In modern society, especially in the rich and
industrialized world, obesity and overweight problems are becoming ominously
familiar. A lot of public figures blame processed foods in general and the
fast-food industry in particular for this unhealthy evolution.
If the fast-food industry and the processed
food industry have, like all businesses, one major goal in getting you to buy
their stuff, are they really going to try and do that at your expenses,
especially if your health is at risk?
Take their place for a second. Why on earth
would you consciously make your costumers fat and unhealthy by serving them bad
food? The result of the process logically just cannot have a positive outcome
for you. If your food really makes people fat in just a few weeks of
consumption, then why would people want to come back? Especially knowing that a
lot of people including health professionals point out the fact that people are
becoming fat because of your processed food.
Of course, you could say they are to blame in
the way that they are affordable and contain fatty products. But can you really
blame them for providing affordable food for the people? Now there's the matter
of the quality of the food, the composition and nutritional properties, the
amount of fat, the number of calories. It is obvious that downing a burger is
more calorific than having a salad, the nut has you ever walked in a fast food
where you can't order a salad?
So people with interests in other food
industries will most likely keep trying to bring down the Big-Food Industry,
putting all the blame on them for all the obesity problems rapidly spreading
throughout the populations but the truth is, fast-foods are part of our world.
The will never disappear, never get banned from serving food. The best venture
we have is to hope for gradual changes by the leaders of the food industry, not
only to promote healthy eating, and not to give us any other choice but to feed
on healthy meals.
But wait a minute, is this not already
happing? When is the last time you walked in a McDonalds? Have you not noticed
the portions are slightly smaller? There's less salt on the fries? Different
choices of fruit for dessert? And that's not all, the food industry, in
general, has been working undercover to provide discreetly our bodies with food
that contains less sugar and fat, and less calories. Coke Zero is all over the
world, calorie count in most snack bars have seriously decreased in these past
years, and many fast foods institutions are working hard on their menus to cut
down on what your body doesn’t need and help you live a healthier life!
In the end, it may well turn out Fast-Foods,
and the food processing industry, in general, will become one of the principal
actors in the war humanity has to fight against rapidly growing weight
problems.
