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Hi, my name is Caroline Norris and I want to talk to you about fast food today.
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How often do we eat fast food?
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Have you ever thought about like how many times you partake fast food in a week?
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Well I found the average person eats Mcdonald's at least once a year.
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And that statistic does not sound big.
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But do you think about how many people are in America
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and once
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at least once a year, I know people that go like three or four times a week.
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So once a year can be a lot.
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And that's everybody.
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How and why are there so many fast food options? According to I. B. S.
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World In 2021 204,000 and 553 fast food restaurants were accounted for
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convenience is the main reason for one person going to get fast food.
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And that's why it's so popular. So many people have crazy schedules.
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Have you ever had to take come home from work working all
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day and take your kids to baseball practice to dance to gymnastics.
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You're a mom with three kids. It's got a crazy schedule. You can't always cook.
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So sometimes they're thinking, oh, food on the way will be great to get
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instead of having to come home cook a full meal.
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Clean up, do the dishes and take all your kids to practice
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help.
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Have you ever wondered what it's doing to your body?
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Fast food might always be the easiest option.
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But can it be the healthiest know some of the health issues
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can be caused um that are caused by fast food or obesity,
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depression, digestive issues,
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heart problems and strokes and there's so many more that I just didn't go into.
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We as americans need to start
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taking better care of our health,
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choosing what will help us in the future instead of this.
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I know a lot of people with diabetes and they have to sit there
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and watch what they eat and they had to start cutting out fast food
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and um, they like they're living a healthier lifestyle. Now.
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There can be healthy options when you do fast food, but do you do those,
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most people will just go get some chicken nuggets,
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some cheeseburgers and some french fries and a coke and a mountain dew
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And those in the long term will really hurt our body.
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We've got to start eating better or we're gonna start dying out really young because
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obesity and depression.
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Those things will hurt us in the long term.
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What are some better options if you want to
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eat out stated by the health and nutrition.
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Chick fil a and Subway and chipotle are very healthy options
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considered to like compared to Mcdonald's and Bojangles and Taco Bell
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Chipotle actually has Power Bowl things where you
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can get like the right amount of carbs,
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protein vegetables
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and you can drink it with water.
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Um,
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I know chick fil a has done the grilled chicken
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nuggets where you can get a side of salad with it
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and those are really good healthy options for you too.
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And Subway Subway eat fresh. That's I love Subway
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and
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I love that. They're like you can go get it
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the right amount of carb you can find also whole wheat and get like
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a healthier bread instead of having to eat carbs and you can get turkey,
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you can get ham,
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you can get any type of protein that's good for your body rather than some
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probably some processed meat and a plant that is not healthy for you at all.
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And so those are healthier options and we
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but they tend to be more expensive than the other options.
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What can we do to live a healthier lifestyle.
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We can choose to go to the fast food options with healthier menus.
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Like I summed up like chipotle Subway and chick fil
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a those are like the top three healthier ones.
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We can also meal prep for weeks, that we know that we're going to be crazy busy
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and what I mean my meal prep is go ahead and like on a monday,
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cook like your meat and everything and then on like a Tuesday,
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sorry about more
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on days that we can meal prep.
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We could cook like our proteins on like a monday
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and cook enough to do through Tuesday Wednesday thursday friday.
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And then maybe if you need to eat out one of those days,
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we could do that.
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That could also lead to a healthier lifestyle If you already are planning ahead of
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what you're going to eat and what you're going to take into your body.
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A lot of people think that just thinking in the short term of what's okay,
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it's just McDonald's, it's just by Jingles wants.
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But really if you're doing it 2-3 times a week,
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look at all those calories that you're taking in and
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all those carbs that you're getting in your body.
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We need to start eating the right amount of protein to
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our body and eating the right amount of greens that we need
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and
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so we can start living a better and healthier lifestyle.
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Also, one thing I'd like to point out is fast food adds up very, very fast.
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If you start doing well, here's $7 on a monday, here's $8 Tuesday Wednesday,
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$10 you can spend up to $2030 a week.
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And if you cut that out, you don't realize how much money you'll save.
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I used to when I got my license,
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I used to burn up the roads and go and spend all that money and I started saving better
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and I figured out I would do a better lifestyle
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when I do that and I'd like for other people
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to realize that it's healthier and saving money can be a lot nicer