The Dark Side of Fast Food Industry

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about some of the fast food industry’s secrets that can keep you wanting more but are detrimental to your health.

The average American consumes between 2 and 3 fast food meals per week, which adds up to 150 to 200 meals per year. Even if you order value meals or make choices from the dollar menu, most people spend around $1500 to $2000 per year on fast food.

The fast food industry uses all sorts of marketing tactics to keep you wanting more. Mcdonald’s uses yellow and red, which stimulate impulsivity, increase serotonin, and even encourage you to eat faster.

The fast food industry also targets children, hence the playgrounds and happy meals at fast food restaurants. They use upselling techniques by offering fries or a combo, which can increase profits by more than 22%. Prices containing the number 9 can increase the likelihood of making a purchase!

McDonald’s is one of the largest beef buyers in the U.S. They use low-quality factory-farmed beef fattened with grains and treated with antibiotics.

Fast food meals also contain poor-quality ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, corn oil, soy oil, corn flour, corn starch, and fillers like maltodextrin. These ingredients are highly processed and highly inflammatory. Although fast food may seem cheaper and more convenient in the short term, it can cause massive health consequences in the long term.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the dark side of the fast food industry.
0:03.5	There are all sorts of dirty little secrets that you need to know about.
0:06.6	An average American consumes between two and three of those fast food meals
0:11.6	every single week, which comes out to like 150 to 200 meals per year, totaling
0:16.0	between $1,500 to $2,000 a year.
0:18.7	Now if we compare that to other countries, especially France, we spend three times as much in fast food than they do.
0:25.8	And you might have this idea that it's like it's really cheap food, but you're not going to walk
0:29.2	out of a fast food restaurant without at least paying $10 per person, which is pretty surprising when sometimes
0:35.8	you go in there and you're choosing food from the dollar menu or the value meals.
0:40.6	The perception is you save a lot, but actually you're going to pay a lot a good portion of the
0:46.8	ingredients in this food which is subsidized by the government aka your dollars, pay for a lot of these ingredients,
0:55.7	especially all these grains that actually feed the animals
0:58.3	and they actually are put into products,
1:00.2	which you end up buying at this fast food restaurant.
1:02.3	And then you actually pay for your health problems
1:04.4	that you're going to have to solve created by this type of food.
1:08.3	They're so convenient.
1:09.3	I mean it's open 24 hours a day.
1:11.9	In fact when you drive up to one of these facilities you don't even
1:14.4	have to get out of a car but not only that you don't even have to drive to these places you can
1:18.4	order it from your home and have it delivered. The speed at which they make this food is mind-blowing.
1:25.0	And you can actually personalize the food.
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