Posted on 05/02/2008 2:40:30 PM PDT by blam
That's what my wife kept telling me on our wedding night.
I slowly cooked a pork roast today, but I ate it fast. Not all of it, though. Leftovers are yummy.
Next time I order a burger and fries I’ll eat it slowly so it won’t be fast food. I’ll eat it all though, because it is too expensive to throw away and leftovers taste bad.
hmmmm... Maybe the government should demand that the prices of fast food be lowered dramatically instead of taxed additionally, so people won’t feel obligated to finish the fries even when they aren’t hungry any more.
Yes! Government intervention is the answer to a poor diet!
I’m fairly skinny so I can eat anything that sounds good at the time. My wife can smell food and gain five pounds, but I’ve been within 5 lbs of my high school graduation weight for 35 years.
It’s no credit to me. I think it’s just genetics.
Milk Thistle is great Liver Detox, and I use it myself.
Natural substances offer healthier lives, and some fast food if chosen wisely will not really hurt you. Cleanse the body regularly for parasites, toxins, and drink two cups green tea daily for getting rid of free radicals, IMHO
Start by eliminating the mayo OR the cheese for a while. One normally won’t miss one of them if the other is there.
Don’t eat the fries. Most of them are nasty anyway.
Usually the beverages are colored fructose anyway, carry water with you.
If you feel you must have the mayo, go to a place like Subway and ask for “half mayo.”
Only until you shoot it. After that it tends to slow down right quick.
I'll try the veal. Will you be here all week?
the only caveat would be the mom and pop burger joints - they fry them in shortening and let em get crisp.......Ive only had 3 orders since Oct - cut out sodas and fell in love with iced water - especially seltzer water....lost 30# and avoided diabetes for the time being
Outstanding article! It informed the reader of the dangers of a high fat/high caloric diet and it gave advice on how to fix it.
The article didn’t threaten lawsuits against fast food companies although I’m sure those human parasites have stored this article in their database.
Yours truly,
The Woim
Mom and pop places, definitely.
I mean McD, BK, Wendy, etc. Garbage fries, the lot of them.
What ever happened to the crinkly-cut?
I quit drinking takeout soda about a year ago...except for the occasional raspberry iced tea.
And the fries? Not only garbage, but a serious ripoff.
” Milk thistle is good for reparing the liver “
Yep - I learned that from Dr. Weil’s book 8 Weeks To Optimum Health . I gave up fast food many moons ago . Had to make a choice - give up beer & sake - or give up FF . The choice was easy ! Glug glug ...
Ok, so if I buy a hamburger at a fast food place that’s bad; but if I buy the same hamburger at a slow restaurant well that’s better ..... huh?
The bottom line to this stuff is that our livers are too efficient. However, the solution is not to starve or exhaust ourselves, but to add supplements to our diet that limit how our livers work.
For example, both diet and genetics create an overabundance of cholesterol in many Americans. Even if you eliminated cholesterol from your diet completely, and consumed lots of unpleasant foods known to reduce cholesterol, and exercised a lot, you would STILL have high cholesterol, if you had a genetic preponderance to it.
Well, like ‘em or not, we now have statin drugs that will block the enzymes your liver uses to make cholesterol. The problem solved with a little pill, instead of all sorts of masochistic and self-abusive behavior and self-denial.
Other drugs are in the research pipeline, to take care of other problems. Cirrhosis is caused by a protein that makes too much fibrin, that scars the liver. But now YET ANOTHER PILL may be available that will block this protein, so your liver stop producing excess fibrin, and heals itself.
Yet another drug is a type of fat that might someday be eaten as a supplement. It fools your body into thinking you have been exercising, and tells it, it needs to convert fat to muscle. It even fools the muscles into toning themselves a bit.
But all of this has in common: You don’t *have* to do with less. You don’t *have* to suffer and starve yourself. And you don’t *have* to exhaust yourself with exercise.
The funny part is even if you don’t have a problem, they would still want you to starve, exhaust yourself, suffer, and eat cruddy tasting food. Why? Because they hate seeing others have pleasure. Pleasure bad. Pain and denial good.
No way pizza is a fast food. And if it is I don’t care - there are quality of life issues to consider here.
or steak fries......
Im starting to grow fond of sweet potato fries with gravy though
I ham sure.
Let’s see... cigarette companies need to be taxed to death, not because of public health, but because Newt turned the former Solid South Pubbie in 1994. Fast food has been under Demwit attack for years because, hmm, they employ too many minority citizens? Too many illegal aliens? Or because they don’t offer the same opportunities for off-the-books income as traditional restaurants? Or, perchance, it’s because smoking is off limits in fast food chains? Next, manufacturers of umbrellas will be under attack because people get killed by lightning while golfing.
"Super size me" is a separate idea altogether. That suggests overeating not a particular type of food. Obviously overeating is going to lead to some kind of problem no matter what you eat.
Further into the article they introduce a third component of the liver damaging diet. Sugar. Not everything on any fast food restaurant's menu has a lot of sugar in it. In fact it is the soda pop they sell which has the lion's share. IMO the sugar is worse than either saturated fat and/or overeating. Get all three, saturated fat, sugar saturated soft drink and more than you need to eat and you have a liver toxic formula. But even then only if you eat that regularly.
Eliminate just the soft drink (which contains other undesirable compounds like citric acid, caffeine, phosphoric acid and CO2) and you have reduced the potential for damage a lot. Eat a reasonable amount and the negative effect is rather small. Especially since most food chains have voluntarily removed trans-fats from their ingredients.
When people point to a Big Mac or a Whopper and call that junk food you have to ask yourself why. It's beef, wheat, lettuce, cheese, pickle, tomato, onion and mustard. Sounds like the food pyramid to me in just about the proper amounts of each.
I guess I'll ignore that then considering where I found it. ;^)
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