"When the world is boycotting foreign fast food, the Chinese are lining up to buy food! For example, in Beijing, the children's kids exams are good, and parents always like to take them to eat foreign fast food as a reward. As everyone knows, this is It is not just children. This kind of foreign fast food is still sought after by young people, including undergraduates, in our country." Professor Zhao Lin, chief expert of health education of the Ministry of Health, appealed in an interview with reporters that foreign fast food should not be eaten anymore. !
In January 2005, the “Washington Post†published Peter Goodman’s article “The Snack Bites Chinese Culture A Sipâ€. The article points out: The survey of 14,400 adults in 28 countries found that 41% of the people in China are affected. The visitors eat at least once a week "Western fast food." The article also pointed out: "China currently has about 200 million people who are overweight and 6 million people are obese. The increasing consumption of foreign fast food is the leading cause of the increasing incidence of diabetes and hypertension in China." Prof. Zhao told reporters that since the foreign fast foods such as McDonald's and KFC entered China in 1987, our obese children have increased day by day, especially in Beijing, where the rate of childhood obesity has reached 40%. In recent years, children who participated in the summer camps in Beijing to hold weight loss summer camps are all chubby piers. The health of these children is seriously degraded. It makes people feel sad! Prof. Zhao specifically pointed out five major hazards of foreign fast food.
Impairs the intelligence of children and teenagers
November 6th, 2004 Schedule Professor Zhao Yi once wrote in the "China Food Newspaper" that Canadian researchers used high-fat and common feed to feed 2 groups of one-month-old mice. When the mice were four months old, the mice were trained to complete a simple memory task and found that the "fat" mice performed far less well than the "lean" mice that had normal diets. The latter had stronger learning ability. The researchers thus concluded that high-fat "foreign fast food" can damage the developing nervous system of children and cause permanent damage to their brains and thinking qualities.
Lead to obesity and precocious puberty
In 2003, Professor Michael Schwartz, an endocrinologist at the University of Washington in the United States, found that American fast food such as hamburgers and French fries can cause changes in hormones in the body, making it easy for consumers, especially young children, to become addicted and have difficulty controlling food intake. Because the human body's hormone - "leptin" controls the body's dietary behavior, why does a child eat a "foreign fast food" and want to eat it for the second time, because the "foreign fast food" interference affects the "leptin" in the body? normal level. Due to the "addictiveness" of "foreign fast food" and drinks such as cola, many parents in Europe prohibit children from eating American fast food and drinking coke. In China, because the sales strategy of “Foreign Fast Food†is based on children’s promotion, they use simple children’s amusement facilities, small sets of gifts, and sweet treats to induce children to continue to spend. Parents lacked vigilance over this. In the past 10 years, the number of obese children in China has quadrupled. There is no doubt that regular consumption of “foreign fast food†has caused an imbalance in the diet structure, which is one of the main reasons for this situation.
Hydrogenated oil causes chronic diseases
The huge differences between the traditional dietary structures of the East and the West make the Chinese people's understanding of trans fatty acids (TFAS) lag behind the West. Chinese consumers do not even know that there are trans fatty acids in the diet. With the proliferation of “foreign fast foodâ€, there are more and more trans fatty acids in the national diet.
The oil used in the "Foreign Fast Food" is a hydrogenated oil, which is an oil produced by adding hydrogen to vegetable oil. It contains about 38% of trans-fatty acids -- it is a fatty acid that is not found in nature and is an artificial fatty acid. Since artificial trans fatty acids have the advantages of high temperature resistance and non-deterioration, "hydrogenated oils" can increase the taste of foods and greatly reduce the cost, and are commonly used in "foreign fast food". However, "Hydrogenated oils" can reduce "good" cholesterol (HDL), which helps prevent hardening of the blood vessels, and increase "bad" cholesterol (LDL), which can easily cause vascular infarct. The long-term consumption of trans fatty acids can lead to the occurrence of chronic diseases such as diabetes and coronary heart disease. Normal natural fats can be excreted by the body 7 days after absorption, while trans-fatty acids need 51 days to be catabolized and excreted, so it is more likely to cause obesity. In view of this, on October 30, 2006, 5,500 KFC chains in the United States were forced to declare that they stopped using hydrogenated oil, but KFC in China did not do so.
High levels of carcinogens
A study published by the Swedish National Food Administration on April 24, 2002 showed that foods such as hamburgers, French fries, and fried chicken contain large amounts of "acrylamide," which can cause genetic mutations and damage to the central nervous system. The peripheral nervous system induces benign or malignant tumors. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released 750 food inspection results in 2004, reaffirming that the highest levels of "acute poison" are contained in French fries, potato chips, popcorn, and crackers! A study by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan also showed that high concentrations of acrylamide can be detected from potato chips. Experts from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States also carried out tests and all came to a certain conclusion.
The Los Angeles Times reported on August 27th, 2005 that California Attorney General Bill Locke filed suit against nine fast-food chains including McDonald's, KFC, Burger King, and Wendy, because several of these fast food companies violated California. Law - Motion No. 65, which requires people to give advance warning when they come into contact with known carcinogens or toxic chemicals. The chief prosecutor asked: Fast food companies must indicate in the outer package of fried potato chips and French fries that the food contains carcinogenic acrylamide.
"Three high" and "three low" nutritional imbalance
As "Foreign fast food" has the characteristics of "three highs" and "three lows", namely "high calorie, high fat, high protein" and "low mineral, low-vitamin, low-dietary fiber," it is known by the international nutrition community. It is "junk food"!
In mid-May 2004, the documentary film "Give Me The Biggest", which witnessed the health hazards of American fast food, was released in the United States and was nominated for the 2005 Academy Awards Best Documentary. The film records that the young American director Morgan Spurlock forced himself to eat only McDonald's food and drinks for three meals a day for 30 days. In the process, three doctors (cardiology, gastroenterology, nutrition) supervised and constantly checked his health status. Previously, Spurlock was 1.9 meters tall, weighed less than 84 kilograms and was very healthy. Two weeks after the experiment, the doctor found that his liver was severely damaged. Three weeks later, the examination revealed abnormalities in his heart function. For this reason, the doctor advised him to take aspirin daily. However, in order to ensure the authenticity of the experiment, Spurlock was Rejected. At the end of the experiment a month later, Spurlock's liver showed a toxic reaction, chest tightness, high blood pressure, cholesterol increased by 65%, and weight increased by 11 kg. The supervising doctor clearly pointed out that long-term consumption of "junk food" such as American fast food may cause permanent damage to health!