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post #31 of 170
4/9/10 at 6:52am
The hospitals and the health insurance companies love these fast food joints...if you catch my drift. The more sick, the better.
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post #32 of 170
4/9/10 at 6:53am
It's ok, I'll just have a diet coke to balance it out
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post #33 of 170
4/9/10 at 6:54am
Food addiction is a multi billion dollar industry, not just for food industry.

Just sayin..
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post #34 of 170
4/9/10 at 7:20am
I wish we had that here. that would be great if it were a little spicy
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post #35 of 170
4/9/10 at 7:43am
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Originally Posted by Foshizzle View Post
It's ok, I'll just have a diet coke to balance it out
Not really. lol
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post #36 of 170
4/9/10 at 8:28am
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Originally Posted by fenixdown110 View Post
Not really. lol
I was being ironic
That seems to be the american way, you can stuff your face as long as you get a diet coke.
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post #37 of 170
4/9/10 at 9:07am
Diet water is better. Add a nice apple and you're done...
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post #38 of 170
4/9/10 at 10:18am
is this thread supposed to stop people from eating this?
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post #39 of 170
4/9/10 at 10:26am
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Originally Posted by nycdoi View Post
is this thread supposed to stop people from eating this?
It's not going to stop me. You can eat anything as long as it's in moderation.
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post #40 of 170
4/9/10 at 10:46am
Define moderate...

Seriously, people think it's all ok long as you're not tons overweight..but it's really not..
It's everybodies freedom to ruin their body most would argue, but people should at least inform themselves and be more thoughtful what to serve to the kids..
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post #41 of 170
4/9/10 at 10:56am
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Originally Posted by Superpredator View Post
Not exactly. It's a highly processed food that tastes like it does because of flavor additives. A re-flavored food-like substance, if you will. A lot of fast food items are far more like soylent green than the actual food they're substitutions for. The backyard tomato that tastes amazing is more nutritious than a supermarket tomato--our taste buds are actually looking out for us, and there's an entire industry dedicated to fooling our senses into thinking we're eating something real when we really aren't. It's not all about calories, fat, and sodium.

POV - Food, Inc. . Eric Schlosser's <em>Fast Food Nation</em>: Why the Fries Taste Good (Excerpt) | PBS



Oh and this isn't completely nonsensical. Thanks to epigenetics, your terrible diet could affect your children and their progeny and so on. I don't mean you specifically. I don't know what you eat.

1) Your source (or link you listed above) disproves your statement so I'd either remove the link or use a different one.

2) Any and all dietary effects on an individual's "Productive" cells, in other words cells that will lead to children (the ones in your balls/ovaries), are unaffected by what you eat, or if they are affected by what you eat the effect could very easily be different from say "I love burgers so my kids will love burgers too"

3) Epigenetics refers to the difference of gene expression (Assuming #2 does not occur so same DNA sequence) of the particular individual's genes. This once again is in no way specific to tastes or what you eat -it goes along with what your kids eat and what your kid's kids will eat. If you argue that kids eat what parents eat, there are enough counter examples (kids that don't agree with their parents) to show you that this simply isn't the case.

And to be blunt, this is nonsensical because if you can find food without chemicals in it, you should write a paper, document it, put it in the museum and get the nobel prize for finding the greatest thing on earth.....
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post #42 of 170
4/9/10 at 11:11am
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Originally Posted by Quinto View Post
Define moderate...
For me it's once every 2 or 3 weeks . I usually eat home cooked healthy foods, but every once in a while I have to satisfy my craving for junk food.
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post #43 of 170
4/9/10 at 11:30am
Cool Glenn, sounds moderate to me ..

I stopped eating junkfood (as moderate as you) when I stopped smoking years ago..
It's like smoking really, if you stop for a year it's starts to stink
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post #44 of 170
4/9/10 at 11:54am
its things like this that make a friend of mine like holidaying in the US

hes a rather fat chappy and the US is the only place he feels slim in comparison
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post #45 of 170
4/9/10 at 11:58am
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Originally Posted by Quinto View Post
Cool Glenn, sounds moderate to me ..

I stopped eating junkfood (as moderate as you) when I stopped smoking years ago..
It's like smoking really, if you stop for a year it's starts to stink

Congrats on quitting smoking. I've always hated cigarette smoke. It took my mother's life Christmas Day in 1997 so it's a personal thing for me. When I see a young kid smoking, it really pisses me off. Of course I don't say anything, but it just rubs me the wrong way.
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