Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? 283
Rambo Tribble writes "As reported by the BBC, the journal Neurology is set to release the findings of a study in Oregon on diet and brain shrinkage in Alzheimer's victims. The upshot is: a diet rich in vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids is beneficial; trans fat and fast food are detrimental."
Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo (Score:2, Informative)
Giving up smoking can add ten years of being old to your life.
Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo (Score:5, Informative)
I've been out of the restaurant management business for about 5 years, but things couldn't have changed that much. It costs about 3 cents for the cup and about 10 cents on average to fill it (various size cups, not every refill is a full cup, etc). People get their initial fill, most people get one refill, few people get more than one. So, if we just assume everyone gets 2 refills, it costs 23 cents for your beverage, which they sell to you for anywhere from $1.50-$4 depending on the restaurant. That gets you a ~500% profit margin.
Fries also have a good margin, though there is a higher labor component, the cost of cooking them, keeping them frozen, lowered yield (waste, broken fries, etc). In fact, most fryer side orders are pretty profitable (a half dozen mozzarella sticks might sell for around $5, but you can buy a 4.5 pound case for around $11, which will yield about 10 orders).
The sandwiches aren't nearly as profitable, particularly the meat sandwiches, but the sandwiches are what get people in the door. A 1/3rd pound burger costs around 75 cents for the meat, 20 cents for the bun, 15 cents for the cheese, and up to another 25 cents if it is dressed. They need to be refrigerated, you lose yield (overcooked, fell apart, etc) and are relatively labor intensive (especially if you patty them yourself). For that $1.40 investment (not counting labor, yield, etc), you sell it for about $3.
Factor in that somewhere around a third of all of your revenue goes to labor and another 30-40% goes to food costs depending on your model. On top of that, you still have your overhead - mortgage/rent/property taxes, heating/cooling, gas/electric, etc. Profits are pretty thin in the fast food/diner/family restaurant market and without the profitability of the side orders, most of them can't stay in business for long (hell, most of these non-chain restaurants fail in the first year anyway). Upscale/fine dining is a whole different beast.
Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo (Score:3, Informative)
"sustain many vitamins and minerals with supplements,
most supplements do exactly nothing. Besides, the fast food you eat is fortified.
Eat more then you burn, you gain weight.
If you ate only 1500 calories a day, and you are a man, you will probably loose weight with no exercise.
Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo (Score:4, Informative)
No one? who the fuck do you ask, they guy in the mirror?
There is mountains of evidence that eating a healthy life style and reasonable exercise leads to longer life.
Does it mean you won't be hit buy a bus? no. Does it mean you WON"T have a heart attack? no. IT doesn't mean you are less likely to. And if you aren't running get a check up before you start, and start slow and short.
Smoking just doesn't substantially increase the odds you will get certain cancers, it also weaken the tissue in your spring, injures your heart, and a variety of other effect.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&term=physical%20exercise [nih.gov]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=eating%20healthy [nih.gov]
And that's just a start.
However, you are just making mental excuses so you don't change.