With the fast-paced life, everyone is living, fast food has become more of a necessity than enjoyment. Here is why we tend to gravitate towards it.
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1. It’s in the name ‘Fast Food’
With our lifestyle getting busier and faster it is not practical for a lot of people to cook food at home, be it healthy or not. With work hours touching 10 to 12 hours for most people they have to eat at least one meal outside, and with breaks being short, they need their food to be well ‘Fast.’ With this type of habit becoming acceptable now, children are quickly picking up on this trend; and as they say, the habits you make as a child are not easy to get rid off.
2. It’s all around you
One of the by-products of a busy lifestyle and corporate culture is businesses cashing on this opportunity to bring food right where you are and when you want. One of the signs that an area is attracting jobs and people is the emergence of restaurants, more often than not ‘Junk Food’ restaurants. You can only eat what is readily available to you. It is fast becoming a trend that major corporations have a food court with ‘McDonalds’ or some other popular fast food chain.
3. We choose ‘tastier’ over ‘healthier’
It’s a well-known anecdote that the healthier the food is, the more tasteless it is. When people decide to give up on junk food for getting back in shape or because their doctor said so, the most common reason they come back is that they start to believe that the fried junk food was tastier than the healthier food they have been eating recently. It’s really like smoking addiction, once you eat it for long, you are going to have cravings which are difficult to resist.
4. It’s cheaper than ‘Healthy Food’
Most people believe that if you are going to eat outside one meal a day, it’s probably not the best for the pocket to eat ‘fine dining’ every day. People choose to go for the cheaper option in food which is more often than not a fast food franchise or some junk food place they love. Although options like Subway which promise fast food but healthier are getting popular, junk food attracts much more people.
5. We don’t care about our health till it’s absolutely necessary to
Starting to eat junk food is an early habit when your body doesn’t require too much assistance. Eating excessive junk food becomes a problem only when you start realizing problems with your body like being overweight. When your doctor recommends to cut down on junk food, you are already an addict. One solution to this problem is never to become too reliant on junk food and try to eliminate bad habits in the early 20s when it’s easier to make or break habits. Temporary solutions usually lead to even more prominent long term problems, here the temporary solution is fast food and the long term problem is degraded health.
