You know fast food is bad for you...

Batutta

Batutta

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...when not even mold is interested in feeding on it. Here's a Mc Donald's burger and fries on the day it was bought, and 5 months later.

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http://www.latimes.com/health/ct-biz-mcdonalds-decay-sep29,0,6249105.story
 
not bad. I guess that means you can still eat it after 5 months. A turducken is also bad for your health and is Justin Bieber's music. :)
 
There's a video floating around youtube about some woman that's kept a cheeseburger happymeal for 5 years and it looks the same.
 
This same effect was demonstrated in "Supersize Me" (which also pretty definitively answers the question of what your body does with it).
 
"Super Size Me" was in many ways a hoax.

Eating over 5000 calories a day of ANY kind of food - fast or "healthy" will cause weight gain.
 
Postmaster said:
"Super Size Me" was in many ways a hoax.

Eating over 5000 calories a day of ANY kind of food - fast or "healthy" will cause weight gain.
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I think you missed the point. America is invested in the idea of a high-caloric-intake lifestyle, and fast food joints cater to that. I would barely classify those items as "food," considering that the fat and sodium contents greatly outweigh (pun intended) any semblance of nutrition that may be gained from eating them. In the spirit of commercialism, fast food merchants do everything they can to get people to eat their food more, and more often.

His point was just that: fast food does nothing good for the body. And yes, there are people here who eat at MacDonald's (or other fast food joints) on a daily or semi-daily basis. Wanna make it worse? Couple that with a sedentary lifestyle... livin' the dream, brother. Livin' the dream.
 
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Honestly, those Mc Donald's fries are the best and I love a Burger King whopper. But I just do subway or most of the time now simply cook. There's always pizza. LOL.

-Nate
 
Postmaster said:
"Super Size Me" was in many ways a hoax.

Eating over 5000 calories a day of ANY kind of food - fast or "healthy" will cause weight gain.
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+1 on your having missed the point. The problem is the ease with which - without even knowing it - a McDonald's customer can subject themselves to that kind of mostly-empty caloric intake without even realizing what they are doing, to themselves.

Yes, people should have the right to painfully and grotesquely destroy themselves using junk food as their protracted-suicide-weapon-of-choice, if that's what makes them happy. But only when they are not being in any way supported or maintained by a society that responsible people have to share with them, while they are at it.

And maybe really only when the rest of us aren't obliged to watch their disgusting fat asses spilling out of daisy dukes, short-shorts and airline seats, or being stuck sharing elevators, public transportation or other relatively confined spaces with them, either.
 
To to mention the high price of food in general. It makes fast food seem like the obvious choice. I mean lunch on the fly for $4 - $5. For a lot of people, that works. I'm home a lot so I tend to cook, but when I'm out I will surely be tempted to hit one of these joints.

-Nate
 
I think one has to factor in (a) the potential medical costs and (b) the potential pain and suffering the eater will cause himself and his family, if he's an over-consumer of fast food (assuming that *any* consumption isn't over-consumption) when comparing the price of a McBurger to that of a chicken breast and head of lettuce. Not to mention the admittedly difficult-to-calculate value of not-feeling-like-sh**-thanks-to-consuming-crap-food that comes with more healthful eating.

Saving some $$$ on the food which you will later have to pay out for insulin, syringes, glucometers, super-fat-circus-tent-sized clothing, rags-on-sticks with which to wash one's self, little scooters to get around on because your knees and back are shot from excess weight carriage, etc, etc, etc is false economy, writ large.

Also, I'd like to point out that for $5-$7 at Ralphs one can walk out with a cooked chicken breast from the deli counter and a box of salad off the salad bar. That +/- $2 extra per day, +/- $10 extra per week is nothing compared to the costs of the damage you can do yourself with the fast-food crapola.
 
C2V said:
I think you missed the point. America is invested in the idea of a high-caloric-intake lifestyle, and fast food joints cater to that. I would barely classify those items as "food," considering that the fat and sodium contents greatly outweigh (pun intended) any semblance of nutrition that may be gained from eating them. In the spirit of commercialism, fast food merchants do everything they can to get people to eat their food more, and more often.

His point was just that: fast food does nothing good for the body. And yes, there are people here who eat at MacDonald's (or other fast food joints) on a daily or semi-daily basis. Wanna make it worse? Couple that with a sedentary lifestyle... livin' the dream, brother. Livin' the dream.
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Wasn't the point of Supersize Me that McDonalds actually advertized that you could eat only their food and still be healthy? He just proved them wrong.

Btw, the irony now is that a meal at McDonald's cost 9.60 USD (11 USD with coffee) and takes 5-10 minutes to get. At least over here in Sweden.

But if I go to any lunch restaurant and have their daily A La Carte lunch, I pay 11 bucks, including coffee and soda (or light beer in some places), get the food immediately with hardly any line, it tastes great, there's a sallad buffé, and get to sit in a nice environment without bright colored plastic chairs, screaming kids and justin bieber and radio ga ga or whatever their names are. Also, McDonald's coffee tastes awful.

If McD is gonna do unhealthy paper tasting "fast food", at least they could be faster and cheaper than their classier competition.
 
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Problem is that's a lot to calculate with an hour (or less) to get food get and back to work. But I can say this, junk food will indeed make you feel like crap. Eaten sporadically it's no big deal, but many eat it everyday.

-Nate
 
I don't know, Nathyn. I'm routinely in just that position and somehow I find that it's just not particularly difficult. It's more a matter of discipline than of practicality.
 
Sad Max said:
I don't know, Nathyn. I'm routinely in just that position and somehow I find that it's just not particularly difficult. It's more a matter of discipline than of practicality.
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Same here. Less than a half-mile from my office, we have a Bojangles, a Waffle House, a gas station/convenience store/burger grill, and a Subway. Subway's an easy choice on that block, but I can drive just a little further down the road and find grab-and-go Sushi at the Earthfare.
 
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Same here. Less than a half-mile from my office, we have a Bojangles, a Waffle House, a gas station/convenience store/burger grill, and a Subway. Subway's an easy choice on that block, but I can drive just a little further down the road and find grab-and-go Sushi at the Earthfare.
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Are you KIDDING me?! You have a Bojangles close to you, and you choose Subway? The closest Bojangles to me is 12 hours away. I've contemplated driving that distance some days.
 
Assuming that we're talking about Bojangles Chicken and Biscuits (which I had to look up since they don't apparently exist in my area) one might be better off jogging the distance :)...
 
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