UHL2332 Academic Report Writing

Title: Effects of Fast Food to Human HealthGroup Member: Lim De Jiang CA09117

Lim Chen Ning CA08063 Siti Aisyah Abd Jalil

CA08079 Aishah Che Mohd

CA09118

Lecturer: Madam Nik Aloesnita binti Nik Mohd Alwi

Fast Food• Food that can be prepared and served very

quickly or in a short time.• Example: hamburgers, French fries, hotdogs,

rolls and pizza.

Introduction

• Fast food very popular among the – Children– Students– working class – old folks

• There are so many fast food restaurants around the world.

• Fast food restaurants are also known as quick service restaurant.

Fast Food Restaurants Logos

Terms of Fast Food• loaded with calories from refined

sugars and fats. • high in sodium, coming from

common salt and others addictive.• deficient in dietary fibre and

essential micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals.

Objectives• To identify the effects of taking too

much fast food.• To guide people to have a healthy

lifestyle.• To help to reduce the health

problem of people nowadays.

Research Question• What do you know about the effects

of fast food?• How well do you know about the

healthy lifestyle?• What solutions do you think can

help to reduce the health problem nowadays?

Effect Of Fast FoodComposition – Fat Good fat

- are contained in natural non-animal products

- help your metabolism run efficiently. Bad fat

- animal fats, palm oil, coconut- give bad effect to our body

Effects – Obesity , heart problem , and hypertension

• Composition – Salt- Can have a detrimental effect on

health because when levels in the body are too high, it can cause you to retain water, which some experts believe is also linked to high blood pressure.

• Effect – High Blood Pressure

Effect Of Fast Food

Effect Of Fast Food• Composition – chemical and

preservative- almost fast food have preservative- The fast food industry has added

every chemical possible that they can legally get away with to addict people to their food.

• Effects – cancer, thickness of arteries

Why People Choose Fast Food ?

Affordable- Many student do not have big pocket . - So, it is good to get something tasty to

eat and still have some money left .- Nowadays, there are many attractions

made by fast food franchisessuch as package, free gift and coupon.

Why People Choose Fast Food ?

Delicious• People eat fast food because it is

salty and delicious and somewhat addictive.

• A lot of people become addicted to it. The food has so many chemicals added to it that people literally crave fast food in the end if they eat it often enough.

Why People Choose Fast Food ?

Convenient• The brilliant thing about fast food

was that it was really fast and convenient.

• Some of us in studying and working world today really have no time to eat.

• Its save their time and more easier than cooking.

Result & Discussion

• In order to obtain the answer for Research Question (RQ), we have conducted close-ended questionnaire to 60 UMP students of different faculties.

• The questionnaire consists of 10 simple but important question that able to collect precious data for our study.

• After that, we carefully organize and analyze the data.

• Then we convert it into graph and interpret each graph.

RQ 1: Do You Know The Effects of Fast Food?No

Disease Respondents

1 obesity 552 high blood

pressure 43

3 diabetes 394 kidney problem 295 cancer 256 cardiovascular

problem 24

7 hypertension 17

8 gallbladder 69 osteoarthritis 410 others 2

• Based on this graph, majority of UMP students think that

obesity is the most common effect of taking fast food.

• This may because that they know fast food contains more total

and saturated fat.

• According to the study conducted by Bowman et al (2004),

they believed that fast food and dietary factors contribute to

the obesity prevalence among children and adolescents aged

from 4 to 19 years old.

• Through to the study, children and adolescents who consumed

fast food consumed more total and saturated fat, more total

carbohydrate and added sugars, less dietary fibers, and more

energy per gram of solid food.

• It can be concluded that the obesity is the most regular effects

of fast food among the students.

RQ 2: How Well Do You Know about the Healthy Lifestyle?

No Regularity Respondents1 Once a week 24

2 Once a month 21

3 Others 12

4 Everyday 2

5 Twice per day 1

Cont…• The graph shows that majority of UMP students love

eating fast food from their regularity of taking fast food.

• It can be concluded that most of UMP students do know

well about the healthy lifestyle as their regularity of taking

fast food is not frequent.

Cont…• As we can see, the majority of the students choose No as their

opinion and the rest choose Yes as their opinion.

• This clearly indicates that most of the students agreed that fast

food did not provide nutrients to human body.

• It can be concluded that UMP students know there is no

nutrient that can be provided in fast food to human.

Cont…

• As we can see, most of UMP students know that salt is the highest composition that contained in fast food, the second highest is fat and followed by cholesterol, carbohydrate, sugar, and others.

• It can be concluded that most of UMP students know how to balance their intake of fast food based on their knowledge of the composition contained in fast food and it also can help them to follow the healthy lifestyle concept.

No Composition Respondents

1 Salt 54

2 Fat 52

3 Cholesterol 51

4 Carbohydrate 39

5 Sugar 36

6 others 7

RQ 3: Do You Know the Consequences of Taking Fast Food?

No Solution Respondents

1 decrease the consumption rate of fast food 35

2 strengthen your own will to resist yourself from eating fast food 15

3 consume other nutrients balanced food instead of fast food 29

4 others 2

• Based on this graph, most UMP students think that decreasing

the consumption rate of fast food is the best solution to reduce

the effects of fast food to their own health.

• This is because most of them knew that taking fast food

frequently can bring many harmful effects to their health.

• This solution also mentioned in Manohar (2008) study that

consumer needs to look for healthier menu of fast foods and

also minimizing the intake of fast food.

• The next solution is consuming other nutrients balanced food

instead of fast food which chose by 29 UMP students.

• They chose this solution because taking other nutrients

balanced food can bring more nutrients to their health.

Cont…

• Moreover, taking nutrients balanced food is a good eating

lifestyle.

• Besides having a nutrients balanced food, having a good

lifestyle likes exercise every weeks also helps to reduce the

bad effects of fast food to health.

• From the article by Idris, M. S. M. (2005), he said that

parents must also guard and educate their children to

choose healthy food because children do not know about

content or ingredients in the food that they took.

Cont…

• Next, 15 students choose to strengthen their own will to

resist themselves from eating fast food.

• They chose this solution because it will help them

decrease their consumption rate of fast food. In Manohar

(2008) study, he also suggested that trying to set the mind

that those fast foods can bring a bad effects to health.

• It can be concluded that decreasing the consumption rate

of fast food is the most effective and best way to reduce

the bad effects of fast food to health.

End of Result & Discussion

Conclusion

Limitation & SuggestionLimitation• Scope of the research• Only focus on human health• Our group did not conduct any experiment on the effects

of fast food to human health.

Suggestion• Focus more on children, academic and non academic staff,

foreign students and lecturers.• Focus more on food industry, country economy and

environment.• Do a research on whether the consumption of fast food

that will affect the Body Mass Index(BMI) score.

Conclusion• Too often eat fast food leads to many health

hazards.• One of serious global issues.• One should aware about this issue.• Reduce the regularity taking fast food and start

eat in healthier way.• Having a good lifestyle such as do an exercise 20

minutes a day.

Thank You