Why is McDonalds so unhealthy?
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Topics not related to music
Forum Name: General discussions
Forum Description: Discuss any topic at all that is not music-related
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111741
Printed Date: November 24 2024 at 12:50
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Why is McDonalds so unhealthy?
Posted By: condor
Subject: Why is McDonalds so unhealthy?
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 13:09
| I never got what the fuss was about |
Replies:
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 15:24
|
It's pretty obvious, but watch "Supersize Me" if you need to. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 15:33
|
It's not. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10210327/McDouble-is-cheapest-and-most-nutritious-food-in-human-history.html" rel="nofollow - McDouble is 'cheapest and most nutritious food in human history'.
|
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 17:04
|
^ 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. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 17:25
|
hah... I am the king of unhealthy and a path to an early grave....and I won't touch their sh*t. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 21:14
|
There's enough sodium in that sh*t to seed a salt mine. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 21:37
|
Maccas is alright for a quick fix, though I wouldn't rely on it for nutrition. To be enjoyed in moderation. |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 23:14
|
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) ------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: condor
Date Posted: August 19 2017 at 23:53
| McDonalds is fast food, not junk food. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 01:07
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. |
condor wrote:Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 01:38
|
For the record, your body stores junk food calories exactly the same way as it would do to “fast food” calories. As long as the caloric intake is generally kept the same, McDonald's foods are just as unhealthy as junk foods, so they are the same garbage for this thread's subject...... as we are talking about heavily processed food for the most part.
------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 01:47
|
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 ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 02:09
|
^wow man, this is really an avant-garde thought.... oh yes indeed ha haha
------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 06:50
|
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. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: condor
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 11:32
Awesome reply; very helpful
|
Posted By: CosmicVibration
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 16:43
|
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. |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: August 20 2017 at 16:55
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....:) ------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 21 2017 at 02:28
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. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 21 2017 at 02:46
|
It's no more unhealthy than any supermarket ready meal. In fact a Big Mac contains less salt and sugar than a typical 'slimmers' ready meal from any supermarket. I would stop short of saying McD's is healthy, but it's far from the poison some food snobs believe it to be. The fact that it tastes like sh*t is another debate. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: August 21 2017 at 03:08
"Eating healthy" is a bit of a gamble don't you think? ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 21 2017 at 04:05
|
Convenience makes the heart grow sicker. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 21 2017 at 11:06
|
After Armageddon, the only thing left will be McDonald's buns and cockroaches. The buns will eat the cockroaches. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 03:25
Can't beat Wimpy in the "taste like crap" dep't  Can't believe this FF chain lasted into the 90's. As for McD, if you take out the ketchup (that's where a lot of sugar lies) whenever possible, some of it is quite pleasant to the tastebuds
:lol Actually, whet I did appreciate at McD is that they toast the buns (not the case at BK or other burger joints, from my experience)
|
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 04:04
|
I do have a weakness for their steak biscuit. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
|
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 04:11
|
Rubber Biscuit? ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 04:20
I had one of those on my way to Gencon back in 2006. I was quite impressed by how mediocre it was. How do you f**k up steak?? That greasy mess sat in my stomach like a rock. Never again. ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 05:20
The 90s? We still have a Wimpy in my home town, and it's normally quite busy. Our local McD's just closed down.
|
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 05:44
|
^^^ There's still a few Wimpy's about it seems. They used to be better than McD's IIRC. When I was a teenager I ate stacks of McD's burgers. Every Saturday me and my mate would go into town, visit Our Price and pick up an album or two, then go for a burger. My standard order was THREE cheeseburgers, large fries and an apple pie. I'm suprise as never fat, or mad as a cow. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 08:37
I thought they got bought out by Burger King... and disappeared afterwards Haven't seen any in my UK trips since the last two decades (York, Lincoln, Hull, Canterbury or London) ... probably better that way. They were really disgusting in the 80's... But hey, this is UK food after all. I used to do the same: head downtown Toronto, do all the record shops on the Yonge strip upwards (comparing prices), eat a Fire Pit Burger (the mega stuff with fries and onion rings, than head back down buying the albums before getting to the station and still grab another before going back home |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 22 2017 at 10:29
|
The fact that there is one in every Walmart should be enough of a warning. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 23 2017 at 01:30
|
Because it belongs to Donald Trump; that's why it is called McDonald's . And nothing healthy can come from this guy. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |