HEALTH VS FAST FOOD

 

We are living difficult times in terms of health, yes, we are living a pandemic which is caused by a deadly virus which has not only caused damage to our health but has also affected other important aspects of our life such as the economy, our daily activities, mental health, and many others. Having said that, I would like to take up the subject of food, you may wonder, what does food have to do with this? Well, certainly a lot, a good diet is vital to develop a resistant immune system which will be able to fight this virus with better weapons and resist so as not to die. From my point of view, fast food and junk food have made our diet garbage and that causes us to have fatal health and leaves us exposed and vulnerable to a very powerful virus.

Thinking about the negative things that could arise if fast food were prohibited, it is clear that the main affected are those who produce this type of food and workers in these industries who would be unemployed. As for consumers, we would be affected by the fact that we are already very used to eating this type of food and it would take a change and adapt to the flavors.

On the other hand, let´s try to think about what was the objective of implementing fast food, I think it is clear that this was due to the public demand to obtain a meal that would save time and could continue with their activities, over time it was adapted so that people began to enjoy this type of food and had a resounding success, even replacing traditional foods.

We also need to take the terrible consequences of consuming fast and junk food into consideration and knowing this, the questions would be, how can we fight against the negative side of fast food? Is the solution to ban it? Why do people continue consuming it knowing how harmful it is?

Personally, I believe that we must have nutritional education in which we can understand the effects that we suffer from consuming fast food every day won’t be immediately, these effects will be long-term but very difficult to fight and control it. It is important to be aware of what we feed our body and understand that it is the only one we have our whole life.