Salt and Society

Will less salt in New York City lead a revolution that could affect the obesity population around the country?  Some New York City and national health officials believe that it in fact will.  Various government and city agencies, most importantly the Food and Drug Administration and the Institute of Medicine, think that regulating the amount of salt that packaged food, fast food and sit down restaurants can serve in their products and dishes will help increase wellness throughout the country.

The Institute of Medicine thinks that packaged food, fast food and sit-down restaurants are putting their customers at risk of causing elevated blood pressure and heart disease.  The high sodium levels in most of their dishes are causing these effects to occur.  According to the Institute of Medicine an average American should consume 2,300 milligrams of sodium or 1.5 teaspoons per day.  The Institute estimates that Americans are consuming 3,400 milligrams of sodium or 1 teaspoon per day.  This large sodium intake causes heightened blood pressure, which in result causes heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure and kidney disease.

Although the Institute of Medicine is leading the charge of passing legislation forcing the sodium levels in the food industry to be lowered, the FDA and White House are coming from a more moderate standpoint.  They are asking packaged food companies, fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants to voluntarily decrease the amount of sodium in their products by 25% over the next five years.  This poses a difficult issue for the creators of these food products.  The lack of salt causes a lack of flavoring, which means there is a need for a flavor substitute.  That is where the more interesting question of cause and effect comes into play.

Are people going to put salt on food themselves either at home or at the restaurant because the food tastes a little bit different with the lessened sodium levels or will the food manufacturers find a healthier and more comparable flavoring.  Food trends have shown favorability to spicier dishes.  As the older generation of Americans begins to lose the ability to taste flavor, they have turned towards using a spicy alternative.  Recent increased popularity of Tapatio is one of those indicators of the growing spice trend.  A new market of flavor alternatives will begin to grow and it should be interesting to see who will enter into that market.

The National Restaurant Association is obviously not going to give up without a fight and is trying to lobby against this salt regulation.   In the end it seems as if everyone will be jumping on board in the coming years.  Will the salt industry be able to adjust and utilize other resources to help stay afloat or is the contraction of the market going to drive up competition, lower prices and put people out of business?  Only time will tell, but everyone should stay tuned to more regulations of certain nutritional levels in food. 

The education of our society on leading a healthy lifestyle has been stagnant and it really comes down to self-control.  There seems to be a strong correlation between the fast food and the cigarette industry.  Americans did not stop smoking drastically until they truly understood how bad it is for you.  With the increase of wellness movements Americans are starting to understand the importance of eating healthy, but that movement is not near completion.  The national cigarette tax and anti-smoking campaigns are sometimes not enough to deter people from smoking.  That group of people is a minority of course, but still provides an important lesson for the obese population.  We must understand that there are some Americans without self-control and are allowed to continue on their personal pursuit of happiness even if they are eating themselves to death.  Look at this dilemma from a pure economic standpoint: increasing tax on unhealthy food, regulation of nutritional levels and strong pro-health lifestyle campaigns might be the answer to this predicament.  Hey it worked for the cigarette smoking population!

KFC Double Down Review

I walked into my local KFC chain food restaurant looking for a good fulfilling meal.  I was romanced by the recent Double Down television commercials and couldn’t resist to have a taste.  The Double Down is bascially a sandwich without any bread.  It is two pieces of bacon and two pieces of melted monterey jack cheese wrapped in two thick and juicy boneless white chicken filets.  Yes, there is absolutely no bread.  The nutritional facts for the Double Down is 540 calories, 32 grams of fat and 1380 milligrams of sodium.  Except for the calories these are all almost normal daily doses of fat and sodium.  The sad thing about marketing is that all of those staggeringly unhealthy facts go out the window once you see that extremely inviting commercial.  Consumers eating at a fastfood restaurant especially KFC are not trying to have a healthy meal, so critiquing people for overlooking those health statistics is a little bit of a waste of time.  Maybe people believe since it is chicken, so then it must be heatlhy?  The jury is still out about why the Double Down phenomenon is continuing to sweep our ariwaves, but I will try to get to the bottom of it as you keep reading.

