studies. This can cause a big problem and a bad habit here and other countries the excess the junk food for example exist McDonald’s, Pizza hunt and others shop. The junk food helps to increase the level obesity this affect to the children. But this nowadays at the school begin to change with a new program called “healthy life”.
ReplyDeleteThis consists in sell at the children fruits, cereal and others. Before only sold cookies, candies and others. The excess the junk food can cause a lot illness at any moment.
Chile is the second country with problems with food specially the obesity. In my opinion, I think that depends of each person for example,If we eat everyday this kind of food (junk food) it will be a big problem because it will become an eating habit, but people don’t know how to accept the consequences that will come in the future. Other consequence is the quantity of cholesterol accumulated in blood. Also, there are children obesity in Chile and finally Heart attacks. The most popular fast food stand is Mc Donald’s for their cheapest prices. I saw a lot of people mostly kids eating junk food (happy meal) every day because I used to work there.
ReplyDeleteChile today is the sad record of having a population with high rates of overweight and obesity, currently holding third place in Latin America. I think this happen because the fatty foods are becoming more popular every day, and sometimes is necessary eat fast food because there are no time to go to the university until our home, though this food causes many problems with our health. And I think if we eat fatty food we HAVE to practice exercise and drink water every day.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very important that the Chilean government implements a nutrition plan for Chilean children. When they are in the school, for example the teacher must says to the parents “the children always have to bring an apple every Monday, a yogurt with cereal every Tuesday …” with this idea we could be healthier. Other thing that could be is to create conscience about healthy life for example we have to eat at time, more vegetables, water. These ideas are important for having healthy life.
ReplyDeleteExercise, How much you work, sleep, study, exercise, take time out for yourself and what you eat, can all influence how you feel.
ReplyDeleteIt is known that exercise is good for us. Do exercise can elevate our mood, give us energy for have a good day. If we don’t do exercise we can feel bored, tired, or depressed.
The food that you eat have a significant impact on how you feel , if you don’t have a good nutrition, or if you don’t eat much more maybe you can feel tired , etc.
Have a good nutrition and do exercise I think that you can serve to feel in form and motivated for doing our daily routine.
The problem with food starts in childhood, today exist a big percent of obese children because some parents work a lot and don’t have time for cook so they prefer eat something fast like fatty food or they give money for their children and they buy sodas, chips, hot dog, etc. Other reason are video games, children prefer play video games instead of going to a park and parents prefer have them in home doing nothing that on the street.
ReplyDeleteIs for those reasons we have to teach own children eat more fruits and vegetables for a healthy life style.
Here in Chile we have a lot of places where we can get a lot of junk food, but also these places are changed their menu and add some healthy food.
ReplyDeleteIs responsibility of people if they want to consume junk food and not take care their health.
I’m not saying that junk food is bad, I like it very much, but also we should have a habit of healthy food and not only eat well, also we can back it up with exercises.
Every day people eat at fast food restaurants because it’s cheaper but is loaded with saturated fat and calories. In Chile the people eat more and more fast food
ReplyDeleteBecause fast food restaurants are growing, people spend more time out of their house and don’t have enough time to lunch other food.
The children’s loves to eat fast food (Mc Donald’s) but I think their parents have to give them an eating education.
If we eat fats food, we have to do exercise.
But it’s difficult for most of us to follow a diet plan or to exercise regularly.
The following exercises can be done for getting a healthy life style:
Walking or running: the best way to burn fat. You can do this exercise anywhere. Walking is recommended for aged people.
Rock climbing alternative to traditional workouts and gym.
Is a difficult job, it must have proper training.
Or any sports that implicates to burn fat.
Fast food is quick, convenient, and usually cheap. You can buy fast food in any restaurant that sells fries potatoes, hamburger, and other things. It's so popular because for only a few pesos you can get a meal that's satisfying. But fast food is cheap because it is usually made with the cheapest ingredients such as high fat meat and foods that contain lots of unhealthy fats and cholesterol.
ReplyDeleteThe fast food is the great problem in Chile, because we don’t have conscience about how to eat it. We just eat it to satisfy us, and we never think in the healthy education. Also, Chile is a great place to eat well, because we have a great variety of fruits and vegetables, a great ocean that gave us a lot fishes. And I think this is great social problem.
