You Are What You Eat

1. You Are What You Eat By Sarah Spain

2. “Fast food has joined Hollywood movies, blue jeans, and pop music as one of America's most prominent cultural exports. Unlike other commodities, however, fast food isn't viewed, read, played, or worn. It enters the body and becomes part of the consumer.”- Eric Schlosser

3. Tertiary Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) Dimethylpolysiloxane What is in Fast Food? • McDonalds’s Chicken Nuggets are only 50% chicken. • The recipe used to make them contains over 40 ingredients • A homemade recipe can be made with 3 ingredients • Egg • Chicken • Breadcrumbs Chemical preservative and a form of lighter fluid. One gram of tertiary butylhydroquinone can cause nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse. Five grams of TBHQ can kill you Anti-foaming agent found in silly putty and cosmetics

4. How many Calories? 20 oz. Mtn Dew Chipotle Steak Taco Salad + Big Mac Large fry = 1,180 Calories & 57 Grams of Fat 1,040 Calories & 63 Grams of Fat

5. True or False?

6. Fact #1 Americans spend more on fast food than they spend on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined. True

7. Fact #2 Around 25% of Americans eat fast food at least once per week. False Around 41% of Americans eat fast food at least once a week. In addition, every day about one quarter of the U.S. population eats fast food.

8. Fact #3 Fast food can not become addictive. False Studies have shown that high-calorie foods with high amounts of fat, refined sugar and salt stimulate the brain's secretion of "feel-good" chemicals like dopamine. This chemical causes us to crave these foods. The more fast food one consumes, the more difficult it becomes for them to break away from fast food.

9. Obesity is linked to several other serious diseases such as: heart disease diabetes colon cancer breast cancer Asthma high blood pressure strokes

10. Almost _________ Americans are obese, an additional 6 or 7 million are____________. • One ______ of _________ in America are over weight or obese. 50 Million morbidly obese sixth children

11. Super Size Me • Interesting, in only thirty days of eating nothing but McDonald's I gained twenty-four and a half pounds, my liver turned to fat and my cholesterol shot up sixty-five points. My body fat percentage went from eleven to eighteen percent, still below the national average of twenty-two percent for men and thirty percent for women. I nearly doubled my risk of coronary heart disease, making myself twice as likely to have heart failure. I felt depressed and exhausted most of the time, my mood swung on a dime and my sex life was non existent. I craved this food more and more when I ate it, and got massive headaches when I didn't. In my final blood test many of my body functions showed signs of improvement, but the doctors were less than optimistic.