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In a world driven by the ticking clock, fast food offers instant gratification and convenience, but what lies beneath its glossy surface? Behind the catchy jingles and glistening facades is a complex mix of ultra-processed ingredients that pose as meals.
With fast food dominating our culinary landscape, we need to ask: at what cost to our health? Listen to our latest podcast to explore the truth about fast food, or read more by clicking here (https://reluctantlowcarblife.com/unpacking-the-truth-about-fast-food/) .
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hi this is Anita from reluctant low carb
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life you know if you've been listening
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to me for quite a while you know that
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I'm passionate about a few things one is
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that I believe very much in Fresh Foods
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not in ulti processed foods or fast
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foods also in eating foods that help
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give you satiety or make you feel full
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longer which is usually real foods like
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fruits and vegetables and you know just
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overall real healthy foods and the last
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is Fitness today I want to talk a little
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bit about fast
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foods and explore a little bit bit about
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the truth of fast foods so you
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understand kind of like the Allure of
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fast foods we're all there we all have
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some of our favorite fast food
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restaurants you especially if you live
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in a place like the United States or the
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UK or Australia or a Western Country I
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guarantee that you probably have a few
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fast food places that you like and you
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have frequent you have fre
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Ed you know McDonald's as a fast food
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restaurant is a huge success story you
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know um McDonald's just continues to be
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successful I was seeing something the
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other day on um on the TV where they're
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talking about bringing back the $5 meals
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and you know McDonald's is popular when
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you go to airports like you go to an
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airport like Chicago you can always see
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there's a line there for McDonald's
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there a McDonald's when you get out of
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immigration you know for the Customs
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from overseas flights there's a
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McDonald's in a lot of the ter in every
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single terminal and usually the
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McDonald's has a line people are lining
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up to go to the McDonald's restaurants
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there you know a fast food place like
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McDonald's is very very popular and you
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know that's why even now in the United
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States when you driveth through
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McDonald's they don't have just one you
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know just one drive-thru place they have
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two or three you know so that they can
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be giv taking orders all at the same
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time and sometimes the cars are lined up
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there all waiting to get their
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meal so I understand that fast food is
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popular and we don't Advocate and say
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never eat fast food what we basically
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say is don't make it your main food and
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also you know make sure that you
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understand the pitfalls of fast food
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that you understand what you're getting
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into when you eat fast foods fast foods
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basically it can have a decent you know
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source of protein yes you know like a
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McDonald hamburger protein in it a you
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know Chick-fil-A chicken you know Burger
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has protein in it but at the same time
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it's all of the other things that go
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into it all the other chemicals that are
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put in there it's all of the other
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things the breads that make it become an
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Alti processed food so even though there
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can be some so-called healthy things in
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there you know you can get a hamburger
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with a tomato on it and a lettuce on it
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which is you which is you know a healthy
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it's just healthy to eat but at the same
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time it's all the other things that go
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on there which makes sure that it is not
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a healthy
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option also too it has a lot of there's
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a lot of you know fat in it so it's it's
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just you know eating McDonald's every
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single day is not a healthy or a good
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option take for example chicken nuggets
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yes there's chicken in the Nuggets
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they're made out of real chicken but
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it's all of the breading that's on the
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chicken it's the way it's fried it's the
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way it's cooked it's all the other
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preservatives and then you add the
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dipping sauce on it which has lots of
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ingredients which are preservatives and
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chemicals that makes it an Alti
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processed
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meal so you need to understand that you
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know fast food that even though it's you
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know it may you can maybe justify and
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say this is healthy it is not a healthy
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option generally speaking I'm not saying
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don't ever eat f fast food ever in your
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life because you know that's probably
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not realistic for most people who live
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you know in this world that you know you
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you're sometimes you're going to be
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eating a bit of fast food just don't
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make it the main part of your life every
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single day or find some that are better
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options I I'm actually quite a fan of
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subways and I like the Subways has a
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protein bowl which you basically you
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know get all the you know the vegetables
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and other things in the protein bowl
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which I you know I consider that quite
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healthy for a fast food option there's
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an unexpected side effect of fast food
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that I want to talk about and it's a
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psychological
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effect you need to understand that all
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of these fast food companies and these
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ultied food companies they are not just
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selling you food because they want to
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see you become more healthy that is not
