Fast food has become more and more infiltrated into everyone’s lives, especially those who work. For convenience and speed, they will use fast food to satisfy their needs. But fast food is harmful to the human body. In the fast food culture, eating too much fast food is harmful to human health, especially to the brain. Therefore, if possible, try to eat less fast food for your own health. Let’s take a look at the dangers of fast food culture.

1. Affect the ability to appreciate art. A new study from the University of Toronto in Canada found that eating fast food reduces people's appreciation of art and music. Scientists have found that even seeing a fast food restaurant or its logo can cause anxiety, making it harder to enjoy things that should be pleasurable, such as listening to opera or admiring paintings of natural landscapes.

2. Influence economic decision-making. Another new study from the University of Toronto in Canada found that fast food restaurants can influence a person's financial decisions. In the study, participants had two options: one was to receive a cash reward the next day, and the other was to receive more rewards next week. The results found that participants who were asked to stand and wait at a fast food restaurant were 40% more likely to choose a smaller cash reward the next day. This result shows that fast food affects economic decisions. The closer you are to a fast food restaurant, the greater the likelihood of making an "I want it now" economic decision.

3. Enhance hunger. Have you noticed? It's no coincidence that many fast food chains use the same red and yellow colors in their logos and marketing schemes. Multiple studies have found that red and yellow as the main colors are more likely to stimulate people's metabolism and increase hunger.

4. Increase the risk of depression. Animal experiments completed by Canadian researchers found that experimental rats that received a high-fat diet for 6 weeks were more likely to develop depression and anxiety than those that received a low-fat diet. The reason is that a high-sugar, high-fat diet can cause chemical changes in the brain, making people more susceptible to loneliness and depression once they stop eating fast food.

5. Create addiction. A study from the Scripps Research Institute in California found that eating large amounts of high-sugar and high-fat fast food can easily lead to bad habits similar to drug addiction and compulsive overeating. An animal experiment study at the University of Connecticut in the United States found that experimental rats fed high-sugar and high-fat food had greater brain excitement than those caused by injections of cocaine and morphine.