Cooking at home or Eating Out?

As the life is becoming more and more busy, it seems that outside eating or readymade foods are becoming widely popular in all developed countries. But what is good for your health? Eating out or Cooking at home? Researchers from University of Minnesto have done similar study to find out which is better.

Young adults who frequently make their own meals have their peers who don’t, a mew study shows. “It’s really important to be preparing food at home. Those who were preparing foods more often at home had a much higher likelihood of reaching dietary guidelines,” says Nicole I. Larson of the University of Minnesota, who published her findings in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Larson’s team surveyed 1,710 18 to 23-year-olds in the US about how they shopped for and prepared food. Young adulthood, when many young people more away from home and fend for themselves for the first time, is a key period for building lifetime eating habits, the researchers note.

Women were more involved with food preparation, the researchers found, with 56 per cent making a meal with chicken, fish or vegetables at least weekly and 45 per cent making dinner for two or more people at least weekly. While 13 per cent men wrote a grocery list at least once a week, 23 per cent of women did.

People with the highest involvement in cooking were less likely to eat fast food and more likely to meet recommended dietary goals for intake of calcium, fat, whole grains, fruits and vegetables.