Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Step five: visit fast food restaurants frequently
If you had to name an ideal source for the combination of food ingredients that would rapidly accelerate your quest for obesity, you'd have to put fast food restaurants at the top of that list. The more popular the fast food chain, the faster their food packs on the body fat, it seems. (Maybe that's what the "fast" in "fast food" really means...)
If you were to eat in fast food restaurants at least once a day, you would easily be able to meet your weight gain goal within one year and cash that $10,000,000 check. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I say we ban fast food restaurants in hospitals and public schools across the nation. No hospital and no public school with any degree of ethics should support the financial success of food and beverage companies that serve disease-promoting products. This behavior has gone on for far too long. Hospitals have sold out to fast food restaurants in order to make a buck on a lease. They have, in a sense, exploited the health of their patients in order to earn some extra money. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Step five: visit fast food restaurants frequently
If you had to name an ideal source for the combination of food ingredients that would rapidly accelerate your quest for obesity, you'd have to put fast food restaurants at the top of that list. The more popular the fast food chain, the faster their food packs on the body fat, it seems. (Maybe that's what the "fast" in "fast food" really means...)
If you were to eat in fast food restaurants at least once a day, you would easily be able to meet your weight gain goal within one year and cash that $10,000,000 check. |
Ray D. Strand
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 In 1970 Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000 they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.5
All of these factors mean free radicals are more active and damaging than ever. Nutritional medicine, supplementing our diet with vital antioxidant vitamins and minerals, is the only means we have to supercharge our body's natural defense and immune system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's time to boot fast food restaurants and soft drink companies from all our institutions of learning and health. |
| Hospitals have sold out to fast food restaurants in order to make a buck on a lease. They have, in a sense, exploited the health of their patients in order to earn some extra money. And then those very same hospitals and clinics turn around and charge patients a couple of hundred thousand dollars to perform cardiovascular surgery that was caused by the very same type of foods those patients ate in the lobbies of those clinics in the first place.
How insane can things get in this country? |
| This heart surgeon, Toby Cosgrove, is certainly an exception; he's apparently a trim man, 63 years of age, and is one of the few to have the courage to stand up against the fast food industry. And he's probably very healthy. But his colleagues, nurses and support staff, on average, are likely less healthy than Dr. Cosgrove, and they actually want restaurants like McDonald's in the hospital so that they can eat those foods any time they feel hungry. |
| REPPED: One of the most ridiculous things about many hospitals and surgical centers is that they host fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Now making headlines is the heated debate between the Cleveland Clinic and McDonald's restaurants. Toby Cosgrove, director of the Cleveland Clinic and a cardiovascular surgeon, wants McDonald's out of the hospital. He says (paraphrased) it is ridiculous to offer foods that are inconsistent with the heart healthy advice doctors are attempting to give their patients.
I couldn't agree more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The more popular the fast food chain, the faster their food packs on the body fat, it seems. (Maybe that's what the "fast" in "fast food" really means...)
If you were to eat in fast food restaurants at least once a day, you would easily be able to meet your weight gain goal within one year and cash that $10,000,000 check. Be sure to order the largest quantities of soft drinks, fries and hamburgers, because it's quantity that counts here. Aided by menu items from fast food chains, you can pack in as much as 2,000 calories in a single meal! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Researchers found while children of all ages are bombarded with promotions for fast food, junk food and soda, 8- to 12-year-olds see the most food advertisements. This market, the "tweens," is especially important to advertisers because it encompasses the ages at which youngsters typically begin to make some of their own buying decisions.
According to Linn, "We know that marketing is a factor in the childhood obesity epidemic. It is unconscionable that 8-12-year-olds see, on average, more than 7,600 food commercials a year -- the vast majority for candy, snacks, cereals, and fast food. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.5
All of these factors mean free radicals are more active and damaging than ever. Nutritional medicine, supplementing our diet with vital antioxidant vitamins and minerals, is the only means we have to supercharge our body's natural defense and immune system. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 This is why, for example, it is so easy to overeat fast food. You can easily eat 2,000 calories of fast food in a few minutes and not even realize that you've eaten three times your caloric requirements for that meal until an hour or two after the meal is over. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Television programs and movies also market unhealthy food to children through extensive brand licensing, promotions at fast food restaurants, and product placement," wrote Linn.
The Kaiser Family Foundation's study analyzed more than 8,000 advertisements using detailed data about the viewing habits of children in three age groups. Researchers found while children of all ages are bombarded with promotions for fast food, junk food and soda, 8- to 12-year-olds see the most food advertisements. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 People who eat fast food three or more times a week have a greater than 90% chance of developing heart disease or diabetes. I don't want to develop heart disease or diabetes, do you? That's why I stopped eating fast food.
I know that I sound like a broken record when I talk about how many diseases are preventable by changing behavior. And I do understand that changing behavior is not easy; the temptation to take a pill to solve a problem is very appealing to many of us. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Strangely, many parents actually reward their children for good behavior by buying them unhealthy fast food meals, thereby creating a psychological association between good feelings and junk food. (Fast food restaurants further exploit this psychological link by building playgrounds and running feel-good advertisements that emphasize friends and fun, then link those good vibes to their food products.)
