When you cook at home and prepare your own meals, you know how much seasoning you put in each dish, you know what you’re making and how you’re making it. The main reason why people buy at fast food chains is because it’s easy to access and buy, that is by ordering online or simply buying from drive-thrus. The fact that they’re preparing it fast is simply because they just throw some French fries in the fryer for some time and serve them with their meal. It’s all frozen food with a heavy load of grease and salts. You don’t even know what you’re eating at the end of the day. You’re just trying to fill up your stomach and get through the day. Having such diet will stomp your energy. However, eating a good breakfast and lunch will have you energetic for the rest of the day, either at school or work. You’ll feel prepared to work long hours and think properly. Health education is significant, by knowing the basics, you’ll have an understanding of what is and isn’t good for …show more content…
The intake of fast foods on a daily basis is very effective in the end. Such exaggerated consumption can make you susceptible to allergies, sickness, and even heart conditions. It’s difficult to buy foods when your diet has restrictions (i.e. allergies, gluten or lactose intolerance.) Cooking at home can make it easier to prepare meals for such diets. Food-borne illnesses caused by bacteria-laden or under-cooked meats and vegetables regularly make headlines and occasionally claim lives (4). Cooking at home will make it easier for you to keep an eye out for levels of uncooked and fresh meats and vegetables, whereas it’ll be unknown when buying out. At home, you know for a fact you wash and clean your vegetables and you’ll know for a fact that your meat is cooked at appropriate times. Keeping your diets full of high salts and fats will raise your cholesterol levels at a rocketing pace which results in strokes and heart diseases. So while you think you’re saving money on useless vegetables and foods, you’ll be saving a trip to the hospital. World Heart Federation states that research makes it clear that abnormal blood lipid (fat) levels have a strong correlation with the risk of coronary artery disease, heart attack and coronary death (5). Although it is impossible to fully avoid any conditions, a healthy, nutritious diet may prevent one from being