In my country chile , we eat a lot fast food , because we have more time and spend less money , increasingly fast food take possession in our country , we are in a society where the life at home no longer exits because our working schedules, and all that remains at hand is to eat something fast and starting to work again, but we do not realize the damage that we do to our bodies and health. Although, in recent years have shown many instances of Morbid obesity in adults and children, increasing the rate of obesity among Chileans, showing that food can be cheap and easy access, but it is a savings that will ultimately not be able to repair the cost of our health
ReplyDeleteI’m from Chile; here people eat a lot of junk food because most of them have not enough time to cook, in schools, offices, factories and building constructions workers have less than an hour for lunch, so they prefer eat something quickly than go back to home to do the same. their employers don’t lose time to earn money, however, time ago, many primary schools have been forbidden junk food, they are replacing it for salads made of vegetables and drinks like coke has been replaced for natural juices. On TV there are a few programs which teach to their audience to have a healthy life style, these changes are not enough, but it’s a good start.
ReplyDeleteHello, I’m from Chile. In my country, there are many fast food restaurants, for example, Mc Donald's, Kentucky, etc. I like them and I find a good alternative for people who work or who have many things to do and time will not reach them, in the case of university students, on matters of class schedules, often have to eat just one hot dog or something like that, so do not be late for their classes or their jobs. But on the other hand, I think it's a bad food, because it’s not a healthy food, you can lose the defenses and acquire diseases, can raise cholesterol and also be gaining overweight. Anyway I prefer to have a balanced life and eating things that contain low cholesterol.
ReplyDeleteFast food is a problem in Chile because now is available all over the world. We see it most everywhere we go -- in grocery and convenience stores, fast-food restaurants, on television -- usually looking very appealing. Another problem is that fast food tends to replace other, more nutritious foods and generally refers to foods that contribute lots of calories but little nutritional value. When people drink lots of soda, for example, they are usually not getting plenty of low-fat dairy or other healthful beverages like green tea or orange juice. When they're snacking on chips and cookies, they're usually not loading up on fruits and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteChile’s childhood obesity rate has increased repeatedly in recent years. According to a survey carried out by the National Association of School Assistance and Scholarships (Junaeb), 19.4 percent of Chileans between the ages 9 and 11 are obese. This figure means that Chile suffers from a higher frequency of childhood obesity than in many other developed and developing countries, including the United States.
I think that Chilean people have changed their eating habits since the last decades, the fast life, the arriving of the fat food restaurants and the invasion of publicity in the mass media are causes of the bad early habits in special the people who live in the cities. They teach these to their children, or better I say they do not teach to their children in the correct way. The lever of obesity in Chile is alarming, mainly who are under age. The government is doing something to stop this problem, but with few results because the people must change their thoughts, besides the advertising campaign to combat obesity are very boring.
ReplyDeleteFast food in Chile is a problem that to be increased day by day. Why does the fast food be a big problem? Because is the first cause of obesity in Chile. Although, the fast food is a factor which cause obesity in our country. Another cause is the little time that people have to the dinner or lunch after the work, for this reason they prefer buy some fast and cheap instead buy or cook a healthy food. Also the fast food to be within reach of everybody because is in universities, schools, mall and its prices to suit the pocket of somebody. The fast food couldn’t exist in our country because we have agriculture and healthy food for eat all days.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, I had a reading class, that time I could studied about fast food. Fast food has a lot of problem. Speacily, fast food make a fat! Many american is fat. Maybe that reason is fast food. I think,this part have a good meaning, because fat solve by exercise
ReplyDeleteI only know fast foods are very fatty.And Americans eats so much and quickly.The thing that make mr most impressive is the amount of meat that an American can eat in a meal.It's as twice as much a three-member family in my country eat in a day.However,in my country the income of poeople together with the appearance of the fast food restaurants has changed the eating habit of many person.This fact contribute to the increase of many diseases such as high blood pressure,many kinds of cancer,heart diseases,overweight especially in children.Some fast food restaurants have some changes in menu,for example adding vegburgers,salads,etc.One reason is that they are eaten fast as their's name and it's suitable for the modern life,the life that you even have timr to sleep.I don't remember I read where but there are many people want and support for a slow life.It means that you eat slowly,walk slowly,do everything slowly instead of the non-stop life.I think it's a good idea to keep fit and makes sense wholly.
