Health - Fast Food Restaurants

 

 

The Bacon Clubhouse Burger (also available as a Bacon Clubhouse Chicken Sandwich) features a Quarter Pounder beef patty, lettuce, tomato, pasteurized white cheddar, bacon strips, caramelized onions, and Big Mac sauce all on a new artisan roll.

Nutrition Facts:  Calories: 720 / Calories from Fat: 360 / Total Fat: 40g / Sat. Fat: 15g / Trans Fat: 1.5g /Cholesterol: 115mg / Sodium: 1470mg / Carbs: 51g / Dietary Fiber: 4g / Sugars: 14g / Protein: 39g

Assuming it has your regular burger, it was probably made with the use of a lot of preservatives, chemicals, and artificial flavors. The bacon steams and sizzles with oil enough to make your throat sore. The lettuce and tomato look fairly fresh and the mayonnaise and cheese are seasoned just right for it to match the burger patty.

 

The Fillet-O-Fish is a similar to a regular hamburger, only the burger  is replaced with a deep fried fish fillet with  enough pickles and mayonnaise to overflow and drip slightly at the sides of the buns.

Nutrition Facts:  Serving size: 142 g / Calories: 390 / Calories from Fat: 170 / Total fat: 29g / Saturated Fat: 9g / Trans Fat: 0g / Cholesterol: 40mg / Sodium: 590 mg / Carbohydrates: 39g / Dietary Fiber: 2g / Sugars: 5g / Protein: 15g

It tastes fairly good and the fillet isn’t as drenched in oil as one would imagine. The fish fillet is crispy and dry enough that the mayonnaise and pickles complement it perfectly. It’s a light snack that one can eat in between meals.

 

The Big Mac has both patties topped with iceberg lettuce, finely chopped onions, pickles, and special sauce. The bottom patty gets a slice of golden American cheese that wilts around the lower bun.

 

Nutrition Facts:  Serving size: 212 g / Calories: 540 / Calories from Fat: 250 / Total fat: 28g / Saturated Fat: 10g / Trans Fat: 1g / Cholesterol: 80mg / Sodium: 970 mg / Carbohydrates: 47g / Dietary Fiber: 3g / Sugars: 9g / Protein: 25g

It’s a McDonald’s classic and almost everyone has ordered at least on Big Mac in the life. There’s nothing really special about the burger except the fact that it has this familiar taste of beef and sandwich mixed together.

 

Research

The websites of McDonald’s worldwide do provide nutritional facts but it’s still not enough to trust the food they serve.

In 2008 in a McDonald’s  branch in Massachusetts, a fourteen year old girl found a vaccination needle in her cheeseburger. Investigators soon hypothesized that it came from a slaughterhouse.

Soon more cases where people found peculiar items in meals served at McDonald’s emerged. Other “complementary” items people have found in their  meals include a condom, a band-aid, maggots, and chards of glass.

Research has shown that eating McDonald’s more than twice a week increases people’s risk in developing Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity by 70%.

Unfortunately, unhealthy contents and side-effects are not the only problems with meals from McDonald’s. One of the major problems it poses is that fact that it is addicting.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute of California have confirmed that McDonald’s is as addictive as cocaine. The high sugar content of their fast food over stimulates the production of dopamine, which unlocks the brain’s reward pathway in the same way that hard drugs do. Excessive fast food consumption has now even led to the creation of rehabilitation courses for people with binge eating disorders and fast food addictions.

Consuming fast food meals constantly is far from healthy and can lead to diseases, sicknesses, addiction, obesity, and in worse cases death.

Now think about what you eat.