FAST FOOD & JUNKS

about 1 year ago

Sitting down and thinking about school days and students life one thing that comes to my mind is the Fast food and junks we consume especially during exams period when everyone is busy trying to cover up topics for exam but the thing is it is not limited to students alone, Fast food has become one of the rising food children and adult love to eat to the extent that it has become a must to have at home and even most common food on the street, a lot of factors has contributed to the reason this food is been loved by everybody such as our tight secluded, media influence, taste, society influence, package, availability, cooking time, easy cooking recipes and lot more.

Fast food has a lot of negative effects on our health and the cause of many rising illness and health issues in our society like increased in type two diabetics, obesity, cardiovascular problems, Anemia, digestive issues but unfortunately since the effects takes a long time to surface majority of people tend to ignore it and the way it is been advertised on social media will make one believe it is the best food for health and to provide for our children but is those companies at fault! no. Every company interest is to make profit and the easiest way is to advertise it in a way that will attract the interest of the buyer. Parents even think that the best way to show that they are capable of taking care of their children is my buying them different junks and fast food I remember when I was little and we see our fellow children eating those food we say to ourselves that when I grow up and become rich I are going to buy it too and eat.

Apart from the pleasant taste, fast food has create a big mentality that if you don't eat it you are poor and to be able to stop the consumption of fast food one must first tackle this mentality before telling people about the negatives aspect of fast food and junks to our health.

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With the increased in price of goods and services and non increments in salaries and wages which has poise stress of doing multiple jobs among parents to meet ends meet is another great factors of increasing the consumption. Parents that are hardly at home leaves the mercy of their children to fast food and junks.

To be able to stop the consumption or reduce it to the minimum value parent, teachers and social media has a lot of roles to play, parent should understand that they are busy on the street because of their children and the least they can do for their children apart from proper home training is to give them good food. Mother's should try and arrange their schedule to be able to cook proper meals for their family's. If this is not done the health of their children will suffer and no parent want his or her child to be sick.

Teachers and social media can help change the mentality parent and children have toward fast food and junk they should make them understand that it is not a proper way to live if we depend on junks for food. The same money we used to buy them can be channels into buying proper meals and fruits which will be beneficial to our health.

In conclusion, consumption of fast food and junks is not a show of affluence but a show that we are not concerned about our health.