Security News > 2020 > February > Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eggs

Most have to live within easy traveling distance of where they work, industrial work one way or another be it from the actual processes or the vehicles people use to travel to work create innordinate amounts of polution that we now know micro particulates get down into the lower lungs where they lodge, making people more susceptable to respiritory or cardio-pulmonary disease including hypertension and reduced oxygen carrying capacity.

For most people their genetics are wired up so that sugar is effectively a drug that makes you eat more and more.

The upshot is that if you eat an oriental diet which is sufficient or more in calories then all those "Western diseases" such as diabetes hits people hard, very hard.

There is a reason aside from marketing and that it's short order cooking that make people eat MuckyD's and similar fast food and that is poverty.

Low cost fast food becomes the only option to eat hot food for quite a large number of people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, especially when they are working two or three jobs just to stay alive, which also frequently means they can not purchase healthy food because they only time they are not working is when the shops that sell healthier food tend to be closed, worse they also tend to be a very considerable distance from where people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder live.

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