By heat attack do you mean men get these attacks when they are in bed with a woman ;-)

Arline! Is your mind in the gutter? LOL! With kids being diagnosed so much earlier with it, the future doesn't look bright. I do see a trend towards healthier eating though, so maybe the trend will start declining. I keep hoping they will come out with that magic pill too. It seems that they keep finding promising ones only to learn their side effects are worse than the good they do.

I dont think healthier eating is a trend for the majority. The McDonald fans of the world will not give it up. I've heard interviews on TV with people on the street saying they dont care its unhealthy.

Now they are trying to legislate Happy Meal contents. To me that is just WRONG! I have very fond childhood memories of those complete with fries. They want to add carrot sticks instead and take the toy out if you don't order the healthy one. That's not freedom it's government intervention. Parents should be the ones to decide what their kids eat!

yea its yhe women having the heat attacks that cause the heart attacks

sounds like a good way to go.

mc d's are making bumper profits so it don't look like people are changing eating habits

Maybe with all the profit they are making they will give their staff a wage increase.

Look how long it took to stop most of the population smoking and that was so obviously deadly.

I have seen the TV programmes of people in the hospital having big mac smuggled in by so called friends and family even when they are too big to get out of bed.

My view is that no matter how bad a thing may be if people are willing to pay for it then someone is going to supply it

as the cigarette comapnies know ya have to get em young No one over twenty or so starts smoking so the teenage years are best

But with the fast food its happy Birthday and party time at 3 years old just one plastic toy can start a habit of a lifetime.
I was born in the fifties so escaped the fast food, but where i lived there was a pub on every corner
there are definatly more poisons to choose from nowdays

I don't think that they should have the right to tell someone what they have to eat when you go out..It's just part
of being a kid to get that special toy with your meal..i know at times thats the only way to get cassie to eat her meal is to let her have the toy AFTER she eats of course...we let her choose fries or fruit....about 90% of the time she chooses fruit but she thinks its cool that she can choose what one.....there's enough things in this world to worry about that should be more important than worrying about people letting their kids have toys in their meals.....

yes it would be ok if the food you ate before you got the toy was healthy but its not and its causing out children all kinds of health problems
I would rather my child be denied a toy than being an unhappy overweight pre diabetic teenager
its like the tobacco companies who used to put coupons in the packs so you could get a free food mixer or such before dying of lung cancer

advertising is insidious they will tell all kinds of lies about their products to sell them
OK we all have a free choice

Children Can't really make an informed choice so parental guidance is needed.
how about instead of eating all this rubbish we eat a decent healthy meal and you can still have a toy from the toy shop

Just take a look around fast food has been a diasater for people's health I look at the over weight parents going into these places with their children and can't help but think its the next generation of people addicted to fast food

we dont do the fast food thingy much in our house....we usually make all the decisions about what she eats..
but from time to time she can make a choice between the fruit or fries....at home we only can have the healthy stuff so if once in a blue moon she wants to have fries its ok...if it was something that happened quite often that would be different and a real concern.......since i found out in june that im diabetic shes had a big change in the way eating is done for us....she can no longer get the "junk" foods.....we have the healthy and good for you stuff....so when she gets to have wendys now n then she thinks shes really getting away w/something........hehe......luckily shes also very active and cant sit still so anything like that she eats she can burn off quicker than others....i agree that the fast food is a big part of whats wrong w/the society and we can all use a change for the better....

I was reading about a study done in the fifties by a profesor Doll he convinced about 50% of British Doctors who were smokers to give it up.He then followed the death rates over ten years doctor who still smoked and that was when the much higher rate of lung cancer was found as a cause of death among the still smoking doctors.
He did a similar study with london bus drivers. He found the heat atttacks were over twice as high for the drivers as the conductors who were running up the stairs all day collecting fares

So exercise was recommended to help prevent heart attacks

I am part of a study for diabetes But there are so many variables involved it does not look like they are going to find a single major cause they know hereditry plays a part, but thats true of most diseases.

over weigh is a factor but thin people also get diabetes. one thing is that people who eat a diet of natural food that passes through the gut rapidly seem to hardly suffer from diabetes
but these are African tribes that live such a different lifestyle it could also be a lot of other things.

I rember in the eighties that AIDS was going to wipe us all out then in the UK it was Mad Cow disease.

and T Blair had all the Mad Cows incinerated.( of course M Thatcher had already gone by then).

We seem to have escaped bird flu and swine flu

I'm just wondering what will be next on the horizon

I think all fast food restaurants should be closed down but they wont be. The govt is trying to get kids to eat healthier because the parents dont seem to care.

I would like the fast food places to see more profit by having healthier foods, since if people live longer they can sell for a longer period of time, dead people don't eat although I am not trying to treat this like the time we talked about the test strips since companies will do what they want to do and the government says they care, but they don't help health, the 'black market' will find the bad foods and yet more would be encouraged to eat better. Kid foods are popular since they bring back wonderful memories when we were young and could enjoy more yummo! I am not saying NO Salt, NO Fat, NO such and such, but an improvement and it has to happen SLOWLY!

Healthier hot fast food is a bit of a contradiction as most food that can be cooked quickly is the bad stuff

Chiken is a healthy food until Col Sanders gets hold of it and tosses into batter and the deep fryer

but having spit roast chicken is not really fast food, if you go to the salad bar their are always lots of sauces and mayo's that make it into a bad choice and who can resist all these condiments on an otherwise bland salad.

personally I don't think there is much wrong with a nice juicy lean Steak with salad

The main problems with fast food are; Salt content, low fiber and bad fats. I love Steak with potato without tons of things although with Olive Oil and lots and lots of salad. I love the Steak sauce although that's very high in sodium. My concern is that the government wants to tell us what to eat and that's bad since if the companies gave us the options of the healthier versions more would choose them, if they weren't so expensive although the healthier the more expensive it normally is and people can't afford that for now.

I disagree with you, Vernon. If healthier foods were cheap people would still opt for McDonalds because it tastes good.

I totally agree with you, but most wouldn't eat unhealthy food as often or as much if they had tasty more healthy foods to eat, and I like unhealthy foods like Dairly Barn, think of it as a local McDonalds and they are what I like to eat when I can although they are cheaper than the big names although not cheap. I hope I said this so you can understand what I am saying here. Thank-you!