Is fast food just a little unhealthy or could it put you in the hospital?

[Vecanti]

Is fast food just a little unhealthy or could it put you in the hospital?

I guess it depends on your perspective.  I heard this guy was in the hospital on his death bead almost withered completely away.

So I guess you could say fast food saved his life.   :-"

[sunteam_paul]

Why do you choose spring water? Is it just a taste thing or do you believe it's better for you?

Well, it does taste a little better and it seems like it should be better, coming from a spring and all instead of that nasty ol' tap water but, who knows?

Anyone can put water in a bottle and print words on the label about how it comes from a natural spring in the Blue Ridge mountains and is bottled at the source and so on.

I've never understood the desire for bottled water. At least in the UK (not sure about US) tap water is subject to stricter regulations, and studies have shown that it often contains a lot more bacteria than tap water. The whole spring water thing is a marketing gimmick. And let's not forget all the waste plastic bottles that are generated by this bottled water.

[nat]

Last night I picked up a Chef's Choice Burger and fries from Burger King in honor of this thread.

[Burnt Lasagna]

Can fast food put you in the hospital?
I'll have to get back to you on that one after I'm done eating my Baconator.

hmmm, tasy.

[VenomMacbeth]

Can fast food put you in the hospital?
I'll have to get back to you on that one after I'm done eating my Baconator.

hmmm, tasy.

EPIC WIN!!!

[blueraven]

Well, guys, I have decided to cut junk food out of my menu except for on the weekend and I've been dieting during the week on salads, baked fish, corn, mushrooms and garlic.
I've also cut out soft drinks and mostly drink spring water.

Not only am I beginning to feel younger but, healthier, happier and loosing weight at a rapid rate.

Trying to eat like Goku, Coop and Pac-Man is nothing to be proud of and sooner or later you'll regret trying to achieve that "Fat Albert" or "I can eat anything I want and not gain an ounce" status.

I used to be a skinny guy who bragged that way and made fun of fat people too.
It came back on me and I deserved it.

Don't be naive. Take care of your body and it will take care of you.

I wont make fun of people for their weight, it's horrifically insensitive, and I know a lot of people who are struggling with losing inches off of their waists (except Chris Christie, the NJ Governor. He is a f*cking lardass. And If I can't say that the terrorists have won.)

I still have the occasional batch of french-fries from In-N-Out.

Soda is the biggest culprit, even Diet soda causes your body to retain water. When I hit my late 20's, I cut soda, started working out, and drastically changed my diet paying attention to food allergies. Fueling properly isn't something you can do on McShit or wherever.

If I told people what my diet was like, I'd probably get called a tree-hugging hippy or some other such nonsense, so here we go. My "Junk Food" is the occasional Deli Sandwich (not subway) or home-cooked cajun/creole food (i.e. jumbalaya, etoufee, red beans & rice with hot sauce, gumbo, a crawfish po' boy, etc.). Other than that, I eat mostly vegan or vegetarian meals during the week with no dairy products. 

Note: this image is for visual reference from wikipedia: mine looks 300x more appetizing.



If it's homemade, or grilled at a barbecue, I'm not adverse to the occasional hanhburger. It is, however, a special-occasion thing.

That said, beer is a staple in my diet. I try to have one every night, the stronger the better.

[Shrapnoid]

Can fast food put you in the hospital?
I'll have to get back to you on that one after I'm done eating my Baconator.

hmmm, tasy.

About three weeks ago, this pic would have made me drool with a lusty hunger.
Now it just looks disgusting.
This diet I'm trying out is actually turning me against one of my greatest loves.
It's unusual but, it's nice too.
I really do feel better and my pants keep falling down.

[vestcoat]

Yes, fast food/junk food/malnutrition might land you in the hospital.  We eat garbage and whichever organ fails first is the "disease" that we get. A third of us suffer from obesity, yet we blame genetics, staple stomachs, and ignore how the conventional diet has changed.  Everyone has cancer and we wait for a silver bullet to cure the symptom without looking for a cause.  

I've never understood the desire for bottled water. At least in the UK (not sure about US) tap water is subject to stricter regulations, and studies have shown that it often contains a lot more bacteria than tap water. The whole spring water thing is a marketing gimmick. And let's not forget all the waste plastic bottles that are generated by this bottled water.