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their role you know their main job is
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for them to look at their shareholders
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and to say our job is to sell as much as
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we can so we can earn as much profit as
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we can they are not beholden to you or
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to your health they are beholden to
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their shareholders that's the first
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thing you need to understand about fast
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foods so if you understand that about
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eating fast food that is extremely
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important because when you go into a
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fast food restaurant everything in that
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restaurant is set up to make you want to
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order more whether it's the special
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deals they're offering whether it's the
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way the um you know food is photographed
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whether it's a certain special whatever
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it is they are set up to make you want
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to spend and eat more it's not set up to
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say like how do I help you become more
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healthy how do I give you a more healthy
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option that is not what it's about out
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that is not their role their role is to
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sell you more food so from the very
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beginning you need to understand that
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that they're they do not have your
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health in mind this is not about them
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saying we're going to make you more
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healthy in fact this is about them
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saying how do we sell more how do we
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make more money so that we can be able
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to give money back to our shareholders
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that's the number one thing so they
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spend a lot of time and have a lot of
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experts these Alti processed food
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companies and these fast food companies
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you know psychologist boards testing all
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of this where they will test and say
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what is the best food or what's the best
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combination or what's the thing that
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sort of triggers people and gets people
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to want to be able to eat this or buy
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more of this or have more of this well
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you will order the large instead of the
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small you will order extra this you will
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you know you will buy this in
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combination with this food they have
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that all psychologically down so really
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there's a psychological an emotional
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effect when you're eating fast foods
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that a lot of people don't understand
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and you know some of the emotional or
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psychological effect can be things even
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from your childhood they can be great
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memories they can be you know you can
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enjoy it because of a certain reason we
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all do this we go past a place and it's
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like oh you know I'm going to go here
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because this has a good good memory for
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me you know so you need to understand
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number one that there's a psychological
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and emotional effect whenever you're
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eating fast foods that you may not even
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understand is triggering into you and it
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might be the reason why you only went
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into to order something which you
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thought was healthy but at the end of
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the day you walk out and you order
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something which was completely unhealthy
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you know you you weren't you weren't
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thinking of getting that you know that
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mint shake but suddenly you know at the
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end you by the time you got up to the
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counter and you saw they oh they have a
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special on this mint shake and it's only
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going to be you know for the next you
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know month or so I better get that and
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try it that is the psychological effect
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of the fast foods we are great
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Believers you know in as we've talked
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about being able to really understand
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you know the psychology behind the foods
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that you eat and if you can understand
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that when you go in there to these
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restaurants maybe it will stop you from
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buying the milkshake or something else
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cuz you'll understand this is
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psychologically being played on you
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that's why at at reluctant low carb life
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we believe in this as I've talked about
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before the trifecta of Health which is
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basically about you know eating foods
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that are fresh eating foods that help
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you feel full and eating foods that will
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and having Fitness as part of your life
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if you're on the road today and you're
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you know you need to eat you know find
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those choices or find those options
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where you can have more healthy options
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today there are places that are doing
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things like salads you know I'm a great
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fan of another another place sort of
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fast food place the soup and salad place
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Zupas they got some great salads there
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you know Paneras you can find some good
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salads too like I've mentioned before
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like Subways so you know find some of
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maybe the better options and better
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choices for you you know you know and
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and then go there with those better
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options and choices in those places you
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can you know explore there are some fast
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food places now that are trying to give
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some better choices and options so if
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you really need to go out and eat you
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know eat and fast food find and explore
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those places we have written a Blog on
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this called the truth about fast food a
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lifestyle revealed we're going to put a
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link in the description in case you're
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interested in learning more about this
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and we'd like to invite you to join with
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us on this journey of this Trifecta of
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health of eating Fresh Foods foods that
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help you feel full and by make you
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