Eating fast food can have terrible consequences and effects on your body. All the high calories it contains, your body stores but it is more then you need and you don't burn it off, so it is just stored as body fat. And if you lived on a constant diet of this junk then you'd wake up in the morning and look in the mirror to find you're just a chubby, blob. Yes, you'd get fat, fat, fat. But not all hope is lost, you CAN eat fast food without getting fat, it's all in moderation. Ever looked at the food pyramid? Then you'd find that fast food is up at the top, things you should eat very occasionally. That means that if you excersize regularly you can have McDonalds for dinner once a month and you won't gain weight!
Fast food doesn't just make you fat though, all this extra body weight leads to making it harder to excersize and if you don't burn it off it can lead to obesity. Obesity not only looks ugly, it comes along with many other health issues too and is a major risk factor for deadly diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease and many different types of cancer. Not only are there those side effects you also start feeling very tired and you can't do the thigs that you loved doing. But don't feel down by this. Just remember what was said before "It is all in moderation"
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Facts about Fast Food
Fast food is takeaways such as McDonald's, KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut and Subway. It is also classified as cheap meals which are convenient and quick to get. Fast food can also be things sold in shops or supermarkets such as Coke and Sprite which are packaged in bulk, convenience, cheap and processed. What actually makes fast food considered 'Bad'?
Generally fast food isn't as good as good quality as home cooked meals because it is cheap meaning the things that are put in would be more fatty and processed for convenience. It is usually fried, soaked in oil or have had something done to it to make it last longer, taste better and look nicer using added preservatives, colours, flavours, fats and sugars.
Ten Quick Facts about Fast Food:
- Every month 9 out of ten American children visit a McDonald's restaurant.
- Today Coca-Cola products are sold in every country in the world except North Korea.
- There are more then 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S alone.
- Children and teenagers on average drink 64 gallons of fizzy drinks a year.
- French fries are the most popular form of fast food in America.
- In 1970 french fries over took regular potato sales in the United States and in 2004 Americans consumed 7.4 billion pounds of frozen french fries all together.
- If you eat a double cheeseburger from Burger King you would need to walk for 9 miles to burn the calories off because it contains 923 calories!
- Type 2 diabetes can be caused by eating fast food because eating it can result in high levels of insulin which is linked to diabetes.
- The average American child sees 10,000 food adverts on television each year.
- McDonald's serve over 40 million customers every day.
Generally fast food isn't as good as good quality as home cooked meals because it is cheap meaning the things that are put in would be more fatty and processed for convenience. It is usually fried, soaked in oil or have had something done to it to make it last longer, taste better and look nicer using added preservatives, colours, flavours, fats and sugars.
Ten Quick Facts about Fast Food:
- Every month 9 out of ten American children visit a McDonald's restaurant.
- Today Coca-Cola products are sold in every country in the world except North Korea.
- There are more then 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S alone.
- Children and teenagers on average drink 64 gallons of fizzy drinks a year.
- French fries are the most popular form of fast food in America.
- In 1970 french fries over took regular potato sales in the United States and in 2004 Americans consumed 7.4 billion pounds of frozen french fries all together.
- If you eat a double cheeseburger from Burger King you would need to walk for 9 miles to burn the calories off because it contains 923 calories!
- Type 2 diabetes can be caused by eating fast food because eating it can result in high levels of insulin which is linked to diabetes.
- The average American child sees 10,000 food adverts on television each year.
- McDonald's serve over 40 million customers every day.
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