by UIUCstudent01 » Tue 12 Apr 2005, 17:42:51
Seriously, I eat fast food. I eat healthy too. I don't gorge myself. I get a tiny bit of exercise, but I don't avoid running or jumping or doing crazy things. I'm supposedly at a good weight, a bit on the underweight scale.
I don't crave food. As a child I was forced (by my parents) to eat great big helpings of dinner, but I also ran around as if my life depended on it.
It's not the healthiest thing in the world. It won't make you sick by itself. But when you combine crappy exercise, crappy eating habits, avoiding work, etc... it becomes a problem.
Since it's an industry decision to use it, attacking it when an individual is more at fault isn't really justified - lots of people are fine with it in their foods.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')ive small chicken nuggets from a fast food chicken outlet contained nearly 4 grams of trans fat.
• An apple danish from a donut shop contained about 2.7 grams of trans fat.
• Two vegetable spring rolls from a Chinese takeout contained about 1.7 grams of trans fat.
• Just one fillet of battered fish from a fish and chips restaurant dinner contained about 1.2 grams of trans fat -- and that's not including the trans fat in the French fries.
• Even in pizza you'd most likely ingest about 1 gram of trans fat in two slices -- most of it from vegetable shortening used to process the crust.
From this, the average in the foods could be about 2 grams. It's not a problem if you eat fast food every other day. I think the problem is that people do not eat or live healthy - or even want to. Many people will know the answer to the question: Is McDonalds (or any fast-food place) healthy?