If you're cooking, Kaizen is the only path. If you're not cooking, you're probably just too young. I can distinctly remember a couple burgers right before or

If you're cooking, Kaizen is the only path. If you're not cooking, you're probably just too young. I can distinctly remember a couple burgers right before or after "major life events" often when the local population increased or decreased by one. I wouldn't recommend fast food as a significant fraction of a diet, but a good excuse for using the drive thru is returning home from the delivery room or a funeral too tired or not in the mood to cook. Or the last time I saw someone was the party at the park where traditional fare such as grilled burgers was probably served, great uncle Tony's last family reunion picnic was at age 82 and he was doing really good right up to the end. If you eat junk food every day it makes it less special. I'm sure I drank water the day my father died; of course I drink water every day. I eat a mostly healthy diet most of the time so junk food usually involves something memorable. I'm also older, so nostalgic about back in the old days when Americans were mostly thin and non-diabetic, back when mom and dad only got us that new "Mcdonalds" stuff for a very special occasion ... Kids these days who are 300 pounds from eating mcdonalds 2 or 3 times daily will never associate fast food with special events the way gen-x and older people associated it. In 1980 McDonalds burger meant you were in the back of the station wagon for 8 hour road trip to visit grandma for surprise birthday or mom didn't feel like cooking dinner after grandpas funeral. In 2010 your average 400 pound american eats fast food every day, supposedly. Just like we're told over and over we all watch 16 hours per day of TV on average, by people who make money selling TV ad time, even when we don't know anyone who watches that much.