Why do people eat unhealthy foods when they know is not good for them?
By icesmile
@icesmile (7160)
Romania
July 15, 2009 2:27pm CST
Just because they taste so good or they are in a hurry and fast foods tend to be fattening? Laziness and marketing? Just because look good? And smell good?
Or maybe just because all what is forbidden is atractive too?
Or people just also don't think about consequences too often?
You are one who like to eat what is forbidden, fast food foods?why?
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14 responses
@anniefannie (1737)
• United States
15 Jul 09
i like to eat fast food because it is good and if you don't eat it all time i don't believe it will hurt you i don't eat it all time.
@sysdexlicwriter (1619)
• United States
15 Jul 09
There are so many reasons for eating what we eat:
1. I grew up eating this or that.
2. It smells good.
3. It tastes good.
4. That commercial makes me want to go and get some of that food!
5. I don't have time to eat healthy.
6. What is healthy, anyway?
7. Healthy food tastes awful.
8. Everyone will laugh at me if I start eating that way.
9. I don't know how to cook, so I eat at the fast food place down the street.
10.I don't know how to cook, so I buy meals that I can microwave.
11.I hate vegetables.
12.I hate fruit.
13.I love sugar!
14.Fat makes the dish more tasty.
15.Mom and dad never ate healthy, so why should I?
16.Healthy foods taste like cardboard.
17.There are so many philosophies on what is healthy to eat, how do I know who is telling the truth?
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@sysdexlicwriter (1619)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I do not usually like to eat forbidden foods. I feel much better eating healthy foods, so I came up with the list of excuses that I've either used in the past or heard other people say. Sorry, I responded to the title instead of the last question posted. 
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@wiccania (3360)
• United States
17 Jul 09
I honestly believe that many people eat unhealthy foods because they are addicted to them. Some unhealthy stuff is ok every now and then, but in moderation. Personally I try to avoid fast food and most convenience foods (like TV dinners) unless I'm in a hurry or I'm not feeling up to actually cooking. Chips and snacks like that, I try to resist them but it's awfully hard. They taste so good.
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@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
15 Jul 09
I think it is for the same reason people smoke. Because they can and they want to.
Also junk food is fast and easy.
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@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I think that we coul agree that fast food is an addiction, in that it becomes a habit that is hard to break. I do not think that there is the mental connection so much as with tabacco, but I am sure that everybody has a bad habit that they have tried to break and found it to be difficult. I think that junk food and fast food are like that.
I will buy food that fits my schedual. As a student and wife I know that I may not have time to fix a full meal so I will buy stuff that can be heated easily, there are good choices and bad ones. The bad ones seem to be easier. I also know many parents who before they had kids they never bought chips but now that their kids are old enough to ask for them they will buy them because it is an easy snack. Then their kids get in the habbit of eating them and it is hard to change the habbit.
So yes addiction could easily apply here
@cegypt01 (73)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I think because people are having to work for such long hours everyday. Fast food is a convenience, when your tired after a long day at work you often don't feel like standing at the hot stove cooking for another forty five minutes. Especially if you have all ready spent the day on your feet. Plus from some of the news reports that I have seen lately it is cheaper to buy fast food then the ingredients to make a meal at home from scratch. I do like to eat out occasionally.
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
13 Aug 09
I think a lot of people just don't care that the food is not good for them. It's cheaper (sometimes), it's more convenient, and some of it tastes really good. Everything is OK in moderation, but not a steady diet of that which may not be good for you. I don't understand why the rest of the world doesn't see it this way.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
16 Jul 09
Hi icesmile, I think probably because they were introduced to unhealty foods as a child and then developed a taste and eating like that becomes a lifestyle. Many people are not aware of the healthy action. Sometimes i am intrigued by the contents of someone elses trolley which may be laden with pop drinks, frozen pizza and biscuits, but not a fruit or vegetable in sight. Many people say they don't like veg as they have never been introduced to them cooked properly. Personally I'm lucky enough to hate fast food and enjoy fresh tasty food.
@Ritchelle (3790)
• Philippines
19 Aug 09
hello friend . i don't think eating fast food every once in a while is bad. i also think that even though you always eat fast food, as long as your choices are simple food on their menu, then it is no good or bad as eating the ones you cook at home. it's just that fast food is addicting so people say that fast food is bad. happy mylotting!
. i don't think eating fast food every once in a while is bad. i also think that even though you always eat fast food, as long as your choices are simple food on their menu, then it is no good or bad as eating the ones you cook at home. it's just that fast food is addicting so people say that fast food is bad. happy mylotting!
@marianna45 (1399)
• Romania
16 Jul 09
hello there, i really don t like the fast food, i prefear a good salad, with cheese and bakon, maybe with eggs, but i don t like hamburgers and hot dogs...and sandwiches, i like simple foods, with original teste.
