Is Fast Food Good or Bad?

Is fast food good or bad? Would it be fair to answer this question with the answer both? Well after some thought and consideration I have decided to go with than answer. Why? Well while the traditional definition of fast food includes greasy burgers, oil dripping French fries, saturated and trans fat central not to mention sugar filled sodas. However, there are some fast food restaurants today that are trying their best to change the game and offer some nutritious meals while maintaining fast food prices and quick service.

The Good

Restaurants like subway, Arby's, and Chicken Kitchen are offing an alternative to traditional fast food. Their menus consist of somewhat healthy meals and they provide the same quick service as the burger and fries fast food. For instance the 6" chicken teriyaki at Subway has less than 6g of fat and contains only 370 calories in total, and this is one of the more fattening items on the "fit" menu. It also tastes really good! Subway was relatively expensive less than a year ago but these days you can get a foot long for 5 bucks! This is also becoming true for many of the other "healthy fast food restaurants." With our hectic lifestyles these types of restaurants can be life savers for someone who has no other choice but to grab lunch every day.

The bad

If your definition of fast food IS burgers and fries then yeah it's bad for you. Basically put the bad nutrition outweighs the good nutrition by a whole lot in these meals. One burger and fries meal can be over 1000 calories at some restaurants which is half of what our intake should be for the entire day! Anything deep friend should be avoided as much as possible. Even some of the healthy fast food is not so great. For instance at Chicken Kitchen most of the menu includes white rice which is not that good to be eating very often. And the mayo in the subway tuna can kill the whole meal. So choose carefully what you eat even with the healthy fast food places.

The ugly

When it all comes down to it fast food is fast food. It will never substitute for good ol fashioned home cooking where you know exactly what's going into your body. It can also become really expensive when trying to eat healthy but still having to eat out since it is a little more expensive to get quality food on the road.