Fast Food
Fast Foods Effects on Us Before the mid 1900’s, when people were hungry they would cook at home or sit down at a local restaurant. However, the restaurants back then would not be a part of a huge chain, but more like a mom and pop business. Now, present day, when you’re driving down the road and start to feel hungry, what do you do? You stop off at the closest fast food joint of course! With the explosion of the fast food industry, it has caused many: lifestyle, family, health and money conveniences and issues. There are many reasons why fast food has become so popular. They market the food to “help out” our lifestyle, money and fit in with modern life along with a bunch of other stuff. When working long hours, especially with both parents at work, it seems ideal and easier to just stop and pick up food. Since fast food has expanded so much it has grown to give us a variety of different foods to choose from. Rich or poor, each fast food place caters to everyone. Most fast food places have value meals and a dollar menu, which makes it easier on people that don’t have as much money to get more bang for their buck. Then, you can’t forget kids’ meals. Not only do they consist of the meal itself, but they come along with a cool toy!
With modern society everyone is always on the go. Fast food caters to this as well. Look at Burger King for example; they created a fry holder to fit inside the cup holder in your car! They have made food and what the food comes in easier to eat on the move. Most fast food places have even started to put out nutrition facts about their products to make them seem as healthy as they can. Even with convenience that fast food restaurants create in our lives and their effort to try and seem healthy; it is also creating bad habits on society as well.
Fast food has come to create problems in households in several ways. One way it has affected us is interfering with our families and lifestyle. We already spend less time with our families due
With modern society everyone is always on the go. Fast food caters to this as well. Look at Burger King for example; they created a fry holder to fit inside the cup holder in your car! They have made food and what the food comes in easier to eat on the move. Most fast food places have even started to put out nutrition facts about their products to make them seem as healthy as they can. Even with convenience that fast food restaurants create in our lives and their effort to try and seem healthy; it is also creating bad habits on society as well.
Fast food has come to create problems in households in several ways. One way it has affected us is interfering with our families and lifestyle. We already spend less time with our families due