The truth about Fast Food

Everyone is well aware that fast food is harmful. But what exactly, you know? Not all. Try to understand what we are asked to eat in the hospitable walls of fast food restaurants.

A traditional range of such institutions consists of energy-dense foods with too much fat, sugar and salt. But the nutrients and vitamins needed by the body – too little.

Lunch at fast food chains, consisting of salad, sandwiches, shakes and servings of fries contains 1590 kcal. For the modern sedentary city dweller it can be up to 100 percent of the daily requirement of calories.

Drawback №1: high calorie

Excess calories, the body tries to “save money”, and they turn into excess fat. The need of the citizen in fats rarely exceeds 50 g a day. It is about 400 kcal.

Such amount of fat is present in three large sandwiches, several slices of bacon or a large sausage. And how much you eat them, deciding a quick bite to eat?

A regular Burger weighs 114 g and contains 250 calories, of which 80 have the fat. For comparison, in the sandwich loaf of white bread with fatty sausage there is 60 kcal less.

From Larger burger, with three layers of bread and two patties weighing around 215 grams, the body supplies more than a quarter of daily calories — 540 calories of which 260 are from fats.

In the pizza “4 cheese” weighting about  480 g – 1124 kcal. In a small portion of salad from cabbage and carrots with mayonnaise there is 284 calories in 70 g French fries — 276 kcal, and a glass of chocolate milk 400 calories.

Drawback №2: filled with fat

Calories in fast food bring mostly fats. This is mainly saturated animal fats, which contribute to the appearance in the blood vessels of cholesterol plaques, blood pressure and blockage of blood vessels. In addition, these products create an additional burden on digestion — first and foremost, liver.

To save money in fast-food restaurants they  usually use the cheap substitutes of natural fats such as Margarines and cooking fats. But they contain TRANS fats that cause heart disease and even cancer.

For example, in servings of French fries there can be from 30 to 40 percent of these fats. And the world health organization considers a safe dose of TRANS fats — not more than 1 percent of the energy value of the total ration.

How much fat is in fast food?

Drawback №3: salty

Excess salt leads to the development of cardiovascular diseases and disorders of the kidneys, causing kidney stones.

The world health organization recommends that you consume in a day not more than 5 g of salt — a little less than a teaspoon. If there is too much salt in the diet the development of heart disease, hypertension, stones in the kidneys may occur.

Experts believe that safe dose of salt for an adult is about 3 grams — half a teaspoon. Thus, the daily intake of salt can be dialed, just tightly bite in a fast food restaurant.

Drawback №4: to sweet

Sweet drinks and milkshakes at fast food restaurants contain too much sugar. For example, a Can of ordinary soda contains up to 6.5 teaspoons of sugar. A lot of sugar in desserts, for example, in 100-gram ball of ice-cream — 3,5 heaping scoops. Sugar gets to the body, even through eating sandwiches and fries — it is added to sauces.

While the daily intake of sugar should not exceed 6 teaspoons spoons for men, 4 — women and only 1 for children. Excess sugar leads to increased weight and the diseases of the pancreas.

How much sugar is in popular drinks?

Drawback №5: eating for a while

Fast food is rich in carbohydrates from bread and potatoes, fat and very poor in fiber, preserving the feeling of satiety. For example, in the sandwich there is only 2 grams, not more than 6 percent of the daily value of consumption, in portions of fries — 3 g.

Such a meal will cause instant release of glucose in the blood, and an equally rapid decline, due to which the hunger will come back again in just a couple of hours.

Drawback №6: too large portions

Standard servings of fast food establishments are unnecessarily large. For example, a large pizza is more than half of your daily calorie intake for an adult, a glass of coke — the daily dose of sugar, and just one sausage from the hot dog is almost two times higher than the safe dose of processed meat per day.

And in addition visitors are offered a “double”, “Royal” and “premium” portion, in which there is even higher volume and calorie content, but the price is lower. This marketing move makes customers to eat much more than they were going to.

Drawback №7: poor food

Too get a sufficient amount of nutrients from fast food is very difficult. For example, an ordinary hot dog has only 9 g of protein, a daily rate can reach 100 g. In sweet soda there are — 43 kcal on 100 grams — only from sugar.

Lunch containing 80 percent calorie daily diet, supplies the body with no more than 20 percent of the daily value of vitamin C, about 30% of calcium and traces of vitamin A.

Therefore, food from fast food restaurants give the feeling of satiety, but its nutritious value is very low. The result – a deficiency and related diseases.

Consequences: a bunch of diseases

Like any unbalanced diet, fast food leads to metabolic disorders and, consequently, ill health.

Heart disease: due to extra fat on the walls of the vessels deposited cholesterol plaques, and atherosclerosis.

Kidney disease: too much salt content leads to changes in the body.

Diabetes: excess sugar disrupts the pancreas.

The risk of cancer in fast food is from TRANS fats.

Disease caused by overeating: the excess calories in the diet leads to the appearance of extra pounds.

To summarize: the usual fast food not only too rich with calories, but too fat, too sweet and too salty. However it doesn’t remove the feeling of hunger throughout the day, does not protect the body and do те deliver a sufficient amount of nutrients.

So visiting fast food once a month is nothing terrible, but regular dinners there may not only lead to overweight but also to disease.

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