Fast Food Linked To Obesity And Diabetes

[IGBT]

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The next time you consider grabbing a burger and fries from your favorite fast food outlet consider this, a new study indicates just two fast food meals a week can make you obese and increase your risk of developing diabetes.

Lead researcher Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Obesity Program at Children's Hospital Boston, looked at the eating habits and lifestyle of 3031 people aged 18 to 30 years over a 15 year period.

Ludwig and colleagues found that people who ate at least two or more fast food meals a week, were 10 pounds heavier than those who consumed fast food less than once a week.



The study, according to the researchers, is the first of its kind to scientifically link fast food consumption to obesity and an increased risk of developing diabetes.

 

Gee, really?

I'm going to do research on how gunshots to the head are linked with death.

 

[Schrodinger]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Gee, really?

I'm going to do research on how gunshots to the head are linked with death.

rofl

 

[lozina]

shoot, there goes my revolutionary diet plan of eating only mcdonalds big macs to lose weight

 

[callmesteve]

Supersize Me

 

[Wanescotting]

Thank you mister know it all.........

 

[Brutuskend]

NO FvCKING WAY!

 

[illustri]

Originally posted by: Schrodinger

Originally posted by: SampSon
Gee, really?

I'm going to do research on how gunshots to the head are linked with death.

rofl

but you have to shoot ~3000 people in the head with various types of bullets/guns and also have blank shot groups before you can scientifically establish the correlation

 

[Sheepathon]

weed makes baby jesus cry

 

[jadinolf]

Hard to believe.

 

[Ulfwald]

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!


Actually, it took me have a son to realize that I needed to cut that crap out of my diet , and get off my fat ass and exercise.

 

[illustri]

Originally posted by: Sheepathon
weed makes baby jesus cry

and super value meals make adult jesus obese and diabetic

i guess thats why jesus morphed into a fat guy in a red suit every xmas

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: IGBT
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The next time you consider grabbing a burger and fries from your favorite fast food outlet consider this, a new study indicates just two fast food meals a week can make you obese and increase your risk of developing diabetes.

Lead researcher Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Obesity Program at Children's Hospital Boston, looked at the eating habits and lifestyle of 3031 people aged 18 to 30 years over a 15 year period.

Ludwig and colleagues found that people who ate at least two or more fast food meals a week, were 10 pounds heavier than those who consumed fast food less than once a week.



The study, according to the researchers, is the first of its kind to scientifically link fast food consumption to obesity and an increased risk of developing diabetes.

And I'm just sure that the kind of person who eats fast food twice a week has _no_ other lifestyle factors that are huge contributors to obesity and diabetes. :roll:

There are way too many other factors involved to pinpoint just the fast food. I'm _not_ saying that fast food is good for people, but it's not as though it will kill you or even be significantly harmful if you are active and otherwise keep a healthy lifestyle.

ZV

 

[Toastedlightly]

I know a chick who eats it daily. She is the most athletic person I know. She isn't obese. Study wrong, I win.

 

Originally posted by: illustri

Originally posted by: Schrodinger

Originally posted by: SampSon
Gee, really?

I'm going to do research on how gunshots to the head are linked with death.

rofl

but you have to shoot ~3000 people in the head with various types of bullets/guns and also have blank shot groups before you can scientifically establish the correlation

Not a problem. It's in the name of science.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

poor excuse for people just eating poorly and not exercising. it takes a lot more than a few fast food trips to make one obese.

 

[z0mb13]

man sometimes its hard NOT to eat junkfood such as mcdonalds..

they are the only restaurants open at night.. and I am too lazy to cook at night...

 

[KeithP]

It seems to me a more logical conclusion to draw would be that people that eat fast food more frequently probably live a less healthly lifestyle in general. They buy less healthy food at the grocery store and get less physical activity. It is probably a combination of factors that contribute to their health problems not a single element, such as eating fast food.

Frankly it sounds like more crap research done by someone to prove a preceived notion to keep his research funding. After all, if he found no link, the next time he tries to get funding on a project they are going to look at his record and say, "No thanks, you couldn't even prove fast food makes people unhealthy and everybody knows that it does."

-Keith

 

[0roo0roo]

yup crap research. cure for cancer too hard

 

[vi edit]

Yay! More FUD studies to shift blame from lifestyle and personal decision and victimize an object.

SUV's suffer the same fate.

HEADLINE NEWS: SUV swerves off road kills family of 5! No blame on the jackass driver behind the wheel.

 

[MDE]

OMFG, really?

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: SampSon
I'm going to do research on how gunshots to the head are linked with death.

Volunteering your cranium in the name of science?

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: callmesteve
Supersize Me

that movie was so rediculous. If he had died at the end, then it would have been worth it.

 

[rezinn]

Originally posted by: Schrodinger

Originally posted by: SampSon
Gee, really?

I'm going to do research on how gunshots to the head are linked with death.

rofl

Unfortunately, it is not so clear to most people.