Fast Food Vs Home Food

I Introduction

“At some point, they are going to knock a hole in the side of the wall and throw their rotisserie chicken out as you drive by”. (Consumer Trends and the Food System. (n.d.). Retrieved November 3, 2015).

Henry Balzer, one of the greatest food industry analyst gave such perception to the popularity of fast food. Nowadays, fast food has become so common that it has become a part of our today. We can easily find fast food anywhere, for example besides a highway, in the mall, in the airport and more. In the past, people used to eat fresh and unprocessed food, due to the change of lifestyle, attitude of young people, and modern life, fast food start to become so popular. On the other hand, the increase popularity of fast food

They learn from their friends, whether good or bad.

IV. As time goes by, their attitude started to change badly. b Children that do not eat at home usually will end up a broken relationship with families

I. When they do not eat at home, they do not spend enough time with their family.

II. The relationship between them and their family will get bad over time.

III. When the relationship is not good, arguments and disagreement happens all the time.

IV. This is why when children prefer outside food such as fast food than home-cooked food, family issues start to rise.

2 Eating fast food increase the burden of the family a Children tends to spend more than they should

I. Children are spending a lot nowadays is because they eat outside frequently.

II. When they spend a lot they tend to ask for more money from their parents.

III. Although fast food are affordable, eating too frequently is also quite costly.

IV. This become an issue when money problem rises in a family. b Parents have to work more

I. Parents have to deal with it by working extra harder to overcome the problem.

II. In exchange they do not have enough time to spend with their children.

III

Fast food restaurants is increasing tremendously day by day and is not that we can stop it from developing anymore. Although we cannot stop it from growing, we can still prevent ourselves, friends also family from fast food. It is not to say that we cannot consume fast food at all, but we need to control our consumption of fast food to balance our nutrition by eating more nutritional and natural food such as salad, fresh meat, vegetables and more. As we know the increase popularity of fast food has greatly affect our family problems, health problems and also addiction among young children. Thus we need to prevent them in order to live a healthy lifestyle and protect our future generations from unnecessary health problem.

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