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.

Fast food’s popularity in Singapore is rising because it is easily available and relatively cheap, despite its lack of nutritional value. ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
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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.

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