The theme of this time is why high-fat, high-fat fast food is called comfort food? What is the inseparable relationship between it and people’s lives, and what impact will it have?

It is evident that how to impact high oil and fat fast food diets on all aspects of people’s lives，are there many advantages or disadvantages? is an issue which has aroused a significant amount of public debate. The essay will explore both perspectives throughly and demonstrate why the standpoint that fast foods are bad for health but we can take it moderately is more deserving of support. With the acceleration of people’s life pace, many people choose some fast food because it is delicious, convenient, and cheap. It has irreplaceable advantages from various angles.

A severely misguided point of view on this matter is the idea that Some high-oil, high-fat fast foods like KFC and McDonald’s are useless and have huge hidden dangers to the body. If you want to be healthy, you should firmly resist them.  Usually，this group of people also use organic low-fat foods for no reason, such as low-fat yogurt and fruits should be eaten at every meal Some high-oil, high-fat fast foods like KFC McDonald’s are useless and have huge hidden dangers to the body. If you want to be healthy, you should firmly resist them which is responsible for their health. Proponents of this this flawed stance are nonetheless able to proffer a couple of arguments in support of their position. The principle suggestion they make is that In areas where the economic income is highly impoverished, they absorb more fast food, which causes people in this area to be significantly overweight. Because of the increase in weight, the labor force weakens and increases the poverty level in the region. At the same time, overweight brings many health effects, so the medical facilities in this area and the medical insurance of the regional government are overburdened.This view is generally okay, but I think they mistake the causality of this vicious circle. The result of all these evils is not simply the excessive intake of fast food, but because the economy is developing slowly and the income is too low, so people have to choose only fast food. What we are discussing here is that moderate intake of fast food is helpful for people.In fact, foods like fried chicken burgers are not as unhealthy and high in calories as people think. For example, the calorie of fried chicken is 249kcal / 100g, and there are 1.8g carbohydrate, 10g fat and 30g protein per 100g. To some extent this can even be a reduced-fat food. For example, the keto diet advocates eating high-protein and high-fat foods to provide calories to consume glycogen in the body to a low point. At this time, the human body will choose to start burning fat to provide heat for the body. The purpose of reducing fat. In comparison, the calories of grilled chicken breasts approved by the public are 185kcal / 100g, and the content of carbohydrates and protein is basically the same as that of fried chicken, with only 7g less fat. This seemingly altered caloric difference and nutritional structure is actually insignificant for an adult’s diet for a day. You can easily consume it after standing for ten minutes after a meal. On the contrary, such a little change in calories brings a huge improvement in taste and comfort to one’s emotions.

However, there are others who insist that comfort food has many benefits. One of the most significant is the convenience of saving time. For example, it takes only 5 minutes for a person to buy a lunch from drive through, and it can be completed in 20 minutes. But if people choose to cook a meal at home, it may take an hour or two from buying and washing vegetables to cooking, which is too much time for many people who are busy working or studying. Moreover, it may be that the taste is not good enough to affect your mood or you may not be full.People will call those fast foods as comfort foods, and the name indicates that a large number of people have been comforted while eating them. Isn’t this kind of high comfort available to him an advantage?A examine paper by the Charles Spence shows that does one sense dominate over the others as far as comfort foods are concerned? Well, A large body of psychological research has shown that we are, generally-speaking, visually-dominant creatures (e.g., Posner et al., 1976; Spence et al., 2001). That is, no matter whether we want to know what something is, or where it is located, it is the input from our eyes that dominates over that from the other senses (e.g., hearing, touch, taste, and smell). It is also clear from the many studies that have been conducted over recent years that the visual appearance of food is very important to us. Indeed, as the Roman gourmand Apicius (1936) once put it: “We eat first with our eyes.” (see also Spence et al., 2016). So, the natural question to ask here is whether visual cues also dominate when it comes to defining those foods that we consider as comforting?First of all, it is very obvious that most of the comfort foods are excellent in food color and it seems that they have greatly increased appetite. The second is the fragrance they emit. Everyone will have this experience. You may not feel hungry when you walk into a fast food restaurant, but you start craving for these delicious foods after smelling the seductive fragrance. This low-density, high-calorie food makes it easier for people to feel full and keep them from feeling hungry for longer. This in turn saves time spent eating from another aspect. In addition, we have to mention that these fast foods are extremely cost-effective. At the same price, we can get a lunch rich in carbohydrates, proteins and fats, such as a burger. But this price may only buy a few fruits in the supermarket. In terms of nutritional structure, the burger is actually a nutritionally balanced food, but people have an inherent impression of it as unhealthy. I think as long as it is eaten in moderation, it will not cause any harm to the body. On the contrary, if you only eat stale salad every day, it may cause some diseases. For example, hair loss caused by too little fat intake, dry skin, inattention. In fact, as long as you control the total calorie intake for a day, it doesn’t matter which food you eat. However, if you continue to consume too little for weight loss or even suppress your appetite, it may cause very serious eating disorder. You may suffer from anorexia and will no longer be able to eat normally. Or you may have binge eating disorder, unable to control your desire for things, and eat with a sick mind. Either way is a terrible disease. Therefore, the most important thing is to treat food with a correct attitude, do not overly suppress your desires or indulge in diet.

