The Other night I woke up at around 3am in the morning. My head hurt, my palms felt clammy and I was sweating. No i didn't need a cigarette, I needed a quarter pounder with cheese.
My girlfriend is a vegitarian, she we make me these REALLY nutritious dinners, and i will be completely stuffed, but after a few hours I will get hungry again, but I don't want her healthy leftovers, I want some grease. What is it with fast food, is there actually addicting chemicals in it that make you want it again and again, and WHY DOES IT HAVE TO TASTE SO DAMN GOOD???
Does anybody else have this problem. Do you suddenly have to make a mad dash for the 24 Hours mcdonalds at 2 am???

Yes.

What do you suppose the secret ingredient in the special sauce at "McCrackenolds" is?

Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock is a good watch about how McDonald's can KILL you.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390521/combined

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V168xofxgu0&feature=related

Fast food is loaded with salt and fat.

Unfortunately, in most foods, salt and fat is where most of the flavor is.

Remember; Vegetarian is an old Indian word that means lousy hunter!

Also check out Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.

And not just fast foods but Kraft foods does add chemicals.

Our rule of thumb for food in the house: are the ingredients food based or chemical.

I'm about 95 percent vegetarian. And I would be a lousy hunter too.

We haven’t eaten at McDonald's, Wendy’s, Burger King, in years.

Umm . . . yesterday.

Sodium, the silent slayer! It'll kill you just as dead as the fat will and the combo of the two are not a good thing for your heart.

I could never be a vegetarian, I love meat waaaay too much!
I've been trying to eat more steaks, since I feel it is a little safer than hamburgers(Steak only comes from one cow, one hamburger comes from 500 cows). There was an article in the USA today about how recalled meat has recently made its way into our kids school cafeteria, and not to mention our stores. The fact that these slaughter houses are using "downer cows" and selling the meat to the public is quite scary.
We need much stricter rules on our meat, I feel the FDA is not protecting us. Thats why I choose to eat mostly at Burgerville, If I am eating fast food.

If I were to be a fast food consumer Burgerville would be my choice.

New Seasons have wonderful deli's and you would love their meat department.

Yup I agree Chris, the only problem is New Seasons is spendy. I barely have enough money to put gas in the Yugo( I started putting Premium in the Yugo). But yes, If I get a chance I will go check out New Seasons, that is a neat store.

I could never be a vegetarian, I love meat waaaay too much!

Me too!

I look at it this way; If God didn't want us to eat the animals, why did He make them out of meat!

Now as far as salt and fat go, here is my theory;

You can eat as much fat and cholesterol laden foods as you want as long as you balance it out with a bunch of salt.

While the fat and cholesterol will plug up your arteries, the salt will keep your blood pressure high enough to force the blood through anyway!!

Is there a doctor in the house?!!!!

No but I know a good burger place with a fine staff of Nurses!!!! If the food don't kill ya, well, they just might!

http://www.heartattackgrill.com/

I had McDonald's today, solely as a result of this thread. QPC, no onion or pickle, large fry, large Sprite. It tasted damn good, as it had been a while. Even fast food, in moderation, is okay for you in my book.

Yup Vitalogy is right (except for the no onion part) Moderation is the key. Thats the problem with me, I'll have it once, than the next day i'll be craving it again. Maybe I should start smoking.

Hey-every body is different. If you want to eat fast food go for it. I did it for many years.

My body has changed and I just don't care to eat that way anymore. Found some great alternatives.

When I used to answer the request line for KGW radio back in the day, they had a contest where winners won gift cards for a free Big Mac. The PD gave me a semi large stack of extra ones. I then gave many out to my friends. I was DA' MAN for awhile in high school.

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Justin my young friend:

I've been battling overweight for 100 years. Winning the battle is a long, slow hard grind. With genetic predisposition for hypertension and hypothyroidism, what I eat becomes the paramount issue.

I am not a vegetarian. However, fast food is the absolute worst stuff you can consume. Period. This isn't just my opinion, it's the truth. Can you handle it?

