Fast food is the 'unhealthy choice', McDonald's tells its own staff
Fast Food Still as Unhealthy as Ever
InsideTrack: Is fast food really that bad for you?
Reasons why fast food is bad for health - Times of India
You claim it's just a calorie relation, while appearing to be clueless about why people eat too many calories. Your body has natural mechanisms that tell you when you're full. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables and a well-rounded diet, and these mechanisms get triggered. Eat empty calories, and the mechanisms get ignored - either because your body keeps yearning after missing nutrients from the poorly balanced foods or being there is a high calorie-to-food-bulk ratio. Also, eat pre-made high-calorie meals, rather than food at home, and you'll tend to stuff more calories in you. Studies have shown that children eat 200-300 more calories per meal when they eat fast food than when they eat at home.
At this point I have to think you're only talking to yourself. How did you think that making the point that "fast food existed" was meaningful to anything whatsoever?
The rate of growth in obesity was greatest in the 80s and 90s. When the heck did you think those people were going to die? People don't fall over with heart attacks the second they get fat, they get fat first, and then die early a few decades later. Some dude hits 300 pounds when he's 30, he's got going to die at 31, he's probably going to die early in his 50s or 60s. A huge growth in obesity in the 1980s and 1990s fits perfectly with increasing death rates in the 2010s.
Seriously, you seem so wildly fixated on immediate-date correlations, I'm surprised you haven't attributed the fall in life expectancy to a Black president or Lebron James or something yet. You're ignoring obvious, massive changes in American lifestyle
There were already plenty of articles, from 2005-2012, explaining the signs that a drop in life expectancy was coming, as the most vulnerable groups were already seeing stagnation and drop before Obamacare was even in effect. This obviously had nothing to do with Obamacare.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/h...pectancy-being-cut-short-by-obesity.html?_r=0
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr043743#t=article
U.S. Life Expectancy Declines
Doctors Warned Life Expectancy Could Go Down, And It Did | Smart News | Smithsonian
Life Expectancy for Less Educated Whites in U.S. Is Shrinking
Your first link has Mcdonalds saying the title of the article is misleading and taken out of context and that its specifically talking about healthy low caloric options, not the safety or unfitness of its food.
the rest of your link are typical psuedoscience alarmist articles, that want to take the onus off personal caloric intake and put it on the restaurants instead of the individual consumer.
Actual myth and fact breakdown by university of michgan
https://www.med.umich.edu/pfans/docs/tip-2013/foodmyths-0713.pdf
As for obesity and gaining wait, it is scienfically purely a caloric intake and burning issue, that is how your body sees it, there is no difference in calories from fast food, organic food, or etc. Its calories. No difference in how the body sees protein, how it breaks down glucose and sucrose, and etc. As for empty calories, eat a head full of lettuce that has almost no calories since lettuce is comprised mainly of water and tell me if those empty calories leave you unfilled?
As for the myth of hfcs blocking leptin and making one over eat, simply no scientific evidence supports this under scrutiny.
Misconceptions about fructose-containing sugars and their role in the obesity epidemic
A causal role of fructose intake in the aetiology of the global obesity epidemic has been proposed in recent years. This proposition, however, rests on controversial interpretations of two distinct lines of research. On one hand, in mechanistic intervention studies, detrimental metabolic effects have been observed after excessive isolated fructose intakes in animals and human subjects. On the other hand, food disappearance data indicate that fructose consumption from added sugars has increased over the past decades and paralleled the increase in obesity. Both lines of research are presently insufficient to demonstrate a causal role of fructose in metabolic diseases, however. Most mechanistic intervention studies were performed on subjects fed large amounts of pure fructose, while fructose is ordinarily ingested together with glucose. The use of food disappearance data does not accurately reflect food consumption, and hence cannot be used as evidence of a causal link between fructose intake and obesity. Based on a thorough review of the literature, we demonstrate that fructose, as commonly consumed in mixed carbohydrate sources, does not exert specific metabolic effects that can account for an increase in body weight.
This is peer reviewed study, not psuedo science and fear mongering based on ignorance of the body.
As for fast food, you have nothing of substance to add , just putting a pic, typical.
You yet to post the claim I made, wonder why?
The rate that rose was largely adult obesity rate, adults, it did not correspond in the 60s (rate was rising) the 70s (rate was rising) with reduction in life expectancy or increase in death rate. we never saw that , instead we saw health metrics rise positively. As for your contention that obesity leads to death, scientifically there isn't much support for that
http://nypost.com/2015/03/22/why-dieting-doesnt-work/
Katherine Flegal, an epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, set out to map the relationship between BMI categories and mortality. They expected to find a linear relationship: The higher a person’s BMI, the greater his or her risk of dying prematurely.
But that’s not what they found. Instead, Flegal and her colleagues discovered what statisticians call a U-shaped curve, with the bottom of the curve — the lowest risk of death — falling around 25 to 26 on the BMI chart, making the risk of early death lowest for those now labeled overweight.
People considered “mildly obese” had roughly the same risk of dying as those in the “normal” category. Death rates went up for those on either end of the scale — underweight and severely obese — but not by much.
“The differences we’re talking about overall are pretty tiny,” explains Flegal.
As for your links, your first link has someone saying the following
Arialdi Minino, a statistician who worked on the report, told the Washington Post that officials have no idea what may have caused the fall in longevity in 2008.
"I would take this with a grain of salt," he told the Post. "These are preliminary numbers. You can never tell whether this is a little blip or some trend that will stay there and linger there for some time. You can't tell until you have more data points."
The last links only point to lower life expectancy in specific groups, not overall like this report posts.
A little bit different, but again, like I said in the last post that you ignored, this article does rely on correlation more than showing a defined causation relationship,, but your argument regarding obesity doesn't hold any weight either.
