Fast Food is Sad: I'll Bet You Didn't Know..

Have you seen the film Fast Food Nation or Super Size Me? Either will give you a serious look into the detrimental effects of today's food supply and the SAD (standard american diet). The more you know about fast food the better off you'll be. Or on the other hand ignorance is bliss and this article isn't for you.

Staying healthy in the 21st century is one of the biggest challenges we as a people are facing. Our air is polluted, our water is polluted, our top soil is eroded, and our food is nutritionally deficient and laden with pesticides and chemicals. Women have jet fuel in their breast milk (not from food per se, but from the jets flying overhead), people even have Strontium-90 (Sr-90) detected in our bones! I could go on and on, I could write an article just on Strontium-90. Point being pollution is taking a toll on our bodies. This is a time when we should be more concerned than ever about eating well, yet, we are still pulling up to order drive-thru and our SAD is just that, very sad.

What is in that burger and those fries? Oh, but you say you order a salad when you drive-thru, sorry to tell you this, it's not what you think. Keep reading. They add emulsifiers, preservatives, MSG, artificial colors, trans fats, and hidden ingredients under generic labels such as spices, or natural and artificial flavors. Fast food is not food; it's over processed filler, chemicals and empty calories.

Trans fats

Trans fats make each cell in your body more rigid, reducing the rate at which nutrients may enter the cell wall and reducing the rate in which toxins may exit.

MSG (Glutamic Acid)