Addiction to fast food is the cause of obesity in our country?

You are right, it depends on what we eat and fast food outlets have a variety of foods to choose from. Salad is a good choice to pick if we feel the others is too high in calorie.

we all should live a healthy lifestyle.just keep a check on junk food. not quit them.insted of burgers ,pizza.... try idlis dosa...

@envy99 I like idlis, after eating it, I ask for the recipe and tried my hand in making idlis. It was partially successful.

I see good argument here. The fastfoods joints do not overload their foods with high calorie which might pose danger to one's health. I am sure they have a panel of dieticians and nutritionists who formulated their recipes before going public. It is the obsessed consumers who have no control over their addiction and eating fried chickens for example on a daily basis is only creating a health havoc that leads to obesity.

I agree with some of your point, we can not put all blame to the fast food for causing all troubles. That's right the food got enough nutrition for people to eat, but that food also had fat, saturated fat ... So the point is we just need balance of nutrition, we need more understanding to our own body. If yesterday we eat lots of saturated fat, today we need to neutralized it with & doing excercise. If the balance broken our body surely got out of control

But how can we say this food is not good, the calories of each food is I think mentioned on all the food items in a very explained manner then after that if we are using them, it is not the fault of fast food or their provider. For example if there is some kind of hurdle like a hole in your way and you know that, you ll try to avoid that hole instead of falling yourself in it. Same is the case with fast food, you know the bad and good of fast food, you know your calories requirement, then how come you follow the same way...

Frequent consumption of foods in these popular fast food outlets is a passport to obesity. No one can deny the fact that KFC chickens are delicious but the calorie contents in these fried chickens is not going to do justice to our health.

Yes, we can't totally blame our obese society on these fastfoods. We are to blame ourselves for leading a sedentary life. I am sure not everyone goes to fastfood outlets for their foods as the foods there are not cheap but still many remain obese.

I am guilty of not exercising. After coming back from a long overseas vacation I found my jeans are no longer wearable. There is 2 inches gap in my front zip and regretted for abusing my body in feeding it with high caloric foods from these fast foods outlets. Your words motivate me to start a strict exercise regime to get back to my original size. Thanks jaiho...once I reach my ideal weight I'll celebrate it here by another discussion to motivate others. I hate being fat but my long hours in front of the computer is also part of the reason how I put on these unwanted fats that keep protruding all over my body. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I strive to be serious in getting rid of those ugliness.

Oh it really depends on that person actually. Although my residents has KFC but I seldom eat it everyday only twice a week. Do you eat KFC everyday? Another thing is I am interested to know that you earn online? What sites are you using? By the way, I am also Malaysian. Have a nice day!

In my own opinion, I don't think you can blame it all to fastfoods. There are always advantages and disadvantages on different things. As for me, when I'm in a tight budget eating at mcdonalds is really an advantage. We have to be balance also and it's our choice on what we want to eat.It's really a matter of choice and decision on what kind of lifestyle we want to live.

Part of why society is becoming obese is their lifestyle. It is no sin patronizing these fastfood outlets provided we do some exercise to burn those extra calories.

Yes, right now I am living in a kampong but will be moving back to my townhouse not too long from now. But here I get get to eat local vegetables and fruits which are found in abundant and cheap too.

Yes, I agree with you we should do some exercise but beside this we should try to change our life style too, I have seen many rich Malaysians with very simple life style. I think you are living in kampung and there you ll observe all these simple practices, the thing I like in Malaysia is village life very simple very interesting, no worries no fats all time happy happy...:) Have a nice day....

huhu...I blame myself too for leading a sedentary life. No thanks to the internet.

It is no longer easy to tempt the taste-bud to accept foods without added salt, sugar etc. I myself can't go without all those food enhancer. I like to cook and I am quite adventurous in creating new recipes and all the spices, salt and sugar is what make the food tastier.

Taking fast foods as our everyday meal should be curtailed. The long term effects might not correspond well with our bodily needs.

Hi lovin, you sound to be a great cook. Lentils is seldom used in our cooking but I love to learn to cook lentils and include it in my daily meals. I suppose lentils has high nutritional values. Are you using the yellow lentils? We have it here but only served in Indian restaurant that comes with their famous indian pancakes.

Hiya zandi, Lentils are either brown or yellowish. Some are pre soaked so that you don´t have to soak them overnight. They come in very handy for one of those lazy Days or when you forget to soak the Yellowish ones. I like Curried Lentils but they are not a favourite in this House so I don´t do them simply that. In Spain Lentils with what you might call Salami is a favourite but it´s way too greasy although the taste is fantastic I can tell you. So a few times I get Salami here we call it Chorizo, Longaniza also and I cook it apart and then add it at the end to the Lentils and that way it´s not so bad for your Health. I also add a little Garlic too if I am doing meat just in case thing. When I was in England last I had a hard time trying to find Red Lentils yet alone the Split Green Ones they could only be bought from up the Town. It´s no wonder People take to fast food when they can´t find what they want. Not everyone has the time to go up Town because they Work too. So I understand how this fast food gets to be a habit. But when I was working full time and was pregnant with Twins I always bought fresh Stuff on my way home or went out in my Lunch Time to buy it. That kept me very healthy too. It´s a question of organizing yourself I never had any Family to help me out I did it all myself the Shopping I mean. What I mean to say is anyone can get to eat properly most times if they just spend a little more time getting out to the right places. Here there is a big problem with Children eating too many fast Foods. My kids always wanted them too but I never gave in most of the time and they ate normal Food although every so often I would treat them to a Meal out. Marguicha knows much much more than me about food like this. she has some great ideas too.

