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.
Sources:
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