Pizza Hut houses the obese!
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
November 24, 2012 4:03pm CST
I waited for my daughter at Pizza Hut two nights in a row. As the parlor is filled with diners, I must, of course, order a little pizza and pasta, else the manager question my occupying a table when there's a long queue waiting to be seated.
I ordered the personal pizza, meaning good for one, and a Bolognese, with meatballs. That done, I had no recourse but watch the towering Christmas Tree that sure did brighten my spirit. The trimmings for the season never fail to elicit my ahhh and awe.
That done again, I focused on the diners, after all, people watching, without intending to stare and be rude, is a pastime. Guess what I saw?, bellies bulging, at least one obese person on one table. And right in front of me, two huge people devouring super servings of pizzas, pasta, patatas, soup and side dishes. I felt a little sad watching them, for I know they need help.
I couldn't finish my plate, the chef made my order oily and totally spicy. I asked for some potatoes and coffee the second night, and promised myself to write something about it. The Pizza Parlor is giving their diners real good treats for serving large and ultra tasty meals, but gosh, even if its buttered and not oiled, the food are detrimental to the health. The company must reassess their objective, because caring about the customers does not mean only satisfying the appetite.
That goes for all the fastfood that thrives on the eating pleasures of the people, and care not about the health that is badly compromised in the process. 
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33 responses
@bjc66bjc (6730)
• United States
25 Nov 12
The fast foods here in the USA have to post the colories for
each of the items they serve...There has been a law for the
past few years..
So no one has to eat in the dark not knowing how much fat/
colories are in the items they are eating...But I will not
judge what and how others do...I have enough keeping up with
my life and I will not concern myself with what others eat
for it is not my business....
If people can read they are able to see nutritional status or
then lack of...
Too be honest a pan pizza and Bolognese with meatballs seem
like a lot more food than I could eat aaat a setting.......
I am just saying...
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
25 Nov 12
You know I think that may vary by state. I know McD's here they state the calories on the paper mats on the trays. Rarely do they have it posted out in the open. I think they should be more visable right with the prices listed.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
I don't know if printing the calories to warn consumers about what they eat would work here in the Philippines. We Filipinos love to eat, and we take pride in our cooking. I've come from a huge clan who prepare lots of viands on special occasions, like Christmas, and we have so many recipes and procedures for cooking. Believe me, anyone who knows how to concoct good food would know how to make healthy food. We don't feed our loved ones anything that is detrimental to the health. Serving good and healthy food is a Filipino's way of showing love.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
24 Nov 12
I think what we put into our body is what we become
, yes fast foods most of the time does not care about people's health, they are concerned with with their sales most of the time, that's how they satisfy the mother company and keep their jobs.
, yes fast foods most of the time does not care about people's health, they are concerned with with their sales most of the time, that's how they satisfy the mother company and keep their jobs.3 people like this
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
My daughters and I make the extra effort to prepare our meals instead of eating out. Once, we did dine out, and a few minutes after, we did feel throwing up the food we ate. We knew the food was full of msg and fancy seasoning. We dropped by the coconut kiosk on the way home and had a buko juice each, to flash the toxins out.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
eileen, I have mixed feelings about this discussion, at least the obese people have a choice on what they want to put inside their bodies, my experience is different, we have a fast food chain outside of our subdivision and it's the hungry street children I see
, they try to ask you for food and the security guard ever driving them out, guess they have no choice, obese people want to give them a few carbs or protein? They knock on your cars when you go out thinking you are rich, the children have no choice, maybe the parents should be made accountable, I really do not know
. I know it's a little off topic but at least we still have a choice, yes I drink buko juice too, what do you think my friend?
, they try to ask you for food and the security guard ever driving them out, guess they have no choice, obese people want to give them a few carbs or protein? They knock on your cars when you go out thinking you are rich, the children have no choice, maybe the parents should be made accountable, I really do not know . I know it's a little off topic but at least we still have a choice, yes I drink buko juice too, what do you think my friend?
@bluespygirl (2112)
• Philippines
24 Nov 12
There are not so many restaurants/fastfoods who offers healthy and yummy foods. And if there are some restaurants who offers healthy foods, there are a little bit higher than the usual food that we have.
I agree that fastfood or restaurants should assess their menus and ingridients. It would be healthy if they lessen the fattening ingredients of their food servings.
I am not saying that I am a pro, but I wish people will have awareness of what they eat. And maybe, lessen their food intake. You never know when diseases will attack.
