The fact of the matter is that for almost every harmful thing we are faced with, there are those who will tell you that there is "no proof" that the harmful thing is actually doing you harm. Nonsense! When it comes to being overweight, being in poor physical condition, or suffering poor health, we already know the solutions. We just don't want to do what we know we need to do.
This has to stop! There is absolutely nothing good about fast food, except that sometimes it is actually fast. But so is good, nutritional food, when cooked properly. Steaming vegetables, cutting up fruit, even broiling free-range chicken are all quick alternatives to restaurant and frozen "fast food." Just read the label on any frozen food package and you will see a bunch of chemicals put into the food (I don't even think THEY know why they all are there).
Spending so much time, sitting in front of the television, like it is your friend, doesn't take much energy at all. You get absolutely no physical exercise, not even mental exercise doing that. We talk about kids playing video games, but we adults also sit and watch HOURS of football and basketball, shouting game plays and instructions as if we are playing the game, and losing out on being in shape like the players we watch.
And whenever, we feel ill, usually caused by a lifetime of poor diet and lack of physical exercise, we seek a quick solution - a pill, surgery, or numbing - as if that actually fixes the problem; instead of looking at what we are doing to our own bodies and ignoring that, just to live 50 or 60 years when we have a God-given right to a longer life. Slowly we are literally killing ourselves and thinking that it's alright.
The proof of the harmful effects of fast food that we all see is obesity and overweight, lack of strength and stamina, and horrible health outcomes. So, let's try this.
Let's change our eating habits from fast food to fresh, home-cooked, unprocessed foods. Let's take the white flours, sugars, and pasta out of our diets. Let's put more vegetables and fruits in. Let's take all of the high sugar and man-made sugars out of our diets. Let's stop drinking sodas and drinks with less than 50% real juice. Let's cut back on salt and avoid canned foods that typically have high salt contents. And let's avoid all of the foods that have a lot of man-made oils and fats in them.
Let's read the labels and put back those things that have more than 1 or 3 other ingredients. If it is cheese, it ought to be cheese and nothing more. This certainly won't hurt you and I guarantee that you will not gain weight; in fact, you will lose weight; your health will improve; and you will have more energy to participate in physical exercise that will build muscle, firm up flab, and increase your body system's ability to repair itself.
Don't let a cool song or jingle intice you into buying and eating foods that are harmful to you. Don't let fast food restaurants that use a lot of smell chemicals to make their food desireable, lure you into their web. And don't let pictures of food, persuade you that you are hungry when you are not.
And ALWAYS pay attention to who is providing the money for those experts to say that fast food doesn't affect you. See who is paying to have educated sounding people tell you that you need more televisions, video games, movies, and horrible TV programs. And see who is buying doctors and other health professionals to get on TV and tell you about all of the wonder drugs that will cure your ills. Usually, it is the very people who make those things and want you to buy them so that they can get rich and you can get sicker and pay even more.
