Voilà !
Everyone knows that fast food is a favourite of teenagers. However, it is more and more under fire for many reasons.
First and foremost, it can be nutritionally unbalanced, containing significant amounts of fat, sugar and salt, and heavily processed ingredients. Also, it’s often consumed quickly and leaves people still hungry and lacking energy as they have much of what is called “empty calories”, the kind of calories which makes you fat and not fit. Fast food is also criticised for being often very poor quality (cheap meat, cheap bread, cheap everything) and prepared in suspicious or even downright unsanitary conditions. And no one wants to pay to get food poisoning or a tapeworm, do they?
However, fast food doesn’t only have cons. Certainly, many are pretty unhealthy and should only be consumed every now and then. But on the other hand there is an increasing amount of health conscious people who are trying to reconcile fast food and healthy food. More healthy alternative are now available, like bowls of soup to take away, burgers with quality or organic ingredients, salads and much healthier sandwiches than before. Foreign street food is also finding its way into Europe and can offer healthy alternatives, like rice balls from Japan and many, many others. And these alternatives are increasingly popular not only with the young, but also with any age group.
Anyway, we are all soon going to eat pills of soylent green.