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Originally Posted by Frosty
No and I rarely eat there. I just know that if you eat decently most of the time occasional forays into fast food or junk food isn't going to hurt you assuming you don't gorge yourself. That's all I was saying.
Watch the first half of the documentary "Fat Head" sometime. It was an answer to "Supersize Me", where the film maker ate every meal at McD's except didn't stuff himself like Morgan Spurlock did. He lost weight and had his health markers (BP, cholesterol, etc) improve.
Then there was the nutrition professor that put himself on the Twinkie Diet and ate mostly junk food for 10 weeks (but kept the calories low - 1800/day) and lost weight and had his health markers improve.
I don't advocate (and have never said) to eat at McD's or eat junk food all of the time. Eating a mostly whole food diet is what I think is healthful (and what I strive for). However, if I'm on the road and choose to eat at fast food place due to time/cost, I don't freak the **** out about like some apparently do. |
You are absolutely right. There is no reason to go completely apeshit at a fast food place and occasionally eating that shit in moderate serving sizes won't kill you. However, people are missing out on nutrients when they opt for processed foods like the "meat" served at fast food joints over real food like grass fed beef that has no added hormones/antibiotics.
As for the Twinky Diet guy, anyone can lose weight by maintaining a low calorie diet as he did. Weight loss alone will improve many health markers. Again, he is missing out of important nutrients that he'd get from real foods so that twinkie died wouldn't be a great option long term.