People are eating more processed food these days than a few years ago. This is because they don’t have the time to cook food at home. So, their health is deteriorating now a days as the processed food is not as healthy as the home-made food.
People don’t have the time to cook food at home. This is because the current job market is highly competitive and people devote more time to their jobs. If they don’t spend extra time on their jobs, they may be left behind, or someone else may take their job. So, in order to save time, people eat processed food. For example, I eat ready-made pasta or maggi as it requires less time to prepare them. I gain a lot of time by this, which I use to gain a competitive advantage over my colleagues in the office.
Due to the higher consumption of processed food, the health of the people is getting affected a lot. This is due to the fact that processed food is not as healthy as home-made food. So, people get tired easily, and their working capacity is also getting reduced. Of course, working capacity means physical working capacity, not mental working capacity. For example, I consider my father’s physical working capacity much greater than mine because I eat processed food and he still eats home-cooked food.
To conclude, people are not eating home-cooked food these days as they don’t have the time. And their physical capacity is not up to the standard of their previous generation.