12. Antidepressant drugs
Children as young as six months old are now being put on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (antidepressants). |
Mike Adams
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| Ban fast food restaurants at schools and hospitals
We should also ban junk foods and fast foods at schools and hospitals. I think it's crazy that some schools have fast food chains right in the cafeteria where children can buy disease-promoting foods for lunch. It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods. There are actually hospitals with McDonald's restaurants inside the hospital
Were people out of their minds when they allowed these restaurant chains into our schools and hospitals? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Maybe that's what the "fast" in "fast food" really means...)
If you were to eat in fast food restaurants at least once a day, you would easily be able to meet your weight gain goal within one year and cash that $10,000,000 check. Be sure to order the largest quantities of soft drinks, fries and hamburgers, because it's quantity that counts here. Aided by menu items from fast food chains, you can pack in as much as 2,000 calories in a single meal! This is going to rapidly accelerate your weight gain efforts, because the average adult human being needs only 2,000 calories per day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember: We only want photos that are on-topic with health issues: Food, groceries, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, food companies, fast food, junk food, Big Pharma, etc. They have to be entertaining, educational and unique to warrant publication. |
Charles Barber
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 In this regard, SSRIs and SUVs, along with other distinctly American technologies like cell phones and fast food, are all the same: useful when you really need them but mainly unnecessary and vastly and indiscriminately overused. |
Michael Pollan
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 It might be argued that at this point we should simply accept that fast food is our food culture and get on with it. Over time, people will get used to eating this way, and our health will improve as we gradually adjust to the new food environment. Also, as nutritional science improves, we should be able to ameliorate the worst effects of this diet. Already food scientists are figuring out ways to microencapsulate omega-3s and
þSeveral studies have found that when industry funds nutrition research, the conclusions are more likely to produce findings favorable to that industry's products. |
| Even connoisseurship can have a politics, as when it deepens our appreciation for the work of the people who produce our food and ruins our taste for the superficial pleasures of fast food.
It is no accident that Slow Food has its roots in Italy, a country much less enamored of the "folly of Fast Life" than the United States, and you have to wonder whether it's realistic to think the American way of eating can be reformed without also reforming the whole American way of life. |
| The organization, which was founded in response to the arrival of American fast food in Rome during the 1980s, seeks to reacquaint (or in some cases acquaint) people with the satisfactions of well-grown and well-prepared food enjoyed at leisurely communal meals. It sounds like an elitist club for foodies (which, alas, it sometimes can be), but at its most thoughtful, Slow Food offers a coherent protest against, and alternative to, the Western diet and way of eating, indeed to the whole ever-more-desperate Western way of life. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The dramatic increase in processed foods in recent years and the fact that fast food has become a staple of the American diet mean that most people are consuming unprecedented amounts of food-derived glycotoxins. A high-fat diet clearly enhances glycation.
Cutting-edge research shows that restricting dietary glycotoxins in people with diabetes results in a significant reduction in substances that indicate inflammation; namely, C-reactive protein (CRP) and peripheral mononuclear cells, and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Approximately six billion "broiler" chickens are produced and sold each year by the factory farmer to sources like supermarkets and fast food chicken restaurants. As many as 60% of supermarket chickens are infected with Salmonella enteritis. Another pathogen that can be spread from chickens to humans is Campylobacter, which can cause infection, illness or death. |
Michael Pollan
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| But when children subsist on fast food rather than fresh fruits and vegetables and drink more soda than milk, the old deficiency diseases return—now even in the obese.
Bruce Ames, the renowned Berkeley biochemist, works with kids like this at Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland. He's convinced that our high-calorie, low-nutrient diet is responsible for many chronic diseases, including cancer. Ames has found that even subtle micronutrient deficiencies—far below the levels needed to produce acute deficiency diseases—can cause damage to DNA that may lead to cancer. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Food and Drug Administration
"15-year Study Links fast food to Obesity"
Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian (Friday, December 31, 2004)
Very extensive report if you have the time to sift through it all.
Chapter Five
The Diet Deception
We go on diets for the same reason we buy lottery tickets, hoping that this time well hit the jackpot.
Principles for Success
How many times have you proclaimed, "I need to go on a diet"? And how many of those diets resulted in long-term success? Not many, if any. If they had, you probably wouldn't be reading this book. |
Ray D. Strand
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| They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined.5
All of these factors mean free radicals are more active and damaging than ever. Nutritional medicine, supplementing our diet with vital antioxidant vitamins and minerals, is the only means we have to supercharge our body's natural defense and immune system.
Nutritional medicine protects our health by enhancing the natural defense systems God has created for a polluted world. |
| In spite of the knowledge that fast food is about the worst excuse for fuel we can ingest into our bodies, we line up by the fryer vat, waiting to pay our hard-earned cash for the detriment of our future health. Friends, knowing and doing are two different realities. As much lip service as we give to losing weight and eating healthy, in reality, it's just not happening.
Approximately 40 percent of our calories in the typical American diet come from fat, and most of this is saturated fat (the bad stuff). |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 There is preliminary evidence that people who eat fast food at least twice a week have nearly four times the risk of developing UC than people who do not eat fast food.7
More than a half-century ago, several doctors reported that food allergies (page 14) play an important role in some cases of UC.8,9 Since that time, many doctors have observed that avoidance of allergenic foods will often reduce the severity of UC and can sometimes completely control the condition. |
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