America has been called a "fast food nation" and for good reason. Everyday, one out of four Americans eats fast food. If you are eating out, fast food restaurants are often the cheapest option, but unfortunately, not usually the healthiest one. Eating just one fast food meal can pack enough calories, sodium and fat for an entire day, but the quick-and-cheap temptation can be hard to resist. As a smart consumer, we can make healthier choices and still enjoy the convenience of fast food restaurant.
With today's hectic lifestyles, time-saving products are increasingly in demand. Perhaps one of the most obvious examples is fast food. The rate of growth in consumer expenditures on fast food has led most other segments of the food-away-from-home market for much of the last two decades. Many workers prefer take fast food as lunch meal because it’s cheaper than other foods and save time for waiting food. Thus, the demand of fast food is an increasing number and many fast food restaurant also make some promotion to their loyal customers such as Mc’ Donald have McValue Lunch has 10 different choices in a week and the price from Rm 5.95 only. Not just for the workers but the students also prefer sit at fast food restaurant to having lunch meal, discussing homework, surf internet and so on. In addition, it also a place for them to enjoying a meal without high expenses.
Demand and Supply on Fast Food
People want quick and convenient meals; they do not want to spend a lot of time preparing meals, traveling to pick up meals, or waiting for meals in restaurants. As a result, consumers rely on fast food. Knowing this, fast food providers are coming up with new ways to market their products that save time for consumers. Where is the demand and there are the supply, so, we know that high demand of fast food also will increase the supply on consumer. When the supply of fast-food restaurants increases, the time cost of obtaining fast food decreases and consumer theory predicts that this will lead to an increase in the demand for fast food. This increase in the demand for fast food, which tends to be more calorically dense, is likely to increase the weight gain of mothers who substitute towards fast food.
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The Pros and Cons of Fast Food
Fast food! It lives up its name, its fast and its food. The demand of fast food already became a necessity. Most people replace our regular breakfast, lunch and dinner to these fast foods, in example McDonald’s, KFC, Wendy’s and Pizza Hut. We all know it became a part of our lives, but we are not that sure the effects of fast food brought to us, so today we will discover it here. =)
The Pros of Fast food
Economics
Fast food industries play the important role in the society in term of economics. We use some country as example, the typical fast food nation United States of America.
• The McDonald’s Corporation has become a powerful symbol of America’s service economy, which is now responsible for 90 percent of the country’s new jobs. In 1968, McDonald’s operated about one thousand restaurants. Today it has about twenty-eight thousand restaurants worldwide and opens almost two thousand new ones each year. An estimated one out of every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed by McDonald’s. The company annually hires about one million people, more than any other American organization, public or private
• McDonald’s is the nation’s largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes - and the second largest purchaser of chicken.
• The McDonald’s Corporation is the largest owner of retail property in the world. Indeed, the company earns the majority of its profits not from selling food but from collecting rent.
• McDonald’s spends more money on advertising and marketing than any other brand. As a result it has replaced Coca-Cola as the world’s most famous brand.
(The information is taken from: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/schlosser-fast.html)
The Cons of Fast Food
Burgers and fries always the top choices in fast food. People like it, buy it and eat it. They never know what is behind the curtain. Fast foods always related to health issue, where people should have always take note of it.
• Processed Meat
With the low price of food, we can already know that the cost of the industry spent on the food is low too, which means that the quality of food won’t get as good as fine dining. Processed meat is the best choice of the fast food chain to provide to consumers, because it is cheap and it can produce a lot. We can find Sodium Nitrite in processed meat in burgers, sausages, hams and also some instant food. Sodium Nitrite is dangerous and there is a believe that it is the primary cause of pancreatic cancer in humans who consume even moderate quantities of processed meats. The food industry use it because this chemical just happens to turn meats bright red.
• Obesity
Obesity has already became the main issue faced by americans. "The food industry would love to explain obesity as a problem of personal responsibility, since it takes the onus off them for marketing fast food, soft drinks, and other high-calorie, low-quality products," Ludwig says.However, "When you have calories that are incredibly cheap, in a culture where 'bigger is better,' that's a dangerous combination," says Walter Willett, M.D., D.P.H., professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
• Heart attack and diabetes
Fast food can also consider as junk food. It contained high level of carbohydrates, sugar, salt and fat that will increase the level of cholesterols in blood and also extremely high level of salt (sodium) that will cause to the heart attack.
