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The French Fry: Weapon of Mass Destruction?

Americans have French fries, English has their chips, Latin Americans have papaya fritas, and the French have their pommes-frites.

We love them. The potatoes, the most common and most popular vegetables, are just sliced ​​into strips and deep fried. The fast food chain has successfully established a total consistency for the fries at McDonalds in Kalamazoo similar to those offered in San Francisco, Atlanta, Moscow, or Madrid. They are finger food, easy to eat behind the wheel, stand in the subway, or walk the streets. Some of us choose to add tomato sauce, or vinegar, or salsa, but they also taste great.

The civilized world has a giant addiction to its inferiority. It is hard to imagine the months of eating that took place before potatoes were brought back to Europe from the New World and become the staple of every country cuisine. What do poor people eat before potatoes make their appearance? Bread? Cereals? Vegetables?

The appearance of potatoes changes our diet forever. Easy to grow, abundant, and inexpensive. It feels light, well-marinated with just about anything we choose to eat with it. The texture changes depending on how it is prepared. And how many ways we created it to cut, cook, and use it with every imaginable dish!

We burn it on the skin or roast it in bite-sized pieces. We boil it whole or break it into soft porridge. We cooked it and fried it for breakfast. We made the soup and made it the main ingredient in the stew. We made pancakes out of it. We inhaled it, flattened it, and cut it. We put it in the bread, rolled it into the dough, and created our favorite American snack, potato chip.

But the work that captures all of us is frying it. Bold, country style chips, shoelaces, curls and spices - we love them all: gold and fresh and perfect.

French cooking oil now accounts for 25% of our children's vegetable intake. Eating fast food experts are trying to replace the healthier alternatives that many of their customers dismiss. Fried potatoes remain the preferred accompaniment to all fast food: burgers, hot dogs, chicken, fish, grilled meats and ribs. We just couldn't get enough and never, it seemed like a tire of little fun.

Harmless potatoes, relatively low calories and packing a good portion of vitamins and minerals, have turned into weapons of mass destruction. Formulated by saturated fats in caloric serum and hardened arteries, French fries may be the greatest danger we face every day.

Just a few orders of fries a week can increase our weight by ten pounds a year! For over a decade, it's a hundred pounds, a lifetime, an amazing number. With 60% of our excess weight, half of that figure is actually obese, we must look at our diet to find the cause. As with diabetes and other weight-related conditions, we know in our hearts that lifestyle changes are needed.

We serve the diet regimen, drink the liquid, fast, cut the sauce, and our stomachs are set up. We joined the gym, bought exercise equipment at home, and followed along with a television fitness program. We blame the extra ingredients in our diet, the hormones in our meat, and the fat in our salads. We leave carbohydrates and sugars that our bodies cannot process and choose high fiber breads and low fat milk.

We do not want to believe it, because we do not want to believe, that the small, harmless additions to our diet can pack deadly walls.

"But I just bite a few," you moan, "and not everyday." It is not a single food intake that leads to an explosion. It is the cumulative amount, day by day, year after year, that plants the time bomb in our system. It is the additional effect of repeated use that eventually reaches our critical mass and our physiological implications.

Imagine, if you will, that not one fry is sold or eaten for a year, anywhere in the United States. With just that change, the national collective weight loss could exceed one billion pounds!

Poor potatoes are not equipped to act as a deadly weapon. It offers us fun and variety as well as taste and health. But we have taken the honesty and turned it into a slow killer. With each of our elbows bent to feel the sweetness in our mouths, we put fat on our waist, our stomach, our arteries, and our pancreas.

Let's save ourselves and save the potatoes. As much as we hate to admit it, French fries are something we have to do before we do.



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