Why is McDonalds so unhealthy?

It's pretty obvious, but watch "Supersize Me" if you need to.

^ I would have to agree, in fact the double cheeseburger is what I usually get because it has more beef & cheese than the other options.   

But nutritious is not the same as healthy and since it's usually eaten with fries and a coke, that's gonna put on the pounds and provide almost no vitamin C.   Good option on the fly and the cheap, though.

There's enough sodium in that sh*t to seed a salt mine.

Oh boy let me guess...... are you asking me why junk food is unhealthy??

Have some McDonalds as a meal on a weekly basis and come back here after a couple of months (well.... I hope you can ha ha)

condor wrote: McDonalds is fast food, not junk food.

Wow, you are able to answer back in a thread you started
Please keep this new wholesome habit, as it doesn't look to us that you're just throwing anything that goes through your thoughts and abandonning it right away 

You're kind of right... the hamburger itself is not really junkfood, if there is some tomato , salad and onions and it not drowned under a mayo-derived sauce. AAFMOF, there was always a possibilty (since the 70's anyways) to eat in a saner way, by replacing the fries (and the sauce dip) by a salad and the coke by a club soda (sparkling water)... But the fact is that hardly no-one did it (maybe nowadays some do >> I take a burger plus a ceasar salad when I go there), so the way most people used it, it was like junk food. It seems to me that the way McD cooks their beef patties (plate/pan frying) is also much fattier than flame broiling (like Wendy's, Burger King or Harvey's), where the fat leaves the patty by gravity

But I'd say that McD is more unhealthy, it is towards the planet's future.
Not only in terms of deforestation to grow the cattle and create the soja cultures needed for this kind of mass consumption, but also by making fast-food junkies prefer this type of food instead of a more local type of dishes, this creating a sizeable worldwide traffic/transport pollution, Globally, the impact of McD on the planet's climate changes is enormous.






Edited by Sean Trane - August 20 2017 at 01:17

People can eat whatever the f**k they want, health societies should be worrying about disease rather than what someone chooses to eat, however cheap or expensive. If you died tomorrow, it wouldn't make a difference if you had McDonald's for dinner or not, lol

well there is the important part.....  it simply tastes like sh*t...  it isn't like one doesn't have scores of better tasting and yeah.. even perhaps more healthy options if one is into that kind of stuff.... if one wants a quick fast food bite.

Not only the quality of the food is piss poor but all the other labeled and unlabeled ingredients expose you to a toxic cocktail.  How can a fresh hamburger bun stay mold free for over year?

I like my fries to only consist of potatoes, salt and pepper.  Sometimes other spices such as onion and garlic powder are nice.   I definitely don’t want or need an antifoaming agent in my fries.

McDonalds fries:

Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]*, Citric Acid [Preservative], Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (Maintain Color), Salt. Prepared in Vegetable Oil: Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid added to preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent. Contains: Wheat and Milk. *Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.

Tillerman88 wrote: CosmicVibration wrote: Not only the quality of the food is piss poor but all the other labeled and unlabeled ingredients expose you to a toxic cocktail.  How can a fresh hamburger bun stay mold free for over year? I like my fries to only consist of potatoes, salt and pepper.  Sometimes other spices such as onion and garlic powder are nice.   I definitely don’t want or need an antifoaming agent in my fries. McDonalds fries: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]*, Citric Acid [Preservative], Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (Maintain Color), Salt. Prepared in Vegetable Oil: Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid added to preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent. Contains: Wheat and Milk. *Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.    Nuff said. Thanks man, I was trying to make a point here about the damn heavily processed food, so your input sums it up pretty well....:)

Not that I doubt any of your other infos (and indeed overly-processed food is evil), but how do you figure about the bun?? Coz I never heard that. I'm sure it's filled with additives, but for years??

Even their lettuce and tomatoes are not organically-grown for sure.

Tillerman88 wrote: ^wow man, this is really an avant-garde thought.... oh yes indeed ha haha