Fast Foods: The Dangers Are Enormous

Fast foods are everywhere. There are a lot of fast food restaurants, and fast foods are being hawked along the streets and major roads in the cities. In my own part of the world, Nigeria, fast foods were virtually unknown, not until the 80s. What used to be were ‘akala’ balls (beans cake) and ‘moi-moi’ – all from beans – and ‘agidi’ from corn. Those, to a large extent, are healthy fast foods. And then, gradually and steadily, fast food restaurants started filtering in. Popular amongst them are Mr. Biggs, Chicken Republic, Genesis, Tantalizers, just to mention a few. Unbelievably, these joints have become the ‘hot’ spots in the cities they are located. Fast foods have become the in-thing. They are in vogue. People take their families out to fast food restaurants.

To make matters worse, the state of the world economy added insult to injury. There is a rat race to make ends meet in a Global recession. As a result, most families have both parents working, making it near impossible for anyone to find time to sit and prepare family meals. Therefore, even families have resorted to fast foods. It has become common these days to see taxi cab drivers, truck drivers and those doing businesses on the go, eating fast foods even as they drive and do their businesses. We live in a fast world, you know!

I highly recommend Metabolical so you could appreciate more the dangers of processed foods.

But from the trends, it has been discovered, moreso in the advanced world, that fast foods are really dangerous to health. Fast foods seem to make our lives fast, and we die young as a result. The dangers of fast foods are, therefore, just too serious to be ignored.