                

             I walked into the local KFC and immediately was confronted with the overwhelming print adds trying to push their Double Down sandwich.  There was a standup cardboard cutout of the sandwich and posters plastered on the walls of the restaurant.  I reached the front of the line and instantly the KFC employee asked if I would like to try out the Double Down and I responded, “That’s why I came here.”  I got the Double Down sandwich fried because it is indeed Kentucky Fried Chicken, also I got all the fixings on the sandwich as well.  This includes everything listed above.  I received my order and sat down with a coke at one of the red booths in the corner of the restaurant.  I waited for my date to get her food and then dug in.  I only got the sandwich because I wanted to get the full effect of the Double Down.  I am not going to lie the sandwich was pretty tasty, but I could not bring myself to finish the entire thing.  After getting through half of the sandwich the cheese and bacon just sat way too heavy in my stomach.  Even though it was good, I would never order the sandwich again.  I left the KFC feeling a little queasy, but was able to make it home.

                

             The entire experience was a total marketing plow.  It follows trends like the Black Taco at Taco Bell or Shrimp Fajitas at Del Taco.  How good can unfresh Shrimp be at a fastfood Mexican restaurant.  The products don’t stay in the store for too long because they are only a fad for the consumer.  It is such a strange idea to have a sandwich without any bread, but the gimick was able to work on me and probably thousands of others.   The Double Down is almost like a challenge for people to conquer.  It reminds me of getting your picture on the wall at the famous burrito house or hot wing joint.  It becomes a bragging point amongst friends.  The Double Down like other gimicky fast food trends like the Black Taco or Shrimp Fajitas still can find a place within our fast food culture.  It is what continues to make us stay interested in the latest and greatest even if it is the most unhealthy.  Stay away from the Double Down if you can resist, but I won’t blame you if you try it.

You Are What You Eat?

So much of the American culture is a melting pot of so many others.  But some people still believe that we are more like a salad than a melting pot.  All of the different cultures stick out amongst the lettuce rather than cohesively mixing together to create a tasty stew.  I am a little bit more optimistic with regards to how our society acts as a whole.  I believe that we were once a salad, but now slowly moving towards a stew.  Enough with the drastic thematic buildup, but truly food is such an important aspect of identity and culture.

People really allow the food that they consume express who they are as a person.  Whether it be a health nut only consuming organic and locally grown items or a traditional Vietnamese household only preparing meals like Canh soup from their native homeland.  These well prepared dishes have the qualities of nourishment and are based on food that we can actually identify.  Should people really be eating food with contents like maltodextrin, calcium caseinate, lactalbumin or simplesse?  I think maybe a good rule to follow is that you should not eat anything unless you know what is actually in it.  The food companies are dictating what we as the customer are eating rather than us expressing to them the type of product that should be put onto the shelves. 

These highly processed food items represent the instant gratification that our society yearns for.  Our consumption expresses who we are, but does that expression line up with who we want to be.  Our culture is such that we have so many different food genres that cover such a diverse and broad spectrum.  Which is very obvious when compared to any other countries eating habits.  When people list off when they want to eat out as almost a 10^th grade geography review.  Do you feel like Mexican or Chinese?  Should all of these different food genres be made so readily available?  This confusion of identity plays into the lack of knowledge our society has with regards to living and eating a healthy diet.

So to get to the root of the problem, maybe we should explore the reason behind America’s lack of a food identity.  When we think about different countries, we closely associate what those citizens eat with that particular nations identity.  Italy : Sphaghetti, Japan : Sushi, Mexico : Tacos, Greece : Gyros…And the list can go on and on.  When people think of America, they assume that we eat burgers, fries and shakes.  Our culture, looking from the outside in, is being connotated with obesity, unhealthyness and worst of all grease.  Maybe we should learn from those around us and take in the opinions of people who live longer, healthier and with less disease.

Our lack of identity as a whole is what is causing us as a nation to be confused about what we should and should not be eating.  If we are what we eat, then we are made up of a whole bunch of different types of food, some good and some bad.

Social Bookmarking Soulmates Profile Blog

Let me preface this profile with the fact that there are not too many people who are writing extensively on my topic of, fast food society and health, with the type of balance that I am looking for, both humorous and educational.  This is the same balance that I am trying to attain within my own blog and is the same type of balance that I would like to find with my bookmarking soulmate.  Although as males, which I am, we are taught always to go for the best, most attractive looking girl or in this case the best soulmate bookmarking match.  I of course am not able to find the soulmate that is so stunning that I instantly know that they are the one, so I must settle.  Caseyhovsepian, Casey for short, is definitely not the worst looking girl at the party, but would not be the first one that I would want to go home with either.  

