Why do Americans blame everything on fast food?

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Does some of this also start at the Farm with what we feed these animals? Haven't we brought unnatural changes to what these animals naturally eat versus Feed Stock?

Then down the line humans consume these animals with distorted diets.

I'd be curious how different farm raised meats are today from 50 or 100 years ago.

Its the truth. Its the neuropharmacology and biosocioeconomic. I'm sure the fast food places are not a mistake, seems the economy revolves around hospitals and money and a bunch of other stuff I do not feel like listing.

I blame the health industry which is in bed with the drug industry which is also in bed with the food industry.

poor nutrition and medications which they purposely put side effects in the medicine so you have to get more medicine to treat that symptoms. Doctors dont heal people nowdays, they are drug pushers for the drug industry.

example how this works:

eat a poor diet untill age 40
develop high blood presure
go on blood presure medicine which has side effects that effect the liver
get liver problems
go on liver medicine which leads to eye problems
get treated for glacoma
heart problem gets worse because you treated the symptom of heart disease not the source which is diet changes
diagnosed with coranary artery disease
have a triple by-pass and go on statin drugs to lower cholesterol
kidneys have trouble due to statin drugs
after a few years, go on diaylisis
liver begins to fail because of blood presure medicines
eventually the body goes into kidney and liver failure or die of a heart attack from a blocked artery that went undetected.
die at age 60

Illness is big buisness in the US....the more drugs they can give to treat the symptoms and create new symptoms to make people dependant on more drugs, the more money they make. Doctors get money from insurance companies to prescribe certain drugs...the insurance companies are in bed with drug companies which push insurance companies to favor certain drugs over others.
Insurance companies often dont pay for non-drug or non-surgery solutions to illnesss, so the patient has to either be rich to pay for other treatments out of pocket or eat a very healthy diet to avoid the medical merry-go-round.

Big cities...in the poorer areas have no grocery stores and the nearest one is often an hour bus ride away. All they have in poor areas is fast food chains and gas station type markets. This is not an accident, but has to do with zoning...which the city leaders play a role in creating urban "food deserts" in which fresh healthy food is not readily available to poor populations.
So while ppl living in the city in one of these areas may blame the fast food chains for their ill-health...it is actually city zoning.

Jojo

I know it's a decade old but I absolutely love the documentary film "Super-Size Me". Some people say it's proganda but it has a tendency to be right on the ball as far as diet and personal health in America.

In fact I'm gonna go watch it again right now.

Parents should know how to say "no" to their kids. Blaming the fast food places is kind of silly. People choose to eat at them.

true, but the modern advertiser is a psychopath with great ability to manipulate people's children in order to get to their parents.

perhaps we should be more responsible by shunning such psychopathy from society in the first place?

They serve fast food at schools. Most meals are actually fast food, some even by brand name (Papa Johns's Pizza day, etc.). The other meals are essentially the same components as kid's meals at most popular ff joints. The truck that delivers the garbage to Mickey D's makes a stop at the local schools first. It's all heat and eat. On rare occasions they'll boast about a healthy lunch day, but it's not the norm. They serve breakfast too. Mostly Toaster Strudels and Lucky Charms.

It goes a bit deeper than personal choice. With the schools, it's often a matter of budget concerns and sweet deals with processed food manufacturers. The kids' health is an after thought. It's really a shame, especially considering how many kids are on free/reduced lunch plans these days. The manufacturers are trying to get kids to grow up to be loyal customers. It's highly manipulative.

You people should follow the french diet! Bread, butter, vino and the like. XD

And let's not forget one of Québec's delicacies! (song in canadian french, not to be taken seriously!)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX7T3F9En1s[/youtube]

I don't think fast food is too blame. It mix of many thinks
Iike overeating no one should eat like it there last day of there life eeveryday. and people need be more active. I remember eating happy meal alot as a child way before they added healthy items to there menu. The resoun way I never got to be a fat child because I actively outside. And am still not fat because am active. And try to have a blanened deit.

I kind of wish I chould find a running parter my age, because almost every is out of shape