The real price of fast food

McDonald’s is the largest fast food chain in the world, serving 68 million customers daily. KFC has over 18,800 branches world-wide. Burger King serves hamburgers in 79 countries. Five Guys has developed from five locations in America and Canada, to over 1,000 across the globe. Greggs employs 19,500 people to prepare, bake and sell.

‘Fast Food Generation’ exposes the hideous truth behind the rubbish we are stuffing into our digestive systems.

Over the years, fast food has dominated our lives. Walking down the high street is like walking through a cheap food hall, covered in fat, grease and sugar. Lunch breaks, accessible ‘drive-thru’ meals, take-away dinners, and energy boost snacks are what we consider vital to our every day lives. But whilst we are stuffing our faces with saturated fats and excessive sugars, do we think about our arteries, our hearts, and our lives?

The youth of today love this stuff; their stomachs ache for the taste of that crispy chicken nuggets and their minds yearn at the thought of a cheese-plastered hamburger. They are the fast food generation.

Quick service, low prices, and casual atmosphere makes fast food seems like the ideal solution. More and more young people in UK consume fast food almost every day. In the last decade this has became a growing concern amongst nutritionist and health specialist as teenagers unaware of consequences make those choices which later in life often lead to serious health issues; obesity, coronary heart disease, even lack of focus and energy.

The fact that fast food has catastrophic negative effects on our health and our brains functions. Academically, kids are losing their focus and have instant crashes half an hour after digging into a bucket of crispy chicken and a refreshing super-sized cup of Coca Cola.

In the documentary, we are asked what the real cost of fast food is?

“I think fast food is really negative; it can be negative for performance, really negative obviously on your health.” – Charlotte Simmonds, Health and Social Teacher

“It’s so much a part of everyone’s lives; it’s so hard to avoid fast food.” – Maxine White, Sport Teacher