Comments on: More Fast Food Joints in Neighborhoods Mean More Strokes

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:55:35 +0000

What kind of voodoo statistics call this a “direct” association? Consider the age of the typical stroke patient and the age of the typical fast food consumer. The fast food patrons may be under 20. The stroke patient’s ages may be over 50. Where fast food places in proximity when those patients were in their 20s? Did they continue eating fast food? There is a huge gap between data collected and at risk age groups in general. Few studies do the time adjustment essential to draw meaningful correlations. If fast food restaurants use demographics to be located where there are more teenagers, chances are, those teenagers have grandparents or middle age parents. The fast food places may follow an age group that would have health risk anyway.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:52:11 +0000

Cause of fatty diet is choosing to eat at a place that has fatty food on the menu. Those bad choices are influenced by corporate advertisers from those same fast food restaurants that planned to have their store at that location because they knew you would drive by…. A better solution is to make better choices about what to do before your hunger over-rides your logic.

By: Liquidity

Liquidity — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:43:02 +0000

Had the study made some additional measurements, it most likely would have revealed a below average IQ and education level for the neighborhood residents as well as greater than average drug use including tobacco and a higher than average birth rate with a higher than average number of out of wedlock birts. We could go on and on. Low intelligence combined with ignorance far more closely approximates a root cause than any of the other factors.

Since the same people that rant about fast food are also in a panic about global warming, I would point out that any humman element associated with the latter is most directly linked to an excess of people. Eradicate a majority of humans and you eliminate the root source of human caused global warming. Doing so is certainly feasible, the necessary technology already exists, and if push comes to shove, it probably will be used. In the meantime, why would you want to increase longevity in the first place, and especially among those most prone to over populate and do studid things? Fast food is a key weapon in the fight against global warming!

By: GJTryon

GJTryon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:54:00 +0000

Cause of strokes: atherosclerosis
Cause of atherosclerosis: arterial plaques
Cause of plaques: excessive lipoproteins in bloodstream
Cause of lipoproteins: fatty diet
Cause of fatty diet: fast food restaurants.
The case is as closed as our arteries!

By: Al Bundy

Al Bundy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:25:07 +0000

Casey, THANK YOU! Someone with a brain made a very correct comment here

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:41:50 +0000

That doesn’t necessarily mean that fast food restaurants cause strokes. Think about this for a second guys. Fast Food Restaurants are more prevalent in lower-income areas, usually, these areas have a higher percentage of African Americans (that is a stat), and African Americans (naturally) have a higher likelyhood of getting a stroke. Of course Fast Food Restaurants are bad. Can you please find something new to talk about.

By: Peter K

Peter K — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:35:28 +0000

its all about the SALT. food laced with sodium chloride or even monosodium glutamate will push marginally hypertensive individual’s blood pressure right off the top of the scale. slack, lazy, fattened individuals are just the type who make stroke events a common occurence. learn from the asians who eat better, smarter, healthier. we must ‘cut to the beef’ of this problem, or Amerika will become the Asian doctors specialty ward for cerebral care.