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 proved that saturated fats within ones body can cause high blood pressure, a heart attack and/or a stroke. Worse yet, saturated fats are not easily flushed from the Human body.
That fat becomes hardened plaque that lines the blood vessels within the body. Like so much rock it interferes with the proper function of all of the organs within the body. Did you ever see a kidney stone that was almost as large as a golf ball?
People are happy when they are able to eat the foods that they most desire, but if the way in which those foods are cooked is harmful to the consumer in question it will most likely be cooked within a fast food restaurant. Then again, there are many millions of people who employ that deep fry cooking method within their own kitchen.
For those of you who love the taste of deep fried foods they had better be deep fried in vegetable oil. Additionally, that vegetable oil must be changed on a regular basis. Saturated fats exist within the meats that are deep fried and that fat becomes part of the quantity of cooking oil within your deep fryer. I am sorry to say that in spite of your best efforts, you will consume some saturated fat if you choose to eat meat as part of your daily diet.
Then again, the closer you live to a fast food restaurant the more likely it is that your home will be filled with smoke, and the sounds made by a whole lot of people will most likely keep you from sleeping. One of those strangers might even decide to rob you or set up a tent and begin living within your own back yard.