Rule #13

"Even standing inside a fast food restaurant reinforces the problem.  Your powerful sense of smell gets hijacked by all those high-fat molecules filling up the air around you.  You also lose control of your sense of taste.  Soon, anything that is not hypersweet or salty falls short of your desire and just doesn’t do it for you.  You’re a prisoner of fast food.  Not an addict.  A prisoner.Let’s start with what happens when it goes into your mouth.  Here we begin the long and expensive and ugly slide to a mouth full of cavities and various tooth diseases.  Concentrated fats and sugars also stimulate strong inflammatory reactions by your body’s immune system.  Often that reaction begins in the esophagus.  There is actually an emergency medical condition called “steak house syndrome” in which the huge shot of bad fats into the bloodstream that occurs after ingestion of high-fat meats results in cardiac distress.But let’s say you avoided the ER and now the fries and burger are in your gut.  For starters, there’s a good chance you’ll be tasting it all day and maybe all night; fried foods can cause heartburn and esophageal reflux.  In your bloodstream, bad cholesterol soars.Heart attacks and strokes soar within the first two to three hours of such meals.  The connection is so strong that, when the University of Michigan studied neighborhood increased by 1 percent for every fast food restaurant.Let us now come to your pancreas and live.  Chronic eating of concentrated sugar and bad fats tells the organs to make more insulin and more blood fat, as your muscles become resistant to the insulin.  This is called type 2 diabetes.  It’s not benign.  Too much insulin floats around your bloodstream and destroys nerves."

I've been struggling lately....not horribly but just not perfect choices.  I REALLY need to go grocery shopping and plan better and things would go much more smoothly.  Time to get on top of that!