With the modern technology, it brings with it many advantages. With those advances, human lives have changed dramatically. In some aspects, life is better, but it still has some drawbacks. Changes in food preparation methods, for example, has bad effects on our lives.
It is true that we can easily buy fast food at the store for our dinner. It takes us less time to prepare but we still have a good meal. But if you take time to look at the ingredients, you will be shocked when you realized that the ingredients are including preservatives ands artifical flavorings, which we called poisonous chemicals. Futhermore, fast food has too much fat and calorie with minimal nutrients, which is causing obesity, fatigue, etc. As a consequence, we do not have enough nutritions to resist against diseases, so our health becomes worse.
In addition, having meals together is not only because we are hungry but it is also a time for family to sit together. Enjoying meals with other members of our families is always a precious time with everybody. In the meals, we can talk about our work, our problems, and the latest news. So, our family relationships will becomes stronger.
Last but not least, the most important reason why I cannot agree with above statement is that cooking is an art which is dying out. It was a mean of eliminating the stress and tension, escaping from our problems in the real life. Depending on the perspective of each one, we can adding more salt, chilli, sugar,etc, which makes our food become special. And the final things we need to do is decorating the plates and enjoying a hot, delicious dinner with our family. It is great?
To sum up, although food has become easier to prepare, it saves more time for us. But with me, the time that others think is not necessary and needs to be eliminated here is a precious time with my family, which I will not exchange for anything else in the world.
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