Sure, an occasional 1/4 pounder with cheese isn't going to kill you. But you'd be better off having it as a meal instead of a midnite snack. Denial is unhealthy, gluttony is too.

I'm a ways down the road in years from you, but here's the message:

If your weight is in range, your pressure in range, and your glucose in range ...

Don't worry about it. Keep doing what your doing.
Exercise regularly. Don't make fast food a steady diet,
unless longevity on the planet is not your concern.

For the rest of you aging boomers ... it's all about portion
control.

I'm not overweight......I'm under-height!

I hate to admit this, but the other night I headed out for mcdonalds for a late night snack. After demolishing a 1/4 pounder with Cheese, large fry, and large coke, I was STILL hungy.
Unfortunately Krispey Kreme was open for another hour, So i headed on over for dessert and threw down 4 krispey kremes. My God did those taste good.
I have no self control, is there AA meetings for people who are fast food addicts? This morning I jumped in the Yugo and it smelled like Mcdonalds. Not good!

I will admit that I had a very soft spot for the "Ambulance Chaser" at Knob Hill, and a close second would be the burgers at Goose Hollow, but that food isn't fast, or all-nite dining.

Hungry?

If you are what you eat, I do not want to be raving mad with a bell around my neck. :0)

The last time I ate at a mcdonalds I had the "runs" for a week. Infact my bowel movements sounded like the atomic bomb dropping on Hiroshima. I have yet to go back to a mcdonalds, and yes, my bowels are thanking me.

Beano, TMI!

Timberfake, quit toking the green guy late night and the munchies will go away as well. A QPC, large fry and coke, and then 4 Krispy Kremes is a stoner's late night delight.

I ate lunch at a McDonalds for the first time in years about a month ago (was somewhere where that was the only option). Not only did it taste awful, everything was cold, and the restaurant said they were out of ketchup for the fries (yeah, right). Won't be back.
However, there are too many places I patronize too often:
- Subway ("7 subs w/ 6 grams of fat" my butt, that's only on certain ones with no condiments, cheese, or anything else with it.)
- Jack in the Box
- Burger King
- Taco Bell
- Taco Time
Not only is it what you eat, it's what you do afterwards. Eating a bunch of crap and going to bed thirty minutes afterwards isn't worth it. Going somewhere for lunch and walking from the Rose Garden to Sellwood on the Springwater Trail is probably better.

Hey Vitalogy, I don't smoke the "sticky icky." Just livin life is my high! Plus the Yugo makes me a happy man

A fitness trainer once gave me a scientific answer to the question at the beginning of this thread: Humans evolved in a feast-and-famine environment. The taste for greasy foods is believed to have benefitted these early hunter-gatherers who lived in this environment by steering them to eat things that had a lot of calories and proteins. In a contemporary civilized setting, this drive has the adverse effect of steering humans to consume too many calories for their own good.

The desire to eat sweet foods is believed to have similar evolutionary origins. Non-poisonous berries tend to taste sweet, whereas those that are poisonous tend to taste bitter.

By the way, Dr. Bill Wattenberg recommends against using premium gasoline in almost all vehicles. He says that unless using regular gasoline causes the engine to knock, there are no benefits to using the premium stuff. Premium gasoline will not improve gas mileage.

Just an FYI- krispey kreme donuts now have ZERO grams of trans-fats.
Eat up!

They have a huge sign right by the drive-thru window! Im so happy to have an excuse to eat more donuts!

1 KK donut has 200 - 300 calories and 12 - 20 grams of fat, 6 - 11 of which are saturated fat.

Can you say arterial sclerosis? The daily recommended intake of saturated fats is 20.

So eggs with the yolks for breakfast with bacon and buttered toast and home fries grilled in butter, fast food gut bomb for lunch, steak and baked potato with sour cream and butter for dinner, and 4 kk donuts before bed. You do the math.

Good luck.