• Some other dieses
Food Additives: Unknown Effects
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a list of over 3,000 chemicals that are added to the processed food supply. These compounds do various things to food: add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, add flavor, soften, emulsify and more.
Potential side effects from the additives vary, and are controversial. For just one common food additive, monosodium glutamate (MSG), for example, the following symptoms have been reported: Numbness, Burning sensation, Tingling, Facial pressure or tightness, Chest pain, Headache, Nausea, Rapid heartbeat, Drowsiness, Weakness, Difficulty breathing for asthmatics. As is the case with most food additives, some people have no side effects, but others may become ill.
(The information is taken from: http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/10/19/all-the-health-risks-of-processed-foods----in-just-a-few-quick-convenient-bites.htm)
This is an interesting video clip that can help you make decision to eat fast food or not to eat it.
These are the pros and cons about fast food. It is up to you to make decision to eat fast food. Either enjoy the excitement for a little moment and suffer for the whole life, or practice the healthier life style to live longer with your loves one. =)
by,
Peggi
The Pros of Fast food
Economics
Fast food industries play the important role in the society in term of economics. We use some country as example, the typical fast food nation United States of America.
• The McDonald’s Corporation has become a powerful symbol of America’s service economy, which is now responsible for 90 percent of the country’s new jobs. In 1968, McDonald’s operated about one thousand restaurants. Today it has about twenty-eight thousand restaurants worldwide and opens almost two thousand new ones each year. An estimated one out of every eight workers in the United States has at some point been employed by McDonald’s. The company annually hires about one million people, more than any other American organization, public or private
• McDonald’s is the nation’s largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes - and the second largest purchaser of chicken.
• The McDonald’s Corporation is the largest owner of retail property in the world. Indeed, the company earns the majority of its profits not from selling food but from collecting rent.
• McDonald’s spends more money on advertising and marketing than any other brand. As a result it has replaced Coca-Cola as the world’s most famous brand.
(The information is taken from: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/schlosser-fast.html)
The Cons of Fast Food
Burgers and fries always the top choices in fast food. People like it, buy it and eat it. They never know what is behind the curtain. Fast foods always related to health issue, where people should have always take note of it.
• Processed Meat
With the low price of food, we can already know that the cost of the industry spent on the food is low too, which means that the quality of food won’t get as good as fine dining. Processed meat is the best choice of the fast food chain to provide to consumers, because it is cheap and it can produce a lot. We can find Sodium Nitrite in processed meat in burgers, sausages, hams and also some instant food. Sodium Nitrite is dangerous and there is a believe that it is the primary cause of pancreatic cancer in humans who consume even moderate quantities of processed meats. The food industry use it because this chemical just happens to turn meats bright red.
• Obesity
Obesity has already became the main issue faced by americans. "The food industry would love to explain obesity as a problem of personal responsibility, since it takes the onus off them for marketing fast food, soft drinks, and other high-calorie, low-quality products," Ludwig says.However, "When you have calories that are incredibly cheap, in a culture where 'bigger is better,' that's a dangerous combination," says Walter Willett, M.D., D.P.H., professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
• Heart attack and diabetes
Fast food can also consider as junk food. It contained high level of carbohydrates, sugar, salt and fat that will increase the level of cholesterols in blood and also extremely high level of salt (sodium) that will cause to the heart attack.
• Some other dieses
Food Additives: Unknown Effects
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a list of over 3,000 chemicals that are added to the processed food supply. These compounds do various things to food: add color, stabilize, texturize, preserve, sweeten, thicken, add flavor, soften, emulsify and more.
Potential side effects from the additives vary, and are controversial. For just one common food additive, monosodium glutamate (MSG), for example, the following symptoms have been reported: Numbness, Burning sensation, Tingling, Facial pressure or tightness, Chest pain, Headache, Nausea, Rapid heartbeat, Drowsiness, Weakness, Difficulty breathing for asthmatics. As is the case with most food additives, some people have no side effects, but others may become ill.
(The information is taken from: http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/10/19/all-the-health-risks-of-processed-foods----in-just-a-few-quick-convenient-bites.htm)
This is an interesting video clip that can help you make decision to eat fast food or not to eat it.
These are the pros and cons about fast food. It is up to you to make decision to eat fast food. Either enjoy the excitement for a little moment and suffer for the whole life, or practice the healthier life style to live longer with your loves one. =)
by,
Peggi
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