IELTS WRITING TASK 2 TOPIC:In many countries traditional food is being replaced by international fast food. This has negative effects on both families and societies. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Nowadays, people in most countries tend to prefer fast food than traditional food and this trend is thought to have a detrimental impact on families as well as societies. In my opinion, fast food threatens traditional cuisine in many cultures and deserves people’s emphasis on the problems it may cause but indeed caters to people’s real demand of contemporary life. Fast food have influenced people’s ways of life, including their dietary habits. Traditional cuisine focuses on the quality of raw materials, method of cooking and the diversity of flavours, evolved by embracing, fusing and extracting the essence of cuisine in various culture. On the contrary, most fast food chains provide only very simple food like roasted chicken, hamburgers and pizzas. People’s menus become monotonous with some traditional recipes fading out. Owing to the uniform diet of fast food, many countries have been witnessing the soaring of overweight and obese population, now an important issue of health for obesity closely relates to heart diseases. Fast food is usually junk food because of the large amount of fat, sugar, salt and calories it contains. Therefore, fast food not only does harm to individual health but also cost the government much money to tackle the issue. However, fast food is of certain value especially in this epoch. This is an era when most people are in pursuit of efficiency of work and believe in the maxim that time is money and thus, it is reasonable that they tend to save as much time as possible. Therefore, fast food naturally becomes their best choice to save time. In conclusion, though fast food imposes a severe threat to not only the cuisine of traditional culture but also its harm on health that ought to raise people’s caution, fast food is yet irreplaceable for people are in real need of adapt to the fast pace of current life.