Training & Nutrition - Fast food makes me sleep. . .

Why is it that when i eat at a fast food place i will always wan't to sleep after?? If you could help me out with this simple ?, thank you!

Jared

Fast food makes you sleep? It makes me fat.

Maybe it's because they pump fast food full of sugar to give you a high - then you bottom out soon after. I guess I really have no idea but that as good a guess as you'll get from me. So now a word from the experts.....

Some of that might be avoided if you pick and choose what you order.

Skip the bread and fries and get diet pop instead of the sugary(??) alternative---Also might want to avoid drinks containing caffeine---not positive-but I think iced tea has the most of all the drinks offered at the fast food joints.

Try ordering a salad with low-cal dressing or something like Wendy's chili. Chicken nuggets might be good--but they are fried so are probably up there in the fat content.

If you usually have 2 burgers--order a double instead to cut back on the bread you take in. Cutting back on the cheese couldn't hurt either.

Ditto with the Wendy's salad (I prefer the Mandarin Chicken) or perhaps a plain baked potato?

McDonald's, BK, Carl's Jr., and generally Tacos Bell are SO loaded with crap I just don't go there any more, except McD's for breakfast where I get a sausage McMuffin for 99 cents - then I remove that fat-loaded sausage and dump it in the trash (I would order it without the sausage, but our McD's are staffed by spanish speaking folks who have a HARD time with any order out of the ordinary).

I always order plain water. I am not a fan of pure sugar (as you get in most drinks), nor of the caffiene in most drinks, nor of aspartame. If I can get it, I drink plain soda water with a squeeze of lemon, but that is almost impossible to get!!

Very difficult to find worthwhile food at a fast food restaurant!!. Loaded with salt, fat, empty carbo's and sugar.

McD's salads, IMHO, stink.

Originally posted by DnvrFox
Loaded with salt, empty carbo's and sugar.
And saturated fats... and without (as I think LittleBigMan put it elsewhere) all those pesky nutrients. The food has practically no redeeming qualities other than expedience.

Originally posted by OmahaRider
Skip the bread and fries and get diet pop instead of the sugary(??) alternative

Better go to Burger King where "you can have it your way".

Still, I think you will get strange looks when you order your cheeseburger with no bun.:D

Originally posted by OmahaRider
--Also might want to avoid drinks containing caffeine---not positive-but I think iced tea has the most of all the drinks offered at the fast food joints.


Tea, brewed American - 20 to 90 mg. per cup
Tea, brewed imported - 25 to 110 mg. per cup

Cola and other soft drinks, containing caffeine - 36 to 90 mg. per 12 ounces
Cola and other soft drinks, decaffeinated - 0 mg. per 12 ounces

The beneficial effects of tea are due to bio- flavanoids, natural substances that act as powerful anti- oxidants, limiting the effects of free radicals in the body.

"Free radicals are very damaging because they can trigger a chain reaction," said Dr. Michael Gaziano of Brigham & Women's Hospital. "One free radical can damage thousands and thousands of lipid molecules. So the reaction, we like to stop it early on in the process."


I am an avid tea and water drinker. I hardly ever drink soda, maybe 1 or 2 cans a month. I even refused to buy it from the store because my husband was drinking a case a week!! I decided I wasn't paying all that extra money. He buys his own and has since cut down to about 12 a week.

They are now saying that tea can reduce the risk of a heart attack also. It may have caffeine, but I would rather drink it than soda. I also hate coffee. I thought it tasted like water run through a really dirty sock. Of course water is the best, but tea is good too. Who couldn't use a little extra energy anyway?:D

Oh, just wanted to mention, that I would never drink the iced tea provided at restaurants, fast food or otherwise. They taste funny because the containers are cleaned with a bleach solution. I worked at many restaurants (only 1 fast food place for a month) and they all use the same method. I know that bleach is used to clean a lot of stuff, but I would never use it to clean stuff I eat off of at home. Besides, the tea you make at home, you can control the sugar, the strength of the tea and you can add lemon or honey if you choose. ;)

Don't want scare you or anything---if your using tap water to wash your dishes you're using bleach.

How do you think they get the water clean and disease-free in the first place?

Here's a solution:

Don't eat fast food.

Revolutionary.

Lots of fast food restaurants are now offering lower-fat items- like wraps. Instead of going to a Hardees, why not go to a sandwich joint- a chicken sandwich or a wrap sandwich is fast food and not as gross or greasy. Fast food is really about convenience- it doesn't have to be gross, greasy, oozing with fat and loaded with carb.

Originally posted by Redhed


They are now saying that tea can reduce the risk of a heart attack also. It may have caffeine, but I would rather drink it than soda. I also hate coffee. I thought it tasted like water run through a really dirty sock. Of course water is the best, but tea is good too. Who couldn't use a little extra energy anyway?:D

Yup. Stick to drinking beer, folks - right out of the can or bottle. Sanitized with heat. MMMmmmmmMMM. Good way to avoid those bleach rinsed dishes too.

Matter of fact, how about drinking beer out of the bottle and eating buffalo wings with your fingers - no dishes at all; and NO DAMNED POISONOUS RESTURAUNT TEA!

Of course, I can't take all the credit for this idea. The information was passed down to me from the elders.

Originally posted by wabbit
Lots of fast food restaurants are now offering lower-fat items- like wraps.

Help me out here. Which "lots of fast food restaurants" are these?

Perhaps we have a different definition of "fast food restaurant"??

Not McD's, BK, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Carl's, KFC, Chick-Fil-A, etc., at least not in my part of the country!!

Originally posted by mike
Matter of fact, how about drinking beer out of the bottle and eating buffalo wings with your fingers - no dishes at all; and NO DAMNED POISONOUS RESTURAUNT TEA!
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Point taken.