ipl-logo

Fast Food Vs Home Food

1932 Words8 Pages

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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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.

Reference

Consumer Trends and the Food System. (n.d.). Retrieved November 3, 2015, from http://www.c-span.org/video/?318978-3/consumer-trends-food-system

Pool, J. (1997). Mexican food popularity hits new highs. (Includes list of Mexican food suppliers). National Petroleum News.

Currie, J. (2009). The effect of fast food restaurants on obesity. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research.

Fokazi, S. (2015, August 20). SA 's Fast Foods among the Saltiest. The Mercury. Retrieved November 3, 2015, from

Show More
Related
253 Words | 2 Pages

In “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko explains that the only affordable meal choice for an American teenager is fast food. Zinczenko recognizes that families consume these food sources because of the numerous McDonald’s restaurants and the lack of grocery stores in the area. Zinczenko argues that “Some fast-food purveyors will provide calorie information on request, but even that can be hard to understand”(464). However, fast-food is not the blame as Zinczenko argues in the article it 's the consumer that is to blame. The consumer has the control to eat what they want.

Read More
461 Words | 2 Pages

According to recent polls, approximately 3% of Americans admit to consuming fast-food at least once per day. This number, although it may appear small, it accounts for 9.5 million citizens across the United States who are unashamed of chowing down on a quick meal. Unfortunately, due to this consumerization, obesity and other like-minded illnesses have risen in recent years. The effects are costly and capable of making people pay the ultimate price: their life.

Read More
626 Words | 3 Pages

More and more Americans are going to fast food and spending money so they don’t have to make dinner or other reasons of laziness. This says that Americans are accepting fast food as a main dish in the culture and eating it in place of regular meals in some cases. Eric Schlosser also states that America has become a “Fast Food Nation” (7), implying that society as a culture is dependent on the food that is provided to us through drive-through

Read More
1206 Words | 5 Pages

Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, discusses the changes that the United States has gone through in recent years due to the development of fast food restaurants. Fast food places have led to Americans desiring more efficiency in their lives as well as changed many of the traditional values that Americans used to have, such as family and the role that youth play in the workplace. This book also agrees with what we have been learning in class about the fact that our industrialized food production has aided in our moving from dependency on others and family to being a highly individualized society. The efficient mechanisms by which fast food places run have drastically changed American values, economy, and health.

Read More
518 Words | 3 Pages

For starters, the price gap between actual groceries and fast food is astronomical. When you can buy a burger at a fast food restaurant for a dollar but a salad at the same place cost 7 dollars, the cheaper option—more times than not— appears to be more desirable. In many cases, the financial burden forces them to sacrifice a healthy lifestyle for full bellies. While accessibility to healthier food choices is scarce in many areas, fast food restaurants have managed to appear on just about every corner.

Read More
1211 Words | 5 Pages

The author of this article is Ella Paula an editor for Livestrong.com. She has written several articles related to health. The primary target audience for this article is going to be parents, children, and young adults. This article documents how children eating fast food are part of the cause of childhood obesity and the major effects eating too much fast food can do.

Read More
1687 Words | 7 Pages

The main contributor, widely reported by top experts, is the consumption of cheap, and convenient foods such as fast food and the myriad of boxed foods available in the supermarket. Diane Brady asserts in her essay, “The Employer-Friendly Case for Pricer Big Macs” that “Of all the reasons why a third of U.S. adults are obese, the lure of cheap, unhealthy food ranks near the top” (519). With continual attention being given to the effects of unhealthy foods on adults and especially young people, one would think that America would wise up and stop consuming it at such an alarming rate. Again, Brady points out that, “Fast food chains have raised their game with healthier menu offerings and support for programs that encourage physical activity, but they continue to thrive by selling high-calorie food. McDonald’s salads, introduced in 1987, make up just 2 percent to 3 percent of U.S. sales” (520).

Read More
1662 Words | 7 Pages

Having children makes food choices even harder because they are known to be very picky eaters. Being busy cause people to have to spend more money on fast food therefore they are trying to save as much on food as they can after having to buy it daily, so they opt for the dollar

Read More
1809 Words | 8 Pages

Parents usually blame the advertisements that pass on television promoting junk food and believe that it is persuading the child to buy or consume the product that is been promoted. But in reality the advertisement is for the parents but and the parent will take the decision if it is good for their kids. When they show the image of the product on television the image might seem really appetite that would convince someone to go and buy the product. That is the person 's opinion of course and yeah eat in a fast food restaurant is not a bad thing but some people don 't the the damage it can make the body. There have been people who eat everyday out and in two weeks gain more than 5 pounds and their cholesterol raises.

Read More
705 Words | 3 Pages

III.Conclusion A.Restatement of the thesis statement: Although fast food is convenient, affordable and have a good taste, we should avoid having fast food too often for our own health. B.Suggestion/recommendation: To totally avoid fast food is hard, but we should reduce our consumption of it, maybe twice a month. Other than fast food restaurant, maybe other restaurant should also start making delivery to cope with people’s lifestyle

Read More
1339 Words | 6 Pages

Today life is on the fast track. People are always on the go and don’t have time to properly take care of themselves or their families. For most Americans, fast food and junk food are ready to grab for a snack or a quick dinner. They don’t slow down to think about how the foods they are eating effect their long term health. Fewer and fewer families take the time to prepare a nutritious meal and are passing down bad habits to their children.

Read More
982 Words | 4 Pages

Fast food is considered popular because it 's convenient, it 's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu. Fast food marketers marketing to children and adolescents has skyrocketed throughout the last century. According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, funded by the government, "In the United States, the percentage of children and adolescents affected by obesity has more than tripled since the 1970 's" ("Healthy Schools"). In fact, this statistic is predicted to increase significantly as fast food restaurants are continuously being built everywhere in the U.S. Fast food restaurants are everywhere.

Read More
832 Words | 4 Pages

Title: FAST FOOD POPULARITY A. Introduction: Nowadays, most people -especially kids and youngsters- prefer to eat fast food, such as McDonald, pizza, fried food, and etc. Why it has become so popular? It is tastes better than homemade food? B. General Statement: Fast food industry has grown dramatically and become so popular. According to the research, people spend more money on fast food than the education.

Read More
1668 Words | 7 Pages

“Fast food restaurants have us hooked on to their tasty food. You See a lot of people buying fast food because how good it tastes. Well let me tell you it is not good for your health. Why do fast food places lower their prices because they know people will buy it if it doesn’t cost that much and most people buy it cause that`s how much they can afford”. Fast food places is a way to not cook every week I feel bad for people when I go to McDonald’s and ask them, do you know what you’re eating in they say

Read More
859 Words | 4 Pages

According to Centres of Disease Control and Prevention more than one-third (34.9% or 76.6 million) of U.S adults are obese. In this fast moving world, may it be people from the corporate world or even students no one really have the time to wait to get their food done. So the only way is that they buy themselves fast food. However, awareness is being created these days about the effects of fast food people are also starting to blame fast food for increasing rate of obesity.

Read More

More about Fast Food Vs Home Food

Related Topics

Open Document