Fast Food is Slowly Killing Us
by C.L. Mareydt
It seems that no matter where we go or what we do, there is a 'Fast Food' joint right there too. If not close to home, than it is close to work. If it doesn't trap you because you are in a big hurry, it will trap you with the allure of getting something you can't possibly make at home as quickly or as conveniently. It use to be at a cost that would be less than what you could make it at home for too; but not much the same in that catagory any more.
Food is still a number one priority in the survival mindset. It goes back to a base instinct in all of us; way back to the 'lizard brain' theory. But irregardless, we do have to eat every day to maintain these physical bodies. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner is for our health; but now too it has also become part of our entertainment.
Right, wrong, or indifferent, most people are going about such eating habits in a willy nilly fashion. What looks good, and stimulates at the moment, will do. Although a few are starting to wake up and smell the real coffee; excuse the slight pun. Some do seem to see the big picture. Starting to question the wall street 'Big Mac' advertisers, and the food chain guru's that endlessly pummel us with their concoction of fast food gimmicks, and drive through mega menus.
Why do we eat the way we do? What does it do for us? What does it do to me? What is it doing to you? Is the food we eat okay? Why do we buy the foods we buy? What about my families eating habits? Are we all getting the proper nutrition we need? Plus, all the countless questions that could be added. Only to say, sometimes the info coming back would shock our Doctors; but alas it should shock us even worse.
Unfortunately our 'fast food' is slowly killing us. Killing our bodies and killing our mental abilities at the same time. If we can't see past that, what are we really seeing anyway? Food for thought right there!
The over indulgence of 'fast food' should be looked at hard and long. The illusion bubble that is propagated by all the commercials & advertising should be burst. The propensity to abuse food, not to mention ourselves, should be studied on a one to one basis in every family.
What about our mental ability you say? Our mental ability to deal in this situation with a clear articulate & self imposed disciplined mind. If your right mind was really directing, it would yell out ... 'WARNING WARNING WILL ROBINSON ... DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Get the drift? But instead, our addiction to fast food and our disrespect even for ourselves has caused us to blatantly inhale the illusion that all the 'fast food' is perfectly fine, hey --- they wouldn't put it our there for us if it were really bad anyway.
No. No. No. Emphatically no.
Only recently, and only because obesity is causing medical repercussion without our society, have we heard that eating fast foods on a regular basis will actually do us more harm than good. But, we wouldn't even be hearing that if a few whistle blowers had not hit the pipe line and sounded off. Telling us that our hamburgers were now toxic. That our fried chicken dinners were poisonous. That our huge steak dinners have become deadly to us. That all our processed foods were dangerously addictive and ruining our health.
We have actually been told that what we ate in the sixties' was not nearly so bad after all; and that eating the same diet today would kill us! Why? Because the ingredients in our food products are so massively different now.
Our cows, chickens, pigs, and even pond grown fish, are fed with a corn based diet. A corn diet that has been chemically treated if not genetically treated - treated to grow faster, stave off insects and diseases. Our 'farm' animals are not eating the natural foods they once ate. Does this make your eyebrows lurched upward or not? Oh my.
So the 'Big Mac's of the Sixties were actually better for you than the 'Big Mac's' of today! Yes!
It is all a cost conscious effort to speed up the process of the food chain reaching your table -- hence your mouth and your pocket. We are killing ourselves with our own food supply. Not to mention the over processing of our wheat & sugars, which have literally turned us into junkies. Sugar junkies, starch junkies. And, it is showing. Our waistlines (mine too) are wider than any generation before us. And, it is not stopping.
Well, in order for this editorial to stop, I admonish us all to start a search effort on the internet or at your local library about this subject. You will be amazed and totally surprised. Not to scare you, but you might even change your eating habits altogether! I did, and am trying to more and more each day. Let's NOT let our fast food do us in.
It seems that no matter where we go or what we do, there is a 'Fast Food' joint right there too. If not close to home, than it is close to work. If it doesn't trap you because you are in a big hurry, it will trap you with the allure of getting something you can't possibly make at home as quickly or as conveniently. It use to be at a cost that would be less than what you could make it at home for too; but not much the same in that catagory any more.
Food is still a number one priority in the survival mindset. It goes back to a base instinct in all of us; way back to the 'lizard brain' theory. But irregardless, we do have to eat every day to maintain these physical bodies. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner is for our health; but now too it has also become part of our entertainment.
Right, wrong, or indifferent, most people are going about such eating habits in a willy nilly fashion. What looks good, and stimulates at the moment, will do. Although a few are starting to wake up and smell the real coffee; excuse the slight pun. Some do seem to see the big picture. Starting to question the wall street 'Big Mac' advertisers, and the food chain guru's that endlessly pummel us with their concoction of fast food gimmicks, and drive through mega menus.
Why do we eat the way we do? What does it do for us? What does it do to me? What is it doing to you? Is the food we eat okay? Why do we buy the foods we buy? What about my families eating habits? Are we all getting the proper nutrition we need? Plus, all the countless questions that could be added. Only to say, sometimes the info coming back would shock our Doctors; but alas it should shock us even worse.
Unfortunately our 'fast food' is slowly killing us. Killing our bodies and killing our mental abilities at the same time. If we can't see past that, what are we really seeing anyway? Food for thought right there!
The over indulgence of 'fast food' should be looked at hard and long. The illusion bubble that is propagated by all the commercials & advertising should be burst. The propensity to abuse food, not to mention ourselves, should be studied on a one to one basis in every family.
What about our mental ability you say? Our mental ability to deal in this situation with a clear articulate & self imposed disciplined mind. If your right mind was really directing, it would yell out ... 'WARNING WARNING WILL ROBINSON ... DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Get the drift? But instead, our addiction to fast food and our disrespect even for ourselves has caused us to blatantly inhale the illusion that all the 'fast food' is perfectly fine, hey --- they wouldn't put it our there for us if it were really bad anyway.
No. No. No. Emphatically no.
Only recently, and only because obesity is causing medical repercussion without our society, have we heard that eating fast foods on a regular basis will actually do us more harm than good. But, we wouldn't even be hearing that if a few whistle blowers had not hit the pipe line and sounded off. Telling us that our hamburgers were now toxic. That our fried chicken dinners were poisonous. That our huge steak dinners have become deadly to us. That all our processed foods were dangerously addictive and ruining our health.
We have actually been told that what we ate in the sixties' was not nearly so bad after all; and that eating the same diet today would kill us! Why? Because the ingredients in our food products are so massively different now.
Our cows, chickens, pigs, and even pond grown fish, are fed with a corn based diet. A corn diet that has been chemically treated if not genetically treated - treated to grow faster, stave off insects and diseases. Our 'farm' animals are not eating the natural foods they once ate. Does this make your eyebrows lurched upward or not? Oh my.
So the 'Big Mac's of the Sixties were actually better for you than the 'Big Mac's' of today! Yes!
It is all a cost conscious effort to speed up the process of the food chain reaching your table -- hence your mouth and your pocket. We are killing ourselves with our own food supply. Not to mention the over processing of our wheat & sugars, which have literally turned us into junkies. Sugar junkies, starch junkies. And, it is showing. Our waistlines (mine too) are wider than any generation before us. And, it is not stopping.
Well, in order for this editorial to stop, I admonish us all to start a search effort on the internet or at your local library about this subject. You will be amazed and totally surprised. Not to scare you, but you might even change your eating habits altogether! I did, and am trying to more and more each day. Let's NOT let our fast food do us in.
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