Disclaimer: This is about smoking in general, not specific people i know in any way.
Something that has been my bane and something that enrages me more than ANYTHING else in my life is cigarette smoking. I used to have a few smokes when i was like 14 but even that young i could tell it was a fucking joke. Watching my friends, who kicked that awful fucking habit for over 2 years (or all of my friends that smoke) smoke again, and
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In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than 110 billion
McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain
French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America
You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac
In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese
One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime
Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America
Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke, Gall Bladder Disease, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, Respiratory Problems, Endometrial, Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers, Dyslipidemia, steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, breathlessness, Asthma, Hyperuricaemia, reproductive hormone abnormalities, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impaired fertility and lower back pain
The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year
Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald - he was fired for being too fat
McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us
Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life
McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods"
The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic
Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health
McDonald's calls people who eat their food once a week "Heavy Users"
McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents
Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald's
Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic"
Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month
40% of American meals are eaten outside the home
McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market
at least get your facts straight first. i do understand what you're saying about smoking. it sucks when people make a choice to quit and start again. it sucks when people start in the first place. its horrible to watch family members and friends die because of smoking, i've done it too, i'm sure everyone knows someone who has died of cancer caused by smoking. but at the same time, it sucks to know that people like my mom are going to die due to health problems caused by obesity unless they CHOOSE to change that.
but thats what it is, its a choice, a personal choice. kristel and whoever else will quit when they DECIDE to. they've heard all this shit before... and while i think its great you are concerned for your friends, but don't get this holier than thou attitude because you can develope addictions to food just like you can develope addictions to cigarettes. so i would urge you not to eat as much fast food and to be more health concious about what you put in your body because OBVIOUSLY it can have more of an effect on you than you would think.
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