For a large population living in urban, suburban, and metro cities, who live a fast-paced life and run on tight schedules, fast food is a convenient food choice and replacing home-cooked meals with them an easy option. In fact, junk food has become a part of their daily diet; it also does not help that fast food is much more cheaper than real and organic food. What’s more – you can get such food at your doorsteps, without even having to step outside. Since cooking at home needs a bit of planning and prep, we cite lack of time to eat out at fast food joints and get them ordered from food-delivery apps. We all know junk food/fast food is not good for health, but having fast food regularly is also the fastest way to gain weight, and we are not even talking about the amount of calories in them. Shocked" Read about 8 surprising ways fast food can make you obese, read all about them here:
1. Causes Sharp Blood Sugar Spikes: Fast food is largely made of empty calories that cause rise in blood sugar and sharp insulin spike in response to that. Insulin, is a hormone which not only regulates blood sugar levels, it also encourages conversion of extra calories into body fat, particularly around the belly area.
2. Increases the Risk of Insulin Resistance: Taking further from the above point, frequent insulin spikes caused by empty calories and high sugar from fast food can increase the risk of insulin resistance. As we have mentioned earlier, insulin triggers fat stora...