Really fast food?
Pick a potato, peel and slice, then fry in a pan of oil and finish with a sprinkling of salt. Simple, right? Not so. It turns out fast-fries often have more than 15 ingredients, including sugar and artificial colouring. They also have preservatives like sodium acid pyrophosphate and tert-butylhydroquinone, which in high doses has been linked to vision problems.
Are you sure what you have on burger is just ground beef? Maybe, but there also could be growth hormones and antibiotics—and all end up in your system. And in one American study, some burgers had over 100 calories more per serving than the fast-food places said they did.
One US outlet offered “fried egg” but its ingredients were more than you could bargain for. It included modified corn starch, soybean oil, medium chain triglycerides, propylene glycol (used in fog machines), artificial flavour, citric acid, xanthan gum, and, oh yes, egg whites and yolks (listed separately).
When dogs go hot, that’s fancy. While they haven’t dogs in them, they make full use of the animals that supply the meat. They are also loaded with salt and saturated fat (and you might be having too much of that already) and with nitrates, a preservative linked to diabetes and cancer.
It is easy to walk into a shopping mall and order four chicken breasts battered and fried to golden perfection. For just one piece, sure there’s meat there, but there’s also the bones, blood vessels, nerves, connective tissue, and skin. And there’s heaps of salt and fat, which are linked inherited.
There’s a reason for choosing fastbeat music during exercise. Fast-beat music makes you exercise—cycle, jog— faster and quicker than slow ballads. And you enjoy the exercise more when listening to faster music.
That song you love might make you tap your feet or boost your mood; it is also good for your heart. Listening to your feel-good music does make you feel good, and improve your blood flow—which is good news for your heart and blood vessels.
Even after a stroke, people who listen daily to their favourite music remembered more, focused better and were less depressed and confused than those who hadn’t, one study shows. The reason isn’t clear, but one possibility is that listening to music involves several parts of the brain.
Therapy using music helps with speech problems from Parkinson’s disease. The condition usually comes with slurred or unclear speech because of breathing problems or trouble moving your mouth or tongue. to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
It’s a milkshake, all right— but where’s the berries? One leading US fast-food outlet adds in milk and sugar, for sure. Then it adds in high-fructose corn syrup, preservatives like sodium benzoate, and artificial flavours and colors to this drinkable dessert. One thing that appears to be missing: actual strawberries. Through music therapy you can learn how to “sing” words and hold single syllables to get better breath support. If you focus on the rhythm of a piece of
The first ingredient listed for almost any sauce served at a fast-food restaurant is sugar. It may be called sucrose, dextrose, maltose, rice syrup, barley malt, high-fructose corn syrup, or any number of other things, but the end result is the same: quick delivery of lots of calories with almost zero nutritional value. music, it might help you walk or move better. Music can also slow down your body when it’s overactive. So plug right into your fave tune.