Posted on October 26, 2007 in Latest News
Are you obese??? If yes, then it’s high time that you stop blaming your genes for your obesity as genes are not the main culprits. The market is filled with low cost, unhealthy, tempting fast food, and for many people fast food still serves as primary menu. With the constant increasing consumption of fast food, fast food obesity has become a huge problem and immediately a solution is to be found.
Plenty of ads by fast food joints with their attractive and delicious recipes enforce fast food obesity. Many people are becoming obese because of lack of self-control and anxiety.
Causes of Fast Food Obesity
- Fast food obesity is striking in many countries because of the easy availability of fast food even in the grocery shops, gas stations and even on the roadsides. So it is difficult to escape from these delicious advertisements and showcases.
- With the increasing accessibility to the fast food and the high competition between the various fast food joints, fast food obesity has become a major problem for many countries to deal with.
- Although there are genetic reasons for fast food obesity, people are mainly affected because lack of self-control.
- Besides the above reasons lifestyle also plays an important role in making people obese. Many people think that money can buy anything from such cases fast food obesity can’t be isolated.
- People with high ambitions or working hard to achieve a comfortable lifestyle many a times ignore their diet and health.
- Environment also has a great impact on the fast food obesity. Majority of people have accepted passive fast food consumption in their life style.
Obesity may lead to health problems like diabetes, severe cardiac problems and various other health problems. Scientists and doctors have clearly exhibited that regular consumption of unhealthy food and reduced physical activity results in obesity. Along with the developed western countries, many eastern countries are also dealing with this problem. Neglecting traditional and healthy diet, eastern countries like China, Japan etc. are also affected with the fast food obesity.
7 Major Fast Foods Contributing to Obesity
Here is a list of fast foods which are highly tempting but mainly contributing to the obesity.
- Doughnuts: It’s really difficult to resist the tempting smell of doughnuts. Basically doughnuts are fried packed full with sugar and lot of fats. An average doughnut contains around 400 calories and other nutrients beside fat. According to many nutritionists eating lot of refined sugars adds to blood sugar fluctuations.
- Cheeseburger with French fries: The combination may sound delicious but it is packed with a lot of saturated fats. Saturated fats are found to contribute to strokes, heart attacks and few types of cancers. Cheeseburger contains about 20 calories and around 240 calories are present in French fries. Beside saturated fats and calories cheeseburgers are rich source of cholesterol, sodium and Trans fat.
- Chicken Nuggets and Fried Chicken: It almost contains about 420 calories. It is also rich in sodium and saturated fat. Researches show that food cooked in highly heated oils can cause weight gain, cancer and other serious health problems.
- Ready to Eat Lunches: Easy and most convenient to buy but they are highly unhealthy. These kinds of lunches available in the market are packed with sodium and saturated fats.
- Sugary Cereal: these cereals are highly processed hence they no longer resemble to the grains from which they are made. Moreover these cereals are loaded with sugar. A better and healthy alternative for these cereals would be Oatmeal.
- Processed Meats: sausages, hot dogs, bacon, jerky and lunch meats are included in this category. All these processed meats are full sodium nitrate which is added as preservatives. According to the recent studies these sodium nitrate acts as precursor to cancer causing nitrosamine.
- Canned Soup: Canned soups are promoted as healthy foods but they are found to have high levels of artificial preservatives like MSG, sodium and Trans fats.
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December 7th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Food is a big business now-a-days.With faster pace of globalisation,it is easier for the food companies to promote fuisine cuisines across the globe,blending their food with local tastes and preferences.None other than children are the drivers of this blended cuisines (multicuisines),converging tastes and preferences across the globe,fast food has been the most successful model of this convenience food culture.But the promotion of this fast food culture at the health and cost of the consumers ,more precisely children is a matter of concern across the globe.Rising global obesity statistics with the consumption of fast food has become a serious issue and a debatable matter.Worldwide criticism against the fast food culture and their promoters-McDonald’s,KFC,Big Burgers has to bring some meaningful result in terms of banning fast food aiming children and schools and their promotions as well promoting non-healthy food as healthy food. But the reality is despite lot of criticism worlwide,these companies are sustaining success.Their business is growing by leaps and bounds despite supersizing and thereafter obesing children. Nevertheless efforts are on to sensitize consumers and specially young children and day would come when people would say “No to fast food”. So let us all cross our fingers and keep promoting healthy food options and eating habits.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:43 am
It is a law in New York City that requires all fast food chains to list the amount of calories and grams of fat included in each menu item. I think this is wonderful. No more can you claim ignorance. Hopefully this will cause many people to make better food choices.
Now, if the rest of America would only follow suit.