The delicious user is definitely trying to push their agenda, which has something to do with the blog title Slow Fast Food (which you are able to check out yourself).  This comes across very apparent when looking at the amount of tagging that is done and what specific tags are used.  The article selection is very wide reaching and touches on many different topics that are very relevant to the topic that I am blogging about.  But time and again Casey only uses three distinct tags: Antioxidants, F&N and Slow Food.  This is what leads me to believe that they really are pushing the exposure of Slow Food.  They really want that name and blog to get out there. 

Some more basic stats include, Casey having a good amount of bookmarks with twenty one.  This leads me to believe that Casey is also relatively new to the delicious website.  They provide a great framework of institutional studies as well as opinion pieces of fast food and eating trends in general.  Those bookmarks that he himself has added to his profile are also highly bookmarked as well.  They are greatly followed by many other people, which only reaffirms the fact that he definitely has a great idea of what type of information is out there.  Casey also doesn’t over indulge on the tagging of relevant pages; he usually tags on a weekly basis.  This is both good as well as bad.   My bookmarking soulmate is not going to be an rss feed type of person.  At the same time, when Casey does make a new bookmark, I know that he has done the research behind that particular blog, so it is definitely not a waste of time to check out.

The best part about Casey’s bookmark page is how he has organized the tags of the different sites that he is currently following.  I do not feel as though I need to read into each site in order to catch the jist of what that site in particular is trying to put together.   This is what led me to two great blogs discussing relevant topics of what I am writing on.  The first one is the “11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating”, this gives a very concise and interesting look into common foods that are maybe not considered to be great healthy meals.  This is also the first part of the balance, humorous and interesting, that I would like to achieve in my blog.  Sites like “Food Insight: Your Nutrition and Food Safety Resource” are the second part of the balance, factual and educational.  This site is great about educating specific eating trends to follow as well as avoid.  And brings the concrete base to all of the topics I will be discussing in my blog.

My bookmarking soulmate is not that bad and I should probably appreciate them a little bit more than what I let on at the initial introduction.  Although they are selfishly trying to push their personal agenda, which a lot of people try and do in this type of a relationship, they are also providing the care and need to really get me started.  I should be more appreciative and a little less demanding.

Trifecta of Updated Posts

1 - Hello World Post

This is the first entry of my blog, which is going to try and explore different topics regarding American society and our strange, yet intimate relationship with fast food.  Some of the main themes that I will try and get to the bottom of include: how much fast food we eat, how cheaply priced it is, how often and how late we eat it.  I will get to the truth behind the perplexing myths as why McDonald's has the tagline of the Golden Arches or is Chinese food, via Panda Express, really authentic chinese food.  I would like to also explore how we perceive ourselves consuming fast food as a society as well as how the world outside of the United States perceives how we consume it.

Does “healthy” fast food, Quiznos, Subway or Togos, really exist?  I will try and get behind the calories and the processed meat to find the real secret of the Jared Subway Diet and the national phenomenon, Five Dollar Footlong.  Can healthy and cheap really work as a strong duo when it comes to the livelihood of our society?  Or are these inversely related qualities that corporate America is trying to push in order to create another business segment in the fast food industry?  The relationship between, health and fast food, captivates the growing popularity of living a longer and more “healthy” lifestyle.  This correlation can go one step further, in that our own society has the highest obesity per capita as well as having arguably the most healthy fast food brands in the world.

Another interesting segway can be found in the large amount of thorough research done to clearly layout the repercussions of eating a fast food stapled diet.  Even though that these studies and statistics are so overwhelmingly anti-fast food, this diet and lifestyle choice continues to plague so many people’s lives.  Diabetes, obesity, heart attack, heart failure and clogged arteries still do not deter us from eating our unhealthy late night meals.  A lot of similarities can be found with the smoking phenomenon and the fast food phenomenon.  The devastatingly negative advertisements our government does against the smoking industry are still so prevalent and yet with this extensive public knowledge people continue to smoke.  It has become a conscious destruction of the health of a nation.

Why does our society continue to believe that having low calories or 0 grams of trans fat is even good for you?  Should this be more of a cry for help to push towards educating our country about what is actually healthy? What should or shouldn’t you eat?  Or do we have to hire a dietician?  Or an obesity specialist?  Or purchase some expensive health diet book?

