Yet another example of the “anti-aging” problem with McDonald’s food.  These images are normally accompanied by conjectures into the disgust that even microbes find for fast food.   The bottom line with these types of foods is that it should be a major red flag to people that this is not food.  The suggestions to “eat everything in moderation”, “count calories”, and “eat low-fat” can all be thrown out the window when it comes to this garbage produced by our “food system” nowadays.  There’s no excuse for the way that we perceive food.  Snap out of it. I’m not talking just about McDonald’s.  We need a major paradigm shift in our conceptualization of food. The relationship between people and food has been in a constant state of decay for centuries.  And now we’re paying for it.  Starvation works for weight loss, of course.  Eating in moderation - regardless of the content - will probably keep you feeling pretty well for a few decades.  But, what “healthy really” boils down to is the quality of the food that is going into your body. The fact that people think you look fat can be damaging to your ego, and the quick fix is to stop eating and work your ass off in the gym.  Let’s clarify a few things.  As the Biggest Loser and this guy (to name a few) have shown us, living at a dangerously negative caloric balance will lead to weight loss.  As the movie Fat Head showed us, you can still lose weight eating fast food every day.  Lifting weights and running marathons to spike your BMR so that you can eat whatever you want without gaining weight will probably keep you looking lean.  You can take advantage of your slim-for-life genes by eat crap all day without gaining weight while gloating at the frustration of your exercise-obsessed roommate.   But at what price?  Our food system is littered with chemicals, preservatives, toxins, and fat-inducing macronutrient compositions…and the only thing that matters when it comes to diet is how little of this junk you are putting into your bodies.   Analyze diets until you pass out (figure of speech), and you’ll discover that, at the end of the day, diets like the Paleo diet work because they promote basic principles: eat a lack of plant matter, eat animals/animal products that were raised as their evolutionary biology intended (grass-fed, free-range, antibiotic free, hormone-free, wild-caught, all-natural, pesticide-free, preservative-free, etc.), and don’t eat foods that require processing of any kind.  It’s like eating the infamous “raw food diet”, except you are also eating things that have a face (Australopithecus afarensis, aka “Lucy”, the earliest human ancestor, ate meat around 3.2 million years ago…get over it) If you aren’t eating as freshly and locally as possible, then you aren’t giving your body what it needs to thrive.  If we continue on this path of self-destruction, we’re all going to end up sick in the end, our health care system is going to become even more overwhelmed by fat, sick, and morbid people, and we’re all going to shrug our shoulders looking to the experts for an answer to our cries.   This comes down to the very core of our survival.  If you insist on eating the crap that you see in this picture, even “in moderation”, you are putting poison into your body. We get upset when a study comes out showing that flouride levels in our drinking water are potentially linked to bone disorders.  We buy carbon monoxide detectors to ensure that we’re not breathing CO.  Clearly, we want remain healthy in our lives, yet there seems to be some disconnect between food and “food”.  Though there have been plenty, no clinical study really needs to be done to show the effects of eating chemically-processed meat and oils increase mortality.  Just stop eating crap.  If there’s even an inkling of doubt regarding a spoonful of anything that is heading towards your mouth, err on the side of caution and don’t eat it.   EDIT (1/29/2012): http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html?ref=obinsite  (Somebody did their own research regarding the rate of decomposition of fast food)
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Yet another example of the “anti-aging” problem with McDonald’s food.  These images are normally accompanied by conjectures into the disgust that even microbes find for fast food.  

The bottom line with these types of foods is that it should be a major red flag to people that this is not food.  The suggestions to “eat everything in moderation”, “count calories”, and “eat low-fat” can all be thrown out the window when it comes to this garbage produced by our “food system” nowadays.  There’s no excuse for the way that we perceive food.  Snap out of it.

I’m not talking just about McDonald’s.  We need a major paradigm shift in our conceptualization of food. The relationship between people and food has been in a constant state of decay for centuries.  And now we’re paying for it.  Starvation works for weight loss, of course.  Eating in moderation - regardless of the content - will probably keep you feeling pretty well for a few decades.  But, what “healthy really” boils down to is the quality of the food that is going into your body.

The fact that people think you look fat can be damaging to your ego, and the quick fix is to stop eating and work your ass off in the gym.  Let’s clarify a few things.  As the Biggest Loser and this guy (to name a few) have shown us, living at a dangerously negative caloric balance will lead to weight loss.  As the movie Fat Head showed us, you can still lose weight eating fast food every day.  Lifting weights and running marathons to spike your BMR so that you can eat whatever you want without gaining weight will probably keep you looking lean.  You can take advantage of your slim-for-life genes by eat crap all day without gaining weight while gloating at the frustration of your exercise-obsessed roommate.  

But at what price? 

Our food system is littered with chemicals, preservatives, toxins, and fat-inducing macronutrient compositions…and the only thing that matters when it comes to diet is how little of this junk you are putting into your bodies.  

Analyze diets until you pass out (figure of speech), and you’ll discover that, at the end of the day, diets like the Paleo diet work because they promote basic principles: eat a lack of plant matter, eat animals/animal products that were raised as their evolutionary biology intended (grass-fed, free-range, antibiotic free, hormone-free, wild-caught, all-natural, pesticide-free, preservative-free, etc.), and don’t eat foods that require processing of any kind.  It’s like eating the infamous “raw food diet”, except you are also eating things that have a face (Australopithecus afarensis, aka “Lucy”, the earliest human ancestor, ate meat around 3.2 million years ago…get over it)

If you aren’t eating as freshly and locally as possible, then you aren’t giving your body what it needs to thrive.  If we continue on this path of self-destruction, we’re all going to end up sick in the end, our health care system is going to become even more overwhelmed by fat, sick, and morbid people, and we’re all going to shrug our shoulders looking to the experts for an answer to our cries.  

This comes down to the very core of our survival.  If you insist on eating the crap that you see in this picture, even “in moderation”, you are putting poison into your body. We get upset when a study comes out showing that flouride levels in our drinking water are potentially linked to bone disorders.  We buy carbon monoxide detectors to ensure that we’re not breathing CO.  Clearly, we want remain healthy in our lives, yet there seems to be some disconnect between food and “food”.  Though there have been plenty, no clinical study really needs to be done to show the effects of eating chemically-processed meat and oils increase mortality.  Just stop eating crap.  If there’s even an inkling of doubt regarding a spoonful of anything that is heading towards your mouth, err on the side of caution and don’t eat it.  

EDIT (1/29/2012): http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html?ref=obinsite  (Somebody did their own research regarding the rate of decomposition of fast food)