Nowadays, with the invention of the microwave and with the popularity of fast food restaurants, food has become easier to prepare than ever. Do you think microwave ovens and fast food restaurants are beneficial to society? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Most of the people prefer fast foods and foods cooked in microwave oven instead of preparing and cooking foods at home that takes longer. The trend of having food quickly has advantages and disadvantages.
I think this kind of food is not beneficial to society for these reasons: it is bad for people’s health, people will forget about cooking themselves at home. The only benefit of eating fast foods and foods cooked in microwave oven is to save the time. There are many people who live in rush. In this case, it is hard to find time to cook a meal at home. Therefore, fast foods and foods cooked in microwave oven are a solution for those people. However, there are many drawbacks of fast foods.
Since fast food restaurants have become famous, people do not eat balanced. That causes serious health problems later. Especially for children, to eat balanced is essential for proper growth. Eating so much fast foods in childhood might cause growth disorders that might effect on becoming obese and fat, then growing up a lot of them reveal having heart diseases. If people eat fast food often, they will forget their traditional dishes. Every country have their own traditions and culture and they should preserve them.
Fast food also can make people become lazy. One day everyone might forget about cooking at his house, gathering with the family around the table and having food speaking and enjoying the time. The food made at home is full of vitamins and beneficial ingredients, which provide health for whole life. Overall, we can conclude that to eat fast foods and foods cooked microwave ovens is to play with our health for the base of saving a little time. When we lose our health, neither money, nor time can get it back.
