Fast Food - Should It Be Banned?

[RagnaToad]

Obviously you know nothing of obesity, so perhaps you should shut up about it, and stop generalizing, before you make another incredibly ignorant comment that pisses me off even more. My mother is obese, and yes, she eats fast food occasionally, but when she does, she orders small portions of a healthy meal. Food consumption has absolutely nothing to do with her problem. She watches what she eats, taking in less than 2,000 calories a day, whereas, I'm as skinny as a rail, consuming nearly 7,000 calories a day.

I eat fast food at least four times a week. It's convenient, fast, and it tastes good. A common misconception is that people get fat from eating that kind of food, whereas, it actually depends on a lot of factors. For example, somebody with a fast metabolism can eat as much as he or she wants to, and will not gain a pound. People with a thyroid condition, on the other hand, can eat one cheeseburger and a small fry, and gain five pounds.

However, I think fast food should be banned, because then it would eliminate the need for ignoramuses to keep generalizing against my mother.

1. Obesity is almost always a consequence of an unhealthy life style, but if you're mother only consumes the amount of calories you say she consumes, she must just have a slow metabolism, meaning that she also needs more exercise to lose calories. Diabetes and similar conditions can be a major factor too. It's just a fact that some people get overweight easier than other people, but you're not telling me that those 200 kg adults are merely suffering from "genetics". If they watch their eating pattern they should be almost like a regular person. It's unfair that they have to watch their eating habits more carefully to look the same as we do, and that some people (like me) could effortlessly look healthier even though they not necessarily are, but when has the world ever been fair?

2. You seem te believe that "being fat" is the only unhealthy thing about eating fatty food. People don't die from too much fat between their organs as likely as they die from a cholesterol level that is way too high and decreasing space in their veins. I myself, for example, can impossibly gain weight, but that doesn't mean that eating all the fatty food in the world is healthy to me and bad to all the rest. Imagine that . Being skinny does not equal being healthy. If anything, I probably don't weigh enough for my height.

Being fat is not so much a problem itself as it is a sign. It shows your body isn't doing too well on the inside. Which is why we naturally like larger people less than "regular" sized people.

P.S. 1/2 people in the UK die because of a high cholesterol level. Or so I saw in a quite reliable documentary. I was like, wuh...