Fast Food

Fast food (also known as junk food) is the term for a kind of food that people eat from a restaurant where food is prepared and served quickly. There is many kinds of fast food that we can find it easily such as hamburger, French fries, instant noodle, etc. Fast food is nowadays become a popular food because it’s quick, convenient, and inexpensive. We can get fast food everywhere in 24 hour restaurant or probably in common store. What can make fast food has a cheap price? It because fast food made of cheap ingredients such as high fat meat, refined grains, and added sugar and fats. People who has a lot of works and very busy usually eat fast food to fulfill their necessity about food without thinking further about the nutrition. They think that fast food can be breakfast menu, lunch menu, and supper menu.  They just fill their body up with such kind of fast foods.

          In spite of its controversial issues, there are still many people who consume fast food. They think that fast food is more practical for their busy life. They also can find this kind of food everywhere. It is much easier to prepare fast food or order it from a fast food restaurant than to prepare and cook food because fast food is more fast and simple. Furthermore, it is not too expensive to buy. We can also get this kind of food with a cheap price. Besides that, people also think that fast food has a good taste.

          However, fast food has a negative effect if consumed over. Many people believe that fast food can make a lack of nutrition need by our body. It is also unhealthy because most of fast food always contains dangerous additive substrate that can disturb our health. The additive substrate such as MSG (monosodium glutamate) has known can effect serious illness like cancer and so on. Fast food also considered to be junk food. No food is good for you if you don't balance out your diet and eat a variety of food. Fast food also increases cholesterol and should be avoided if you suffer with high blood pressure of cholesterol problems.

          As a result of this pro and cons about fast food, the people should care about what they consume. Even if they consume junk food, they must know how much the save standardization to consume fast food and also balance it with eating healthy food so that the negative effect of fast food can be minimalized. But it is wisely to choose consuming healthy food than fast food.

WORDS FOR MEANING: Read the above text carefully and find the meaning of the italics word(s) or phrase(s), then construct each of them into a good sentence!

LITERAL COMPREHENSION: Read the above text carefully to answer the following questions!

1.      What is fast food? And why it is so popular nowadays?

2.     What is the controversial issue about the fast food?

3.     …Fast food also increases cholesterol and should be avoided if you suffer with high blood pressure of cholesterol problems. What does the underlined word mean?

4.    What is the negative effect if it is consumed over and over?

ELABORATIVE STORY: Write a story telling about why many people like to eat fast food/junk food?