Do advertising promotions price and coupons play any role in

Do advertising, promotions, price, and coupons play any role in what you feed your family? What are some reasons why you would bring fast food home rather than cooking at home? Is it more cost-effective to cook at home or purchase fast or processed food?

Solution

Advertisements, promotions, price and coupons do play role in the what we eat at home. The lucrative advertisements promote fast-food /Junk food, which is pleasing to the tongue but not for the overall health. These junk foods are one of the important contributors to the obesity and other lifestyle-associated diseases.

One brings the fast food to one\'s home under the influence of lucrative advertisements on mass media and other promotional events or schemes. However, these influences are so subtle that one does not even realize that one is under the influence. Consciously, one believes that purchasing fast food saves one from the effort of cooking at home and also would save time.

Cooking food at home is always cost-effective than feeding on the fast-foods. The fast food may look cheaper in one go, but in a long run, it may add on to the medical bills of the family.