Center Stage Magazine August-September | Page 36

Your Choice: FAST R O FRESH By Ivanna Christensen Grocery shopping is, basically, a search for fresh, raw goods for home-cooked food-meat for side dishes, some radish, maybe a bit of pepper, and vegetables for Kimchi soup. But it’s really a pain to go shopping for groceries. Not only the hassle of paying at the cashier and bringing bags of goods to your car and onto your kitchen counter, but the time it takes to choose your ingredients wisely, while making sure everything is fresh and in good condition. It honestly is much more convenient and faster to grab a cheeseburger meal at McDonalds – and it’s cheap as well. Nowadays, teenage consumption of these types of fast foods have increased significantly. In fact, University of Minnesota found that 92% of one hundred teenagers sought for fast foods because it is quickly prepared, 80% thought they are easily accessible, while 69% found fast food appealing to their tastes. Notice, however, that these high satisfaction ratings do not reflect the biggest problem of the spread of the fast food empire around the world – severe health consequences. Let’s put this in numbers – an average man requires about 2,500 calories a day, while a woman consumes 2,0