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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
With obesity rates rising and fast food chains profiting, Dr Nick Knight looks at what all of this fast food is really doing to our bodies.
I try to hasten my pace past the neon-glow of the user-friendly menu, but the aroma has already conga-lined up my nose and trapped me. The environment screams innocence and ease, with its doors wide open and welcoming, like a hippopotamus lying in wait. I go in, order, and consume my burger and fries within 60 seconds of pure sensory joy – followed, by half an hour of indigestion.
Fast food is anchored firmly in our fast-paced world, providing us with the food aligned to the modus operandi for modern living - quick, easy and cheap. The effects on your body, however, are not as innocent.
Now we all know that fast food is tasty because it is packed with sugars and fats. It is also apparent that sugar is currently monopolising the limelight, with media and health groups holding their pitch forks aloft, and burning effigies of sugar cubes at dawn, calling for ‘sugar taxes’ and reform. With this in mind, I am going to focus my article on the saturated and trans-fats lurking in our fast food, and provide a snapshot of their unscrupulous activity in your body.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-fat-sugar-and-salt-in-your-diet-9668430.html
I try to hasten my pace past the neon-glow of the user-friendly menu, but the aroma has already conga-lined up my nose and trapped me. The environment screams innocence and ease, with its doors wide open and welcoming, like a hippopotamus lying in wait. I go in, order, and consume my burger and fries within 60 seconds of pure sensory joy – followed, by half an hour of indigestion.
Fast food is anchored firmly in our fast-paced world, providing us with the food aligned to the modus operandi for modern living - quick, easy and cheap. The effects on your body, however, are not as innocent.
Now we all know that fast food is tasty because it is packed with sugars and fats. It is also apparent that sugar is currently monopolising the limelight, with media and health groups holding their pitch forks aloft, and burning effigies of sugar cubes at dawn, calling for ‘sugar taxes’ and reform. With this in mind, I am going to focus my article on the saturated and trans-fats lurking in our fast food, and provide a snapshot of their unscrupulous activity in your body.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-fat-sugar-and-salt-in-your-diet-9668430.html