Many American adults live a busy life; therefore they can’t exercise, or eat a healthy home cooked meal. So, in turn, they have to eat fast food but not all fast food is bad. Many places have now gone to a menu that provides anyone with a choice. This leaves it up to the person to choose between good and bad. Where, once again, you can see the individual deciding where they stand during choice of food. They could choose a nice crisp salad or grilled chicken, rather than the greasy, fattening hamburger and fries. One doesn’t have to get the extra fries and pop that come with super-sizing the meal. “Basically, using fast food for fitness is simply a matter of making the right decisions, and to do that, you need the proper knowledge…
However, before we get started, I need to warn you that when you pull up to the drive-thru at some of these fast-food joints, you might have a moment of "weakness" and decide to just "go for it." You might think you can get away with eating some French fries, a burger, or something that's not on the "approved" list. If you really, really want to do that, go ahead, but think about it first. Remember this—nothing tastes as good as being in great shape feels” (Victoria Johnson, nutritionist).
Recent court cases have proven that gluttonous Americans, like in the trial against McDonald’s, eat to get fat and then try to make a profit off of it. “Three teenagers in New York City have filed a class-action lawsuit against McDonald's Corp., saying the fast food chain's food caused them to gain as much as 200 pounds and develop serious health problems including heart disease and diabetes.
The teenagers, whose ages range between 13 and 19, say in court papers that McDonald's inaccurately posted nutritional information and deceptively advertised its products. They also say the restaurant chain used marketing practices such as toy and value meal promotions to entice its patrons to eat the food” (Washington Times, Ellen Sorokin).
I feel all this talk about fast food being bad for you is in the eyes of the beholder-meaning if a person eats a cheesy, greasy burger from Burger King or McDonald’s , then yes fast food is bad for you. Conversely, if the person really wants to be thin then he/she will pay the extra money for a chicken sandwich; instead of complaining that they are obese and have diabetes because they didn’t want to spend more money. In retrospect they will be paying for that burger for the rest of their lives via diabetes and obesity.
