The Long Term Effects Of Fast Food

Have you ever been sitting in line for a fast food restaurant and wondered what the long term effects the food we are about the purchase could be making on our bodies? Fast food has many different additives that are coloring our foods and preservatives such as sodium nitrate, MSG (monosodium glutamate), and even feathers and hair that are commonly labeled as L-cysteine and more that are in many different foods that most individuals consume on a daily basis. Fast food may be good, but it has taken over our daily lives causing obesity and diseases to many individuals. We are all guilty of eating fast food at least once in our lives, and even if most individuals don’t eat it now, you can always smell the aroma coming from places that do make your mouth water. The reasoning behind all of this is from all the additives that are being added into the food to make them look the color they do and taste the way they do so the producer can earn more money just by adding cheap products to put into their food that they are then selling so much on a daily basis. There are many different things that are being put in our foods, but the main ones are sugar, fat, salt, …show more content…
Therefore, these are not only in fast food products, they are also in our household foods that are typically named high fructose corn syrup as well as hydrogenated oils. Both of these as well as sugar, fat, and salt in fast food can lead to fast weight gain and an increase of bad cholesterol. Whenever you upgrade your meals at fast food restaurants, you are also upgrading the fat, sodium and sugar levels that are commonly displayed in them. Consuming so much of this on a daily basis is not healthy, but you should not completely cut them out of your meals for the day, as we need them to