Those are just a few of the questions and the themes that I have begun and will continue to explore as I wander down this drive thru path of fast food.  I will hopefully be able answer some of them and I am sure I will be confronted with a lot more.     

Signing Off,

Ronald McDizzle

2 - Social Profiling of Feel Good Fast Food

If you guys have thoroughly enjoyed the subject matter of my blogging site, I have a great recommendation of one that you should also check out.  The name of the blog is Feel Good Fast Food.  Although there are some similar themes between the two, Feel Good Fast Food, also known as FGFF, is a great stop for all things related to debunking such eating myths as: how to stop cravings, curbing appetites and reversing the want for the unhealthy fast food that our society constantly consumes. 

Michelle, the main blogger on the site, does weekly posts linking and then analyzing many studies that are conducted by national health organizations as well as large food outlets.  It is difficult to gauge how popular the blog is because Michelle does not have a hit counter nor does she have a profile on Technorati, but nonetheless she brings together a lot of great information to one site. 

She has a great scope with regards to her blog; she does great analyses on simple stories like what are the healthiest foods to eat at Thanksgiving dinner to much more complex issues as our obesity epidemic in America.  Michelle does all of this in a very tongue and cheek way, which is evident in her expose of the ten most healthy fast food restaurants.  As I mentioned before Michelle gives great links to other health conscious websites such as Calorie King, Two Foods and Good Food Near You.

FGFF really relates well to one of the main themes that I am trying to explore in my blog.  The health aspect in fast food is a huge revenue and industry driver.  And in order to explore those topics in depth I will need many different jumping off points including the one that Michelle provides in her blog.  Just to plug her blog a little bit more, I will mention some of her discussed subject matter: what is real healthy fast food and what is the worst type of fast food to eat. 

The strongest aspect of her posts is that within each one she references another blog that she got some amount of scientific or studied information.  That amount of reference and detail allows for larger themes to be more widely explored.  The power of the inserted link plays to the audience of the Average Joe seeker of healthy fast food knowledge.  You do not need to have studied nutrition in college to follow her blogs, but she does have some posts that go a little bit deeper and are perfect for those a little bit above the rank of “common man”.   

Michelle and FGFF present a great starting and reference point for the type of puzzling information that I would like to unravel in my blog, the relationship between health and fast food.  “Feel Good Fast Food” will offer a lot of balanced opinions and themes that both are challenging, but also at the same time can be very simple and effective.  That is the same balance that I hope to strike. 

Out,

RMcD

3 - Voice of a Fast Food Nation

I have to hand it to Fancy Fast Food; they really know how to expose the BS of the Fast Food Industry in both an obvious and interesting way.  The blog plays to a common experience that all consumers can relate to when ordering at a fast food restaurant.  Everyone has driven up to that ordering call box in the drive-thru.  We all have scanned the different meal numbers up on the plastic menu board and stared at what we think is a promise of a large, juicy burger, fries and refreshing drink.  And it seems that we as consumers get romanced with lines like “the freshest ingredients” and “100% Black Angus beef patty”, which are plastered on the menu board as well.  Yet every time we open that colorful, paper bag, the same sigh of disappointment is expressed.  What we thought we were getting never seems to match the same dehydrated version of the menu board picture we actually get.  This is where Fancy Fast Food comes in.

"Carefully cut the breading off of the fish — but don’t throw the breading out, since we’re going to use it later. Take some time to absorb the fact that yes, McDonald’s does indeed use real fish for their Filet-O-Fish.”  This is one example of how the chefs of Fancy Fast Food try to create a gourmet dish from a fast food meal.  The chefs, known as “trinimation”, do this with a very sarcastic and quick moving voice, which keeps the blog light and a little bit though provoking when you actually take into consideration the step by step process of cooking the specific meal.

The use of a quick witted, cooking network, chef guru pace, the guys express both a very obvious knowledge of cooking as well as a bleak undertone of the disgusting food quality that is in fact being used; "after star-gazing a while at your quaint fish square, delicately flake the fish apart and place it in a bow...the grease from the breading will give you just enough oily coating to sear the fish cake - yummy".  What the two chefs are doing is cooking a "Seared Pollock Cake with Southwest Ramalan Sauce" aka (Fancy Filet-O-Fish).  I think you are getting the point with what these guys are trying to persuade you as the reader to realize with the blog. 

