You should stop stuffing your face with fast food and eating it so much.
This is the advice everyone gives but a lot of the time, people don’t give us reasons why we should stop eating fast food.
And even if we do give reasons, are those reasons enough to make you take action?
You can’t expect anyone to act on advice unless you:
- Tell them WHY.
- And give specific reasons and risks of not doing so.
Everything after that is up to the person, but having the knowledge still matters.
Let’s talk about the specifics I feel are important enough to consider the thought of quitting fast food once and for all.
Or at least get you thinking about it.
All from my personal experience as well as the facts on the matter.
Why to stop eating fast food:
1. You can’t always trust the process
When you walk into a restaurant or a fast food restaurant (takeaway), there is no guarantee that the process they claim to follow is being followed.
I’m not being sceptical, only pointing out the truth of the matter in general.
- Are they making the food the way they say they are?
- Is the food as organic as they claim it to be?
- Are the ingredients they use truly natural?
- Is the process clean and fit for consumption?
The McDonald’s documentaries, the various other fast food documentaries, and so much more in the food industry has been revealed, exposed, analyzed, talked about, and shared too many times to not ask these questions.
Many times you find out the process is a load of bullshit and what you end up consuming is something not even a dog would dare to eat.
The bigger the fast food company, the more concerned you need to be in the 21st century.
2. You have no idea how the food has been handled
I’ve seen so many takeaways in the UK vanish and close shop because of the way the food was handled.
Or hygiene.
They were investigated and found to have mishandled the food, including:
- Rats in the kitchens.
- Not cleaning their hands and washing them before touching food.
- Handling meat and all kinds of foods without covering their hands.
And all kinds of nastiness that goes on behind closed doors with so many fast food restaurants and takeaways, mainly in the Western world.
Again, the bigger the fast food business, the more concerned you have to be because of the potential for abuse.
In smaller fast food shops you can see everything clearly as far as what’s going on, but then the food itself is no good anyway.
3. Many of the seed oils can cripple you from the inside out
https://www.zeroacre.com/blog/are-seed-oils-toxic
I’ve had heart problems and that’s clear to anyone who reads this site, but I noticed whenever I ate fast food that was deep-fried in oil, I’d have an episode the same night without fail.
It could also be the severe amount of table salt in these foods on top of the oils and even MSG, but the oil is a big component and one I’ve tested like a mad scientist to see how it affects me.
Besides, eating that much food with seed oils means you’re having too much Omega 6 and not enough Omega 3, throwing off the balance and eventually leading to inflammation in the body.
Including heart problems and more.
This is proven as well, it’s not hearsay.
Also, the process of cooking oil is the real problem as opposed to just pouring it onto food, which is how Olive Oil as one example is meant to be used.
4. It turns you into a lazy b*stard
Fast food takeaways and restaurants have made society become lazier and lazier ever since they were introduced, distributed, and marketed to the so-called “modern” world.
This has led to people becoming:
- Fatter.
- Obese.
- Unhealthy.
- Sick.
- Diabetic.
- Insulin problems.
- Heart attacks.
- Blood clots.
And a long list of health problems that have cropped up in the many decades that have followed.
Being a lazy bastard is a direct result of the convenience that fast food brings.
- You sit on your fat ass ordering fast food.
- You do it through an app.
- Within 60 minutes it’s delivered to your door.
- You then sit on your ass again eating the thing until it’s all gobbled up.
- And you repeat the process.
This means you end up doing less exercise, less walking, and you move a lot less making your body weaker since you’re less mobile.
On top of the fact that you’re eating shit as it is, which only adds to the problem until it spills over into something you regret.
I did it, too during the pandemic. I gained a fuck load of weight, but then enough was enough and I burned it all off again and cut it down.
5. It’s called fast food, not “good” food
Almost anything in this world that is made FAST and furiously turns out to be:
- Bad.
- Mediocre in quality.
- Average.
- Below average.
Or outright terrible.
Whether it be the laptop you use to write articles, the tablet you use for YouTube, the house you live in, the business you built, or the reputation you’ve earned.
It all happens with time, effort, hard work, and attention.
It’s hard to do any of that with fast food because it’s fast, with quality taking a back seat as if it doesn’t matter much.
That’s why, for example, restaurants don’t use Olive oil, Ghee, or Coconut oil (unless they’re a genuinely good restaurant) because other oils like Sunflower, Canola, Soy, etc, are so much cheaper to use.
Especially if the oil in question is one that’s mixed with many to bring down the price at the expense of quality.
Something has to give, and quality is the thing that’s sacrificed for speed, and that’s doing more harm than good every day to a lot of people.
6. Dependency can be dangerous and it has been proven
The pandemic proved this already. Remember in 2020 when the pandemic started, and everyone in the Western world was going ballistic over toilet paper?
I shook my head as I noticed another woman laughing at the LACK of toilet paper on the aisle, and I laughed as well.
But back to the point.
Takeaways and fast food also became so important to people during the pandemic (even when the food wasn’t scarce) that it made me realize what a somewhat dangerous position it was to be in.
Especially if you’re thinking about your health and the food you’re eating as well as the potential effects it’s having on you which in a time like that you had no control over.
How many people have developed conditions as a result of all that garbage they ate during the pandemic? Food they may have believed they “had” to buy and had no other choice?
This becomes irrelevant when you have the power to take things into your own hands.
This leads to the next point.
7. Nothing beats home-cooked food for a few reasons
When you cook food from home whether it’s just you or it’s your family, parents, wife, or whatever, you can’t beat the benefits of doing so.
You don’t have to be the greatest cook of all time for it to matter.
What actually matters is:
- You decide what goes into your plate.
- You know WHAT you’re eating.
- You can evaluate the ingredients on the back of the pack if needed.
- You know how much salt, sugar, etc, you’re using.
- You’re aware of how it was made, and all the other intricate details.
- You know the process and can trust the results.
That’s hard to do when you aggressively rely on fast food and take it out to put food in your belly, without knowing the damaging effects it can have or knowing what or how that food may have been handled.
More so if you’re ordering from Uber Eats or the equivalent on a regular basis.
8. Convenience doesn’t mean better
This is a follow-up to the last points.
Convenience makes people lazy, entitled, and overweight in a lot of cases. Or just unhealthy because of what it does to your body as it atrophies.
Convenience should be mixed with practicality. For example, a smartphone lets you use Google to find information that would otherwise take forever if you went to a Library.
That’s convenient and practical.
Ordering food that arrives in 30 minutes while you sit on your ass is convenient but NOT practical because of the bad habits it leads to.
Neither is going through a McDonald’s drive-thru to eat chips and burgers that are made of plastic or who knows what, only to be using the toilet hours later to drop a bomb that smells like a sewer.
It’s not good, and while we’re on the topic, bad smells are a sign of bad food that went from a convenience to an inconvenience. Even if it’s “just” an incompatibility issue.
Ironic.
It’s just another reason to eat LESS fast food or none at all.
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