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Fast Food
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Fast Food
Prepared food from a restaurant that specialises in providing a full ‘meal’ in a few minutes. Such meals often consist of a permutation of hamburger or chicken, French fries, and a soft drink or a milkshake

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Nutrition Prepared food from a restaurant that specializes in providing a full 'meal,' often consisting of a permutation of hamburger or chicken, French fries, pommes frites (chips), and a soft drink or a milkshake, in < 2 mins; the medical community is laying much of the blame for the obesity in the US on the purveyors of fast foods; a diet consisting solely of FF overloads the body with protein, fat, calories, salt, and highly saturated vegetable–eg, palm, coconut oils and is low in vitamins, minerals, and fibers. See Cafeteria diet, Empty calories, 'Junk food, ' Nibbling diet.

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Q. HIV in food at restaurants and fast foods? Let’s say an infected cook cut’s him self and a drop of blood fall’s on my hamburger. Can it infect me? Let’s say after it was cooked, just before serving.

A. No. The chances are negligibly small ... even in the scenario you are talking about.

It's not just a matter of how long the virus survives outside the body, but the virus actually has to come in contact with the blood system ... which is almost impossible in the digestive system (unless you are bleeding in your mouth somehow ... and even then the contact would have to be prolonged, not just food brushing past it ... for the virus to infect blood cells at the surface and find an entryway *into* the new blood system).

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