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Hesburger fast food restaurant in Jurmala, Latvia
Fast food, fast food dish, fast food, fast food (English fast "fast" and food "food") — food with a reduced time of eating and cooking, with simplified or abolished cutlery or off the table.
Fast food restaurants and various eateries are intended for public catering.
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1 The history of fast food 2 The reasons for popularity 3 The impact on health 4 Fast food 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References
The history of fast food[edit / edit wiki text]
Subway restaurant in St. Petersburg.
Subway is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants
McDonald's used to be the world's largest fast food chain
Fast food dishes exist in the national cuisine of various countries of the world (for example, Italian pizza).
In 1921, the White Castle company opened in Kansas, whose specialty was then outlandish hamburgers.
The stable price (5 cents up to 1946) and the strangeness attracted buyers, and doubts about the safety of the product were dispelled as a result of a cunning move by the owner of the company, Billy Ingram (when specially hired people in white coats gave the impression that even doctors were buying hamburgers).
In the late 1940s, the White Castle company began to have competitors, of which McDonald's became the most serious.
Hong Kong chhachanth is an Asian variety of fast food restaurants that originated in the 1950s.
These establishments serve dishes that combine Chinese and European features, in particular, a mixture of tea with coffee and condensed milk, soup with instant noodles and ham, as well as a variety of sandwich options[1].
The development of the McDonald's chain also shows the spread of fast food: in 1956 there were 14 McDonald's restaurants in the United States, in 1960 — 228, in 1968 — 1000, in 1975 — 3076, in 1980 — 6263, in 1984 — 8300, in 1990 — 11800.
Now the McDonald's corporation has more than 30 thousand establishments in 119 countries of the world.
Reasons for popularity[edit / edit wiki text]
The advantage of these dishes is the speed of preparation and consumption, cheapness (relative to ordinary restaurants with waiters).
On the one hand, this resonates with the consumer (especially in large cities with a busy rhythm of life).
On the other hand, such food is very technological, which allows fast food chains to develop quickly.
Aggressive advertising in various media plays an important role[2].
Health impact[edit / edit wiki text]
Russian dumplings in the center of Hurghada
Semi finished products widely used in fast food chains, like other food of" factory " production, may contain various food additives.
In most cases, the content of these additives is strictly regulated and they do not pose any harm to health.
The danger of fast food may lie in its excessive use, which can lead to the accumulation of excess weight.
Fast food contains transisomers of fatty acids.
Their content varies greatly depending on the product.
According to the USDA, there is only 0.7% trans fat in a standard cheeseburger[3].
However, in pies, "ice cream" their share can reach 35 %.
This is due to the fact that many of them are prepared using hydrogenated fats (margarine).
They violate the human immune system, increase the risk of developing diabetes, cancer, reduce the amount of testosterone, disrupt the exchange of prostaglandins (which regulate many processes in the body and are located in almost all tissues and organs), disrupt the work of cytochrome c oxidase — the main enzyme that neutralizes carcinogenic and some medicinal toxins.
According to the results of 14 years of observations by English scientists published in the British Medical Journal (No. 11, 1998), the mortality from coronary heart disease and the number of myocardial infarctions among fans of products containing transisomers of fatty acids is much higher, and breast cancer is 40% more common[4].
Fast food dishes[edit / edit wiki text]
Hamburger
Sandwich
Hot dog
Corn dog
Pizza
Samsa
Pie
Shawarma
Dener kebab
(also "shawarma" or "shawarma")
Burritos
Pancakes
French fries
Fish and chips
Falafel
See also[edit / edit wiki text]
Bistro Minutka Slow Food Empty calories " Double portion — - a film about the impact of fast food on health
Notes[edit / edit wiki text]
↑ Beerman, Jason.
Cha chaan teng cheat sheet: What to order at the most popular eateries in Hong Kong .
CNN Go (20 February 2012).
Verified on July 28, 2014.
↑ Fast food and health ↑ Show Foods ↑ Zhvitashvili Yu.
B.
How digestion occurs / / Cancer and nutrition.
- ALBI SPb, 2010.
- p. 124-125 — - 368 p.
— ISBN 978-5-93979-245-5.
Links[edit / edit wiki text]
There are media files on the topic of Fast food on Wikimedia Commons
There is an article "fast food"in Wiktionary
Psychiatrists have found that fast food is dangerous for the human nervous system / / RBC Andrew F. Smith.
Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food (English) 10 interesting facts about McDonald's
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