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Promixity to Fast Food Restaurants Boosts Risk of Stroke

Saturday, February 21, 2009
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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A study presented at the International Stroke Conference in San Diego reveals that living near fast food restaurants boosts stroke risk by as much as 13 percent. The upshot of the study is that we should all be careful what we live near. Living near farmer's markets and food co-ops might be a lot healthier choice than living near fast food restaurants.

This study all provides evidence for cities that may wish to restrict the density of fast food restaurants in order to protect the health of their citizens.

Sources for this story:

ABC News: Living Near Fast Food Ups Stroke Risk
More Fast-Food Joints in Neighborhoods Mean More Strokes - US News and World Report

Authors' Quotes on Fast Food

Below, you'll find selected quotes from noted authors on the subject of Fast Food. Feel free to quote these in your own work provided you give proper credit to both the original author quoted here and this NaturalNews page.

American spending on fast food has increased eighteenfold since 1970. The world of fast food is only one of many changing influences but may be the most dramatic. In his book fast food Nation, Eric Schlosser notes that American spending on fast food went from $6 billion to $110 billion annually in the last thirty years. He states: Fast food is now served at restaurants and drive-thrus, at stadiums, airports, zoos, high schools, elementary schools, and universities, on cruise ships, trains, and airplanes, at K-Marts, Wal-Marts, gas stations, even at hospital cafeterias...
- Food Fight by Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
- Available on Amazon.com

In 1970 Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000 they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined. All of these factors mean free radicals are more active and damaging than ever. Nutritional medicine, supplementing our diet with vital antioxidant vitamins and minerals, is the only means we have to supercharge our body's natural defense and immune system.
- What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You by Ray D. Strand
- Available on Amazon.com

Eating fast food is the surest and quickest way of becoming overweight and unhealthy. The fast food industry is a multi-billion dollar business, and its goal is to make money on our addiction to unhealthy foods. If you have a weight problem, don't want one, or you just want to live a healthy non-toxic lifestyle, do not eat fast food. This food is processed, packaged and chemically altered. If you do not have a problem with your health or your weight and want to indulge from time to time, that is your choice.
- The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie by Craig Pepin-Donat
- Available on Amazon.com

On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast Food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food, in 2000 they spent $110 billion.
- If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle by Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
- Available on Amazon.com

The fast food industry, on the other hand, first came onto the scene in early 1950s with a few hamburger and hot dog stands in Southern California. Today it not only fills every corner of American society, it is all over the world. McDonald's alone has 31,000 restaurants worldwide, with nearly 2,000 new ones opening up every year. An average American eats about 3 hamburgers and 4 servings of French fries every week. Nearly half of the money they spend on foods goes to the fast food restaurants -- more than $110 billion a year.
- Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World by APC Books
- Available on Amazon.com

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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.

Click here to read a more detailed bio on Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, at HealthRanger.com.

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