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Our love-hate relationship with fast food needs an intervention
They’re cheap, convenient, tasty and here to stay, but we still need to put the brakes on them for our own good.
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Fast food’s popularity in Singapore is rising because it is easily available and relatively cheap, despite its lack of nutritional value.
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Chan Fang Lynn
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“Made with 100 per cent wild Alaskan pollock,” the McDonald’s advertisement at MRT stations and bus stops kept telling me.
Fast food is not part of my diet, but I eventually caved in and ordered a Filet-O-Fish meal, lured by the slick ubiquitous advertising, and curious to see if it lived up to the hype.