The sarcastic, ironic tone, found in such blog entries as “Franksgiving Dinner”, really shows the true voice of the blog.  The blog not only keeps the tone light, but also makes great comparisons to obvious faux-pas within the fast food industry.  “This Thanksgiving, we could have easily gone to Boston Market for a quick, traditional American Thanksgiving meal, but where’s the fun in that?”  We all have been lured to purchase a certain fast food item through commercials or promotional photos, whether it is a big, juicy thanksgiving dinner, as shown in the Boston Market advertisements, or the zesty and fresh looking sandwich found in Subway.  

The temptation to consume based on presentation is not exclusive to fast food, it can be found in any consumer industry.  If that dress looks so good on the size zero model, then it will definitely make me look the exact same.  That appeal is what drives human behavior and expresses the deeply looks based society that we are.

The pictures of the appetizing dishes that the two chefs are able to create even make us as a reader think that this food is not all that bad.  We are basing that assessment on the look of the food rather than the calorie and processed ingredients being used in this food.  “With that solid mass removed, you can easily mold the remaining cornbread batter into a shape that resembles that of a turkey leg.”  That shape of the turkey leg is what makes us as the consumer feel better. 

The common phrase, what we see is what we get, is too easily used because what we actually see is not anywhere close to what we actually get.  That is the million dollar answer to the million dollar question.

Thanks,
Ronnie

Voice of a Fast Food Nation

I have to hand it to Fancy Fast Food, they really know how expose the BS of the Fast Food Industry.  They vehemently express the similar negative experiences that all consumers have had when we think we are getting a certain looking item and get a less appetizing version of it.  And then take that similar experience to the next level.  “Carefully cut the breading off of the fish — but don’t throw the breading out, since we’re going to use it later. Take some time to absorb the fact that yes, McDonald’s does indeed use real fish for their Filet-O-Fish.”  They try to create a gourmet dish from what the specific fast food meal is trying to create a cheap version of.  With a very sarcastic and quick moving voice the two chefs known as “trinimation”, take you through the very easy steps of cooking these very simple yet pretty tasty looking dishes.

The usage of almost a quick witted cooking network chef guru pace, the guys express both a very obvious knowledge of cooking as well as a bleak undertone of the disgusting food quality that is in fact being used, “after star-gazing a while at your quaint fish square, delicately flake the fish apart and place it in a bow...the grease from the breading will give you just enough oily coating to sear the fish cake — yummy”.  What the two chefs are doing is cooking a “Seared Pollock Cake with Southwest Ramalan Sauce” aka (Fancy Filet-O-Fish).  I think you are getting the point with what these guys are trying to persuade you as the reader to realize with the blog. 

The sarcastic, ironic tone, found in such blog entries as “Franksgiving Dinner”, really shows what the voice the blog is trying to create.  The blog not only keeps the tone very light, but also makes great comparisons to very obvious faux-pas within the fast food industry.  “This Thanksgiving, we could have easily gone to Boston Market for a quick, traditional American Thanksgiving meal, but where’s the fun in that?”  We all have been lured to purchase a certain fast food item through commercials or promotional photos, whether it be a big juicy thanksgiving dinner, as shown in the Boston Market marketing applications, or the extremely fresh looking sandwich.  And as we are driving around the drive thru and look at the menu and see all of these items being portrayed both plump and juicy, we all have had the disappointed feeling once we open the bag of our order and get the much smaller and blander looking version of what we thought we were going to get in the picture. 

This site also expresses how much of a presentation and looks based society we are.  The pictures of the obvious appetizing dishes that they create may even make us as a reader think that this food is not all that bad.  We are basing that assessment on the look of the food rather than the calorie and process ingredients being used in this food.  “With that solid mass removed, you can easily mold the remaining cornbread batter into a shape that resembles that of a turkey leg.”  That shape of the turkey leg is what makes us as the consumer feel better.  What we see is what we get is such a common phrase used when doing any type of analysis, but what if we actually see is not anywhere close to what we actually get.  That is the questions that I think this blog is trying to raise.

