Fast Food and Health Food

Fast Food and Health Food

Introduction

Every human needs a balanced and healthy diet. A balanced and healthy diet is necessary for everyone to keep his/her health in good condition. Nowadays, in our society fast food restaurants are gaining popularity and most people are using their products because of their easy access and own prices. Unfortunately all of their products are made of unhealthy substances and that's how they cause damage to our health. I agree that fast food has no place in a healthy society. Even though it has bad influence to our health, people still eat the same kind of food neglecting the healthier meal.

Thesis Statement

Choosing foods for a healthy diet does not mean giving up favorite foods. What we eat can make a dramatic impact to our health and introducing healthy eating habits at a young age will guide children through a lifetime of far less weight and healthy problems.

Discussion

Fast food causes damage to our health. For example when a person eats a sandwich from a fast food restaurant he/she most often eats that sandwich while walking. While walking the stomach cannot perform its digestion process properly and when we eat during walking the food will stay inside our stomach for a long time and it causes stomach weakness. Once the stomach gets weak then it gets a direct affect on our health.

The USDA introduced the first Food Guide Pyramid in 1992 and until 2005 it had never been changed. When viewing the new Food Pyramid one will see colorful stripes that represent the five food groups which are grains, vegetables, fruits, milk and meats and beans. The staircase along the left side of the pyramid is there to remind people to be more active so they can burn calories which helps promote a ...