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Fast food generally makes me sick. It's all the oil and grease that does it to me.
Fast food generally makes me sick. It's all the oil and grease that does it to me.
I love fatty food. Pork ribs, bacon, rib steaks, fried chicken skins, french fries
I stopped eating fast food when I realized I can make it better myself and for less money.
I love fatty food. Pork ribs, bacon, rib steaks, fried chicken skins, french fries
I stopped eating fast food when I realized I can make it better myself and for less money.
I wish I could still do that... Some night when I don't mind being sick, I'm going to make some homemade Alfredo sauce.
Will keep the ex-lax effect of Mickey D's in mind next time there is a need.
I note several of you saying basically 'So what if it is bad for me. I like it so I'm going to eat it". I was once you. Fast forward 20 years. My cholesterol got high and it started affecting circulation. That, along with having a butt-load of metal parts due to an auto accident, formed clots. Those clots when to my lungs and darn near took me outta here. Had they gone to my brain or heart before dissolving, I would not be here.
Today, my diet is mostly whole grain and does not include any fatty meats at all. Skim milk, butter and full-fat cheeses are a thing of the past. I rarely eat more 17 grams of saturated fat or more than 300 milligrams of cholesterol in a day. Both a Big Mac & a Quarter pounder with cheese contain 21 grams of saturated fat and ~750 mg of cholesterol.
You can lighten it a bit by making a roux with butter and flour and using milk instead of cream. The roux will thicken it instead of the cream. It won't be as rich, but that's the point - for you, not me Just make sure you cook the sauce for a while before adding the cheese to get rid of the floury texture.
If you have an immersion blender, whip it a bit to incorporate some air. It makes the sauce lighter and oddly, it makes it seem richer
You know what's ironic: the subway that opened in my town last year was closed due to failure to pay taxes.
But really - why ban it? The occasional fast food didn't make me fat. Eating blocks of mozzarella cheese and being lazy did.
I've ate fast food my entire life.....
I'll be 50 in a few days, I'm 5 foot 10 and weight 175. The only medical expense I've had in aaround 35 years is the occasional check up and an allegic reaction I had to a cold medicine.
This is controversial, but if I had the ability I would ban all fast food joints/restuarants. Yes, I said it.
If thre was a way to have a chain as big as Subways that could mete out healthy (preferably steamed/natural) foods for a reasonable price, I think we would be better off. The thought of every American having a large, large garden (if they could), I think, would definitely help with our nation's overall health. One Acorn Squash seed can give rise to 20 squash. One cherry tree give rise to buckets and buckets of cherries. One squash seed, and one cherry seed... can give so much.
Imagine if everyone did this, with many seeds?
I was you at fifty - was height/weight proportional at 50 and except for having pneumonia several times, I hadn't been sickly either - BP was normal, I was active.I've ate fast food my entire life.....
I'll be 50 in a few days, I'm 5 foot 10 and weight 175. The only medical expense I've had in around 35 years is the occasional check up and an allergic reaction I had to a cold medicine.
This is controversial, but if I had the ability I would ban all fast food joints/restuarants. Yes, I said it.
If thre was a way to have a chain as big as Subways that could mete out healthy (preferably steamed/natural) foods for a reasonable price, I think we would be better off. The thought of every American having a large, large garden (if they could), I think, would definitely help with our nation's overall health. One Acorn Squash seed can give rise to 20 squash. One cherry tree give rise to buckets and buckets of cherries. One squash seed, and one cherry seed... can give so much.
Imagine if everyone did this, with many seeds?
I've ate fast food my entire life.....
I'll be 50 in a few days, I'm 5 foot 10 and weight 175. The only medical expense I've had in aaround 35 years is the occasional check up and an allegic reaction I had to a cold medicine.
I'm sceptical.
How much fast food have you had every day? How much exercise, roughly?
Tbh I'm very sceptical. I can neither prove you right or wrong with such minimal data.
I was you at fifty - was height/weight proportional at 50 and except for having pneumonia several times, I hadn't been sickly either - BP was normal, I was active.
But within about a two year span everything just started to go wrong - kidney stones, shingles, the pulmonary embolisms, Epstein-Barr virus and several more minor illnesses. Switching my diet has turned all of this around. No kidney stones since January, no shingles attacks since February, no new PEs (though I am on blood thinners), no recurrence of Epstein-Barr this year at all (something that was happening every 4-6 months)
I'm typically to the right, but on fast food I'm hardcore left socialist. There are many, many people who eat fast food on a routine basis. This in turn leads to health problems and medical bills. I'd ban cigarettes, too, but the black market would utilize that, not Big Macs. The black market wouldn't open up a Burger King chain if fast food were banned, but then again...
Smoking a cigarette once didn't kill me, but I've got 2 uncles dying from lung cancer from smoking 1 pack per day.
Laziness and liking delicious food is also a problem.
Fast food has been around for decades and I am pretty sure that seeing how animal fats were used instead of vegetable fats the fast food served back then was a whole lot unhealthier than what it is today, but yet they did not have an obesity epidemic back then. So logic would dictate that its not McDonalds or Burger King's fault these people are ****ing lard asses. McDonalds and Burger King did not tie these people down and force fed them some fast food.
I love McD's - I don't eat it frequently but when I learned how to make big-mac sauce I died and went to heaven - and fix it often
1/2 C mayo
2 T french dressing
4 t sweet pickle relish
1 T minced white onion
1 t white vinegar
1 t sugar
1/8 t salt
Mix - voila.
All hail the might big mac sauce from which happiness flows and smiles form.