Globalization has increased the availability and diversity of foods worldwide, influencing urban eating preferences according to individuals' purchasing power. Fast food restaurants like McDonald's, Subway, and Burger King have expanded globally, opening locations that sell traditional local foods prepared in an "Americanized" style. While globalization has reduced micronutrient deficiencies in many countries, it has also contributed to health issues like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease by replacing local food traditions. Efforts should focus on preserving agriculture, education, and nutrition to maintain healthy food cultures and build measures supporting local cuisines.
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How globalization affects eating habits- Guilherme Pompeu (1) (1)
Globalization has increased the availability and diversity of foods worldwide, influencing urban eating preferences according to individuals' purchasing power. Fast food restaurants like McDonald's, Subway, and Burger King have expanded globally, opening locations that sell traditional local foods prepared in an "Americanized" style. While globalization has reduced micronutrient deficiencies in many countries, it has also contributed to health issues like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease by replacing local food traditions. Efforts should focus on preserving agriculture, education, and nutrition to maintain healthy food cultures and build measures supporting local cuisines.
Globalization has increased the availability and diversity of foods worldwide, influencing urban eating preferences according to individuals' purchasing power. Fast food restaurants like McDonald's, Subway, and Burger King have expanded globally, opening locations that sell traditional local foods prepared in an "Americanized" style. While globalization has reduced micronutrient deficiencies in many countries, it has also contributed to health issues like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease by replacing local food traditions. Efforts should focus on preserving agriculture, education, and nutrition to maintain healthy food cultures and build measures supporting local cuisines.
Globalisation has resulted in increasing the availability and diversity of food,
nowadays is common in urban areas where food preferences are influenced by the purchasing power of individuals among high income groups. Wherever you go, if you are traveling in your car, you can see McDonalds, Subway and Burger King everywhere. The influence is so big that now they are opening new fast food restaurants,but instead of selling American food, they are selling traditional “Amercanized” food. So they have taken the concept of these famous places, but adapted it to the original country's food. For example, local culture and food traditions are disappearing, for most countries, micronutrient deficiencies are of concern. undernutrition and food insecurity, more health problems are being present like obesity, coronary heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. We need to preserve agriculture, education, health and nutrition because it is essential to provide favorable environments and appropriate messages for maintaining healthy food cultures. Efforts must be made to build alternate measures to sustain and preserve the local cuisines and cultures.