Avoiding an Unhealthy Diet

Fast Food Diets

Fast food diets have changed people's eating habits in the western world, with cheap ready-made meat and sugar-rich drinks being consumed in place of more traditional meals and beverages.

But fast foods often do not reveal the ingredients they contain, and therefore many people may be unaware of the amounts of fat, salt and sugar they are consuming.

 

The Time-Factor

One clue as to why people go for this kind of meal lies in the name fast food: a dish that is already prepared, heated and ready for eating.

Plenty of time is spared as no shopping is involved, and so bags of food needn't be carried through the town all the way to the door-step. There is no unpacking of shopping inside the kitchen. Vegetables needn't be cleaned and sliced, and wrappers needn't be disposed of. There is no need to stand in front of the oven and hot-plates tending to the cooking.

Pots, plates and cutlery needn't be washed and dried after the meal has been eaten.

 

The Cost Factor

Fast food is generally cheap as the ingredients it contains are produced using low-cost products. Meat burgers and sausages may contain a high content of fat and soft drinks contain added gas and sugar. Burgers and sausages are produced in enormous quantities in food-processing factories using machinery. The production method is cheap, and the resulting product is a minced and compressed mixture of meat and fat.
And the production costs for soft drinks are also very low.

 

External Appearance

Fast foods are usually presented as ready-made meals, and combined with the low cost factor, this has a tremendous effect on people's decision to opt out of a cooking session at home or a more expensive meal in a restaurant.

 

But whereas a steak or lamb-chop can be served with the fat, and this can be separated from the meat with knife and fork, a fast food burger or sausage can only be consumed with all its ingredients intact.

 

The combination of fast food with drinks produced from water - to which gas and sugar have been added - completes the diet cycle. Traditional drinks do not tend to be consumed with a typical fast food dish, whereas artificially sweetened drinks have an appealing effect owing to the gas they contain.

 

Calories and Nutritional Values

As fast food based on meat and animal fat does not visibly reveal the individual ingredients that make up the product, the consumer cannot know how to determine its nutritional value and the calories it contains. This, together with soft drinks, can result in excessive consumption of salt, saturated fat, total fat and sugar, excessively increasing cholesterol and diabetes levels within the body.

National Socialist Food Policy
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