Essay 2 :-The Effect of Fast Food on Health

Malaysia is a food haven where you can find an array of eastern and western food. Currently, fast food has become part of life for many Malaysians for instance McDonald, KFC, Dominos’, Nandos’ and many more. Some of the fast food restaurants are easily found in town and cities. Fast food gains its popularity because it is easily available and takes very minimal time to prepare. However, eating too much fast food can cause bad effects to our health such as obesity and diabetes.

Many young people today suffer from obesity because of eating too much fast food. Breakfast on fries, burger and nuggets all meant a greater risk of obesity and it can increase the chance of obesity by 50%. Most young people eat fast food as their breakfast and daily meals. This increases obesity risk because fast food such as KFC and McDonald contain high cholesterol. The process of preparing the fast food using fat deep frying makes the food becomes oily. KFC and McDonald fast food restaurants also use the cycle oil because they want the oil steel the high temperature cooking need to fast frying. Furthermore, cooking oil contains cholesterol fats which are bad for your heart because these substances can clog your arteries. In addition, the fast food ingredients have low nutrient values such as low quality carbohydrates and high level of saturated fat. When some people have obesity, they always fast tired, lazy to do any work and the antibodies are low. Finally, fast food and obesity is related with each other because fast food has high caloric density such as hamburger, cheese and so on.

Other than that, eating a lot of fast food can also cause diabetes. Diabetes is a major public health problem in Malaysia. Some people get diabetes because they eat more food which contains a lot of sugar especially desert such as ice-cream which it can get in a set of serve such as McDonald. This food has high sugar level and can cause increased glucose in blood from normal. Other than that, they always drink Coke and Pepsi which is could be the cause of diabetes. It because in the drink there is a lot of sugar. Eating a lot of food that contains high carbohydrates such as bun and rice can cause diabetes. The high carbohydrates content in bun and rice may cause our bodies inability to produce the amount of insulin needed to deal with the level of sugar produced after a meal. It may lead to increased sugar level and block arteries.

All in all, choosing fast food for our meals regularly is not a smart choice as all the effects can makes suffer. We need to practice healthier diet by avoiding fast food eating more home cooked meals. So, we should be more careful in choosing the right type of food. You can take time to practice healthy lifestyle, make choices for healthy eating that do not have to include avoiding fast-food all of the time.