I eat healthy food... i'm not that ignorant.. but please keep eating mc'ds it'll kill you faster

What they don't make clear is that a diet high in fat, sugar, animal products and salt (sodium), and low in fibre, vitamins and minerals - which describes an average McDonald's meal - is linked with cancers of the breast and bowel, and heart disease. Thisis accepted medical fact, not a cranky theory. Every year in Britain, heart disease alone causes about 180,000 deaths.

Many nutritionists argue that the type of high fat, low fibre diet promoted by McDonald's is linked to serious diseases such as cancer, heart disease, obesity and diabetes. The sort of diseases that are now responsible for nearly three-quarters of premature deaths in the western world. McDonald's respond that the scientific evidence is not conclusive and that their food can be a valuable part of a balanced diet.

Some people say McDonald's are entitled to sell junk food in exactly the same way that chocolate or cream cake manufacturers do: if people want to buy it that's their decision. But should McDonald's be allowed to advertise their products as nutritious? Why do they sponsor sports events when they sell unhealthy products? And what on earth are they doing opening restaurants in hospitals?

http://www.mcspotlight.org/issues/nutrition/index.html

Vegetarians and animal welfare campaigners aren't too keen on McDonald's - for obvious reasons. As the world's largest user of beef they are responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cows per year. In Europe alone they use half a million chickens every week, all from windowless factory farms. All such animals suffer great cruelty during their unnatural, painful and short lives, many being kept inside with no access to fresh air and sunshine, and no freedom of movement - how can such cruelty be measured?

http://www.mcspotlight.org/issues/animals/index.html

One of the most fundamental and enjoyable aspects of our day-to-day lives is the eating of food and the circumstances in which it is eaten. For most people the historical practice has generally been to eat the healthiest possible food (bearing in mind constraints of time and poverty), usually cooked on site and then eaten communally - either in a family or home setting, or with others whilst at work or in school canteens.

But the situation is rapidly changing as the pace and nature of society shifts. An industrial/service infrastructure, including competing companies, increasingly dominates local neighbourhoods and people's lives, undermining existing patterns of human interaction, whether amongst families, friends, neighbours or in the community in general.This process is highly advanced in 'developed' countries and is fast spreading around the globe.

Mass-produced processed food has gradually and increasingly replaced fresh and healthy foods in people's diets over the course of the twentieth century. In recent decades companies have further capitalised on this situation by promoting fast and mediocre meals to be eaten outside the home. McDonald's is of course only one part of this jigsaw, but a very successful and influential part. They currently sell to about 30 million people daily.

This development in eating habits has enormous and serious consequences for relations between people and for human health. It has also catalysed a whole range of campaigns and movements dedicated to encouraging healthy eating and healthy lifestyles.Such efforts have forced food companies like McDonald's onto the defensive, and they have had to resort to producing propaganda to try and deflect public criticism. The debate over food choices and preferences has become one of the great controversial issues of our time.




so you can keep eating it... i'll stay with my organic healthy food.... I'm guessing you don't think when it comes to you or your kids health either... that's almost sadder than you not thinking about the country you live in...

super size it for me though ok...