by Joseph Malek

Created on: June 17, 2009

For those of you who love fast food it is my opinion that if fast food is all that you eat you will certainly become as fat as a house. That is, if the food that you consume is filled with saturated fats and such a restaurant is located near your home. Being near to a fast food restaurant can cause other health and safety problems as well.

Air pollution is caused by the cooking of huge quantities of food and it is not unusual to see a whole lot of smoke rising from such a fast food restaurant. Those venting exhaust gases are carries by the wind and could very well enter your home.

Noise pollution is also a common occurrence near a fast food restaurant as people go into and come out of such places. To make matters worse, many of those fast food restaurants are open late into the early morning hours, causing the sounds of vehicles and people to disturb your sleep.

Like it or not there are many Federal, State and Local laws in place to safeguard the residents from the above pollution problems. If such fast food restaurants violate any of those pollution laws they can easily be put out of business.

Then again, a whole lot of strangers are in your neighborhood that would otherwise not be there, because they wanted a quick meal. They could be criminals searching for a home to break into, or they could be homeless people with no other place to go.

Like it or not, fast food restaurants attract a whole lot people for one reason or another. Good, bad or otherwise they are now near your home and there is not a whole lot you can do to prevent their loud talking or driving fast or even causing you not to be able to get out of you driveway with your own vehicle because a line of cars is now causing a traffic jam.

Those people want mostly burgers, fried chicken and deep fried fish, together with fries, onion rings or some such deep fried delight. As it happens, all that fast food is loaded with saturated fats that once were in the meat or most likely in the cooking oil that was used to cook the meal.

Lard, which is nothing more than pure animal fat, is a common ingredient in such cooking oils, while the saturated fats within the meat being cooked also combines with and adds to the quantity of cooking oil within the deep fryer. Like it or not, some of that cooking oil remains on the food after the food is removed from the deep fryer.

The lover of deep fried foods could very well be known as a person who died many years before its time. It has been

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