Number of fast food restaurants significantly increased recently in Armenia - expert
13.03.2015,
18:12
The number of fast food restaurants has significantly grown recently in Armenia, Melita Hakobyan, head of the National Association of Consumers, said at a news conference on Friday ahead of March 15, the World Consumer Rights Day.
YEREVAN, March 13. /ARKA/. The number of fast food restaurants has significantly grown recently in Armenia, Melita Hakobyan, head of the National Association of Consumers, said at a news conference on Friday ahead of March 15, the World Consumer Rights Day.
«This year's World Consumer Rights Day is targeted for campaign for healthy nutrition, attention will be paid also to 'fast food' concept,» she said. «This movement is also called Fast Food – Slow Death. We don't call for refusing fast food, adults can use it once a week.»
She stressed that one person in the world uses fast food restaurants' services every day. «As a whole, more resources are invested in fast food industry than in food production technologies.»
Hakobyan said referring to specialists' opinion that there are two kinds of fast food – dangerous and very dangerous.
«Fast food is a type of nourishment, which quickly impacts human organism and provoke many diseases affecting heart, blood vessels etc,» she said.
The World Consumer Rights Day was market for the first time in 1962, when President John F Kennedy gave an address to the US congress in which he formally addressed the issue of consumer rights.
He was the first world leader to do so, and the consumer movement now marks 15 March every year as a means of raising global awareness about consumer rights. ---0-------