ReplyDeleteI really like to eat American fast food such as McDonald and K.F.C, but it is not good for people's health.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, I usualy go to those places once a week nowadays.
My suggestion is that if people go to fast food restaurants, they can order the heathier items there.
For example, you could drink orange juice instead of coke. Also, you could even order salad to replace fries.
Remember not to go there too often!
In Korea, People have been accustomed to eat fast food over past years even though they are harmful to health. They are high calories, low protein and fatty food. but they are easy to eat, and so fast prepared in a short time that they are always loved by people.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, McDonald serves morning menu that makes use of people's bother.
Owing to laziness, people don't eat breakfast or eat a little thing like bread or soup.
That is a target to McDonald.
So Fast food has a wide range of living in lately.
Fast food restaraunts are popular in my country but maybe it sounds fun not everybody are able to eat there... it is expensive. I love fast food's, i used to work in pizza hut in South Caroline! I ate in buffet every day it was awesome!)) Bot towards to the end of summer i became to hate food that i cooked: wings , pasta, pizza ... I wanna return this wonderful time!) oh my god i am so hungry, let's see what i have in my fridge!?
ReplyDeleteI'm italian, and the food is very good. Our food is based on genuineness and simplicity. Mediterranean diet is recommended by doctor.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, people pay attention at food, they prefer light and healthy food.
Luckily, fast food restaurants aren't so popular in my country, Lithunia. Well, at least in my city. Consequently, i am really glad to say i haven't been in fast food restaurant before:) I just see no point going there. Sorry who will disagree with me:)
ReplyDeleteI don't like fast food,to principle...I'm living in Nice,and I'm very sorry when I see people eat that... There are many regional restaurant,no more expensive and so delicious...
ReplyDeleteIn my country,iran,the tendency of people for eatin fast-food is growing so fast.These days people are so busy ,and they dont have enough time to cook,so they are more enthusiastic to eat junk food like humberger and pizza.In the past people prepared every foods even bread at home,so chemical material didnt come at their food.People ate more healthy food.
ReplyDeleteMy country is a developping one, is impacted by multicultural from outside. Fast food includes two kinds, traditional and external. More and more children like external ones, result in much more children obesity problems. Because too much fat, less protein and less vegetables. Although Fast food provide healthier food now, less people will give up the key diet. While the traditional ones, too much oil, bad enviroment, not fresh ingredients are the main problems.
ReplyDeleteBut rushed life leads to eat fast food nowadays. It's really a kind of contrary, hard to balance.
I am from Russia. There are many McDonalds restaurant in my country. But I don't like hamburgers. They are terrible.
ReplyDeleteI often buy pancakes to go in kiosk. Pancakes are national dish in Russia. It is healty and substantial food. I like pancakes with apples, or wits cheese, or with fish, or with potatoes and mushrooms.
There are festivale of pancaks in Russia in February. It was called Maslenica (maslo = butter).
I'm Vietnamese and I think Vietnawmese ethnic food is so great and it's always my choice. In Vietnam, there are many kinds of food, specially is ethnic food like "pho", "bun cha", "banh cuon"..v..v...In a meal of VNese, it's least 4 dish. I tried many food of many country. It's great,too.
ReplyDeleteHi. I am from Russia, Siberia, Kemerovo. I would like to tell you what people like to eat in Siberia. I can not say that there are many rich people here. Nevertheless I can’t say that my city has many fast food cafes. These places are popular among teenagers, this is a place where they can meet and spend their free time. Prices vary in different fast food cafes. The cheapest is “Podorozhnik”. They appeared about five years ago and became popular. Most kiosks are located near bus stops where there are a lot of people. They serve hot drinks and different hamburgers. You can easily notice them because they are colored in yellow and green. Nowadays, their food has become less tasty, maybe because of the crisis. Most fast food cafes have foreign names. For example “Silver Food”, ”World Pizza”, “Subway” it is very strange because the majority of people don’t understand English. Thank god there are pictures of the different foods.
ReplyDeleteI would like to conclude that fast food is not very popular in Siberia. There are different reasons for it: mainly high prices and low quality, national traditions.
