Life Before and After the Invention of Fast Food

As we all can see, nowadays, fast food is not a new thing to us. We just need to walk along a road and there we can see varieties of fast food outlets. McDonald’s, KFC, A&W so on and so forth, these are the examples of fast food outlets that are located in our country. Since the invention of fast food, there are several changes that affect our lives. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the differences between life before and after the invention of fast food. The three main differences are cost, time saving, and its effect to health.

First of all, we are going to discuss about the cost. Previously, there were no fast food; hence, people during that time eat their own cooking. It is obvious that eating self-cook food saves a lot more money than eating out at the fast food outlet. This is because, self-cook food can be eaten for two or three meals compared to fast food that can only be eaten for one meal. Therefore, life before the invention of fast food is more economical than after the invention.

Since people are getting busier nowadays, eating fast food save more time than eating self-cook food. They can just go to the nearest fast food outlet and order what they prefer to eat. Not only that, fast food outlet also provides other services such as drive-thru and delivery. However, self-cook foods need more time and energy to be prepared and it is almost impossible for busy people to do that.

It is noticeable that eating fast food can give negative effects to our health. For example, eating fast food can make us gain weight and lead to obesity. Whereas, self-cook food give positive effects to our health because we can control the amount of sugar, oil and salt in the ingredients. Besides that, self-cook food can satisfied our appetite.

Even though the invention of fast food gives negative effects to our health, it is actually suitable with our life styles today as people are getting busier. As long as we can control our diet, then it depends on the person oneself.