Fast Food

Do you eat fast-food?

We're especially constituted to like that caloric combination-even though it leads to weight gain, clogged arteries and heart attack, high blood pressure, diabetes- because for most of humans history, calories were scare and we became attuned to enjoying then wherever we found them.
Despite the riches of such foods, consumers don't reduce portion sizes, so they often take in twice as many calories in a sitting as the body needs. Enter obesity.

Fast foodies also consume more sweetened beverage and less milk, less fiber, and fewer fruits and vegetables than is recommended. Most ingredients that end up in fast food are product of factory farms and are highly processes, grown with high levels of pesticides, but providing fewer nutrients. More than a quarter of Americans depend on fast food, and over 30% of people consume some fast food on any given day.

The data doesn't even hint at larger issue: the behavioral impact fast food has on us- whether we eat fast food or not. And the effects go far beyond nutrition and health. Here's the kicker- you don't have to consume fast food to be the target of some its most insidious effects.

Incidental and unconscious exposure to the fast-food symbols that are all around us make people feel time-stressed and impatient in settings far outside the eating domain.

Just a glimpse of the golden arches changes our psychology so that people become impatient about financial decision- they wind up unwilling to postpone immediate gain for future rewards, so they sacrifice savings, against their own economic interest.

It represent a culture that emphasizes time efficiency and immediate gratification.

Today's Wisdom:

"The implicit idea of fast food is to satiate yourself as quickly as possible"

Love Always Anna Anka