Our country differs from the USA. We have fewer fat people although we live in a cold climate and eat much fatty food. I think that the main reason why we are not so fat as Americans is because we eat home food. Of course, we spend more time cooking meals but it is worth it. Our food is healthy because it is made from national products. We don’t use modified food products. Besides this our parents teach us to cook healthy and tasty dishes. For example, my father would prefer to go to an expensive restaurant either have meals at home.
Our traditional Siberian dishes are: “pelmeny” (something like Italian ravioli) , “Borsh” ( a vegetable soup with meat), pancakes, “kefir, smetana” (a milk products) and “kvas” (a drink made of stale bread).
If you want to live a long time and be healthy and strong you must not save on the time you spend on cooking food, although I understand that the world is changing but why should we hurry.
Hi. Im am in Vietnam. my country has so many kinds of traditional food and most of them are very delicous and remarkable for anyone that tasted at the first time.
ReplyDeleteVietnamese people have no habit of going out to have lunch or dinner exept for their business meal.We often cook ourself.This is because of that we want to enjoy our favourite meal. Moreover, the things we do by ourself are cleaner and more sanitary.junk food didn't use to be popular a decade ago. But now it is popularly enjoyed everywhere since the demand of most people who work over day and have no time to cook.
I myself don't like junk food. I often cook meals for my family. this action remains a traditional habit and show the resposibilties for your family. Yes, the life can be changed but the we should keep something for ourself.
Hi! I come from Vietname. My country has so many kinds of traditional food. Most of them are very delicous and remarkable to every one who tasted them at the first time. vietnamese people have no habit of going out to have lunch or dinner exept for business meal with partners. we often cook for ourself. It is because of that we can choose fresh and healthy food while going to the market.Moverover, This food is often carefully prepared and more santinary than that in the restaurants. Fast food restaurants didn't use to be popular in my country 5 years ago. But now they are popularly enjoyed everywhere by a lot of peolpe who have to work over noon and have no time to cook. I don't like junk food or fast food even though I sometimes eat it. I often cook for my family since this action remains traditional habits and show my responsibilities for my family.Yes, in my opinion, our life can be changed but there is something should be kept. This is more meaningful than anything in modern life.
ReplyDeleteFast food supplies the convenience to the mordern rush lifestyle. Thanks to fast food restaurants, we don't need to spend much time and effort in preparing lunch. While, everything has two sides. More and more researches show that often servinbg fast food will destroy our health. Fast food is rich in fat and sugar. LDL (low density lipoprotein) which is a kind of fat is the direct cause of cardio-vascular diseases like high blood pressure, heart attack. Feeding much sugar will disorder metabolic process and then many chronic diseases will appear like diabete, obesity. So, we save lunch time at the price of our health.
ReplyDeleteHow can we resolve the contradiction between time saving and body health? First, basic knowledge about health and nutrition should be taught in primary school. Second, The government should impose more tax on fast food services. Last but not least, More self service restaurants should be built near schools, factories and business districts.
Health is the most important thing of our life. Nothing will make sense if we lose health!
Hi,I am from China.If I want to spend less time for eating,I would choose noodle or fast meal.There is various choice in our restaurants.One is rice mixed with other cooked vegetable and meat.It is called Chaofan.
ReplyDeletehi,everyone ,good evening .
ReplyDeleteWoww... thats sound like interesting about comparing a restourant..?? well.. mostly in Indonesia is very cheap and there are many culiners or cooking recipes around in the region of indonesia. Thats very delicious and mostly there are having a spicy flavour.. Its sounds interesting..?? come to my hause and you will feel about an culinaire in indonesia with a swear that you have found after you eat it..!!
ReplyDeleteI know,a popular mexican restaurant,meets people's need.Acapulco has to many healthy
ReplyDeleterestaunants,haven sandwiches,smoothies.juices,extracts,soups,everything is natural,the taste is realy good.I recomment you.
This is Stanley from Hong Kong. It is well known that Hong Kong is famous for it diversify kinds of food. Japan, Western, korean, Chinese, France, Italian, Portugual cruise... Of this, we have sufficient way but not enforced to choose healthy food. Due to the convenience and good price of junk foods, most Hong Kongers tends to stay around with fast food, McDonald is first choice for people here.