It all depends on individual taste. I believe these popular fast food outlets are getting more support from the younger generations and not so much from older people. But here in Malaysia the people seems to indulge so much on fast foods as it is more convenient for them because of their hectic life outside. Now these outlets have added delivery services to homes which make it even more convenient to buy fast foods. Comparatively, the Malaysians are not too obese yet as those in other western countries. But if they fail to curb their appetites for fast foods, we will no longer see slim people walking our streets.

Fast foods restaurants are here to serve their customers and has nothing to do with individuals health issue or know that the foods they serve will load up their customers veins with fats that might make them sick. The customers have to be smart eaters and need to know that eating foods fried in oil everyday is unhealthy. Pointing fingers at this established fast food outlets for obesity does not make sense at all.

There is one responder here who wrote that a person who only ate fast foods for a month and nothing else ended up obese. Maybe he was experimenting the effect of eat fast foods.

I think that was not a fair comparison because the guy actual upgraded whenever asked.

It really depends, as I said, on how much and what you eat. I've herd of cases that experimented fast food too and even got slimmer. For example a hamburger has about 250 calories/100g - about one hamburger. If you eat 6 hamburgers a day and nothing else so: 2 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, and 2 3 hours before bedtime (usually it would be good to not eat anything in those 3 hours before bedtime) then you get 1500 calories a day which is good and I think it's enough to not be hungry. Problem is with vitamins. You don't get too many of those in hamburgers so you can get slimmer even, but might also lose energy. You can even eat 8-9-10 hamburgers if you exercise a lot. So to mark my point it's not what you eat, it's how much you eat, when you eat, how much you exercise to lose extra calories, and of course how many vitamins and nutrients are in what you eat.

As business concern these outlets main target is to generate as much sales as possible and people getting sick is non of their concern.

I have advoided high calore food for yearssssss . and still do.

Most of our foods here are tainted with msg. Though it make foods more delicious but the after effect is we get thirsty soon after eating foods that have msg added. Small kids burn calories faster so they have no problem of eating fast foods like KFC fried chicken. We in the aged group should avoid high calorie foods.

Eat to live, don’t live to eat. What ever it is we all need foods to give us the needed energy daily. But that doesn't mean we have to put in anything to our mouths as the nutritionist rules of healthy eating still apply.

The owners of these American fast food chain of restaurants won't be please to read your reviews here. But what you say is nothing but the truth. I have seen the popularity of fast food outlets in your country. I joined the locals to patronize these joints quite often while I was there. Boy..when I came back home I can't even fit in to most of my jeans. The food tasted good and very filling but the side effects of eating in these fast foods outlets has a heavy penalty. It will take me months to shed those unwanted fats.

Sorry to hear about your weight gain while you were here Zandi. Hopefully you will lose it fast. We are becoming too much like America here unfortunately. You are right, they are everywhere now, these restaurants. Two more McDonalds are being built near me right now! When I grew up, there was only one McDonalds in the entire region that I lived in. No such thing as drive throughs either then! I admit it is not only the fault of the companies, but it is also the fault of the people for becoming too lazy to cook. Even when I go to the supermarkets, which is rare as we buy our food mostly from organic farmers, I see people with hideous amounts of junk food in their trolleys. Society has become lazy, probably due to the lack of nutrients in these foods that they eat that give no energy. This causes more fast food eating as people become too tired to make their own healthy options and the problem worsens. The situation needs to change in western countries. It is no coincidence that we have higher rates of obesity, diabetes and cancer in these countries that have more fast food outlets. Sadly, Asian countries are now starting to become more westernised, which is not good at all.

Hi Prof, it is from their parents who should initiate a good habit of exercising by going for jogs in the evening if they want to see their children healthy and not ending up obese. In those days students used to walk to school or cycle to school unlike now when everything is so convenient so the need to stretch the muscles a bit.

I agree with you. Unlike the western world where fastfood is like any ordinary restaurants but here people considered these fastfoods outlets as a classy place and think that seeing eating in that place is prestigious.

That is sad that these fast food restaurants are being seen as classy. Here they are cheap and nasty. It is classier to be seen in Asian or European restaurants. They are better than the American restaurants but not as healthy as controlling your own food options at home. Please try to educate these people that it is not wise or classy to go these places, but in fact they are a danger to their health.

Ever since the chain of fastfood come to town, there has been an increase of obese people around. So that may point the reasons of people getting obese at a faster rate.