| We live in a fast world. Worse than that, we live in a | | | | the size of some of the high school football players. |
| world where we now have so much to do, that there | | | | Many of them are bigger than professional players |
| isn't enough time in the day to do it. Most families have | | | | from the 60's. Forty years ago you didn't read about |
| both parents working, which leaves little time for | | | | kids collapsing at football practice because they were |
| anyone to sit down to a home cooked meal. No | | | | so out of shape. |
| problem. Fast food restaurants have come to our | | | | The reason we allow this to happen is because of the |
| rescue. At least that's what we've been told. Well, | | | | economy and what it's done to the typical household. |
| what we haven't been told are what the dangers of | | | | Families could no longer live on one income. It became |
| fast foods are. Not only will they feed us quickly, but | | | | necessary for the man to either get a second job or |
| they'll end up killing us just as fast. If you're wondering | | | | for the woman to get a first job. In many cases, the |
| what the big fuss is, keep reading and we'll show you | | | | latter is what ended up happening. As a result, there |
| just what you're putting in your body and what it's | | | | just wasn't time to come home and make a meal for |
| doing to you. | | | | the family. So one of two things happened. Either the |
| Burger King started out in Miami in 1954 with just one | | | | kids and parents too for that matter, grabbed |
| restaurant. If it had just stayed there then maybe we'd | | | | whatever they could or they went out to Burger King. |
| only have to worry about people in Miami getting sick | | | | After all, this was great. A five minute ride to your local |
| and grossly overweight. But by the 1960's Burger King | | | | Burger King (they were all over the place) and you |
| had become a household name all over the world. And | | | | were literally served in minutes. And the price was |
| with that name came a diet of fatty hamburgers and | | | | unbelievable. You could get a burger, fries and a soda |
| salty fries. | | | | for under $1. Well, we have paid a high price for that |
| So what's wrong with fatty hamburgers and salty | | | | dollar meal (which is now more like $5) with our health |
| fries? Fatty hamburgers raise your cholesterol and too | | | | as 40 years of fast food eating has finally caught up |
| much salt raises your blood pressure. The end result | | | | with us. |
| of each is quite simply a heart attack or stroke. This is | | | | Well, it doesn't have to end like this for us. We can say |
| like loading a gun with a hollow point bullet, putting it to | | | | no to fast foods and say yes to healthy eating again. |
| your head and pulling the trigger while downing a shot | | | | Prepare your meals the night before after work and |
| of Scotch. | | | | simply reheat them the next day. Maybe prepare a |
| It can't be any coincidence that ever since the | | | | couple of meals on the weekend. There are ways |
| popularity of fast food chains like Burger King, | | | | around this problem, and we have to find those ways |
| McDonalds and Wendy's, just to name a few, that the | | | | before the problem itself ends up killing us. |
| average teenager is now 20 to 40 pounds heavier | | | | The dangers of fast foods are just too serious to |
| than they were 40 years ago. Take a good look at | | | | ignore. |