ReplyDeleteI think care about our body is very important, because our life and mind are related with our body...salaam...
ReplyDeleteI live in Milan, one of the biggesst european city and, as in every big city, there is a lot of fast foods here.
ReplyDeleteThe most famous is Mc Donald's; here the sandwiches are very good and cheep enough. I like eat to Mc but i can't eat often here because i wouldn't grease...
I think that the people are trying to eat better now. For example, in Chile, when the fast food began, most young people went to eat there, but many years after, the mentality of the young has changed, because they have learned with their experience and with the big champagne anti-fast food of the Health Minister, that this style of food is very dangerous for the health. They are beginning to eat healthy, and to exercise diary.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, most people are going to change their style of live for once more healthy right now.
Fast food restaurants can bring food for millions of people who cannot afford for the equivalents nutrients at better restaurants, or are not able to make their own food. These are definitely the good point of view of this landscape. In the other hand, these restaurants are meticulously prepared to face any crises, reducing their costs as fast as they need, hiring and firing how many people they want, and pressuring their suppliers all the time to produce more an more, cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. When Barack Obama ‘used’ the grandchildren of America to convince their grandpas and grammas, that sounds like a new idea, but wasn’t. This industry has been doing this for long time, giving lots of toys to our children, and convincing us to take them there. Besides that, ‘produce more and more’ means use quite more pesticides in crop, take over rainforests to raise cattle and so on, which the ends up you already know. But global warming is not in discussion. What I mean is the fast food industry has used dirty artifacts to raise their incomings above all efforts. We, as consumers, fathers and mothers should be careful with them and, at least, starting to read the betweens.
ReplyDeleteMost teenagers like to eat fast food restaurant in Taiwan. Because you can sit in restaurants for all day, read books, talk with friends, and no one could kick you away. It’s a good place for them.
ReplyDeleteWell I think that the reason why do most people like eating fast food now, especially young adults is that life is too busy. Plus, fast food restaurants are very comfortable to stay, and the food is really good, too.
ReplyDeleteThe other reason is that maybe the food that young adults eat now, for example food in schools or companies, etc., is not good for them. And most young people can't cook well themselves. Life is convenient, so they don't really consider cooking as a necessary thing in life.
However, there are still people who are different from the others. Such as my friend, er family has taught her since she was a kid that cooking is a very important things.
To sum up, I think young people also need to learn cooking as a hobby or even a job. I don't mean that fast food should be avoided, it's just that we need to know the limit of eating it.
I saw Vienamese is have no habit of going out for lunch or dinner, except for their business with partner.My family always prepare and cook by ourselft.I like that.Preparing and Cooking meal make the members in our family get together well.It can't lack in a family.Somtime, I just use fast food in the morning, bread is the most fast food I like.Now, I live with my older brother,I still cooking at home.My relatives often ask me if I cooked by myselft or go out for eat.And they suprsised, because they suppose that I don't have much time enough to cook.
ReplyDeleteTraditional habit in Vietnam can not abandon,but, that's make we're not out of shape.
Hi. I don't like fastfood. But when I was a child, I ate this meal. I was a fat boy. I've gone to gym for 6 years. Now I have strong body and I eat a health food.
ReplyDeletei don't like eating out in open area. i do n't know how people are able to eat so fast, even if they are in unsuitable places !!! it's not good for health, they know that but they all say "we don't get time". they forget that they have a one life :)
ReplyDeleteI really love fast food, hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries, When I am im Brazil my country, I ever go to a MCDonald's, Bob's or Girafa's. Now I am in India, where I live don't have any of this places, but have Subway, its a delicious fast fresh food, they serve salads too. So I changed my habits, now I go out and eat salads or fresh snacks, It makes me feel healty.
ReplyDeleteThere are more and more fast food restaurants in Taiwan. McDonald's seems more common than KFC and Burgerking.
ReplyDeleteObviously, fast food is convient, "fast" and simple, compared with traditional Taiwan-Chinese food. Many students or young people like to order some food and drinks and stay in the restaurant for a long time. They read books quietly, prepare their homework, or discuss things with their friends. I don't think that's a serious problem. These restaurants provide consumers more choices.
