McDonald's - Tasty but Deadly?

PatrickBuddy · 05-12-2005, 02:09 AM

I would assume that almost everyone reading this thread has eaten McDonald's at least once in their life. Chances are, they enjoyed eating it. I made this thread to look back at the movie Super Size Me (check out www.supersizeme.com for more info). If you haven't heard of the movie, I'll make the explaination short but sweet. A man named Morgan Spurlock decided he will eat and drink stuff ONLY from McDonald's for 30 days. That's right ONLY. That includes water. Now he wanted to film the 30 days, and research more about McDonald's.

So here comes my part. I plan on examining facts about McDonald's, from the movie, personal research and so forth. Here's what is common knowledge. McDonald's food is unhealthy, which is a true fact but most of us enjoy eating it. Millions and millions of people flock to McDonald's daily. So many people, that if you took the numbers there would be enough people to easily occupy Spain. That's a lot of people you would say. Heck yes it is. These people are spending loads of money, that just ends up as profit for McDonald's.

Tests show that by the age of 6, children in well developed countries know who Ronald McDonald is, and they know of McDonald's.

If we know McDonald's is so unhealthy, why do so many people go there?

There are some really simple answers. McDonald's is the most well known food chain in the world. If you were to think of fast food, you would think of McDonald's. People also enjoy the food at McDonald's.

People get hooked on McDonald's, because it has a drug effect in your head. There is a medicine that is use in hospitals that block out this recepter in your brain. If there is somebody that is really addicted to some sort of drug or food and you injected them with this medicine, you will find that they slowly loose their addiction to that particular product.

I would not advise you eat nothing but McDonald's for 30 days for the following reasons:

1. Your liver will turn to fat (as Morgan proved) which is very unhealthy
2. You will get addicted to the food, which will cause you to loose a lot of money, and cause harm to your body.
3. You will gain a lot of fat (Morgan gained 24.5 pounds)
4. You will double your chance of heart failure.
5. You will constantly be depressed.
6. You will be prone to having vital organs shutting down.

Now back to the drug effect on your brain. McDonald's food is full of addictives that will hook you for life. If you started eating McDonald's at the age of 13 (if you ate a value meal with a coke that you ENJOYED) you will probably find yourself eating that same food in the future. McDonald's has things like salt, cheese and sugar in their foods. Those three ingredients are the most common addictives. It won't be the taste or the feel of the food, it is the effect on your brain that keeps you coming back for more.

Let's analyze that value meal. Probably any sandwich you choose to have will have CHEESE on it. The french fries contain SALT. Finally, the coke contains SUGAR and is LOADED with caffene.

Now let's say you don't want a sandwich and you choose to have chicken nuggets. Well, McNuggets are made out of a chicken that has been turned into a paste, molded into shape and deep fried. The chicken is usually not even a healthy chicken! The chicken is usually a chicken with "defects" that is not fit for laying eggs. Good thing the chicken McNuggets are one of the only 7 things that don't contain sugar on the McDonald's menu (This includes: Chicken McNuggets, french fries, diet coke, iced tea, sausage, hashbrown, and coffee).

Fast food is ok once a week, to once a month. Any more than that could be at the risk of your heath.

***More info will be posted tomorrow!!!***

*Remember, above is my personal opinion. If you choose to disagree with anything I wrote, feel free to. I am not trying to sway anybody to/from McDonald's I am just stating my personal opinion.*