You Can Still Achieve a Healthy Lifestyle Even Though You Just Ate Fast Food

Every day, about a quarter of Americans eat fast food.  However, I wonder what the statistics are for other countries.  I am currently here in the Philippines and it is fast food galore here as well.  The fast foods in the Philippines are quite affordable also, causing people to go eat fast food rather than eating something more wholesome.  Japan has many American fast food chains and Europe I am sure.  I do believe the battle of the bulge is no longer stationed in America.  The fat is just everywhere!

The typical teenage boy in the United States alone gets 10% of his daily calories from Soda.  Did you know that a 12-ounce can of Coke contain about 10-12 teaspoons of sugar?  Basically, it is 1 teaspoon of sugar for every ounce or shot glass of soda.  It’s quite unbelievable when I first learned about that fact, but whenever I share it, everyone always questions it.  But I assure you, it’s the cold hard truth and if you’re a coke drinker that is what you are drinking.  Remember, excess sugar turns to fat in the body.

If you go to a fast food chain, it costs them cents to make soda and that is where a lot of their profit comes from; the sales of soda.  However, if you are weird like I am, when I go to a McDonalds for a treat (yes I occasionally have a treat there too) I order pineapple juice.  It’s a little healthier than soda, but it still has some sugar and it is still refined.  For myself, to combat the bad food I eat, I take in extra nutrients to balance out my treat.  But I keep this in moderation and so should you.  That’s the key! Moderation!

What is really scary is that children often recognize the Golden Arch before they recognize their own name.  Yikes!  Also, if you wrap anything in a fast food wrapper, it just taste better?  That is how powerful fast food marketing is.  It is incredible!

However, you can still achieve a healthy Lifestyle even though at times you can’t go anywhere else except a fast food chain.  The solution is natural food based supplements that will supply your body the nutrients missing from the food we eat everyday.  Nutrition is fuel for your body at the cell level so you can be healthy.  Healthy Cells equates healthy bodies.  Though not all supplements are made equally so you will have to do some research.  In this blog, I talk plenty about Mannatech Products because I believe they are the best money can buy.  

Also, increase your exercise to get more energy as well as burn off those empty calories.  Yes, they are quite empty even thought it tasted good.  But what is better is to eat something wholesome throughout the day.  It will just help you today, tomorrow and the long run.

So you can achieve a healthy lifestyle with good wholesome food, exercise, plenty of rest and good supplementation to help your cells get healthy and the overall You well.