Burnsteem25-Steemit Engagement Challenge: Fast food by @nadeesew

Hello friends,

I'm glad to be in this community and share my ideas. From this post I would like to share my ideas about fast food. I thank the community for giving this chance to speak about fast food. Let me share my ideas and opinions about fast food and information about my area. I will comment on the following statement.

"Everyone loves fast food"

Do you regularly prepare fast food at home or do you have a favorite place? Tell us about your experience.

Fast food by its name is fast in cooking. For people who go for work they use fast food to quickly have something and they also gove fast food to their children. Fast food include prepared food packets, burgurs and other bakery items, instant noodles, canned fish, half cook packeted dishes, flavors added and marinated fish and meat etc....

Nowadays we can buy these easily from super markets and grocery stores for low prices. Children like fast food very much as they give a good taste. Parents like to prepare the fast food for children as they need to keep children happy as well as it is easy for them to cook with less efforts.

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In Srilanka our staple food is rice. We usually have rice and curry for at least two meals a day. But for one meal everyone consume a fast food item. As a habit I don't prepare fast food at home. If we don't have time to cook sometimes we just make a bowl of salad simply. At home I hardly prepare fast food. Sometime very rarely my sister request me to cook somrthing for her. So in that case I prepare burgers, buns, pizza but other than that I don't prepare any food with added flavors, colours or preservatives.

Do you have fast food promotions in your area? Show us your favorite fast food place and tell us the fast food prices on Steem

In our area there are many fast food places. Some are of good quality and some are of medium quality shops. I like the Pizza hut. I have tasted from different shops in my area but I prefer Pizza hut. They have variety of pizza ranges and also many other fast food items. Lava cake, cinamon rolls, noodle dishes, instant soup etc. The taste is really good.

Pizza hut gives discounts on credit cards weekly and on month ends. I also get a message from them when they offer discounts. They give gift vouchers and raffel draws in some months of the year. They use that as a promotion method. Pizza hut often gives the buy one get one free offer for everyone. Specially on christmas season and New year season they continously give that offer and there is another offer called combo pizza. they include a large pizza, cocacola bottle, 4 lava cakes, a chicken wings packet for the combo pack.

There is another good fast food hut. That is the food hut which we had my birthday dinner. Yester restaurant. I like the soup they make. The chicken and egg soup is made with chicken seasoning cubes. They also offer discounts on wednesdays. They also have a kids pool which is offered free for kids. They use the kids park as a promotion method.

Do you think fast food affects your health? Explain

Eventhough we enjoy fast food it is not good for our health. That is why personally I don't consume fast food other than any special occasion. fast food is an enemy of people. It has many bad effects that happens to people. Since we were schooling we learn that there are bad effects of fast food.

The simple that we know is the fast food uses preservatives to keep for longer time. Sodium is a food preservative that is used in fast food. At the same time sodium or edible salt causes high blood pressure. Normally it is adviced not to eat more than one tea spoon of salt a day per person. But in fast food MSG or Mono Sodium Glucomate is high. MSG is used as a flavor. So MSG and sodium preservative is harmful for our body as it ccauses high blood pressure and Goiter.

Too much carbohydrates usage makes you gain weight. It stores fat in your body and makes you fat. At the same time it also increases bad cholestorol in your body. Heart attacks, obesity can be caused by fast food. I have seen many children are now fatter than their age. That means they suffer from obesity or over weight. These children get diebetics easily before they come to their youth age. Child deaths increase due to this sad situation.

People who are consuming fast food get fatigue easily and are less active. They feel lazy in working. A full load of diseases come as a package for these people who consume fast food regularly. Chldren become less active and as a result their brain stops working so fast. The muscles stop working properly. Child patients increase finally.

What are your recommendations for people who are addicted to fast food?

If a person is highly addicted for fast food they can follow some food habits to reduce the bad effects of those food items. But before all my advice is to stop fast food and go for healthy food if you like to enjoy a healthy living. Fast food is ok to have like once a month or two months.

I recomment to have a detox drink if you are consuming fast food regularly. Detox drink is made with lime slices, mint leaves and ice cubes. All the ingredients are added to a glass of water and it should be drunk before eating and after eating. This will reduce the fat in your meals and helps in quick digestion.

Fast food eaters should use a glass of lime water every morning before eating or drinking any other thing. It also helps burn belly fat. These practices will help you to recover from many diseases. But the side effects of fast food cannot be fully controlled by these remedies.

This is the end of my post today. I would like to invite my friends @mrsokal , @kyrie1234 and @nadiaturrina to join the contest. Thank you for reading my post. Have a good day.