April 13, 2006
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The McDonald You Never Knew About
To many of you who know me well you know that I do not promote eating at fast food restaurants such as McDonalds. Fast food places promote a super-size me artery clogging high in Trans fast range of foods without you knowing what’s in the food of course. Take McDonalds for example you ever wonder why their french fries have such a distinctive smell? Well if you pay a local visit to where a lot of McDonalds foods are manufactured you will find yourself walking into the plant smelling that distinctive french fry smell, except you wouldn’t find any potatoes. Interestingly you’ll find that artificial flavoring and smells that they add to the fries to give them their famous aroma. It’s no wonder when you leave McDonalds fries out for a couple week nothing happens to them. They don’t spoil. Pretty gross if you ask me.
There has also been valid information across a wide varieties of resources I have found that many of these fast food chains have high levels of Trans fat in their foods which is a product of hydrogenated vegetable oil which aids to a unhealthy diet. The interesting part is how there is variation in Trans fat content across other countries. Trans fat also raises bad cholesterol and lowers your good cholesterol count. Eating around 5 grams of Trans fat per day increases the risk of heart disease 25% according to researchers. That’s a LARGE percentage.
DON’T EAT FAST FOOD!
I DON’T CARE HOW CONVENIENT IT IS IT’S JUST UNHEALTHY!
LOOK FOR FOODS HIGH IN FIBER, PROTEIN, LOW IN FAT & SATURATED FATS, OBTAIN VITAMINS & MINERALS FROM VEGETABLES & FRUIT. SUBSTITUTE FATTY MEATS FOR LEAN MEATS SUCH AS CHICKEN BREASTS OR FISH. LIVE WELL EAT WELL!
ES BUENO PARA TU SALUD!
Comments (7)
i’ve given up mcdonald’s waaayyy long ago!
healthy food all the way ^_^
i had apples today!!! does that count?! :p
still a nut major at heart u r!
Mmmm, I’m a fast food addict. Burgers, Fries, Soda, the works. I love it. Okay, not the soda as much but if you’re going to get the burgers and fries you might as well get the complete meal, right? But yeah, wow, what I just read looked like it came out of one of my course manuals, so congratulations for being healthy. I’ll keep my heart health in mind. Oh, and nice song on your xangar… I thought you said you weren’t Asian…….?
Yea, McDonald’s is gross, but I still eat fast food, haha. Sometimes things that aren’t fast food can be just as bad, but overall fast food is definitely up there in the unhealthy list.
it’s gross but sometimes it just tastes so good!!! :laugh:
MickyD sucks, but their breakfast rocks though…especially No. 2