why we shouldnt eat fast food?
408146
It's bad for you, most of it anyway.\n\nBut if you only eat it once in a while you should be okay.
530008
Because our body just like every other living thing needs to excrete waste and other harmful chemicals in our body, and things that are unnecessary.  If we didn't, we'd either die, or our bodies will turn everything we eat into fat or something...
608171
Usually the reasons we eat when we're not hungry are things like depression, boredom, for comfort, etc.\n\nIf you know that you're eating when you're not hungry, find something else to do besides eating (or a dormant activity).  Go out and ride your bike or take a walk around the block.  Play with the dog or some other ACTIVE activity.  If you're unable to get away from a dormant situation (i.e. doing homework), brush your teeth.  When we have freshly brushed teeth, we tend not to want to eat anything right away.\n\nIncrease your intake of water as well.  Especially since Summer is coming (or here for some of us), it helps keep us hydrated as well as keeps us having a somewhat full feeling.\n\nGood luck - my mom has yummy stuff when I go to visit her too.
489623
I hear you.  We Americans need to stop consuming so much (food, energy, products) and thinking only about ourselves and start thinking of others.  You're probably right when you say that so many around the world could be fed if we would just stop eating so much and learn to share what we have.\n\nOn the other hand, obesity is not just about eating.  It's about people using food to heal their emotional and psycological pain.  The problem with that is it's so temporary.  Whereas learning why we have the problems we have and how to solve them would be a tremendous turnaround in our society.\n\nIn spite of all the self-help books and talk shows out there, we are getting worse and worse.  We keep trying to heal ourselves, when what we really need to do is connect with the One who can heal us.
313740
Anythings excessive cause toxic in our system.you need. plenty of water to flush them out.Too much oil cause us to become fat and put a heavy load on the liver,.too much protein put a heavy load on the kidney,too much sugar will lead to diabetes,\ntoo much acidic food is bad for the digestive system,too much meat is bad for the intestine so you need to balance with vegetable and so forth.
879830
It because of fast food culture in the US. Consumer may have more choices but sadly it not healthily food. While other countries may have less food their diet has less fat and less sugar. For example in certain parts of the world they don’t have heart diseases. In Japan a study was done where by Japanese women who didn’t eat fast food breast cancer was unheard of. But those who live in Tokyo and ate a western diet had a risk of breast cancer. The result was that the local Japanese women living in the local countryside ate more fish and ate the traditional Japanese diet had low blood pressure. Example in Africa bowel cancer in unheard of yet, it quite common in the west. The French seems to be slim and healthy compare to the US.
369395
Possibly mental growth but it is doubtful that it stunts physical growth. Now if you combine consuming fast food with something else, possibly.
131421
Too, too many. ):\n\n\n\nhttp://www.supersizeme.com/home.aspx?page=bythelb\n\n \n These facts? Uh, Not So Fun. \n Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant \n In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion \n McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain \n French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America \n You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac \n In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour \n 60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese \n One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime \n Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America \n Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke, Gall Bladder Disease, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, Respiratory Problems, Endometrial, Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers, Dyslipidemia, steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, breathlessness, Asthma, Hyperuricaemia, reproductive hormone abnormalities, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impaired fertility and lower back pain \n The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year \n Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar \n Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald - he was fired for being too fat \n McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us \n Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life \n McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods" \n The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic \n Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health \n McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "Heavy Users" \n McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents \n Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald's \n Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic" \n Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month \n 40% of American meals are eaten outside the home \n McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market
1140713
DO NOT FAST!!!!!!! Our bodies need food to work properly. That is why we get hungry. Every organ of our bodies need the nutrients in the foods we eat. If you fast your body starts to eat itself. Look at the people in Etheopia. They HAVE to fast because they don't get food. Yeah they're skinny, but do they look healthy? They look withdrawn, sick, sad. When you eat a healthy balanced diet, you feel good, you look good, your skin glows, you're less likely to get sick, you boost your immune system, your organs and brain functions at top notch. When you starve....it's exactly the opposite. If you laid in bed all day and did nothing....your body burns about 1100 calories just to survive. This includes thinking, breathing, heart beating. If you fast...where is your body gonna get that energy? Not all from fat! It will be muscle.
