The Oldest of a Dozen - Disgusting Food Fact …… Saturday.

The Oldest of a Dozen

May. 10, 2008

Disgusting Food Fact …… Saturday.

Okay, these aren’t really food facts, but they are facts and they are pretty disgusting.

FACTS:
1. If you took the 13 billion hamburgers that Americans eat every year and put them in a straight line, they could circle the earth more than thirty-two times.

2. One out of every three toys given to a child in the United States each year is from a fast-food restaurant.

3. Americans now spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers and recorded music - combined.

4. Overweight teenagers today are having surgery to make their stomachs smaller. They are also having heart attacks.

Now that first one’s disgusting. 13 billion burgers a year. Wow. I know, I always say wow after the food facts. I need to find another exclamation to use. How about “Jeepers”? Nevermind. I’ll think on it later. Well, I’d better go. I need to figure out how to get Photoshop to work for me. I’m working on a button for John and Photoshop won’t do what I want it to do. Well, I’m off. Later. (I always say “later” too. I need to think up something else to say…)

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May. 12, 2008 - Choices in food

Posted by rebbetzin

That is a lot of hamburgers to be sure! I think the problem of so many people being overweight these days is more due to sitting at computers, rather than playing outside or doing something physically productive in life.

The Fast Food places have been around for all of my life, but it is only in the past few years that people are getting so fat. Fat comes from eating more calories than your body can burn. The extra added calories, go into fat storage. If you eat too much healthy food you can get fat too. I think if we all got up and moved around more than we do, and gave up eating more than our bodes need, we would all be more healthy, and thinner most likely..

The "Fast Food" restaurants are now giving more healthy choices on the menu. But few people choose to eat what they know is better for them in the long run. We are slaves to our taste buds!! And we have learned to love the fatty and sweet foods more than we love vegetables and other things that are known to be good for us.

It is good you are learning at an early age what foods are good for your body. Now it is just putting that knowledge into practice. Like when you are given a choice between something that tastes really yummy to your tongue, or something that you know will help you to build a stong body. That is the hard part, making the right choces.

Love you bunches,
Grandma Heidi

Edited by rebbetzin on May. 12, 2008 at 4:38 PM

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May. 12, 2008 - That is NASTY!

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