B2 – Upper Intermediate
“Health is wealth.” is a common English expression. But how can we maintain good health in the midst of our busy lives? Apparently, we can. All we need to do is to be aware of what we are eating. Find out from this link about a new study of packaging in fast food restaurants.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/01/health/fast-food-packaging-chemicals-pfas-study/index.html
Discussion Questions:
- Summarize what was written in the article.
- What are the side effects of fluorine in our body?
- What is your reaction to this news?
- Take a look at the pictures and share your thoughts about them.
- What should we do to avoid exposure from fluorine in fast food restaurants?
- What are other food safety policies do you think should be implemented?
One reply on “Chemicals in Fast Food Packaging”
1. The wrapping of the food in the fast food restaurants can be very dangerous. Recent studies talk about the quantity of dangerous substances that this wrappers can expel on the food. Specially when this food has been warmed with this wrapper or have passed a lot of time with the same wrapper. It’s recommendable to eat another type of food in general but if you can’t or simply you like to eat it you must to take care with the wrapping and if you know that your favourite dessert has been conserved in a plastic glass for many days probably is better if you choose another dessert.
2. All the products of the pictures have a dangerous wrappers. The most contaminated are the wrappers for the desserts and the bread but the picture with the hot hamburger is another dangerous situation that we must avoid.
3. Still we don’t have a definitive conclusion about the problems derived of the fluor in our organism but probably it have relation with nervous problems that the doctors has observed in many patients. Also it probably have relation with problems of testicular cancer and other types of health problems.
4. It’s difficult to change something in relation to this. It’s better if we try to press to the restaurants of fast food for change the method how wrapper the food. They need to use another products that don’t having any dangerous elements.
5. When you try to eat healthy food all the time or when you try to play sports all the weeks or when you try to don’t have an stress situations in your work will have a better quality of life in general and probably will come to the old age better than other people that don’t care about their health.