Medical professionals say the junk food is harmful to health. It may cause overweight, diabetes, hypertension, and so on, because it contains much fat, many calories and less diet fiber. But it seems unfair to impute these diseases to a single cause-fast food. Lack of exercise, busy work, and stressful life are all risk factors.
In Taiwan, people like to go to nightmarket and those nightmarkets are our scenic spots!
ReplyDeleteIf you know our island, you'll know it's a culture shock place, in which that we have diverse food here.
And those vendors add their creative in these food, you can see how creative they are! We absorb other culture's own food and transformed them to a new taste.
But we do have our own snacks, like famous 'Pearl Milk Tea', 'Pig Blood cake', if you try once you wont regret. :)
First of,I wouid like to eat heaihhy food such as vegetabies and fruit.And Ishouid drink alot of water.My body needs different foods that contain vitamins and proteins.
ReplyDeletethe second point is exercise.I always like to waik.Same times I practice hard on the exercise bike because the sportis great for the human body .Exercise makes us feelctive and vital.
Finally,Imust be concerned about diet and my exercise program,to keep my body in hood heaith.
One of the most important things in your life is to be healthy. You can be healthy by eating healthy meals. For example,eat fruits,vegetables,fish,meat and lots of other healthy food. Avoid foods that have a lot of sugar, fat and caffeine.
ReplyDeleteYou can also stay healthy by playing sports. For example, play sports like soccer, basketball, football, swimming etc. I think swimming is really good for you. You are moving all the muscles in you're body,so it is very good for building strong muscles. Then your body is healthy.
In conclusion, you need to eat good foods and do a lot of exercises.
If you do all these things you will be healthy.
Sincerely,ALTIN from ALBANIA.
Hello!I'm Anna.
ReplyDeleteas for my country (Russia) we have a lot of fast food restaurants in big cities. But I live in provincial town - so we have no one fast food restaurant. And I'm happy because of that. Because fast food is not very usefull for our health, of course we often hear advertisements of this restaurants, that their food is full of vitamins and other useful ingridients, but don't believe them!
as for improving our preferance in food, I don't know - maybe, but not very much. Meals which prepaired at home are much tastyer and useful for us, so we should try eat home meals and we won't have problems with stomack!
well its our choice - be or not be healthy!
Almost 80 t0 90 percents of families in my country dining out every day due to we work overtime. This resulted in eating food to vent our pressure. Imagine you eat much salt and sugary food which affects the physical health, especially cardiovascular system.
ReplyDeleteMy family is aware of eating very healthy, since my mother-in-law got a breast cancer five years ago. From then on, I insist my husband and two kids at least eat breakfast and dinner at home. My two girls love eat more fresh fruit and vegetables than other kids. I am so proud of them. Even the younger daughter is called ” Princess Vegetable” by classmates.
Now, like my family, take up having a healthy eating habit.
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ReplyDeletesome factors are effective on our body.the most important one is our diet. the healthy diet emphasizes on the variety, sufficiency and balance of the food we eat.so its not neither practical nor essential for our body to omit some especial food we eat.
having the meal in the restaurant does not matter a few times in a month.otherwise the fatty and salty delicious food causes many problem for our health.
hi IM parisa
ReplyDeletegoing to the restaurant is one of the hobbies of people of iran. however they know the adversity of fatty and salty food but it cant be removed from our life but we can make balance of going out to have fast food and try to order the food that have less fat and salt.
In Peru, the most important part of the population prefers fatty food. Young people and kids usually go to fast food restaurants (Kentucky, McDonald's, etc) because they like the food, the toys and the play games in there; and adults prefer the popular grilled chicken and the Chinese food because they are cheaper and testy.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, recently have appeared some vegetarian restaurants that people like to go; and also once a week there is a place where you can get organic products that you can use to prepare healthy foods.
They are still few people who do this but I think more and more people are concern about their health and trying to eat better to improve their lifestyle.
In Taiwan I thought that the child most likes eating the fast food, but my experience is not many, because me only then 11 years old,But the fast food eats too many are not good, because fries in oil food, therefore is harmful to person's body,Therefore I suggested that adult and the children do not want often to eat the fast food.
ReplyDeleteIn Taiwan I thought that the child most likes eating the fast food, but my experience is not many, because of me only then 11 years old,No matter but is adult perhaps the child should better not eat too fries in oil food and the fast food.Will eat too many are will not be good to the bodyTherefore the human should better be forms the habit to eat the leisurely spot to have nutrition food.
