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Home cooked food is more nutritious and has more nourishment compared with fast foods restaurants that have less nutrition. Having a different variety of fruits, vegetables and unprocessed meats have many benefits such as vitamins, minerals as well as dietary supplements. By having these nutrients in the body it helps the body in many ways by staying strong and healthy and helps provide fuel to the body daily. It has been proven that cooking meals at home is more nutritious and cost lesser than eating at fast food restaurants, which is high in fatty acids and has less nutrition and a higher calorie count compared with home cook meals. The cost of travelling to the market to pick up a week’s supply of groceries is cheaper than going to fast food restaurants daily.
The benefits of cooking your own meal are that you pick the healthy ingredients that will be using in making the meal of your choice. By eating healthy it can control weight and less likely being obese and having serious health problems like heart attacks, heart strokes, or even diabetes and being placed on medication. It has been proven in many articles that fast food is mainly made up of processed food and mainly has a high count of sodium and saturated fats since home cooked meals are healthier since from fresh ingredients that have not been processed and contain all the nutrition benefits. The FDA has set an example by making all products and fast food restaurants show to the public the value of nutrition in the food they sell making the public aware of the high calorie count and saturated fat. By having all the information on all products available to the public it provides awareness of what is in the product. The government has shown in statistical graphs...

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.... In order to have balance eating healthy is important and by eating healthy having varieties of food types daily is necessary and eating in moderation helps control how much is consumed.
In conclusion, being aware of nutrition and why it is necessary for daily use and the benefits and rewards have shown that many are aware why it is necessary and healthy why fast food is unhealthy. Many of the fast food restaurant meals fry their foods and they have a higher count of calories but have far less nutrition in them where making a meal at home has more nutrition and is far healthier and costs less than a fast food restaurant. With the help of the guidelines that the government and FDA have provided, choices in the food types that the human body requires has changed the choices that are made when it comes to eating healthy and getting as much nutrition as possible.

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