The Positive and Negative Effects of Fast food |
“Do you want to do something quickly or slowly?” If somebody gets this question, he/she will usually prefer to choose fast one. In other words, the society has been improving rapidly, exemplified by the preference [l1] fast culture such as a digital camera, a remote control, and an ATM. Influence of these technical developed have an effect on food. The typical example is fast food culture. There are three areas of positive and negative effects of having fast food on society: fast service, packaging, and health. To begin with, one effect of fast food is fast service, which can be both good and bad. “Fast food” is a word which means that it will offer food to customers quickly; that is to say, if people have fast food, they do not have to waste time. When students study for the test, they do not have enough time even to take a meal. At that time, fast food is best way of having food without time waste. In addition, because fast food restaurants have drive through, they can save time by staying in the car. However, on the negative side, People [l2] [l3] used to fast service [l4] also means that they may lose enjoyable time of having a meal. There are differences between family restaurant and fast food restaurant, and these can show a problem of fast service[l5] . First of all, if some people have seats and wait for a waitress in a family restaurant, he will come to the table for getting order. While they wait for main menu, they can talk about their daily lives or share information. After being offered main dish, they enjoy the time by the continuing the conversation and eating food. Lastly, as they eat desserts such as an ice cream, coffee, or tea, a mealtime is finished. Likewise, people have a meal without time pressure. In fast food restaurants, if someone gives an order in counter, food is served directly at the counter. Since most businessmen/women and students have to take a lunch within one hour, they can not [l6] help depend on fast food culture. If the situation takes hold on the people living this modern society, people may become accustomed to live with hastiness and impatience. As a consequence, people work and study to acquire happiness; nevertheless, they often give up simple happiness of the dinnertime in doing so. Secondly, In addition to fast service, packaging is another area in which fast food has a positive and negative influence. Fast food is easy to get packed. When a fast food restaurant does not have empty seats, customer does not need to find empty seats. He/she is able to go anywhere with taking food. Furthermore, if someone has to go home in a hurry, but he/she already gave an order some food in a fast food restaurant; [l7] then, he can ask packed the leftover food without losing food. On the other hand, a package service makes environment pollution problems. The packed food comes in disposable containers that could be thrown away. For instance, if somebody eats a hamburger meal to go, somebody can make many papers, a cup, a straw, napkins, ketchup packing, and a paper bag. Similarly, excessive used [l8] of disposable materials makes harmful chemical stuff and garbage more and more. As times go by, world might become a garbage dump. The last effect on having fast food is connected with being good and bad for health. People usually say that Subway is healthy because some sandwiches are low in fat and calories, and people can lose weight by eating them. You [l9] could also say that eating fast food is good for your mental health. You may also want to consider that fast food is good for your mental health because you do not have to worry about cooking or spending a lot of money, so you have less stress. By contrast, eating fast food brings bad effect for body with high calories and fat. Moreover, most young people like fast food. Young people like teenagers should consider to [l10] not eating fast food. The reason is that it can affect on their growth. As young people grow up, they need many kinds of nutrients such as protein, calcium and so on. Even though fast food has some nutrients, it usually has bad nutrients [l11] of being obstacle for growing up. By the harmful substance, children could have obesity and decrease a rate of growth. In conclusion, fast food culture shows our society’s various effects in positive and negative areas. Fast food has fast and comfortable service and [l12] good for heath whereas it makes problems: losing enjoyable time, getting much garbage, and bringing bad effects for people’s heath. People have to control the pace of following with culture. As it were, they can use the useful service anytime, but they should not be bound by fast service. |