What are the bad points of fast food?

Question

What are the bad points of fast food?

Answer 1

Go to McDonalds and look inside. Observe the body types in there, question answered.

Answer 2

1) Fast food generates mostly low-paying jobs that don't prepare people to do anything else.

2) Food that is toxic (i.e. too much salt/HFCS, fat, sugar, lots of preservatives, has low or no fiber)

3) Beef production is hard on the environment.

4) Pressures to drive down costs lead to dangerous conditions in meat processing plants & poor treatment of animals.

5) It makes it easy & cheap to eat unhealthy food.

6) The smell, the garbage, the traffic & noise a fast food restaurant generates in a neighborhood isn't good for property values.

7) Another way for marketers to push their toys, movies, etc. on kids.

8) By being open late & being located close to freeways, fast food places are candidates for robberies & place their employees in a risky situation.

Answer 3

They all come with HUGE amounts of fat, salt, sugar and Carbohydrates.

Avoid fast food like the plague.

Answer 4

the bad points of fast food has led to over weight people, higher cholesterol, and the family meal time has been taken away.

Answer 5

i think all of the points of fast food r bad! ha ha! i dont no if theres ANY good ones!

Answer 6

Eating a diet consisting largely of fast food could cause your waistline to bulge more than eating the same amount of fat from healthier sources.

Monkeys fed a diet rich in trans-fats – commonly found in fast foods – grew bigger bellies than those fed a diet rich in unsaturated fats, but containing the same overall number of calories. They also developed signs of insulin resistance, which is an early indicator of diabetes.

Trans-fats, or partially hydrogenated oils, are found in many fast foods and also in baked goods and processed snacks. They dramatically increase the risk of heart disease – even more than saturated fats found in animal products.

Kylie Kavanagh, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US, wondered how this “killer fat” would affect the risk of diabetes in 51 vervet monkeys.

She fed one group of monkeys a diet where 8% of their daily calories came from trans-fats and another 27% came from other fats. This is comparable to people who eat a lot of fried food, says Kavanagh. A different group of monkeys was fed the same diet, but the trans-fats were substituted for mono-unsaturated fats, found in olive oil, for example.

Both groups ate the same total calories, which were carefully metered to be just enough for subsistence.
Path to diabetes

After six years on the diet, the trans-fat-fed monkeys had gained 7.2% of their body weight, compared to just 1.8% in the unsaturated group. CT scans also revealed that the trans-fat monkeys carried 30% more abdominal fat, which is risk factor for diabetes and heart disease.

“We were shocked. Despite all our enormous efforts to make sure they didn’t gain weight, they still did. And most of that weight ended up on their tummies,” says Kavanagh, who presented her findings at the American Diabetes Association meeting in Washington DC, on Monday. “This is walking them straight down the path to diabetes.”

This is the first study to show such a dramatic result on abdominal fat, adds Dariush Mozaffarian at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, US. “The days of thinking about fats just as calories are over,” he says.

Partially hydrogenated oils can easily be replaced by other oils during food production. Last week, fast-food giant Wendy’s announced that it was cutting partially hydrogenated oils from its food in the US and Canada, while in January, food manufacturers in US were ordered to label all trans-fats on packaged goods.

Answer 7

Too much saturated fat, too much salt, no vegetables, not enough fiber. Plus, you don't know the sanitary conditions where it was prepared.

Answer 8

jackalanhyde got pretty much everything except the huge calorie content.

Answer 9

Some of it is fattening and bad for your heart.............its up to us to make the right choices.

Answer 10

Most of it is very unhealthy. They are improving though.