Fast Food

Fast food

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Fast food

People always hear saying, “we are what we eat”. Food is an essential substance that helps people function and develop in a normal way. That is why food should be fresh, useful and nutritious.

In today's world, when life goes so fast there are no time left for such ceremonies as cooking and slow food intake. People do not want to spend time cooking a full meal, they better use high-fat convenience food.

The most suffer youth from fast food. While immature, fragile young organism exposed to the negative influences most of all. Besides junk food is prepared with flavor enhancers that cannot fail to please them. Statistics show that teens today are 3 times overweight than it was 20 years ago.

Why fast food should be banned from U.S high school campuses? As it's known, fast food is full of fats and carbohydrates that are hard to digest. And taking into consideration today's youth sedentary way of life, it is not a surprise that the percentage of obese increases each year. Scientists have found that fast food is addictive like a drug.

Fans of hamburgers and chips have uncontrollable need for these products that are rich in fat and sugar. Much fat and sugar have the disastrous influence for the body and cause changes in the brain. As a result, people can't refuse from these products.

The reason of obesity is that through the consumption of fast food in the body breaks down the hormones balance responsible for the feeling of satiety. It makes people eat unlimited amounts of sandwiches washing down it with a fizzy water to suppress constant feeling of hunger. This leads to irreversible consequences.

It is known that obesity leads not only to the development of cardiovascular diseases, but also contributes to the emergence of a number of other ones.