Social Profiling

The name of the blog that I will be profiling is titled Feel Good Fast Food and discusses topics just what you might expect the title to have alluded to.  The main contributor to the blog Michelle goes into all things related to debunking eating myths including how to stop cravings, curbing appetites and reversing the want for the unhealthy fast food that our society constantly consumes.  Michelle also on a weekly basis posts many studies that are conducted by national health organizations as well as large food outlets.  It is difficult to gauge how popular the blog is because Michelle does not have a hit counter nor does she have a profile on Technorati.  She goes into simple analyses by going over what are the healthiest foods to eat at Thanksgiving dinner.  The blog does a great job of balancing both very important current events, such as our obesity epidemic in America, as well as doing very tongue and cheek exposes of the ten most healthy fast food restaurants.  Michelle also gives great links to other health conscious websites such as Calorie King, two foods and good food near you. Calorie King  , Two Foods & Good Food Near You

This blog relates well to the type of blog that I would like to pursue.  The health aspect in fast food is a huge revenue and industry driver and in order to explore more of those types of themes in depth, such as what is real healthy fast food and what is the worst type of fast food to eat, I would need to explore Michelle’s blog and other blogs just like hers.  The good thing about her posts is that within each one she references another blog that she got some amount of scientific or studied information.  That amount of reference and detail allows for larger themes to be more widely explored than just reading one post.  I think that also plays to the audience of a normal everyday seeker of healthy fast food knowledge.  You do not need to have studied nutrition in college to follow her blogs, but she also has some posts and links that would probably be geared towards a more healthy food educated segment, which may go a little bit beyond the “common man”.   

This blog would be a great jumping off point for the type of work that I will be doing related to the link between health and fast food.  “Feel Good Fast Food” will offer a lot of options and themes to begin to explore.  I think that it will be a nice reference point for my blog and will provide substantial amounts of points to discuss different fast food themes and our society.  My site will not only discuss the health aspect with regards to fast food, it will also go into why our society needs this food staple in our diet.  How do we live that causes this need for us to eat quickly or do anything without the proper preparation and patience.

Welcome to Fast Food Reality, can I take your order?

Hello Everyone,

This is the first entry of my blog, which is going to try and explore different topics regarding American society and our reliance and addiction to fast food.  I will try and delve into such themes as how much fast food we eat, how cheaply priced it is, how often and how late we eat it.  I will try and answer such questions as to whether it is a good idea that we can get any type of food at any time of the night or should Chinese food be made available in such a short amount of time.  Also I would like to explore how we perceive ourselves consuming fast food as a society as well as how the world outside of the United States perceives how we consume it.

Is healthy fast food, such as Subway or Togos, really that healthy for you?  I will try and get behind the calories and the processed meat and cheese and find the real secret to the famous and nationally recognized Jared Subway Diet.  Also in reality are healthy and cheap a good combination when it comes to the health of our society or is this just a myth that corporate America is trying to push in order to create another business segment among the fast food and food industry in general.  This is a very interesting topic because of the obvious trend towards living a more “healthy” lifestyle.  Is there also an interesting correlation between the United States being the highest population for obesity per capita as well as having arguably the most healthy fast food brands in the world.

Another interesting aspect that fast food and our society have to offer is the surprisingly large amount of research and studies done on the pitfalls that fast food does to our health and well-being.  Even though that these studies and statistics are put out into the public realm, this form of eating and living still is so prevalent in our society.  Diabetes, obesity, heart attack and failure and clogged arteries still do not deter us from eating late night meals at McDonalds.  It is much like the correlation between the studies and negative advertisements our government does against the smoking industry and still with the abundance of public knowledge people continue to smoke.  It has become a conscious destruction of the health of a nation.

The fast food industry has also created a new meal time outside of breakfast, lunch and dinner.  The tag line “Fourth Meal” was made famous by Taco Bell.  They once again are creating new business lines and product segments to attract new customers and in the end produce more revenue.  Also I would like to explore the new fresco diet, which was also created by Taco Bell pushing that if you eat off of their low calorie menu you would be able to lose weight as well. 

Why does our society continue to believe that having low calories or 0 grams of trans fat is even good for you?  Should this be more of a cry out for help to push towards educating our country about what is actually healthy, what should or shouldn’t you eat?  Or do we have to hire a dietician or an obesity specialist or purchase some expensive health diet book?

Those are just a few questions and themes that I have begun to explore and I am sure as I wander down this drive thru path of fast food I will hopefully answer some of them and I am sure I will be confronted with a lot more.     

Thanks & Signing Off