Nowadays most of us want to save their time by not cooking at home and getting food delivered at their footsteps but researchers from University of Bonn have found out that food delivery apps are increasing our Body Mass Index (BMI). There are a lot of super apps which help us save our time and are extremely convenient to us like grocery apps, food delivery apps, traveling apps and shopping apps. The researchers found that these types of apps are increasing our BMI and can be impactful for already obese or overweight people.
There is no doubt that food delivery apps like Doordash, Ubereats and Deliveroo are more prominent in cities and rural areas and people who are employed are the ones who use these apps the most. This is because they don't want to waste their time shopping, preparing and cooking healthy meals and delivery apps seem the most convenient to them. They can do several other things in the time they save by ordering food online.
This shortcut makes them less active because people who frequently use delivery apps aren't getting any physical exercise by buying or cooking the food themselves. Most delivery foods are also high in calories and contain a lot of sugar, unhealthy oils, starches and salt. In other words, we are spending more time on eating highly processed unhealthy food instead of moving ourselves just so that we can enjoy some time sitting at our favorite place or even during work.
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There is no doubt that food delivery apps like Doordash, Ubereats and Deliveroo are more prominent in cities and rural areas and people who are employed are the ones who use these apps the most. This is because they don't want to waste their time shopping, preparing and cooking healthy meals and delivery apps seem the most convenient to them. They can do several other things in the time they save by ordering food online.
This shortcut makes them less active because people who frequently use delivery apps aren't getting any physical exercise by buying or cooking the food themselves. Most delivery foods are also high in calories and contain a lot of sugar, unhealthy oils, starches and salt. In other words, we are spending more time on eating highly processed unhealthy food instead of moving ourselves just so that we can enjoy some time sitting at our favorite place or even during work.
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