As we mentioned above, you can’t indulge in your diet. These fast food high-calorie foods are often associated with some emotional diets. That’s what makes these foods unhealthy. A BBC documentary fully documents a related experiment that explains why people eat emotionally.
Scientists were eager to know what was going on in their brains, forcing them to comfort themselves with food, and agreed to meet at a research centre in Cambridge. A neuroscientist, Dr. Sisham, will analyze the brain’s response in the case, so he’s preparing to use a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner to test a patient with a severe emotional diet. During the scan, he will be told to eat what she likes and pipe the chocolate shake into his mouth. The first two seconds after getting the milkshake, the screen in front of him will display the letter A, meaning that the patient knows that he will eat the food, and when the red tasting flag on the screen lights up, he will eat the milkshake. Hisham focused on a key area of ​​the brain. Through the brain image, we can see the reward circuit of the brain. The most common physiological reward that people encounter, this part of the brain area also responds to other kinds of rewards, which can be drugs or sex, which can tell you what is pleasant. It can also calculate and let you take action, whether I want to get this. Before this patient got a milkshake, this part of the brain’s activity could tell Hisham how much she wanted to eat. In the beginning, Alison was in a good mood, but in the next stage, the appreciation circuit wanted it to have a completely different mood. The Ph.D. will use tried-and-tested psychological testing techniques to frustrate Elisabeth. This link is designed to allow Alison to listen to sad music and then read some obviously depressing words. “Sometimes I feel very fragile and embarrassed. Everything is wrong.” In this mood, she will be told that she will get a milkshake. The scan was complete and Hisham’s experiment was over.

Obviously, Alison was sad, but was there any difference in his brain’s response to food? From a series of brain images obtained: normal mentality, and in good mood, Alison’s brain activity increased in many areas. Includes very important reward circuits. The stronger the activity, the brighter the color, the lower the red, the higher the score, the orange, the yellow, the higher the branch, and the higher the white. When giving someone something he likes, such as a chocolate milkshake, his brain usually goes into this state. Next is the patient’s brain reaction after emotion. What people want to see is that when she feels sad and sad, the reward circuit looks different, and it turns bright white. When she is in a negative mood, the value of the milkshake she is about to acquire is much higher. This explains why when an emotionally eating patient is unhappy, she opens the food directly.

This experiment proved from a scientific perspective that this is a behavioral decision made by the brain mechanism. It is not as simple as personal dietary preferences. High sugar and oil can bring people happiness. This mechanism is even a bit like the brain’s response to drugs. On one side, this experiment may lead to the bad consequences of being unable to control yourself because of excessive emotional intake due to the loss of emotional control, but on the other side, it proves that these foods can indeed relieve some of the lost emotions. In other words, as long as people can view this matter rationally, they can use a healthy way to moderately eat food to relieve their bad mood.

In conclusion, the reasons why fast food is so popular in today’s society are as mentioned above. It is not necessary to resist it completely, because it does bring many benefits and is very convenient. However, you should not be too dependent or over-eating, because this is more like a double-edged sword. You must learn to restrain yourself from thinking rationally about these issues. Understanding the principles can better protect your health, rather than simply resist or indulge in it.

work cited：

J.D. Troisi, S. GabrielChicken soup really is good for the soul: “Comfort food” fulfils the need to belongPsychol. Sci., 22 (2011), pp. 747-753

P. Wood, B.D. Vogen Feeding the anorectic client: comfort foods and happy hour

R. Westermann, K. Spies, G. Stahl, F.W. Hesse Relative effectiveness and validity of mood induction procedures: a metaanalysis Eur. J. Soc. Psychol., 26 (1996), pp. 557-580

BBC experiment: will fast food make you fat? http://open.163.com/newview/movie/free?pid=MDN4GQ9SN&mid=MDN4GV387

In today’s society, due to the busy work of people and the faster and faster pace of life, more people choose to eat fast food. How much impact do high-fat, high-oil foods have on people? And why is this so unhealthy food called a comfort food? This paper will explain whether fast foods will cause people great harm as people’s inherent impressions, or whether they will have their own good effects.Food itself is harmless, with emphasis on the way people eat and their attitudes towards him. Think of this diet in a sensible mood.

My ten questions are
1 What do you think of your attitude towards comfort food?
I think to look at it in a rational way, I don’t think it is unhealthy.
2What is your favorite fast food
My favorites are fried chicken and pizza.
3 Do you think eating comfort food really makes you feel comfortable?
Yes, and I will exercise after eating. So don’t worry if you really gain weight.
4What is your least favorite fast food?
My least favorite is Coke. But when I want to drink Coke, I choose diet coke. I do n’t think it tastes different.
5 When was the first time you ate comfortfood in your childhood?
The first time I ate was when I was in kindergarten. My mother took me there.
6If you still want to eat pizza in the future, will you let him eat it?
Of course, I don’t think pizza is so different from pasta or rice and it’s convenient.
7When would you most like to eat this fast food?
I think it should be when I feel depressed or very hungry.
8 Is there anyone around you who dislikes this food?
Yes, my father thinks that fried chicken is full of hormones. Although this is not the case.
9 Do you think comfort food has any effect on your health?
It ’s not because I will eat in moderation.
10Have you tried making your own comfort food?
Yes, but I still prefer to take out or eat out.