Fast food joints: Eat here at your own risk

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Fast food chains could see it coming: massive class action lawsuits blaming restaurants for causing obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases. So they lobbied hard to get Congress to pass the "Cheeseburger Bill," making them immune to such lawsuits.

It's sort of the way ski lodges operate: ski at your own risk, we're not responsible. But in this case, it's "Eat at your own risk. We're not responsible for the diseases." At one level, they're right: only consumers are responsible for putting food in their mouths. At the same time, however, fast food restaurants have been living what I call the Big Lie of convenience foods: that such foods can be "part of a healthy balanced diet." In reality, they can't. Every cheeseburger takes you one step closer to diabetes, heart disease and obesity. There is no place in a balanced diet for a single cheeseburger. And, yes, these restaurant foods do cause chronic disease due to their use of toxic ingredients (like sodium nitrite, hydrogenated oils, and refined white flour) and extremely poor nutrition.

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About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and technology pioneer with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored more than 1,500 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a maker of energy efficient LED lights that greatly reduce CO2 emissions. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known on the 'net as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org


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