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More and more families are choosing fast food over home-cooked meals. What are the reasons for this and how can they be addressed?

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It is an undeniable fact that nowadays, there is an array of families who prefer fast
food
 over home-cooked meals. In
this
 contemporary
world
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 it has become a tradition for families to have dinner in
food
 courts, namely,
McDonalds
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Mcdonald's
Mcdonalds'
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, KFC and Burger King.
However
,
such
 weekly consumption of unhealthy
food
 may have different consequences.
To begin
 with, the main reason for eating unhealthy meals is that
parents
 are mostly lazy or too tired after work to cook at home and they often choose to go to restaurants or to cafes. Since most modern
parents
 consider cooking to be a waste of time. To give an illustration, to meet the standards of today and succeed adults should try their best to get a promotion, and due to
this
fact
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 the adult generation who have kids are pushed to work even at home. With
such
 a load adults do not have time or energy to cook.
Moreover
,
parents
 got into the habit of buying crisps and fizzy drinks at the end of the week in order to watch films with snacks. There is an incredible solution which could eradicate
consumption
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the consumption
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 of dehydrated
food
. Mothers and fathers should refuse
from
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habits that may be harmful
for
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to
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 their and their children`s immunity. The reason behind
this
 is that
parents
 have influence over their children and what
parents
 do is what their kids do.
For instance
, if
mother
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a mother
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 or father eats only unhealthy
food
,
then
 kids would do the same thing but if adults eat nutritious
food
 so do their children. To conclude, modern society is becoming more addicted to ready-made meals.
This
 essay discussed
causes
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the causes
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 of unhealthy consumption of foodstuffs
such
 as lack of time and bad habits
,
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 and proposed a solution namely urging
parents
 to be more attentive to their eating habits.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • On-the-go lifestyle
  • Nutritional value
  • Home-cooked
  • Health consequences
  • Obesity epidemic
  • Meal prep
  • Time management
  • Culinary skills
  • Processed foods
  • Dietary habits
  • Food marketing
  • Value meals
  • Economic factors
  • Lifestyle diseases
  • Cultural shifts
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