Do you eat fast food?

I used to but not anymore.. i've got diabetes already and i'm not allowed to eat unhealthy foods such as red meat(pork, beef and some parts of the chicken), junk foods, fast food, salty foods, sweets, etc...

I am in Italy. Here there are few places like MacDonalds and KFC has not arrived yet. I guess they get too much competition from the pizza places serving real Italian pizza which is not considered as fast food. I go out toeat a pizza on average once a month and I sometimes call a takeaway pizza atthe weekend.
I last went to our Msc about seven years ago. I do not lke the food served there and prefer to cokk my own at home. Apert from the cost I find it more nourishing and by making it myself Iknwo what exatly I am eating.

I like fast food,but i take it rarely.Now the life is very fast and for convenience every one from a 2-year-old toddler to a 60-year-old grandpa seems to be enjoying it every chance they get. And why not? It’s delicious, it’s filling, is really affordable, and readily available just any time of the day, being only a drive through phone call away.Fast food is all good tasting, except that it is not nutritionally balanced and, therefore, unhealthy in the long run if consumed on a regular basis.
Fast food is loaded with calories from refined sugar and fats (especially, the artery-clogging saturated and hydrogenated fats, which are repeatedly reheated to high temperatures for frying purposes).
Fast food is loaded with calories from refined sugar and fats (especially, the artery-clogging saturated and hydrogenated fats, which are repeatedly reheated to high temperatures for frying purposes).
It is also very high in sodium, coming from common salt and other additives. On top of all this, fast food is deficient in dietary fiber and essential micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals.
Recent scientific studies have shown that high-calorie foods rich in fats, refined sugar and salt could reconfigure the hormones in the body in such a way that they make you crave for such foods and always leave you asking for more.
In other words, fast food is kind of addictive; you get hooked on to it and continue consuming it in an uncontrolled way in spite of knowing that it is unhealthy. The more you consume, the more difficult it is for you to opt for healthy foods.
The situation is worse in case of children who from a very young age get hooked on fast food. Making them change their food habits from fatty and sweet foods and develop a taste for health-promoting fruits and vegetables is a task easier said than done. Such children would grow up to be obese adults who have never felt the advantages of being a healthy weight.
To sum up, consuming fast food on a regular basis leads to many health hazards. But bringing about changes in eating habits is not easy.
To start with, a simple change that one could make is to successively reduce the frequency of eating fast food and eat more frequently home-cooked food, with plenty of fresh foods and vegetables.
Slowly, as you start experiencing the health benefits of this change, a day will come when you will have lost all your desire for junk food and a mere thought of that fat-dripping greasy food and the consequences of eating it will be revolting to you.

I love burning hot and spicy food~ But I love fruit, too .and i love meat~

I donot like it a little, I just eat rice. Haha!

Happy mylotting!

It would be nice to be dependant on it, as it would cut back on my cooking at home, but we don't eat out but once or twice a month. And there are some months we don't eat out at all. My kids, especially my 6 year old would love to live off of McDonald's Happy Meals if it were possible, but it's not so he's stuck eating my cooking 2 or 3 times a day!

I used to eat at them regularly. Now I normally go once every other week. When I do go, I try to go to somewhere like Subway where you can get a sandwich instead of a burger. Sometimes I just don't have a choice, and I have to stop somewhere real quick. I feel a lot better since I have droped most fast food from my diet. That is for sure.

We still eat fast food but not as often as we use to. We order pizza once a week. That is a must for this family~ we love pizza!
Then we usually hit subway once a week. At least with subway they have healthy options which we try to choose from.

I suppose, if fast food is taken once in a while, it's okay. It's not recommended food for a daily diet. I usually have either fried chicken (KFC) or burgers (Burger King or A&W) maybe twice a month - they are really very tasty!