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____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 05 November 2008 08:22 : \____
> High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Homer wrote:
>>> Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> McDonalds even add sugar to their salads. They do not sell
>>>> healthy food in their cafés.
>>>
>>> It boggles the mind that anyone could seriously argue that the
>>> fat-ass American staple diet of "burgers 'n fries" is actually
>>> "healthy" or in any way "good". It's junk, it's never been
>>> anything but junk, and it's only suitable as an occasional
>>> snack for children, which is just about the kind of mentality
>>> one would need to want to eat the same tasteless and
>>> unimaginative junk, meal after meal, day after day, for years
>>> at a time, like most adult Americans (and children elsewhere)
>>> seem to do.
>>
>> However, Fish 'n Chips, now there's a meal! :-)
>>
>
> Fish and chips has a relatively low fat content, with a high fibre,
> protein and energy content, too, as well as being fairly inexpensive.
> Fish is, in general, far less fatty than meat, and much much less fatty
> than red meat (like beef). Here's a quote:
>
> Fish and chips have a third less calories than the other popular
> takeaways, and represents just 30% of a female's recommended
> calorie intake and 23% of a male's. It also has a massive 42%
> less fat than a doner kebab and a third less than a Whopper Meal
> from Burger King.
>
> http://www.seafish.org/plate/facts.asp?p=gi224
>
> The biggest problem with fish and chips is the overfishing of the North
> Sea and Atlantic cod and haddock stocks. It's also worth noting that
> most people in the UK would consume Fish and Chips once/week at most,
> traditionally on Friday.
Here's an explanation of how political corruption and the sugar industry are
responsible for huge deception that harms the public... regarding diet.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/07/netroots_nation_keynote.html
Eye opening, no doubt.
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~~ Best of wishes
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