Tamekia Johnson

As a working and fulltime college student I know that the most evident advantage of fastfood is that it saves time. There's nothing better than getting a ready meal, No mater how much people praise the benefits of fresh food, at the end of a hardworking day when you return home all tired and hungry a pizza or hamburger can be godsent. Besides the time that is spent in the kitchen preparing the vegetables it also requires one to make a trip to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the dish. then there's the added effort and time consumed in washing and peeling the vegetables. All this makes eating fastfood score more preferably over cooking a meal for a busy individual. Besides time, cost savings also gives fastfood an edge over vegetables or a meal prepared in the kitchen. Ready made food being served fast and right in front of us is like a blessing after a hard days work, however like everything it has its own pro's and con's advantages and disadvantages, and ultimately it comes down to the individual consumer. We are all aware of the fact that many fastfood choices contain harmful fats that negatively affect the body and also that fastfood is full of trans fat that is linked to obesity, coronary heart disease, strokes,liver damage and even cancer. The negative effects of fastfood contribute to a host of health problems for both children and adults. Fastfood has little nutrition value and also contains some harmful substances that damage the body's health and wellness. There is enough common knowledge out there so we should'nt be pointing fingers at anyone but ourselves. We choose to eat fastfood and no one is holding a gun to us. We need to suck it up, be mature, pay attention to our own diets and quit trying to blame someone else for our own habits.