Health&Life

Topic: Health and Life
What Makes Fast Food an Important Part of Our Life?
Junk food, which is also called unhealthy food or fast food, is the term for food that is low in nutrition and often high in salt and fat and, of course, cholesterol. Most of us understand that junk food is not good for our health. Eating too much of such food could cause obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. However, in spite of the disadvantages of junk food, there are still many people who find them not strong enough to say “no” to junk food. I have had experiences like that: knowing the fact that chips are deep fried in a lot of oil, which is one of the reason why our veins are blocked, I would still feel like enjoying one or two serves of Mcdonald’s chips in a lazy afternoon. I think it’s a kind of enjoyment in life. Talking about Mcdonald’s, you may immediately think of KFC and Burger King. They are all famous for fried chickens, hamburgers and chips and the food they are selling is also known as junk food. Just ask yourselves, do you often eat hamburgers? Do you like chips? Do you always have a healthy diet? Or there is once in a while, you would like to relax with eating some spicy chicken wings or deep fried chips? Here we are entering into this argument: should we close down all foreign fast food restaurants like Ms, KFC and Burger Kings in China?
Home Cooking or Restaurant?
We Chinese have a tradition to get the whole family together in big festivals. Here “the whole family” usually refers to immediate family as well as other close relatives like cousins, aunts and uncles. A big family dinner is an indispensable part of such gathering and the trend is that more and more people prefer to eat out than to cook at home. We even don’t bother to think about what we are going to cook. We can comfortably decide a good restaurant by just clicking the mouse and book a table online. It’s even possible to order the food beforehand. In spite of the convenience, eating out can be costly. It’s not a surprised if you have to pay for a restaurant dinner at a cost of 5 times of a homecooking. As a result, some wise housewives would choose to save the money and cook by themselves. Some is not taking the cost into consideration. It is
the taste and flavor they care about. They insist that Mom’s cooking is what belongs to big festivals. So no matter how troublesome the work it is to cook a big dinner for the whole family, they stay stick to the tradition.。