Let us have a healthy lifestyle. 
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
I agree, completely, we must know what we eat. That is the only way we could give our bodies the necessary nutrients for keeping healthy.
@watchamacallitz (1171)
• Philippines
24 Nov 12
Well, eating in restaurants and devouring in tasty yet fatty foods is the sole responsibility of those who eat them right? The store cannot refuse a customer if they want to eat there, that would simply be rude. They make their food delicious and of course they have to use ingredients that may be fatty and oily. So consumers should bear in mind that there are fats and oils in the food that they eat. Everything should always be in moderation. Just saying
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
We are in so much of a rush each day that more often than not, we drive through for food, instead of prepare healthy meals when we get home. Sigh! I was just thinking that the CEO's are much aware of the food they offer, and there must be some kindness still in their hearts and be concerned about the people's health, instead of how fat their pockets become.
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
25 Nov 12
many years ago i have participated in their all you can eat promo with my boss and officemates (all women) and i think i ate 6 slices. i felt so full i didn't feel the need for afternoon snacks and even dinner. i think i got hungry late at night, like past 8pm.
it's been years since i ate at pizza joints. i usually go to those that have cheap rice meals when i'm out because i usually do all my appointments in one day. if i will ever go to one, i'd usually order a veggie pizza and cheese and garlic.
i can't eat spicy food.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
That's an eating contest you will never forget, would you, LOL! If I was asked to participate in, in my younger days, I think I will make a call, for I love to eat pizzas. It's a different story, if invited now, I can't even consume a personal pizza in one seating.
I'd like to think though that it is everyone's duty to remind another about their health, and what they consume. Many people are touchy, when issues about their sizes and weights are concerned. But I do hope people would broaden their minds, because there was really no bad intention, if at all, there was concern to help.
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
25 Nov 12
but i think your health and those of your loved ones is your own responsibility. you can control how many times you go there and you can control what and how much you order. same with other fastfood places. if i'm having a softdrink, i will not order dessert. or i will order a float to serve as dessert and drink or something like kfc's krusher. others don't order softdrink at all, just water. but i eat out just once a week so to me it's a treat.
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@wfhchristiner (352)
• Canada
24 Nov 12
You are totally right. But at the end the $$ wins. Company will offer anything that has demand. Demand makes the supply. Then it continues, it's like a satan circle. If we go to Italy, the home of spageti, pizza, Italian food, there is a totally different food from here. Their pizza is cheese, spinach, marinara sauce. Very seldom you will see "ALL MEAT". Over here, pizza is "ALL MEAT", bacon, sausage, pepperoni, ham. Same thing with pasta, their pasta is olive oil, or tomato sauce, with spinach, and other veggie, maybe seafood. Here, it is meat sauce, again sausage, and all meat! This is why we have so many obese people.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
Wow, this is a very good tip, quite enlightening. I was made to believe that pizza is the cheesy, creamy, meaty, spicy, and real tasty stuff that we eat at Shakey's, Pizza Hut, Yellow Cab, Monster Pizza, etcetera. Gosh, I love that Italian pizza you described!
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
25 Nov 12
When I was sophomore in the college, I had the habit to have food in the middle of the night-usually after study. At that year, I got more than 10 kilo on weight. If taking pizza or hamburger every night, I could be more heavy than that.
Now to put myself into the suite, I have to give up any fastfood and take in more vegetables than meat. Practice is also needed, at least 1 hour a day.
Pizza with cheese is very dilicious, but too easy to put on weight on the body. Japanese food or Korean food owns less energy, they are more suitable for losing weight.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
Ramen, tonkatsu, kimchi, with extra gyudong, ha ha, I love Japanese food, and that Korean grille is making its impact on the taste buds, LOL.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
25 Nov 12
It's not the restaurant's fault as to how much customers choose to consume. But typically pizza & fast food places are not in business to serve healthy foods but tasty & fast meals most of the time with high calories. Though I think it would be nice of places to offer healthier alternatives then just salad on menu's. Fast Food places as well as pizza parlors are sometimes foods, not places to patron often. I encourage you to also view the documentary Super Size Me for further enlightenment on this matter.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
Pizza parlors are pleasurable eating places, actually. What I realized is the people who love to eat go back to Pizza Hut because the servings are huge, and the prize is affordable. That is why the customers tend to go back, not realizing they had become so huge that their health had been compromised. I still believe that a fastfood can cater and profit, without resorting to promo packages that can harm the clientele.
