It may take three months or longer to note the decrease in blood pressure. If your intensity of exercise is much higher, you may note a decrease in blood pressure in three to four weeks. For the fourth straight year the top three restaurant foods are French fries, hamburgers, and chicken nuggets. The American diet has not changed much over the years. A very significant trend was found for cutting down meal preparation times as more and more women work outside the home.
Women still prepare most of the food in the country.
As America grows older, they are more likely to consume foods that have lower fat, cholesterol, and sodium. This article points out at least one reason why we are having so much chronic degenerative disease in this country. As two people in the household work, fewer meals are cooked at home and therefore we are at the mercy of fast food establishments. I think time is one factor, poor food choices when we eat fast foods is a second factor, and the third factor is that people want a quick fix and look for alternative foods like fat reducers versus eating whole fruits and vegetables. It is possible to be healthy when one eats out, it just takes a conscious effort to ask for a salad, a simple burrito, stir-fry vegetables, and the like.