ReplyDeleteJunk food has become very common in Brazil.
ReplyDeleteAn example: my school is near McDonald's, Burger King, Habbib's and Ragazzo. My friends always go to these snackbars/restaurants after class and, believe me, they don't go there because of the salad. I think it's okay to eat junk food some times, on weekends for example, because it's delicious, we can't deny! But have junk food everyday isn't healthy. People need to balance what they eat. They don't need to be on diet, but they have to eat something more nutritious and less fatty, and of course: to work out.
If loudmouthed minister for Women and Child development Renuka Chowdhury has her way, she would require fast food ads shown on television to have statutory warnings about the pitfalls of eating such unhealthy food.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have a problem with that in itself, except for the fact that the term "fast food" or "junk food" in India is viewed in a very distorted manner. In almost every press report (including that of brain-dead Times of India), these terms are synonymous with burgers, fried chicken, and French fries (read MNC fast food). Now, I can understand why in the US this would be the case, since many people do consume these particular items in quantities that lead to obesity and heart disease.
But, seriously, what percentage of the Indian population eats at these MNC outlets on a regular basis for these to pose a significant health risk? Maybe 0.1 percent? And why does Renuka think that having these warnings would improve the health of the Indian population at large (even assuming the people who watch the ads heed the advice)?
If we classify French fries as junk food, we should also do the same for the roadside chili bajis, pav bhaji, or even the humble masala dosa, since they are not any more healthy. Tell me, will she now want all dhabas and Udupis to post warnings on their menus for all their fried items? Of course not. It is far easier just to indulge in MNC-bashing, which is probably her real agenda anyway.
And I hope that is her real agenda. For, if not, there could be only one other rationale behind the whole exercise - the lives of the people that can afford eating at McDonalds matter more. Screw the rest of the people lower down the socio-economic ladder who gorge on their onion pakoras at the roadside stall on a daily basis. Those who really matter would be at the KFC downing chicken nuggets.
Either way, it doesn't sound too noble.
HI, I'm from Peru, and I think that the answer for what are the reasons to prefer healthy food rather than junk food, is because more people around the world are living the consequences of their bad habits, now when they are older.
ReplyDeleteIn nowadays, the disease that affects everyone in its different types is the "cancer" and that attacks any part of your body, so I think that's why more parents are concerned about giving their children more quality and nutrition with healthy food and discard the junk food.
I think that in Europe, the media is blaming a lot of things on the U.S. In Europe, people very likely associate junk food with the United States, claiming that the country is responsible for obesity worldwide! It's true that junk food isn't that nutritious. But paradoxically, many students here in France keep eating junk food. And this is so because they like it. Now, the worldwide debate over obesity and junk food has made restaurants like Mc Donalds change their menus so that they become more nutritious. For example the nutritional components of hamburgers is even indicated and salads have been added to the menus. The government has launhed an advertising campaign on TV telling us that to be healthy, we have to eat less salty and sugary food, and eat at least five fruits and vegetables per day. All in all, I think that the dishes we prepare at home are the most nutritious. Add a good starter and a good desert, practice some sport to keep fit, and that should make you be healthy.
ReplyDeleteHi, I am Brazilian and I am in US sice 2 weeks ago. I have to say that I am the most unhealphy people here. I new some people and everybody are healphy. There are many options of fast food and also healphy foods.
ReplyDeleteHello, I leave in Italy and there are many fast foods also here of course, even if maybe we have a different idea of food than you. We like eating "well", so maybe we can sometimes eat a burger, chips, but perhaps we love more eating at home.
ReplyDeleteaccording to what i see,the fast food trend a hit due to it seems to be a new eating style as modern and stylish. and almost the young is in the trend. their'psychology is more sensitive and easier to change following social fluctuation. the fast food restaurants is not only in which they have fast foods but also where they and their friend date and chat about something in their everyday life. in fact, fast foods are not delicious and not good for heath. they are made from so a lot of oil and fatty materials. especially, 10 grams the fries chip are as harmful as a cigarrite. In any matter, i like dishs which is prepared at home. The cooking them is an interesting thing. it help me relive stress, and is a way to improve cooking ability
ReplyDeleteIn Taiwan,there are lots of fast food restaurants such as McDonald and Mos Burger.People love going to those places because the atmospheres in them are usually relaxing and easy.Not only the atmospheres,but the deadly clean environments are also taken into account,paticularly the lavatories.However,I personally really dislike going to them on the ground that fast food isn't quiet health and the prices of meals aren't cheap at all,either.To me,eating at home is the most economical option.
