Takako Uchiyama, OCU
These days, there are many kinds of disease
infecting human beings. Lifestyle-related illnesses have especially become the
center of public attention because these can happen for anyone, and yet people
can prevent these serious illnesses by readjusting their lifestyle, such as
their eating habits or the quantity of what the consume. If people usually have
healthy diet, they can easily prevent these illnesses. However, it is difficult
for people of contemporary society because so many people lead such busy lives,
so they don’t have enough time to slow down and enjoy an actual meal every day.
Therefore, many people turn to fast food, because it’s so easy to acquire, so fast
and so cheap.
Despite this, fast foods are not healthful
foods for us. Many people already know that fast food is high in saturated fat
and in empty calories. Although these are not the only reasons to avoid fast
foods, there are surely various other reasons. In this article, I discuss three
other reasons why people should stop give up fast foods. The primary problem is
what people can once when they abstain from fast food. I will also suggest an
alternative way of eating.
First, fast foods can make you overweight, not
only because they are too high in calories, but they contain too much sugar,
salt, and oil. Recent research shows that fast foods kill important gut
bacteria, which helps the body remain slim and trim. According to genetic
epidemiology professor Tim Spector of King's College London, concluded after
you eat fast food, the number of good gut bacteria decreases in the gut. Fast
food attacks and kills bacteria that work well for your body’s metabolic
process.
Next, people cannot stop eating fast foods so
easily. Scientists discovered that the taste of fast foods generally is very
attractive to humans’ basic needs, so it is difficult not to eat fast food for
people who have begun doing so. According to Sarah Klein, fast foods are as addictive
as cocaine. From experimentation with rats put on a fast food diet, researchers
found the rats, which were usually fed high-calorie foods, kept eating the
foods even though they knew they would receive a mild electric shock in doing
so. The rats could choose whether to have another choice in basic meals, but
they never chose that alternative option. Scientists estimate high-calorie
foods stimulate rats' pleasure-reward system. These facts show us that fast
foods give us not only high calories, but also pleasure which is the same as
chemical high for our brains. In other words, fast food causes our brains to
release dopamine. You have to eat more and more to receive the same effect.
Finally, people shouldn’t eat fast foods regularly
because fast foods can create significantly negative effects on your brain functioning.
Jeff Grabmeier suggested that, “The amount of fast food children eat may be
linked to how well they do in school” (2014). There isn’t really compelling evidence
to show us fast foods cause slow cognitive ability; however, researchers have found
that students who do eat fast foods frequently do have lower test scores in
reading, math, and science than other student who don’t eat fast foods very
much. The consumption of fast foods can be connected to children’s scores,
their personalities, and their parents’ economic states. Also, it can be
related to their eating habits, because the body is deeply affected by the
person consumes. Kelly Purtell, Assistant Professor of Human Science at The
Ohio University, insists that, “too much fast food can hurt how well children
do in the classroom.” Fast food, also, influence people’s brain badly, so they
need to consider carefully whether they are going to eat fast food.
To sum up, people should pay more careful
attention when they have fast food because there are clear three reasons: (1)
fast foods make you obese; (2) people develop a dependency on fast food easily,
and (3) fast foods make your brain stop growth. Fast food is fit on recent
people’s life-style and simple to eat. Nevertheless, people should know how
fast food affects their body. If you want to be healthy, you need to think
about what you can do to enjoy balanced meals. I don’t say that once you eat,
you will die. The problem is that we too often eating fast food. Everyone wants
to enjoy their life without suffering, so I suggest that try to live without
fast food.
Sources
Tim Spector
Sarah Klein (2010)
Fatty foods may cause cocain-like addiction. Health.com CNN news
ttp://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/28/fatty.foods.brain/
Kelly Purtell
(cited OgenkiOrange) (2014)ファストフードで学力低下か 学力テストに平均点開き
http://irorio.jp/utopia/20141223/190315/
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