fast food unhealthy?
This will stretch the limits of your credulity, I know, but check out the following headline and blurb from MSNBC.com:
Study says eating fast food makes you fat
Eating lots of fast food can make you fat and increase your chance of developing diabetes, a new study finds.
Shocked, shocked, I am.
Here’s the second paragraph:
"A study published in the Lancet medical journal this week found those who frequently ate fast food gained 10 pounds more than those who did so less often, and were more than twice as likely to develop an insulin disorder linked to diabetes."
It’s nice to know that what we already knew has been verified.
The appeal of fast food, of course, is its, well, fastness. You’re starving, you’re in the car on the way to somewhere, you didn’t eat at home because there was nothing decent in the refrigerator and you didn’t have time anyway. So you end up going through the drive-through.
Fitness-obsessed people who consistently eat well cultivate the habit of preparing food in advance–using their day off to cook and to prepare vegetables and salads, then carrying around their supplies in a cooler. I aspire to this but haven’t gotten beyond lurching through the day, grabbing the least-offensive thing available to eat and hoping for the best. There is plenty of room for me to improve. Plenty.