@joliefille (3690)
• Philippines
25 Nov 12
Fastfood is so popular here in the Philippines. I worked for a call center for 4 years and it's the place we can conveniently run to when we go out to eat. It's so difficult to cut down. I am glad I got over that and started working from home as my mom could cook us home-cooked meals.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
Glad you overcame that. Eating out was part of the call center agent's life. A sorry truth. But hey, nothing like mom's good old home cooking, huh!
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
25 Nov 12
Most fast food places carry salads and a few healthy choices, but pizza places don't usually. They want to make money, so make things as cheaply as possible which most of the time means in the unhealthiest way. If they didn't have any customers anymore they would change their menu, but it doesn't seem they are going to lose customers. As long as people chose to eat the items that are bad for them, they are going to supply them!
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
If I remember right, Shakey's offer garden salad, with a little chicken, I think, and that's healthy enough. That's a pizza parlor offering choices that health conscious diners can really have an option to choose from.
@verolop29 (1096)
• United States
25 Nov 12
I'm sorry u feel that way. I'm a large person myself but I don't eat supersize meals. I only have like one dr pepper like every week or sometimes not even that much. I eat more fruits...healthy things and such each day. I do feel sorry for those overweight ppl u could try to help but I'm hoping they will take it the wrong way. I tried to help out big ppl but all I got was total madness! I do walk everyday with my girls and three older woman. Not with someone my age which is 31. I wish u the best of luck friend!
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
Drink water the way liquid must be consumed, it might help reduce the fatty substances in our body. Keep walking, fifteen thousand steps to reduce weight, twelve thousand steps to maintain the body fit.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
25 Nov 12
The world would be better off... without a single fast food place to eat.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
Yes, and that would eliminate indolence and complacency, too.
@neelia27 (896)
• Philippines
25 Nov 12
that is so true but sadly those fast food only thinks of how they would earn so they will make their food more tastier so that people will enjoy their meal and will keep on coming back.. maybe as a customer we should take the responsibility of what we are eating.. don`t blame the restaurant and fast food because after all we have a freedom to choose..
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
We have the freedom to choose, but there are little choices we can choose from, to the extent that one anthroposophy doctor advised his patients to begin planting your own vegetables and fruits.
@inspirations88 (31)
• China
25 Nov 12
I think Pizza Hut is not the only shop houses the obese, any fast food store is hotbed of abese.From you description, I can feel that there are so many fat people in your country.I think the living and dietary habit are the major reason for obesity. From a foreign friend of my, he is from US.I had some dinner with him sometimes.But every time, the dish he ordered included steak,chiken or pork, but without vegetables and fruits. and he like to drink coca-cola every day and without any exercise.Every thing he eat is with high heat. There is no doubt that he is fat.Fat is not only harm our health and cause a lot of deseases, but bright a lot of inconvience to their life. Staying health,having more exercise is the best policy.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
Nope, Filipinos are not fat, that is why the obese ones are quite noticeable.
The title of this post is such because I had not seen many obese in one place, and that's Pizza Hut, Gateway, Araneta Center.
Yes, I think the Americans have so much food, my sister tells me the fridge there are always full, and most often the food are left uneaten and thrown. Those who consume all the food really grow fat.
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
25 Nov 12
I am not obese and i often frequent Pizza Hut... they have a lot of choices when it comes to food and not everything is unhealthy... they have the 3 different kinds of salad... and the thin crust pizza which i think has very little oil... customers should also be conscious about their health and try not to eat food with too much oil...
You should have returned you too spicy order... for sure they will replace it with something that would taste a lot better...
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
Someone said that not unless your food is soiled, never ask for another, or the more they will mess it up. So, if I can't swallow my order, I wrap it up and bring it home for the birds and the ants. Sigh, really.
I know Shakey's offer garden salads, and I order that actually. Sometimes though we get cravings for pasta and pizza, and the good pictures in the menus are so inviting.
@marguicha (215703)
• Chile
25 Nov 12
Fast food is the cause of many health problems, including obesity. I think thta the people who mostly eat fast food are also badly nourished in spite of being so overweight. That food (be it pizzas, hamgurgers or the like) have more fats and carbs than they should and not much proteins or vitamins and minerals. Veggies are non existant in those meals and are usually replaced by fries with lots of sugary ketchup. When I make pasta at home, I usually start with a vegetable soup or a salad and antipasto. We need several servings of veggies in our diet and fast food chains don`t offer them.
