Professional Advice

I met with the dietitian Alanna Doran to gain further education on fast foods impact to peoples bodies. Although she works with elderly people she still understands how the brain and body react to certain foods. I asked her if she has ever seen a behavioural change in people when they choose to eat healthier and she right away said, patients who begin eating a healthier, balanced diet decrease their stress rates and depression. I then asked her opinions on fast food, Alanna mentioned fast food is okay once or twice a week with balance. This meaning if you eat it everyday and don’t workout, it wont do you any good. If you eat it on the way home after a workout once a week then it won’t do you any harm. Fast food includes empty calories meaning yes you are eating over 2000 calories worth of fast food a day, but there are no nutrients in these calories to give your body the fuel it needs. When your body has too many calories with no nutrients in it then too mcuh synapses is being produced meaning your neurotransmitters will interfere. Neurotransmitters are in charge of how you body reacts, they are what send your brain the signal to release dopamine (happy chemically), serotonin (calm chemical) or tryptophan (sad chemical). Next I asked if she felt fast food was taking over todays society with advertisements. She said yes they are advertising fast food a lot more although it’s the healthier options they carry. This lead to another conversation on how they false advertise healthy options when they still aren’t even healthy or beneficial to our bodies. The most interesting thing she said was how people choose fast food because it tastes good, even if they get sick they go back because it tastes good, your body craves it because it tastes good. Fast food will be one of the hardest things to get away from because it tastes good and it takes a lot of will power to avoid this food.