MCDONALDS FAST FOOD: TOXIC INGREDIENTS INCLUDE PUTTY AND COSMETIC PETROCHEMICALS
Every mouthful of McDonalds meal contains
a handful of chemicals that raise ‘bad’ cholesterol levels, increase diabetes
risk, lower immunity, and damage DNA. In fact fast food contains so many
harmful ingredients that I wouldn’t even feed it to a pet because it would be
cruel.
When you go to the fast-food drive-through,
you are:
1. paying to harm your own health;
your children’s health;
2. reducing your quality of life because
the toxicity of eating synthetic chemicals will trigger illness;
3. put more money into the hands of the
medical insurance companies.
Still lovin’ it?
Heard it before? Well despite the illusion
of a gradual switch to a healthier menu containing salads and smoothies,
McDonald’s line-up still contains nasty health-eroding chemicals: trans-fats,
high levels of sugar, artificial sweeteners, petro-chemicals, and high-fructose
corn syrup.
The kids meals and salads also contain
frightening ingredients and high levels of sugar.
Having perused their menus and nutritional
information for their meals, it’s incredible what synthetic chemicals they add
to salads, chicken meals, burgers, and even to their drinks. Did you know that
many of their foods and drinks contain tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), a
chemical preservative that is so deadly that just five grams is fatal? One gram
of TBHQ can cause nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of
suffocation, and collapse.
McDonald’s foods still contain trans-fats,
in addition to a whole host of synthetic chemicals to produce a taste which
they deliberately engineer to be addictive, so you spend more money with them
according to investigations by Eric Schlosser in his book Fast Food Nation.
Trans Fat Lie
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
decided that a food can contain trans-fats and that the amount doesn’t have to
be listed on the ingredient or nutrition list, providing the amount is not more
than half a gram. Many burgers, shakes, and breakfast meals contain trans-fats.
The problems with these oils is that they induce free radical damage in the
body, which leads to artery damage, DNA damage, and oxidation of cholesterol,
a.k.a. ‘bad cholesterol’. You are getting this with every mouthful.
Almost all foods on McDonald’s menu
contain hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils, that are also harmful to
the body because they damage your tissues and raise your ‘bad’ cholesterol. Did
you know that if a food manufacturer’s food contains less than 0.5g of
trans-fats then it doesn’t have to legally list trans-fats on the label?
Here is just one example of what McDonalds
put in their foods. The unhealthful ingredients in McDonalds’ Chicken nuggets
(straight from the McDonalds’ web site) include:
1. sodium phosphates;
2. bleached wheat flour (nutrients
removed);
3. food starch-modified (likely
genetically-modified);
4. dextrose (sugar);
5. partially hydrogenated soybean oil and
cottonseed oil with mono-and diglycerides, (trans fats);
6. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil,
corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil) (trans fats);
7. TBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a
petroleium dervived product;
8. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an
antifoaming agent (a form of silicone used in cosmetics, and Silly Putty).
Look for yourself
This is a choice only you can make, but
give your kids a choice too.
Pay now and later
I’m not just picking on McDonald’s here.
Visit the web sites of KFC, Wendy’s, and the other companies. Their foods
contain the same harmful chemicals that age you and leave your wallet and body
feeling empty inside within an hour of finishing the meal. Does this make sense
from a financial standpoint? What about from a health perspective? If you buy
fast food, you’ll pay now (with your money) and also later (with your health).
Why do I say that feeding fast food to a
carnivorous pet would be cruel? Humans have a choice about what to eat, even if
the choice is sometimes limited by finances, location, or time availability.
When it comes to their food, pets rely on us making the best choice for them
and trust that the food we put down for them is safe. If they don’t like it,
they’d leave it. The sweetness, aroma, and fat content however make fast food
as appealing to pets as it would to humans, and feeding them food containing
toxic ingredients would be cruel in my view.
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