Healthy Eating Habits In A Fast Food World

The fast food culture is unhealthy and has caught up everywhere in all parts of the world. Fast food has become a convenient excuse for people who live a fast paced life and don’t have time to indulge in regular, much healthier home cooked meals. Ordering a pizza and a cola is more convenient as it serves the purpose of filling up your stomach. People are so engrossed in the complexities of their ever-demanding lives that healthy eating has become something that can be continuously appended in their list.

This dilemma is even posing health risks and hazards like never before. Fast food restaurants and popular joints are pouring millions of dollars in marketing and advertising to lure customers to try their so-called cheap healthy and wholesome meals. Meals from a fast food joint are in no way wholesome. In case you wish to lead a healthy life, read on as we explore ways to inculcate better eating habits and even, get the best out of a fast food joint.

Things To Avoid: – Avoiding a lot of bread and food items containing bread, espcially white bread, is a good idea. Most fast food joints serve white bread, which is a good source of saturated fats. It is also recommended that one stay away from fried stuff like French fries, fried chicken, onion rings and also avoid all kinds of colas. Processed juices are also a high calorie menace and should be avoided at all times.

Eating Healthy By The Fast Food Menu: – Fast food, as some wise people say is a food that leads us faster towards diseases and death. Since one cannot completely avoid it, its intake should be limited to once a week or once a fortnight. Add a lot of whole grain bread to your meal. While eating pizza, one should make sure that it is topped with a lot of vegetables so that you don’t end up eating only bread and cheese. Fast food is bad for health and your waistline and will add to your cholesterol levels in the long run.

The Advantage Of Eating Home Cooked Meals: – It is a good practice to cook meals at home every night.  You do not have to do it alone and can always include family members and friends to help. It is a good idea to buy a cookbook and to practice cooking food from that. Instead of using ready to cook meals, its recommended you start from scratch. This may be more time consuming as you would need to buy vegetables, peel and cut them to pieces etc. but you wont be disappointed with the outcome.

You can also get rid of the habit of treating yourself with desserts on a daily basis. If you have to and you cannot seem to do without it then make it light, for example fruit salad without cream and jell-o.

The best way to maintain healthy habits is to eat out only on occasions and chart out a routine for yourself that will enable you to have more and more home cooked meals. The credibility of the raw materials that are used in restaurants and fast food eateries is also, often questionable, so beware!