Essay 5: Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live?

 Question:

Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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  With the advancement of technology and science, many instruments and equipments are being introduced in our daily life. One of their benefits is processing of food material faster and easily. this has brought some changes in the people life.

   Firstly, due to the advent of food preparing machines like mixers, microwave, pressure cookers , making food items have become easier and faster. This help the people who have busy schedules like the proffesionals and research scientists. So people do not have to schedule much time preparing the food and food can be quickly served. So the change has adapted with the fast life of the people.

   Also, the people who do not have families and live life singly, particularly the bachelor guys, feel these equipments easier and more convenient . Generally they do not have the knowledge of making food dishes, but with the help of the modern machines and technologies they can easily prepare food. So they now prefer to lead life alone rather than in families and concentrates more in their career.

   But, the machines and equipments have also made people little bit lazy due to the easiness and fastness. People do not work hard to make food, which have the changed the conventional ives and mothers. Still, the easiness to prepare food have changed to people life positively in respect of development, accceleration, career, and time management .

 
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   Nowadays, wherever we turn our gaze, we can see different types of food that are easier to prepare. It cannot be doubted that our eating style has encountered a revolutionary change in the last few decades. It is the change in the type of food that has had the greatest influence. For instance, we can buy frozen food in a supermarket and just prepare it in a couple of minutes, whereas before it could have taken us maybe hours to prepare this kind of meal. Not only have the recipes of certain food types have been altered, but also new ones have been created. Examples include yet are not restricted to beef hamburgers, potato chips, ready made available yoghurt, frozen meat and cold drinks. I would accept that this so called improvement changed our lives, but i believe there are some drawbacks as well.

   It is true that these kinds of food do not involve hard work to prepare, but food that is easy to prepare generally has some artificial ingredients mixed in it that makes it "easy to prepare." If we take time to read the ingredients, we would definitely come across the words like preservatives or artificial flavorings. Many newly emerged types of food have not the essence of a "complete meal" as defined by the nutritionists. To add to the problem, these food types are often served alone. In fact, there are many medical reports warning people from dependingupon such fast meals in their food. Other reports indicate a high potential of malnutrition among those who are "addicted” to the common duet of burgers and colas.

   Not having to cook has also taken the fun out of cooking. Cooking is an art, but in today's world, this is no more true. People are so busy in their work that they just rely on these simple foods. The invention and production of these foods have made people lazy not only for cooking but also for a well family get together. It was not like former times when families would sit together and eat freshly baked food. With the absence of regular family get together, relationships are likely to be weaker.

   People think that fast prepared food types dp improve our style of life. This opinion comes especially from bust people, working wives, and younger people. They believe that we have many things in life more important than eating. Time spent on food preparation is considered waste by them. Wives will have more time to care of their families' souls not just stomachs. Family relationships will get stronger. Business men and women will have more time to concentrate on their arrangements. In general, people will have a greater opportunity to take care of their minds and hearts.

   I agree with that food preparation should take its necessary time and care. Otherwise, the time saved in food preparation can lead to longer times of headache or even of staying in hospitals suffering from malnutrition.

 

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   Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. With this change, people can have a better dinner with fewer efforts and can have more time for other activities. This is why, in my point of view, the change has improved the way people live.

   First of all, people have saved their efforts from cooking. In the past, people have to prepare all the material for cooking themselves, which always occupied too much time. Now, it has changed. People can buy half-done food from supermarket, which has simplified the cooking process. What they need to do is to finish the rest of food preparation. Also, more and more convenient cookers have occurred. These cookers have helped to save the cooking time greatly. People do not have to wait for as a long time as before cooking. In this case, the easier food preparation has improved the way people live.

   Another reason that this change has improved the way people live is that people can have more time to enjoy other activities. Since people do not have to put as much time as before, they can plan more other activities. For example, they may do more exercise to build their body, or they can spend more time on their hobbies. In another words, people can spend more time other beneficial things. Therefore, with easier food preparation, the way people lived has been improved.

   In conclusion, this change has improved the way people live because it has make it easier for people to have a wonderful dinner at home and people can spend more time on their interests.

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   Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. This change has definitely improved the way people live. Cooking is an art and has seen a tome of changes over the ages. Primitive man ate his food raw. Slowly, eating cooked food was considered. Later several techniques of cooking were developed. At first the process was tedious due to the lack of modern gadgets and equipments. Nowadays, cooking has become a paltry.

    Several modern cooking utensils have been developed. The microwave oven, electric cooker, coffee maker, ice-cream maker, juicer are but a few in the long list. These have made cooking very simple and efficient. No more tiresome cooking hours. A few minutes are more than sufficient. Another advantage that these equipments offer is that, constant supervision is not required. Once the dish has been placed in the gadget, the person can carry on with some other chore. The dish gets cooked and the equipment automatically switches off. With such sophisticated equipment, cooking has surely become extremely simple. The time consumed has been reduced considerably. The strain on the chef has also come down.

    Though some people still prefer authentic cooking methods, these are highly impractical in the fast world that we live in. In the present living style, man finds very little time in his hectic schedule to stop and cerebrate on each and every detail. He happily welcomes anything that could save him time and energy. This is why easier cooking techniques have been adopted. This has surely improved man’s way of life. With cooking taking up lesser time, he finds more time to spare. Now, he can eat awhile and enjoy his meal too.

    Furthermore, faster cooking allows lesser nutrients from being destroyed. This becomes an essential criterion as far as health is concerned. With man taking to a sedentary life nowadays, exercising has become a rarity. So, to compensate for this, dieting and healthier foods are preferred. This can be obtained from foods full of essential nutrients. This is possible only when foods are cooked to the right extent. This is easily made possible in the techniques that we adopt nowadays. Any time duration of cooking can be selected and efficient cooking can be done.

    Thus, considering all these factors, we can say that man’s way of living has improved with food preparation becoming easier. Adapting to environmental changes is an inborn nature in all beings. In these lines, changing our cooking habits has also been natural. Thus, the change has occurred only because of the presence of an underlying need. So, we can say that this change has had a greater positive influence on man’s life.