Unappetizing Food for Thought

Heart disease, strokes, diabetes, several types of cancer, sleep apnoea,  Gout, and gallbladder disease derive, in large part, due to being overweight or obese.  Many concerns of weight gain bounce off the idea that weight, after a certain point, is nearly impossible to shed.  Genetics, conditions, and situations of stress or inflexibility of schedules can contribute to the already tough challenge of losing weight, but I believe it is not solely these factors that prevent the burning of fat, but instead an individual's diet.  The makeup of an individual's food determines how the food processes in the body.  The phrase, "you are what you eat," plays into effect as food break-down periods are either natural or surreal.   Organic foods begin breaking down within three to four days on average.  Preservative saturated and processed foods take far longer on average with anywhere from two to three weeks to begin decomposing.

Super Size Me - a documentary of several experiments involving McDonald's foods - shares an experiment testing the decomposition of McDonald's fast food compared to a mom-&-pop store with foods void of preservatives with the exception of the those added before the meat and potatoes were bought by the store.  The results are disturbing.

Repeated several times in the video is the idea that, "what are these foods doing inside of the consumers?"  The french fries especially are of particular interest.  Do these petrified foods decompose in us at all?  Do they break down slower or stay with us til our dying day?  If so, then my fear of overweight fellows tormented by the chase for the slimmer life is correct.  The fat is permanent because it is impossible to break down and burn.  It is fossilized fat.  Like a carbonated Hans Solo chryogenically frozen to our bellies.  

P.S.  on a personal note, I have had a run-in with one of these McDonald's french fries perfectly preserved at SIX MONTHS beneath the seat of my car.  The fry felt like a cut stone blasted with sand to give an idea of its tough, rough exterior.  The inside was the presumably no different than the exterior as there was no give.  The fry would not break down, even under excessive rubbing, squeezing and prodding.  A friend and I joked about the consumption of a such a gem only days before and the topic encompassed classes with the release of Super Size Me as a scholarly documentary.  Curiosity, in the end, got the best of me.  I ate the fossil food.  Dirty grit like that of sanded granite crushed with six month old deep frying oils and dirt overwhelmed me.  I found it impossible to swallow.  What happens when that freak of nature food is in me? What does it become?  That's all, thank you!