48246
yes, it is unhealthy, because you need to make sure that your food gets fully chewed and take some time to breathe in between bites.
515611
No, Junk food is not bad if used in moderation. Any food, even water can be harmful if used in excess.People need to learn to control themselves. In this world there will always be something that is bad for you. Credit cards can be a big problem if a person cannot control their spending. Doesnt mean that they should be banned.\nWhat I would avocate is that wArnings should be placed in the restaurants & at the end of the ads saying that the foods could be dangerous to ones health, something like what the cigarettes ads says.Then the public would have that choice as 2 if they want to buy or not.Banning solves nothing.If a person wants a burger bad enough & there isnt any restaurants what can stop them from frying one for themself.Education &self-control is the answer, not the deprivation of a person's basic rights.
769851
look at the health and economic impacts of fast food, and subsequent growth ot of western culture to otherwise unreachable areas (mcdonalds behind the "iron curtain", starbucks in the forbidden city, etc.) dont write about fast food per se, write about the impact of the idea.
1014342
Sure, first of all there are basic food groups and McDonalds, and other fast food does not appear in them.  Why?  Fast food does not give your body what it needs to stay healthy.  The things that allow you to grow and look your best are the things that replenish the cells that reinforce the organs that run it, kinda like fuel.  Foods that are good for you do not have an appeal because your taste has developed for the fast food flavors.  Do not shock your taste buds, redevelope them.  Start by eating one new food a day or week.  Do not get a heaping bowl and tell yourself your going to like or else.  Add several bites of something each day or week.  Try salads with different toppings.  I eat just about everything have found some combinations that are really good.  Of the things you try remember to eat vegetables, fruit, dairy, clear liquids, berries and berry drinks are the best and highest in vitamins and anti toxins.  If you have time go to your library or health food store and see what foods compliment what part of the body.  Carrots for the eyes, and so on.  Betacarratine is the best for you and is found in carrots.  Try a combination of vegetables and dips, warm (steamed or cold), cold veggies are the best as boiling takes some of the vitamin content out.  If nothing else make it a project for your body.  It is important because if you do not fuel your body properly It is like your car it will malfunction and stop running.
923921
Yes.  It was my first experience with North American food...Though not at McDonald's, it was a hamburger and fries.\n\nFast foods cooked for speed and convenience are deep fried in oils which are used many times.  We are literally eating everything in the air and having it hard-cooked right into our foods, and inviting this into our digestive system where the immune system draws it's nutrients and is the basis for our health.  \n\nThese "fast" foods compromise our immune systems, are toxic, and will over time, lead to general ill health if eaten often.  Poison makes us ill.  The body speaks a sometimes more than subtle language, and I hope you've heard and understood it does not like nor can it fight off poisonous food.
316910
amen to that.  people everywhere around the world need to realize that instead of picking up that bigmac or w/e is the best fast food or the best car, and getting on a bike and eating more healthy food.\n\nyes, there are ways to diet w/o excersise and all that, but really once you have a surgery or go on a huge diet, there's usually the person that will go right back to the diet of Twinkies and Cream Puffs.\n\nLung cancer, also, as you probably know is also caused by people smoking and from others taking in 2nd Hand smoke.  Air pollution, in our day and age, needs to be dealt with along the line with becoming less dependent on gases and becoming more dependent with renewable energy sources that can also make or air cleaner.
366991
Stupidity.  You need to eat in order to sustain life.  Without caloric intake, your body feeds on muscle then fat then your body dies.  Stupidity.
1111930
As long as your burning off the calories that you consume, then yeah, I guess so. But it's still not healthy. The fat and salt content in fast food is sooo bad for you that all of the exercising in the world wouldn't stop you from having health problems.