Fast Food is Good for Your Waistline Really?Mike Barrett The author shares the same belief as many others: that a calorie is a calorie, and the source or quality is of little importance. He explains that if the phony character chose McDonalds instead of Chilis, she would have consumed less calories, paving way for a slimmer waist. Had she gone to McDonalds, her usual would have set her back 580 calories. Yet her smarter Chilis order quickly added up. Sharons salad alone contained 690 calories; her portion of dip and chips contained another 320; and her few small bites of brownie packed a final 137, giving her a Chilis grand total of 1,147 caloriesbasically double her McDonalds fare. Like Sharon, many people often assume that somehow fast food is worse for weight than what you might order in a sit-down restaurant. While eating fast food on a regular basis is assuredly not a nutritionally sound plan, there are a few reasons why it may well be a weight-friendlier choice than sit-down dining. The Dangers of Fast Food Fast food isnt bad for you because its inexpensive; fast food is not healthful due to almost always containing numerous health-hazardous ingredients. McDonalds McNuggets contain 7 different ingredients making up the meat, many of which contain sub-ingredients. Instead of using real meat, the ingredient list utilizes sodium phosphate, safflower oil, wheat starch, dextrose, and autolyzed yeast extract a particularly dangerous substance very similar to the toxic MSG. Along side with these ingredients comes the use of dimethylpolysiloxane, a silicon substance used as an anti-foaming agent and often found in breast implants and silly putty. But of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg. To make matters worse (and this applies to most fast food restaurants and sit down restaurants), these food-serving facilities promote non-caring corporate food manufacturers and suppliers, the widespread use of factory farms, and genetically modified organisms. Of course none of these things are positive or supportive of a healthy environment and world. In a nut shell, a typical fast food restaurant: So is it really smart to choose fast food in high hopes of moving down a pant size? Not only is the idea of eating fast food for a smaller waist bizarre, but by choosing fast food you are also supporting everything that goes against a healthy you and a healthy planet. This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information. 