The rise of convenience foods has helped people keep up with the speed of the modern life style. What are the advantages of this trend? Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

The widespread proliferation of fast

food

outlets seems to be an inevitable side effect of a rapidly evolving world.

Although

this

seems a welcome development to many people as they can keep pace with modern life with the help of these fast

food

outlets, there are demerits

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for

it.

This

essay will discuss the benefits of

this

trend and show that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. On the one hand, fast

food

stores are beneficial in that they help people save

time

that would have

otherwise

been wasted cooking into other profitable ventures.

For

instance

, a group of twenty students said in an interview that they have more

time

available for reading thanks to a

convenience

food

store close to their school.

This

example shows how people can reinvest

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the time

meant for cooking into something productive if they have the alternative

of

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to

fast

food

.

Also

, cooking is a lot of work and since most people are already stressed up at the end of a day’s job, to cook can be quite tedious.

For

instance

, the Gimps medical journal reports the case of seventeen bank officials diagnosed with peptic ulcer, who for fifteen years slept without dinner, having arrived late and fatigued from work.

This

example shows how fast

food

companies can help relieve the stress of cooking and thereby prevent hunger-related pathologies.

However

, there are a few disadvantages to consider, and perhaps the most significant of these is that there are hordes of

health

challenges often related to the consumption of fast

food

products. Most

convenience

foods have lots of nitrites in them, and these are harmful to the body as they are carcinogenic.

For

instance

, the African

health

magazine researched about a hundred fast

food

companies in Nigeria and reported that eighty percent of the

food

products of all these companies had nitrite levels dangerous to the body, and unsurprisingly the highest incidence of cancer in the country was from a place most of these companies were situated.

This

example proves the relationship between

convenience

foods and

health

challenges.

Furthermore

,

convenience

stores can be quite expensive to patronize when compared with cooking. An

instance

of

this

was cited by world-renowned chef Jacob Zuma, who said eating out costs about twice the financial burden of cooking at home.

This

instance reveals

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instance, reveals

another disadvantage of fast foods. Overall,

although

fast

food

joints have benefits

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of

saving

time

and energy, the disadvantages in the form of its threat to

health

and financial burden seem to outweigh all its merits.