The Danger of Fast Processed Food
- Fast food
- is available
- just about everywhere.
- The typical fast food
- you would pick up
- from any corner fast food joint
- like a local McDonald's,
- is
- usually a burger,
- French fries
- and
- a soda.
- The fast food industry
- uses many tricks
- to get you to eat more,
- and
- keep you coming back
- for more.
- They
- target kids and adults alike.
- Their clever tactic skills
- will make you become addicted
- to the fast food
- they serve.
- Once
- you get the hang of it,
- you cannot escape from it.
- Fast food
- is bad for you.
- The health effects
- of fast food
- have been made in public
- for several years.
- For example,
- with the heavily processed standard American diet,
- nearly
- seven
- out of ten Americans
- are overweight,
- and
- one in four
- is affected
- with diabetes
- or
- pre-diabetes.
- The University of Minnesota
- studied 3,031
- men and women
- for fifteen years,
- and
- they discovered
- people
- who ate fast food
- twice a week
- gained five extra kilograms,
- and
- that
- they were twice as likely
- to have a pre-diabetic condition.
- According to a BBC survey
- of 9,000 people
- in 13 countries,
- people in the UK
- are more attached
- to fast food
- than Americans,
- and
- they are ranked top
- in the table
- for junk food addiction.
- What is more,
- many studies
- have shown
- chemicals
- in fast food,
- and
- food additives,
- harm our health.
- The chemicals
- added to the food
- are used
- for coloring,
- preserving,
- and
- flavoring.
- Nutrition experts
- say
- eating too much food additives
- is harmful
- to our body.
- The more you find out
- about processed food,
- the less attractive it becomes.