Bottled water is a gimmick and the amount of plastic waste is insane, but, unfortunately, most of our tap water in the U.S. is fluoridated.  I buy gallon jugs of distilled or reverse osmosis water and refill them (hmmm...leaching plastic.  yum).  Fluoride from coffee shops and restaurants is hard to avoid.

I'm not here to defend McDonalds, but the speed at which food rots has absolutely nothing to do with how good or bad it is for you. Nothing whatsoever.

It's a good indication of both nutritional content and how easily the food can be digested.  When the smallest lifeforms can't find anything worth eating, I'm inclined to follow their lead.  There's something creepy about french fries that are no longer part of the food chain.  Likewise, oils hydrogenated to the point of car wax are unlikely to travel far in the ol' colon.

[RegalSin]

Bottled water

Bottled water is good for many reasons. The water that travels threw the pipes might have a certain amount of acidity  ( or was it floride ) inside of it. In villages and undeveloped areas, the water might contain micro-organisms. The flat fact is that water from natural sources will make soft bones, ( and thus damage your teeth ).

Bottled water is sappose to be free of these harmfull contaminents. If they can't get it from Antartica ( which is where they sappose to get it from ), they will get it from nearby lake sources.

However these lake sources, some of which nearby houses recieves and dumps waste in. Some sources.

As the water travels from the north pole, and empties out in the Gulf, it picks up many things.

Mineral water ( the best tasting water in my life ) will often be sweet, and is from a pump. Then of course people baths in the streams, which I do not understand why would you go camping to use soap in a stream.

About plastic bottle water. Plastics are allways moving, so reusing or using plastics is not advised. You can go and find out for yourself.

Bottled water is sappose to be in glass bottles. I forget the name of the water brand but you see it being drinked by celebraties all the time. That is the only real bottled water anybody should be drinking.

Soyilent geens are people. Natural food sources are not among technological advance societies. If so then it is a
privlage for those who work extra hard enough, just to live slightly longer.

[Tatsujin]

[Joe Redifer]

Fast food makes you shit. Enough said.

So if I don't eat any fast food, I won't ever poop?  AWESOME!

[Shrapnoid]

Careful, Ves. Being informed and trying to inform others is an honorable move but, you have to be careful how much you say and how you say it.
I've already learned that the hard way.

[HercTNT]

I live about 5 miles from a water bottling plant called Castle in the clouds. You can actually take a tour of the place and they will show you how they bottle it up. Well atleast how they do it at this place. If you check the bottles they say bottled from PWS.  Turns out PWS means Public Water Supply. Sure they filter it and all, but its coming straight from the same tap that everyone else gets their water around here. To be fair most of us were I live have wells, so maybe they do to, i have no idea.

[SignOfZeta]

True, the rate at which something rots does not mean its bad, but it does give a good indication of what it might be made of.  If the fat dont get you, the chemicals will.

http://blog.chron.com/lorensteffy/2012/01/mcdonalds-no-longer-using-pink-slime-in-burgers/

Its my understanding that honey is the only known food that never goes bad, anything else is unnatural.

My point is that the human digestive system doesn't utilize random spores from open air to break things down. Obviously McD fries have no trouble being digested by humans since the people who eat the most of them are fat as hell. If they were indigestible you'd just have diarrhea or constipation.

Regarding this thread as a whole: its good that people pay attention to what they eat, but do try to be scientifically informed. The world is full of fat vegetarians and people who's cholesterol is through the roof because they were trying to avoid carbs. Avoid fads (current examples: "gluten free", or anything that sites "glycemic index") and stick with what has always worked; balance your caloric intake with your exercise level, try to match the USRDA, eat a vitamin. The simple basic shit. You can still eat at McDonalds (if, for some f*cking reason, you actually want to) just don't day there 11 times a week.

[Burnt Lasagna]

I'm generally not that picky when comes to deciding what to eat since I run 8-10 miles every day, so any extra fat I ate I burn off in the run.
Mind you I don’t eat fast food regularly but when I do I don’t feel like a bloated sloth for having done so.