what are the health hazards of fast foods?
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fat, salt, chemicals, sugar, etc, etc, etc\n\nHeart attacks, diabetes, cancer, etc, etc, etc,\n\nYou should read these articles and what "Supersize Me".\nFast Food is a Major Public Health Hazard\n\n3 Articles\n\n1. Burgers on the brain Article - New Scientist - Diane Martindale\nSugar junkies\nWhat constitutes an addiction?\nFat facts\n\n2. Portion Distortion -- You Don't Know the Half of It - Washington Post- Shannon Brownlee\n\n3. Food and Health\nFresh is Best\nChemical Stews\nFood Poisoning\nFactory Farms and Human Health
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easiest & fastest = eat a lot of fatty foods (fast food)
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Yes, it's filled with artificial substances that are toxins, you should never eat fast food ever.
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**********************************************************\n\nChicken. People are so health conscious these days. They don't eat as much red meat. Also, fast food restaurants serve engineered chicken, but their hamburgers have less beef in them than a meatball. Most of those hamburgers are really processed soybean.\n\n***********************************************************
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Health effects\nThe major concern is that there are many sensitive land uses where people are in direct contact with soils such as residences, parks, schools and playgrounds. Other contact mechanisms include contamination of drinking water or inhalation of soil contaminants which have vaporized. There is a very large set of health consequences from exposure to soil contamination depending on pollutant type, pathway of attack and vulnerability of the exposed population. Chromium and many of the pesticide and herbicide formulations are carcinogenic to all populations. Lead is especially hazardous to young children, in which group there is a high risk of developmental damage to the brain and nervous system, while to all populations kidney damage is a risk.\n\nChronic exposure to benzene at sufficient concentrations is known to be associated with higher incidence of leukemia. Mercury and cyclodienes are known to induce higher incidences of kidney damage, some irreversible. PCBs and cyclodienes are linked to liver toxicity. Organophosphates and carbamates can induce a chain of responses leading to neuromuscular blockage. Many chlorinated solvents induce liver changes, kidney changes and depression of the central nervous system. There is an entire spectrum of further health effects such as headache, nausea, fatigue, eye irritation and skin rash for the above cited and other chemicals. Clearly at sufficient dosages a large number of soil contaminants cause death.
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Avoid all refined sugar products like candy, icecream, cookies, cake. Also stay away from too many carbs, such as white bread and rice, and pasta. Avoid high fat food like whole milk and cheese, and fried foods.
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Don't eat junk food (McDonalds, etc.) because it will poison you.  Bread and grains should work.  Also, you should exercise your legs (ride a bicycle, for example) to gain some muscles.
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not being educated enough in what you are eating. the trans fat and junk that our gov. & fda allow to be sold and called food is ridiculous. these poor kids that are huge & having health problems never got a fair chance. they get vidoe games and mcdonalds for there treat. i just got back to the states from costa rica and couldn't believe how healthy and fit the people were. no fast food restaurants anywhere i saw. they are third world and we are the educated ones? we are tricked even by the claims that the food is organic here. one small indgredient in it and they can sell it as organic. you have to almost be a nutrionist and know your supply just to be healthy. you are what you eat is still one of the truest statements.
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aspartame is carcinogenic in large quantities (like most chemically-formulated foods). its also linked to neuro-muscular problems and headaches. personally, i won't touch the stuff. i'd rather be fat than dead.
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NO. \n\n1. Secondhand smoke is DANGEROUS and the SMOKE does not know to stay out of the "non-smoking" section.\n\n2. An addictive narcotic is not added to fast food.\n\n3. Smoking does more damage than poor eating habits.\n\n4. The fast food makers did not LIE about what is in their products.
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Personal Responsibility. Do you want the government to regulate every aspect of your life? Or do you want to make your own decisions in life?\n\nSmoking may kill you, yes. But so can eating Fast-Food if you eat enough of it. Should Fast-Food be outlawed? What about prescription drugs, they can kill you.\n\nThe bottom line is, you should be able to make your own decisions. I personally do not want the government to start telling me what I can and can't to with regards to my body.
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Any fast food\nChocolate in large amounts\nFried food
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Fatty food, empty calorie junk food, processed and refined food, simple sugar, alcohol, cigarettes, etc.\n\nOne more thing you have to do is modifying your eating habit. You may ask more specific questions, there are so many rules you can follow to lead a healthy life.
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The term 'Junk food' is applied too broadly, and that is the problem with its current useage.\n\nWe should eat less processed food and more food with good quality, fresh ingredients. Foods high in sugars and fats, flavourings and colourings, and that have little nutritional value should be avoided. But even those foods can be eaten as long as they are part of a balanced diet.
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automobile, auto\ngasoline , gas\nsilverware silver\npotatoes, spuds\ninfluenza flu
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Obesity\n\nDiabetes\n\nCardiovascular disease\n\nDental Caries\n\nCancer\n\nMetabolic Syndrome\n\nADHD\n\nDepression/Affective Disorders\n\nAlzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases\n\nOsteoporosis\n\netc.  \n\nEvery chronic disease is related to poor dietary choices.  Schools should not be supporting poor health habits that cause major health problems by selling junk food.
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http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/prevent/h_eating/h_eating.htm