Why is McDonalds so unhealthy?

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

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)

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

^ 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.

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