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ReplyDeletei am from one of south Asian countries, where people still prefer to eat home made food.Although fast food taste and smell attract people's attention but their high price stop them to adopt this as a habit and except high class, common people dine out in special occasions and like to take home made food in their work place.
Having everything close to you it can be either good or affect your eating habits.
ReplyDeleteHaving so many fast food restaurants around makes life easier, but tremendously affects health.
It requires self control and good habits to do what is necessary to keep our bodies in shape and eat what our body needs and not what we want .
I am from Ecuador, in my country a few years ago, we did n't have fast food so we all ate healthy. However actually fast foot is sold all over the country which cost is low and also this meals are very tasty. Therefore many people actually have overweight problems. Furthermore we can see obese children and youth because of fast food restaurants. In Ecuador this issue has converted already in a public health problem and they are taken measures such as to prohibit the sales at schools and to increase taxes on this products.
ReplyDeletei'm Tam and i'm from Viet Nam. Over the decade, people in my country started eating fastfood especially in young people and in their meals people eat fatty food and unhealthy food very much so the number of young people getting out of shape become more popular. otherwise young people are often inactive, they like sitting in a place hardly play sport in their free time.
ReplyDeleteSo i think people should care more about their diet, cut back on the fatty food and the unhealthy food and eat more fruits and vegetables. Otherwise people should active more and more.
In my country there is a problem with overweight among school children.Yes, they spend a lot of time in front of their computers, don't excersise too much but the truth is that they overdo the fast food.Sometimes you can notice what pupils buy when they enter the shop f.x during schooltrip, when they are without parents olny with teachers-they buy chips, french fries, sweets, ice-cream.So, the goverment to show them the healthy life style organised an action at schools-every day children get a piece of fresh fruit or vegetable .Every second day they can drink a carton of milk.I like this idea very much.It helps them to develope the consciousnes that what they eat is important, that they shoudn't pollute their bodies with unhealthy food.
ReplyDeletein my country, most youth people like to have fast food because they think it most delicious than traditional food and it give them the chance to choose whatever they like without spending much time to think what to eat and how to prepare it or even going to market to get the ingredients.
ReplyDeleteit's just became a habit to eat fast food and almost no one care if it is an unhealthy food or not, they just care to get a delicious food.
I live in south korea, since 1990s, fast food has got in popular because it is cheap and easy to get. However, we don't know what ingredients it includes and how it is harmful for our health. According to the documentary which was made by Morgan spurlock, when the director has eaten fastfood for a month, it caused obesity and he became out of shape. I think it's a reliable evidence. Even they insist on their healthy ingredients and cooking process, I don't buy it. Fastfood is just fastfood.
ReplyDeleteWell, i think it is. When I went home from school, I always passed the fast food shop and the thing is, there are lots of teenager there, mostly teenagers.The reason is that they are boring with the same old boring lunch now or they couldn't have a lot of time. But they didn't know that the thing they eat is full of bugs and insects around that makes the food unhealthy.
ReplyDeleteIn Russia many people use fast food restaurants. I understand, it's very convenient and tasty. Earlier our country had many special canteens. Where people could eat home food. Now fast food is everywhere. I don't believe in health food there. The problem of excess weight appeared together with fast food. Also I think that the problem is getting worse together with computer and tv. People stay at home, watch TV or play computer games and order and eat fast food. Even when people go out, they walk a little and drop by at fast food restaurants.
ReplyDeletePeople eat a lot of junk food in Brazil. In fact, they do that because they have a busy life, therefore, they can't stop to eat a healthy meal... Well, that's what people say. Furthermore, people also like to eat at restaurants to take a superb conversation with their families or friends despite they could eat at home hahaha
ReplyDeleteObesity is currently one of the biggest problems. For example, fast food which causes serious health problems, whether physical or psychologically, such as diabetes, cancer, overweight.
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