The human stomach is dumb. It can’t determine healthy food from trash. As long as it tastes good and is filling, the stomach won’t discriminate. This is not intended to spoil your love for fast food and restaurants. You may recall the last time you went to a restaurant with its superb ambiance, excellent service, delectable food, and all the aromatic wonders that made you forget the price tag. Fast foods and restaurants are designed to make people fat, period. Fast food and restaurant owners aren’t concerned much about your diet as long as the food they offer tastes good and customers pay to eat them. Since profit is most important, the owners of your favorite restaurants will buy cheaper raw goods such as pork, beef, fruits, and vegetables from some agribusiness firm which sells these raw items cheap and in huge quantities. Restaurant and fast-food owners could also buy these raw materials from the public market, not as cheaply but still enough to make a profit. Big agribusiness wants profits too. They must produce agricultural products quickly and in large quantities. That’s when artificial fertilizers and modified growing systems of animals and plants come into the picture. We know that when we mess with nature, oftentimes nature strikes back. But that’s another story. The point is: if a pig, not naturally grown, is twice as large as naturally-grown pigs, it is also twice as lethal to your health. That is, not to mention your diet. The next time you’re tempted to eat in the best restaurants in town, think of the worst enemies of your waistline: saturated fat and animal fat. Or you could imagine yourself in the near future wearing your favorite bathing suit, posing for the primary photo in your Friendster account.
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