All fast food—regardless of what it is—is crap. Fast food restaurants are “proximate occasions of lapse” for purposes of diet. I don’t care if you’re lured to one with promises of a revolutionary salad that has negative calories, avoid them. Eating fast food is analogous to selling your soul to the Devil. If you don’t believe me, take a good, hard look at your nude body in your full-length mirror to see what fast food has already done to you.
Off To A Good Start!
Need reïnforcement about the perils of fast food that are above and beyond the vast waist-land promised by the salt-and-fat-and-carbohydrate-laden food itself? Read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. See the film of the same name by Richard Linklater released in 2006. Read Eat Your Heart Out by Jim Hightower—hell, read everything Hightower’s written. He’s intelligent, funny, down-to-earth, and his criticisms are spot-on, regardless of the target. Both are available at www.Amazon.com.
Fast food is expensive, it makes you fatter, and you’re much more likely to contract food poisoning from a fast-food restaurant than at home. Fast food is slow death for adults and somewhat faster slow death for kids and adolescents. To feed fast food to the fruit of your chaste love is tantamount to child abuse.
The average fast-food meal costs ca. $6-$7 per person. If you eat fast-food three times a day, seven days a week, that’s at least $7,000 per year, per person. You can eat tastier, more healthful food at home for less than $4,000 per year per person—easily. Also, how much spoiled food from your refrigerator have you thrown away because you ignored it in favor of fast food? A lot and you know it. Not only do you have a waist that’s hard to mind, you’re a wastrel who’s hard to mind!
Most adults need fewer than 2,000 calories per day to function quite well. A small fast-food meal is almost 1,000 calories. Supersize the meal and pile on all sorts of fattening, unhealthful condiments and you’re easily entering into glutton territory. You’ve got to be a damned fool not to realize that eating fast food is slow suicide brought on by depression and then promoted by the additional depression precipitated by the weight the fast food adds to your bulk. There’s no real, fundamental difference between your addiction to fast food, an alcoholic’s addiction to alcohol, or a smoker’s addiction to nicotine. The addictions are simply variations on a theme.
