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