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Nowadays, people have greater access to fast food. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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Mankind has always sought
food
 that was full of protein, fat and sugar in order to survive and avoid starvation .
As a result
, in the roman era, meat or whatever
food
 contained a lot of calories was considered the most precious one. These natural instincts are still present in our society,
that
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 is the reason why fast
food
 has gained so much momentum.
People
 like
fat
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food
 and at the same
time
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 they can spend little money
for
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 it.
However
, the increasing popularity of fast
food
 has brought many more drawbacks than
the
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possible advantages and, in
this
 essay, I will outline some of them. Junk
food
 contains too
much
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many
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 calories.
Although
this
 could have been positive for
ancient
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the ancient
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 population, where
food
 supply was
scarse
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scarce
 and expensive, nowadays the situation has totally changed. Thanks to globalization, we are able to eat whatever we like at an affordable
price
.
For instance
, a salad could be eaten at the same
price
of
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as
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an
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 hamburger with french fries. Large quantities of fat, sugar and salt,
in addition
 to the widespread sedentary lifestyle, lead to serious
heath
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health
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 problems
such
 as cardiovascular issues or, in extreme
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cases
casis
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cases
,
hearth
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heart
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 attack.
That is
 why everyone should be
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very
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vary
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very
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 careful at eating in these places. They don't have to be completely avoided, but the less you go there, the better is for your
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health
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heath
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health
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. Apart from the
price
, which is the reason why they are so popular, there are no particular benefits
from
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to
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 eating junk
food
. Some
people
 could claim that human needs to eat meat for the proteins, which are essential for the human body.
However
, there are plenty of other
foodstuff
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 that contains proteins and are not meat,
for example
, cereals or legumes.
People
 must understand that they have to change their bad habits, and stop to
abuse
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the abuse
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 of
these kind
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this kind
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 of
food
. There are only benefits
by
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to
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 doing it.
For instance
, my father was obese when I was young,
after
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 some years he understood that he had to change.
Therefore
 he started a rigorous diet and started daily work-out.
At
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 the beginning, after
few
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a few
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 minutes he was already
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exhausted
exausted
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exhausted
.
Few
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 years later,
instead
, he was able to run for more than one hour without any problems. In conclusion, there are only drawbacks beyond eating in fast
food
 restaurants. Above all, health issues and physical endurance, which is almost absent for obese
people
.
In addition
 to that, the cost is
not
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no
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 anymore a reason for going
in
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to
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 these restaurants as it is possible to eat healthy
food
 at the same
price
.
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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic

IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.

Answer structure for the type of essay

  • Introduction
  • Body paragraph 1 – advantages
  • Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
  • Conclusion

Examples to start your body paragraph:

  • The main advantage is...
  • The disadvantage of this...
  • The main benefit...
  • Despite these advantages...
  • One possible drawback...

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