Fast food can define as highly processed food that enriches calories but a low quantity of nutrients. In other words, it contains a high amount of salt, trans or saturated food, and added sugar. These are easy to cook, eat, and taken out.

Although you can satisfy and enjoy it affect on your good health. It can cause various side effects like obesity, type II diabetes, heart stroke, blood pressure, cancer, depression, digestive system problems. Fast food is bad for your health.

Frequency of the Fast Food:

Food frequency, both long-term, and short-term can lead to face poor consequences.

 Long Term Consumption:

If you eat it once a week, it can lead to obesity caused by more deposition of the fats in your tissues.

You eat it for more than a week increases the susceptibility to metabolic syndromes like coronary heart disease and type II diabetes.

Short Term Consumption:

If you take it for a short term, it can cause various changes in your body system.

It alters the body metabolism of a person so take it regularly for 5 to 6 days.

It has no fiber and but more calories can lead to less conversion of glucose into energy, poor digestion cause constipation. If the time duration and frequency increase for the long term can cause insulin resistance that increases the risk of diabetes.

Problems Associated with Your Body:

Each food has its consequences on health and affects it in different ways. But fast food frequent consumption can cause some harmful effects to your healthy body.

Boost Up Blood Pressure:

Salt can use as a preservative and flavor enhancer in most food items. Sodium can use in the processing, boxed, packaging of food.

Such a source of food consumption can lead to more sodium intake that boosts the blood pressure more due to stress on the cardiovascular system. Heart failure, heart attack, and stroke can be due to the narrow or stiffening of the blood vessels.

Excess sodium intake can also cause fluid retention, resulting in bloating, puffiness, or swelling after consuming such a diet.

Ideally, the daily intake of optimum sodium should be 1500mg/day to 2300mg/day according to AHA(American Health Association) recommendation.

Increase Cholesterol Level:

Eating Fried food, which has a high content of fat like saturated fat, can increase LDL level but lower the HDL that can be the reason for heart disease.

Saturated fat can add 6% calories to your daily intake, according to the AHA guideline.

Fast food also increases inflammation due to the more consumption of saturated food. People with respiratory problems can face this problem that increases the asthmatic attack more due to airway constriction.

In this way, fast food enriches with carbohydrates and fats can affect the learning capacity and memory.

Carbohydrates and sugar content in fast food cause insulin resistance that cause a feeling of tiredness and crankiness.

Affect on Digestive System:

Processed carbs like muffins or bagels all have less amount or absence of fiber but tasty due to which people prefer to eat such kind of food. 25 to 30 grams addition of fibrous diet in your daily routine keeps the GIT healthy.

Diet enriched with fibers decreases the cellulitis risk and various other diseases like hernias and memories.

Such disease can cause due to severe constipation problems.