American Food Vs Fast Food

Is cooking really better overall than fast food? I would like to think so. So why don’t all Americans cook instead of going out? Maybe it’s the convenience, or the taste, or just the lack of knowing the benefits of a home cooked meal. Maybe it’s the pricing? Maybe a McDouble really more than a head of lettuce, I think it’s an overall lack of knowledge. Many Americans suffer from a multitude of health issues due to poor choices. One of which is poor diet. In order to fix the problem it needs to start at the high school level. Show how a combo 6, two chalupas, a hard shell taco, and a large fountain drink aren’t as good for you financially and health wise as roast beef, with read beans and rice, and a glass of water. Therefore, high schools need …show more content…
For example television reviews, movie titles, and music are there whenever needed due to advancements in technology. This has conditioned youth, my generation, to have little to no patience and accustomed us to receiving things posthaste. If someone wants to look up a word they don’t use a dictionary they simply ask Google. That lack of patience can be seen in our choices of food. That is to say fast food is chosen more so due to its speedy service and availability. Not because it’s a pleasure, it’s similar to searching on Google versus using a dictionary the problem is it’s too convenient. The solution to the problem is to eliminate the idea that cooking is work and introduce it as a skill or an activity. Touching again on patience “The results showed the average human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000… to eight seconds”(Leon Watson, telegraph.co.uk). It’s well known that if you have fun doing something you’re likely to go and do it again. If cooking is introduced as an activity to hold your attention, something to do for fun, that’ll eliminate the idea of it being work and cause more people to participate in it. This can be done