Assignment Intro
INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
In the past, people used to eat freshly and healthy prepared food with their families in the home. However, in this fast pace time, working adults and young generation who have less time to enjoy their meals and have tight schedules, choose to have fast foods as their proper meal. Fast food has become one of their favourite options to feed themselves, and outweigh traditional food.
According to Oxford Dictionary, fast food can be defined as “easily processed food served in snack bars and restaurants as a quick meal or to be taken away.” Compare to traditional food, fast food is relatively cheap, convenient and it is highly accessible; which many of those fast food restaurants such as as McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut and Domino Pizza open 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no prior reservation required, and is ready to serve as soon as when people have just finished their orders. People have the choice of to dine in, take away or even drive thru for their meals. These advantages, which match and fit the city life style seamlessly, make fast food so irreplaceable and attractive.
However, according the report from ministry of Health of Malaysia, the situation of obesity is getting serious in Malaysia and fast food has been accused as one of the major harms to a healthy life. There is a lot of way to cause obese but there is 90 % of obesity people is because of having heavy fast food. Fast food restaurants normally serve hamburgers, French fries, doughnuts, fried chicken and soda drinks. These foods generally contain a high number of calories, fats, salt (sodium), carbohydrates and overdosed sweetener but offer little nutritional value which eventually cause fast food obesity such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke and many more.
Although fast food may seem convenient for us, the side effects of frequent fast food consumption are harmful to our bodies in the long-run. We save money when we free from going to groceries buy ingredients and save
1.1 INTRODUCTION
In the past, people used to eat freshly and healthy prepared food with their families in the home. However, in this fast pace time, working adults and young generation who have less time to enjoy their meals and have tight schedules, choose to have fast foods as their proper meal. Fast food has become one of their favourite options to feed themselves, and outweigh traditional food.
According to Oxford Dictionary, fast food can be defined as “easily processed food served in snack bars and restaurants as a quick meal or to be taken away.” Compare to traditional food, fast food is relatively cheap, convenient and it is highly accessible; which many of those fast food restaurants such as as McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut and Domino Pizza open 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no prior reservation required, and is ready to serve as soon as when people have just finished their orders. People have the choice of to dine in, take away or even drive thru for their meals. These advantages, which match and fit the city life style seamlessly, make fast food so irreplaceable and attractive.
However, according the report from ministry of Health of Malaysia, the situation of obesity is getting serious in Malaysia and fast food has been accused as one of the major harms to a healthy life. There is a lot of way to cause obese but there is 90 % of obesity people is because of having heavy fast food. Fast food restaurants normally serve hamburgers, French fries, doughnuts, fried chicken and soda drinks. These foods generally contain a high number of calories, fats, salt (sodium), carbohydrates and overdosed sweetener but offer little nutritional value which eventually cause fast food obesity such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke and many more.
Although fast food may seem convenient for us, the side effects of frequent fast food consumption are harmful to our bodies in the long-run. We save money when we free from going to groceries buy ingredients and save