How is home cook meal safer and healthier than fast food?

ussually but not always. the one thing certain is you get better nutrient values from home cooking than from fast food. fast food has been processed to death which means there are hardly any nutrients in it so all your doing is eating empty calories. you have to look at the ingredients in what your cooking also. if you are cooking healthy with low fat products then yes, it is a ton healthier than eating fast food. if you are using high fat products you won't be spared any excess fat.

Home cooked meals are usually made with whole foods and less garbage. You never really know what goes into some of these fast food meals.

It's a lot safer for many reasons.
Its not processed food, you know how its being cook and where its being cooked, and usually its less fattening because you know whats being used to cook it with.

As you control your meals content & preparation, you can modify to fit your needs/goals. Various people's bodies process food in different ways. Eating a cheeseburger may not affect you adversely, but to someone else, it's an artery hardening indulgence. Robert

Profit is the only drive behinds all fast food chains. As long as they can make a fast buck and consumers don't die "shortly" after consuming their products, they really don't care what is the long term effect on ppl's health. Thus, trans fat is still being used in many places.
Sad, but true.

You know the ingredients are fresh, you can control portion size, salt, fat and sugar content and can ensure it is cooked and stored under the correct conditions. Of course, you could cook yourself a giant fatty burger and serve it with loads of melted cheese and deep fried chips with lots of salt, washed down with a home made syrup pudding and ice-cream which would probably be worse for you than a Big Mac.....Home cooked is only healthy if you choose healthy ingredients and cooking methods.

It's neither and both. But at least when you cook at home:
you know the cleanliness of the kitchen.
you know what you put in your dish.
you and/or your relative made it.
and nothing really beats a home cooked meal.

You know the ingredients and the cooking process, and you can control portions. For example, a lot of restaurant food has added fat (like butter and oil) and you may not even realize it. If you cook at home, you can control the fat by using less oil or butter, using nonstick pans, and using leaner meats. Also, you can change ingredients. Fast food restaurants also tend to be seriously lacking the fruit and vegetables department. When you cook at home, you can use more veggies in a dish and reduce the amount of meat.

fast food is processed junk full of preservatives and goodness only knows what else to bulk the product up, some 'meat' burgers only contain 20% meat. fast food is usually full of fats and salts too.
home cooked food is fresh and you control the ingredients

first and foremost, there aren't the preservatives in home cooked meals. Did you know that a McDonalds Cheeseburger can stay (without rotting or molding) for at least a year?!?!?! The meat shrinks, the bun gets hard, but it doesn't rot! That's how many preservatives are in there!
Aside from that, there's typically less salt and other nonsense in food we make ourselves.