NIT Opinion –
The sweet stench of bubbling grease and char-broiled red meat you sniff all over town doesn’t just ruin your body, a study shows, it also makes you even dumber.
We all know fast food makes us look cows, plugs our arteries and generally fills our bodies with garbage. A new study by the Ohio State University takes the notion that this nasty grub is poison a step further and shows that kids who eat fast food on a regular basis get lower test scores.
“Researchers found that the more frequently children reported eating fast food in fifth grade, the lower their growth in reading, math, and science test scores by the time they reached eighth grade,” the university said in a statement describing the results of the study.
“There’s a lot of evidence that fast-food consumption is linked to childhood obesity, but the problems don’t end there,” lead researcher Kelly Purtell said. “Relying too much on fast food could hurt how well children do in the classroom.”
Parents, why do you insist on paying good money for utter sewage that sickens your children’s physical health as well as their cognitive abilities? Have you ever thought about the ingredients in those deep-fried taco amalgamations they serve at Taco Bell? How about those awful triple-decker pre-formed chicken man-wiches they peddle at Burger King? Do people really eat that crap?
Seriously, ask yourself how a fast food joint can sell anything for $1. If they can sell you “food” for $1, how much do you think it costs them to produce it? Break down their business model. Labor, lights, heat, property tax, franchise fees, the actual ingredients in the food they must purchase, etc etc. Take a piece of that $1 for each expense the business must cover. This mass-produced yuck ain’t worth the nickel profit they get for selling it to you. And you are feeding it to yourself and your kids.
Look, China is already beating America in the classroom. “Chinese students consistently outperform American students in academic achievement,” according to the University of Michigan. Another study said “Top U.S. students are falling behind even average students in Asia.”
It is arguable that when you feed your kids fast food, you are contributing to ruining their future – and the future of this country. Dumber citizens cannot compete on the world stage. It’s been reported that China already passed the U.S. as the world’s largest economy – so the affects are already materializing.
Instead giving your kids hypertension and heart disease and putting them even farther behind the kids in the Far East, buy them an apple. Buy them some lean turkey. Buy them some whole wheat bread. Give them a glass of ice cold water. In other words, quit being lazy and drive right on by the drive thru; don’t stop there for any reason. You owe it to your kids and our nation to take better care of them.
