Fast food has increasingly become popular in Bangladesh with the effect of globalization. Many people, specifically the younger generation are consuming various types of fast foods everyday as these are convenient, time saving and tasty. Consumers’ choice of a particular restaurant depends on many factors, i.e. quality, variation, location, price, environment, and many more aspects. Thus the co...

In this fast-moving era, food plays a vital role in the human mankind lives. It was listed the top 5 needs in the Maslow hierarchy chart. As we moves into the 21 st century, when the economy is fast blooming; humans are acting faster to keep up to the never-ending trend where time plays an important role. Hence, fast food chain has been keeping up to the demand of consumers, which led it to the...

The aims of this study were to develop strategies and algorithms of calculating food commodity intake suitable for exposure assessment of residual chemicals by using the food intake database of Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). In this study, apples and their processed food products were chosen as a model food for accurate calculation of food commodity intakes ut...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between television advertising exposure and adults' consumption of fast foods. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone survey. Questions included measures of frequency of fast-food consumption at different meal times and average daily hours spent watching commercial television. SUBJECTS/SETTING Subjects comprised 1495 adults (41 % response rate) aged >or=18 yea...

Fast food culture is an emerging trend among the younger generation. The ready availability, taste, low cost, marketing strategies and peer pressure make them popular with children and adolescents. Fast food restaurants are primed to maximize the speed, efficiency and conformity. The menu is kept limited and standardized essentially to minimize the waiting time so that the customers eat quickly...