If you would like to maintain a healthier entire body along with agood marriage then do not eat fast food.  Yes, that’sright - I’m sure you will comprehend what I mean shortly when I say that fast food addiction increases onesprobability of requiring divorce lawyers.

Fast food can make you build up body fat like practically nothing else.  That’s because it is packed with badfats and sugar.

As your arteries clog up with fat your whole body starts to go down hill,yet that is not the only destroyer.

Think of the tension it leads to on your wallet. The averagefast food dinner costs about $7.  Now if you are in the practice of upsizingit’ll probably cost you $7.60 - yes, twice the fat for 10% addedcharge.  Now that’s value!

For any family of perhaps, two grown ups and 3children, that’s a meal expense of $35.  Add to that an additional $5 forvehicle costs to get to the fast food store and back again and that’sa total meal expense of over $40.

So now, compare that against the other choice of purchasingsome nutritious food ingredients from your supermarket. That mightcost you, say, $15 in order to feed 2 adults and three kids andpossibly 30-40 minutes to prepare the food.

Ok, I can understand that it is not as convenient aspurchasing fast food, but then the consequence of constantlyconsuming fast food isn’t that convenient either.

To begin with, there is $25 you are saving on each and every fast food family meal.  For an addict, that adds up to $100 every week or $5000 per 12 months.  In addition to that there’s the actualcost to your health and fitness.

The pressure of financial stress is a big contributor todivorce, and as you can see, having a fast foodhabit will contribute substantially to that stress. Could you imagineinstead investing $5000 every 12 months intoyour own marriage and family?

What about taking a $5000 annual pay cut in return for extra annual leave time.  This way you might get to spend some real timewith each other and not be strangers beneath the same roof.

Just what else could a person do with another $5000 every12 months?  Settle the home loan a lot faster? Take yourspouse out to a fine restaurant every fortnight and paying ababy sitter so that you are able to have some ‘together’ time?

So now I am sure you will understand.  If you would like afantastic marriage and want to keep the family lawyers away, keep away from fast food.  It is going to be much better to your body, your financesand your marriage.

The views expressed herein are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of CMS Legal, family lawyers Perth.