@marguicha (215703)
• Chile
30 Nov 12
All health problems are complex andI agree that snxiety ans leading a sedentary life to not help.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
Obesity is a disease, I think, more psychological perhaps, or emotional, because the patients tend to eat, to cover up whatever worries or problems they have. I have heard of cases when the patients only had the will to get better, and started walking and exercising, junked the junk food altogether, and got better physically.
@garson (884)
• United States
3 Dec 12
The huge people that were eating, were they as huge as the people in the image? Huge people in Philippines may still lost to the huge people in many parts of the States.
I personally like Pizza Hut, but I haven't ordered one in two years. When I ordered one, I like to order Large Chicken Supreme pizza if there is one there. I had 'Super Supreme pizza, which was really fattening.
In my opinion, restaurants or fast food places do not have obligation to watch people's calories and to care about obesity's epidemic. Still, they need to be aware and be concerned about studies.
Years ago, a New York court dismissed a lawsuit that had to do with allegation that McDonald made people fat. Somehow, there has been a string of lawsuit similar to this one not only in the US, but in other countries as well. This one(http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/30/man-sued-mcdonalds-for-making-him-fat-and-won/) is somehow unrealistic in Brazil.
Since the first lawsuit, I have noticed changes in how the way value menu and other menu is presented. This is also thanks to that documentary 'Super Size Me'. I watched a little bit of it.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
3 Dec 12
Gosh, the sizes of the women in the image must be a cause for concern. Nope, the ones I saw were smaller, and there were more huge men than women.
Americans used to be svelte and chic, but then through the decades, the image you posted started to become an accepted size in your society. I am sure that is due to the processed food, the fastfood, and all the junkfood your citizens conveniently avail of, after a long day's hard work.
Citizen Bill Clinton claimed his heart condition must have been the result of his devouring quarter pounders, did he not?
Establishments, especially dining places, must hold the responsibility of serving nutritious, healthy food, if not, that is something like violating the fifth commandment, subliminally.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
3 Dec 12
Addendum: I call Coke and all the colas the silent murderers, sorry. These colas are rust removers, and these companies flourish while the drinkers, actually deceived by the refreshing claims, get ill, and die.
@jeztrose (1405)
• Philippines
25 Nov 12
IN my opinion fast food just only concentrate on their tasty foods though most of that foods really not good to our health,since people nowadays go for tasty foods rather than nutritious foods. They don't really care if their foods are nutritious or not. the very aim they want is to get more sales by having tasty foods.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Nov 12
I will write my grievance in memos and let the food chains know. We have to begin complaining, or we could live the rest of our lives dying.
@squallming (1775)
• Malaysia
30 Nov 12
I can understand your concern of these fast food and the possible threats to health that they post. I don't think it's the fault of the fast food chain themselves for preparing this line of food because they are indeed delicious. Delicious food is what people seek at times for satisfy them in many aspects including emotional needs of course. 
The same goes to other form of sweets and desserts such as cakes and even other heavy cuisine too.
Besides, it would not harm us if we don't take them too regularly. I myself take fast food once in two or three weeks which I think is okay and I don't have any problem with obesity and other related health issues.
I believe, the best thing to do is to educate people about the risks of having these food regularly so that they would reduce eating them but not completely keeping such food options out of the menu. 
The same goes to other form of sweets and desserts such as cakes and even other heavy cuisine too.
Besides, it would not harm us if we don't take them too regularly. I myself take fast food once in two or three weeks which I think is okay and I don't have any problem with obesity and other related health issues.
I believe, the best thing to do is to educate people about the risks of having these food regularly so that they would reduce eating them but not completely keeping such food options out of the menu. 1 person likes this
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
3 Dec 12
Someone said that a business doesn't mean much, no matter how successful it is, if ir has no cause. The fastfood businesses must really reassess what their objectives, because they might really be serving food that can cause illnesses.
The internet is now full of suggestions about what to eat, in order for us to get healthy, and for many, to stay alive.
@faizan718 (1)
• Kuwait
27 Nov 12
such a nice kind of article i have seen on mylot...
It really did something for me...
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
30 Nov 12
Thank you, faizan, you are so kind. Am really happy I was able send the message, that we need to take care of our physical being, and eating junk is not the right recourse to do that.
