I found an article on WND yesterday on a study done in Canada which found that children who eat 2 meals or more per week of fast food negate the benefits of being breast fed for at least 12 weeks when it comes to developing childhood asthma. (phew! long sentence!)
This led me to think: What makes fast food fast food? Is it just hamburgers and chicken nuggets and french fries? What's the difference between hamburgers from a FF joint compared to hamburgers off our grill? Or nuggets compared to nuggets prepared at home? French fries to fried potatoes? Does Arby's classify as FF with their roast beef sandwiches? What about at Subway if you have chips w/ your sub? Does it always include any fried chicken sandwich? What about grilled?
I just kinda got all mixed up trying to distinguish between the food we eat out, and the food we eat at home. (yea, today, shopping-- walking across the store for a particular item, and I still can't remember what item it was supposed to be when I got there...) I know it has something to do with the way it's prepared, but lots of home prepared stuff has MSG too, ...and we use olive oil for everything, but microwaves are questionable.... Anyway, is your brain still thinking straight? Is it just me who gets wrapped up in knots?
Anyway, thoughts? What differentiates between healthy and fast food?
Edited: I guess this makes me sound kinda "food dumb," and I'm not. I know what to look for, what to avoid, stuff like that. It's just when they paste a huge label on something that has a fairly broad spectrum, I wonder what they really mean. You can make a super yummy, high fat meal at home that is very not good for you, but it's not classified as fast food. So why label one per se, and not the other?
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Anything that has MSG, extremly high calories(McDonalds hamburger), high sat.fat, trans fat content, high frutose corn syrup are all bad. Healthy food that has calories isn't bad due to them not being empty calories. You just need to watch your calorie count and not go over board just cause its healthy calories. olive oil is good for you due to the healthy fats in it. They are good for your skin, hair, nails, digestion etc. All sugar and flour that are bleached = no good. Unbleached flour/sugar at least doesnt have chemicals in it. So if you able to get organic sugar, flour, milk etc. the better. Things prepackaged is usually not good due to preservitives and other chemicals in them to make their shelf life longer. So pretty much.. just my opinion of course. If it is made so you can make something in a hurry and eat quickly due to time. Then I would consider it fast food items. Besides fruit, veggies, nuts, of course. :)
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