Fast Food And Junik Food

To what extent fast food should be considered as junk food?
Nowadays, many people eat more fast food instead of homemade food. The reason is that fast food is fast, cheap and convenient, but whatthey don’t know is that a big part of what they are eating is junk food. In this essay we will see the reality of fast food and make clear why we should consider fast food as junk food.
This writingwill help us to know more about what we are eating everyday. Personally, I think that this topic is important to prevent the diseases that eating lots of junk food can make.
First of all, what isfast food? It is any type of food that can be acquired quickly and cheaply, usually when people are on the go or need something to eat quickly. A study released in the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences found out controversial claims about the food served at McDonald's and Burger King, the most popular fast food restaurants. Using a technique that identifies carbon and nitrogenisotopes in meat, the scientists claim that the cattle and poultry were fed on corn, which makes the poor animals the fat as possible in a very short time, and also that they were raised in extremeconfinement. So what this means is that we are not the only ones who are affected by fast food but also the animals!
[1] Forbes.com
(Last retrieve: April 25th; 2012)
URL:http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/10/burgers-health-food-forbeslife-cs_rr_1110health.html
[2] Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(Last retrieve: April 25th; 2012)
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food
What make junk a fast foodare all the preservants it has to make the food look and taste fresh when it is not. Some ways to preserve the food is pre packaged and froze it, and also using nitrite salts, but some recent studieshave cast a shadow of doubt over the safe use of nitrites in food, as it will be deposited in the protein parts of the body. However fast food does have some of the good things that the body needs for...