Causes and Effects of the Fast Food Restaurant

In the past, traditional people used to eat healthy and freshly prepared food with their families at  home. Today, however, many people, especially young people, prefer to eat fast foods, such as hamburgers, fried chickens, pizzas at fast food restaurants.

            Nearly 600 adults and teens in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area were interviewed for the study in 2005-2006. Most reported eating fast food at least three times per week.The line was more popular among people with college degrees than people with less education is "I'm too busy to cook". And young adults were less likely than older adults to say they ate fast food because it offered many nutritious choices.

            On the other hand, there are many causes for popularity of fast food restaurants. For one of the reason is the food is a lot of cheaper and it’s easily cooked. When people go on break from work and don’t much time to sit and eat a good meal. Even the food is not always good, but it is most of the time.

            Since fast food restaurants has became popular in people’s lifestyle. It also introduces fast food restaurants to the teenagers as the trend. Teenagers like hanging out and gathering at the fast food restaurants with ordering foods and beverages after they shopping.

            Because of fast food restaurants are designed with the comfortable and cozy place with many facilities, such as Wi-fi, children playground, and the internet connetion, so that people feel comfortable and are willing to wasting their time at fast food restaurants.

            More over, media also contributes fast food restaurants as the bridge to introducing the new feature of fast food itself. Advertisements are designed to announce the audience about the product and different kinds of fast foods in order to persuade the audience that the product is good to be tried, hence, there is no nutrition that is proven on the advertisement of the product. Commonly, fast food companies are franchise of foreign corporations, so profits can leave the country by opening the franchise in the region.

            To be result of causes for the popularity of fast food restaurants, we should consider the effect too. In fact, the popularity of fast food restaurants change people’s lifestyle. They don’t have time to find ingredients or prepare the good food. As the result, the family tradition of preparing food traditionally and eating together at home is lost because people prefer to choose fast food restaurants as the alternative to get the quickness of taking foods without being late to eating in busy time.

However, this change in diet can have some serious effects. The effect also appears to the healthiness of people. Consuming fast foods regularly can lead the people to obesity. These people will be less productive and have conditions such as heart disease and diabetic.

            Not only healthiness that can be affected by fast foods but also the popularity of fast food restaurant itself, makes people to get less opportunity to talk a further effect in economic aspect. Although fast food is not very expensive, it’s more expensive than cooking properly for yourself.

            Facilities also are served for consumers in fast food restaurants, such as Wi-fi, internet connection, and children playground. As the result, many people wasting their time just for using Wi-fi and internet connection at fast food restaurants, without thinking another activities which is more beneficial and useful

            In conclusion, although fast food restaurants is good for people’s choice when they are in the busy time, because not only they can eating fast foods comfortably but also they can use some facilities in there.On the other hand, We should consider about the bad effect of fast foods too.  If we consume fast foods regularly, obesity and another serious disease such as heart disease and diabetic can be serious illness in our body. Even fast food restaurants is the good choice for us, but it will be better if we spare our time to prepare our foods properly and eating foods together with families at the home.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500368_162-4644837.html

http://lljohnson.livejournal.com/1158.html

http://writefix.com/?page_id=583

 

Japanese Homeless versus Indonesian Homeless

Japanese Homeless versus Indonesian Homeless

                Looking around people without permanent house on the street lead me to raise this issue. Homelessness, the major problem in Indonesia likes the problem which cannot be solved passing time by time. However, homelessness is not only the problem of this country, but also the developed country likes Japan have been trying to decrease this problem by promoting various solution to the homeless people. Based on the situation of homeless, I want to contrast the differences between Japanese and Indonesian homeless regarding their social background, the places of stay and their activities.

Japanese homeless and Indonesia homeless are different in terms of social background. Japanese homeless are from middle class while Indonesian homeless are from social lower class. The social background around Japanese people is supported by the government’s rules. However, since Japan had encountered the economy recession, many Japanese decide to be homeless. Thus, they commit to be homeless to avoid the expensiveness of necessities. More importantly, the existence of homeless in Japan cannot be underestimated because Japanese homeless is also protected by the law and they cannot be evicted to the other places since they had not any instruction from the central of the government. Unlike Japanese, homeless in Indonesia appears in the lower status from another regions who trying to find their fortune in metropolitan city.They move to the metropolitan city without sufficient skills by hoping they can get the appropriate job. When they stay in the city first, they begin to build their house in the roadside and some of them choose to stay with other homeless who have same background including ethnic or villages. Some of them are evicted by the police to be cared by the officials in the social service house.

Places to stay between Japanese homeless and Indonesian homeless are also different in forms. Around Japanese homeless communities, they make various efforts to get the small houses. First, They get the houses by creating cardboards on the roadside and painting them to beautify the places and also to get people’s attention to the cardboard houses. Second is homeless who stay inblue tents. Since the economy had challenge Japan in the 1990. Many blue tents appear around public places near of the busy street. Surprisingly, they also facilitate their blue tents with internet access. Third is living in the capsule hotel. The hotel size is just 6,5 feet long and 4-5 feet wide. This hotel has facilitates such as TV, pillow, bathroom, kitchen, and washer or dryer. Fourth is living in the internet café. In Japan, people can stay in the internet café for 24 hours provides free beverages, shower bathroom, internet access, and rest room. On the other hand, places to stay for Indonesian homeless are built to stay and use to earn money. This effort likes building houses by cardboard on the roadside. Unlike Japan, they build the cardboard with scratch form and ignore the aesthetic aspect. On the other places, Indonesian homeless stay in the box cart. Not only staying there, but also they use the cart to seek reused garbage to resold to the garbage collector. Under the flyover,some homeless also build their houses by plywood, cardboard and fabrics. They space one room to the others with fabrics without using roofs likes the usual house. For roofs, they rely under the surface of the flyover to protect themselves from the bad weather.

Comparing to the social background among Japanese homeless and Indonesian homeless, both of those countries are also contrast in activities. Japanese homeless help the government supporting the environment beautification by painting cardboard house along the street. They also buying and seeking foods around the convenience store. In addition, Japan has the regulation to manage the hygienic and fresh foods to limit foods just for 15 hours in allowance. However, these foods actually are still in good condition for daily consumption. Japanese homeless also seek the job as labor or part time job worker to earn money. Nevertheless, they never asking for money to the public people even they have not enough money. In contrast, Indonesian homeless do the activities that deal with the hardness of life on the city street . They work by gathering reused garbage and seek the foods from dumps. On the good condition, their relatives also help them to build the house near each other. To earn money, they work as the beggar, the scavenger, and the busker. They work in communities on the busy street. Unfortunately, they have to divide their earned money to their boss. If they cannot get enough money, they are not doubt to ask for money to the public people.

                In the conclusion, Japanese and Indonesian homeless are very different regarding their social backgrounds, places of stay, and their activities. However, even the conditionsare different between two countries, the government of both countries has been trying to decrease and reduce the parallel problem of the homelessness. 


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