Argumentative Essay

                     Argumentative Essay

     Oh, no! You are late for your next schedule, but you have not had dinner. You are too hungry to miss your meal, and the schedule ends late at night. What would you eat? I am pretty sure that most of you answered “burgers”, “pizza” or any kind of fast food. However, you should think again. These are not good choices. Eating fast food has harmful effects on people’s health.

     Those who argue with this idea say that eating fast food helps people become mentally happy. When they eat something delicious or something they like, they become happy. So being mentally happy can help physical health. For example, in Korea, when someone has a stomach ache, the mother rubs his or her stomach. It is not helping physically, but their thought that they will get better thanks to his or her mother’s rub helps relieve pain.

     However, that way of happiness only helps for an instance. It does not affect much positively. There are much more bad effects than good effects on physical health, so it is not much help.

     Now, I will explain why fast food has harmful effects on people’s health. First of all, it has very high calories. For example, a very famous fast food restaurant, McDonalds’s Bid Mac is 525 calories. If coke and French fries are added, the calories will be much higher. Burger King’s Bulgogi Burger is 400 calories. This menu also, will have much more calories if it is a set. It is known that 2 pieces of pizza have more fat than a person needs in a whole day. So, what is so bad about eating food with high calories? They can lead to several diseases. For example, people can get obesity. The leftover calories will be stacked in people’s bodies as fat.

Being obese will bring along more sicknesses, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.

     Furthermore, fast food contains lots of food additives. According to the Naver Dictionary, food additives are put in to make the food tastier and last longer. Some examples are artificial coloring, preservatives, seasonings and MSG, which stands for Mono Sodium Glutamate. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), excessive amounts of food additives lead to diseases. The diseases are headaches, insomnia, allergies and much more. Also, the MSG, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, can lead to the decrease of neurons on people’s brains, causing personality changes. They have serious problems on physical health.

     In conclusion, eating fast food has harmful effects on people’s health. The mental happiness caused from eating them has little amount of help, compared to the harm of eating them. Fast food has high calories and contains lots of food additives, and they both lead to serious health problems. So people should reduce the amount of fast food they eat. Even though they are so busy, they should try to eat more healthily. It will be even better if they try to be on time.

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