After a tough game, all a player desires is food, and preferably, fast food. An athlete does not want to wait two hours after playing to get home to eat. Food gives people energy and restores an athlete of his or her lost nutrients. Although athletes generally have a higher metabolism than most others, too much fast food overtime can be harmful to anyone’s body. Avoiding fast food is not always possible, so portioning meals can be helpful when fast food is the only option. This paper will not only discuss the pros and cons of eating fast food, but also the pros and cons of a home cooked meal and might even change a person’s mind.
We all know fast food may be faster and easier than a home cooked meal, but the consequences of eating too much could potentially damage a person’s life. The number one reason people choose fast food over a home cooked meal is because it is fast (Hitti). Many families in today’s society cannot find the time to sit down and have a meal at home. Children’s schedules become a parent’s priority, which take up countless hours of a week. There are also more and more young adults that do not know how to cook, which impacts how often he or she eats out. Another reason families eat out is because it is easy. A family can load up in a vehicle and be at the nearest Burger King in approximately thirty minutes compared to waiting an hour or longer for a home cooked meal. While going out is easier than cooking, fast food prices are rising like everything else in this economy. Even though the prices are continually rising, fast food meals are typically enough to fill a person up. Fast food is sustaining food, which may make a person wonder what is actually in it. “Food-borne illnesses caused by bacter...
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...ed food, because these will have a negative effect of your health” (Pritchard). The negatives are more noticeable for a fast food meal and the positives are more noticeable for a home cooked meal. Children are better benefitted from home cooked meals and get the nutrition needed for a healthy life.
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Forty-eight percent of individuals who cooked dinner six to seven times a week consumed 2,164 calories, 81 grams of fat and 119 grams of sugar daily. They were also able to conclude that those who consumed home-cooked meals depend less on frozen foods and are less likely to choose fast foods. However, as explained in, “Tasting food, tasting freedom: excursions into eating, culture, and the past” Sidney Mintz explains in chapter eight that the majority of Americans often choose to eat out at fast food joints because of the convenience of these meals. Mintz states that these meals are usually diets, “high in animal protein, salts, fats, and processed sugars, low in fresh fruits and vegetables, drinking more soda than tap water.” This is where cultural, and social aspects create conflict when attempting to switch to this healthier lifestyle (although it is feasible). Depending on an individual’s schedule, it will either be an easier switch to make home-cooked meals, or just another difficult task to accomplish throughout the
663). In this article, it states that “our culture and environment” play an important part on what we as adults eat and our children. Our culture has gotten so caught up in fast food, that we think it is no longer normal to even cook a home cooked meal. And we have also taught our children, that eating fast food is normal and anything other than that isn’t. And the only way to change how people feel about eating fast food regularly and never cooking a home cook meal starts with the environment (Bittman, 2011, p. 663). We have to start by approaching real unprocessed food that we buy from the supermarket, and “…raising our children in homes that don’t program them for fast-produced, eaten-on-the-run, high calorie” and start by “…giving them the gift of appreciating the pleasures of nourishing one another and enjoying that nourishment together” (Bittman, 2011, p. 664). Family time spent together eating a home-cooked meal is something that a family can appreciate as a group. It not only makes people appreciate family and togetherness, but
There is no surprise that food is important in all aspects of our lives—it is shared amongst families, celebrated as a major part of our culture, and crucial to our daily routine that keeps us fit, healthy, and active. Today’s western culture glorifies a skewed perspective on how food is supposed to fit into our lives. Somehow this perception has led us to believe we no longer have the time or money it takes to prepare a wholesome, healthy meal that is shared at the dinner table with family. Instead, we are trained to want a meal that is fast, cheap, and easy. This meal is usually highly processed and filled with sugars and fats. This has led us to a problem of epidemic proportions characterized by the rapid increase in obesity and diabetes.
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