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the king of fast food. For his research, he was to eat every meal for a month at McDonald’s. He did, ordering everything he could order in “Super-size” and had his doctor document the results on an on-going basis during his research. His doctor begged him to terminate his scientific investigation before it was even complete however, because of the quickly increasing dangers to his heart, such as elevating cholesterol levels, blood pressure and his weight. Conclusion – eating at McDonald’s is unhealthy, causes heart disease and makes you fat. At about the same time, a woman decided to do another study by eating at McDonald’s with similar parameters – every meal for 30 days was to be eaten at the Golden Arches. At the end of a full month, however, her cholesterol levels had gone down, her heart and arteries were fine and she had lost 20 pounds. Conclusion? Eating at McDonald’s was a good and healthy eating plan. How could this possibly be? Easy! It’s a matter of understanding the foods available and taking responsibility for what we order and put into our mouths! This lady ordered in a responsible way, enjoyed some fatty foods but was conscious of the dangers of combining them with carbohydrates and she followed good food combining practices. Blaming America’s weight problem on McDonald’s or the general category of fast-food restaurants is simply an irresponsible red herring, a misguided attempt to shift the blame away from ourselves and our own choices and onto a convenient, catch-all fall guy. The problem with this kind of thinking is that discontinuing the feasts at McDonald’s and Burger King won’t change a thing if we don’t learn what the real culprits are and then take full, personal responsibility for our own health! Let’s start with grains. The grains we eat today are nothing like the natural ones man first discovered and began to harvest for food. A great way to get some perspective on this is to pick up any box of easy-to-prepare rice from the store, then compare it to a bag of wild rice harvested from the wetlands by American Indians in Minnesota. The differences are obvious and huge. Even though they’re certainly
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