For me, I'd go further than your stance, as to say fast food is not as unhealthy as advertised. People can lose weight on McDonalds, and have done so. To those saying fast food is cheaper than the grocery store, what does that matter? You don't have to eat a surplus of calories when you go to McDonalds.. and if you eat 5,000 calories of McDonalds a day, you get the same results as if you ate 5,000 daily calories of veggies. Surplus calories, is surplus weight. It doesn't matter if you eat "healthy" foods. Macronutrition is king. If you assure yourself a proper amount of proteins, a healthy amount of total calories, then 95% of your dietary health is assured (easily managed at fast foods restaurants, if not easier than grocery shopping).
The only difference between fast food and what society deems as "healthy" foods is micronutrition. And if there's one thing that should be understood about micronutrition it is that it is microscopic. Very little is needed, and deficiencies are extremely rare in developed countries (not to mention SUPER easy to fix/reverse compared to obesity). With those things aside, there is only one claim left to address-- "Preservatives and additives are extremely unhealthy", to which I say BS! No study has successfully proven this, meaning if it even is a factor, it can not possibly be a significant one.
Olympians eat fast food as much as the average person (particularly because of their busy schedule and high caloric needs) and if they aren't the epitome of health, I'm not sure who is.
People who blame obesity on fast food are ridiculous. We're becoming an obese nation because we're eating the SAME amount of calories, but burning less. Food isn't a problem in developed countries-- it's technology eliminating the need to do work and our people not developing mentally with the times (you have to work out now that your work is no longer a work out!)
THE PROOF
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24631411
www.plosone.org/.../...1371%2Fjournal.pone.0019657
THE STORY
www.npr.org/.../what-makes-us-fat-is-it-eating-too-much-or-moving-too-little
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With fast food places now giving out full nutrition lists per item, there's no excuse for a customer there to blame fast food because they can monitor 100% what's going into their body. I've had fast food a plenty before and had to get rid of it because the nutritional quality totally sucks. Also keep in mind that people never exercise these days which can negate a shitload of physical issues growing up.
There's so many awareness campaigns that show what happens to people eating fast food that it'd be like telling a cigarette smoker that smoking is bad at this point.
I think it's not that easy and for me the blame is on the Fast Food restaurant AND the customer.
It's obvious that the customer has the right to choose what he eats and he should choose wisely.
Why do I think it's the reestaurant's fault? Because to eat that much oil that would cause a heart attack would mean a lot of fast food. Why would a normal person eat that much. Because it might be addictive. So they shouldn't sell it without thinking at they customers.
But then, again, if it was from me, I would not produce cigarettes either. Because they put people to risks.
People can't blame fast food as fast food doesn't have brains to think if they are healthy or not for the people... :) People behind fast food business are there for business (money)..(I'm not sure if they care about the health, I think maybe they care more on how much money goes in and out, and about the taste on how to satisfy the taste buds to attract people thereby earning more without realizing the health effects on them).
Consumers have brains to think well enough if fast food is good for them or no... Self-care and self-control plays important part here,. :)
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its the consumers fault lol. but people can be bitches amirite?
Coming from a lifestyle of eating fast food and junk in the past (and now living clean and plant based), the food does make you fat, BUT you are the one eating it. It's also highly addictive so it's like a vicious circle for some people really. It's really a question of where you draw the line of personal obligation and obligation of the fast food industry.
Fast junk food is convenient, and in a world where we are rushing to get work and get the kids to school, and doing errands, it wins. How many people realize they can actually reach for fruit instead and it's just as convenient? Fruits and leafy greens, the original fast food. ;)Just as fast food is easy and quick to get a hold of, it's easy and quick to blame as well.
No sympathy for people that can't control themselves with fast food. I can control myself with what I eat, so that shows that it's at least possible. People not willing to put in the effort is no excuse for it "not being that simple".
Guns don't kill people, fast food doesn't make people fat by itself, pencils/keyboards don't misspell words, and dogs aren't born with issues behaving in polite society as they're expected to be.
Rant done. :DI agree with everything your saying. The facts are out there that a lot of the fast food out there is hardly real food. But at the same time this argument is like beating a dead horse with a stick. The companies aren't gonna stop making this stuff so long as people keep buying it and I wouldn't stop if I was making money off of it, and at the same time people are never gonna stop buying it because of price and convenient.
We're all responsible for the world we live in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66jpwLSxZrwIt's not fast food's fault. It's the fault of the people eating it. They have the option of not eating fast food, yet they do continuously and end up being fat. The business is just serving the food. It's not their fault that the fat guy is obese.
They didn't have to order the good but they did. They didn't have to eat the food but they did. They're responsible for what they put in their own body they made the choice therefore it's their own faults
Fast food is about as bad as restaurant food and packaged processed food.
When people stopped cooking they got fat.
If you want to point a finger at anything else I'd maybe pick soda.yes we have to take responsibility for our actions. that includes eating.
Load of bull. No one is forcing them to go eat fast food. Not like someone has a gun to their head and saying "go get McDonald's or I will shoot you." LMAO
People choose what they eat. If they want to make poor eating choices then it's their fault not the fast food place.These people ordered the food and ate it. None other than themselves are to blame.
I believe it plays a BIG role in it, but I do not think it's the ONLY reason. and, some people are tight wil money, and fast food is cheaper than the grocery store, so that's their only option, so I don't fully blame the person.
They want to blame someone/ something other than themselves
The owner of that grill died of a heart attack, right?
they're responsible for eating it.
I can't find any argument against what you said.
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