Super Size Me.
I finally got around to watching Super Size Me the other night. If you’re not familiar with the documentary it’s basically the story of a guy who decides to eat only McDonald’s food for the course of a month, and how by doing so he absolutely devestates his health. It’s really a no-brainer, but it is still shocking just how bad for you it really is.
I think the last time I ate anything from McDonald’s was back in the summer, breakfast with Jon. I can’t remember the last time I ate at Burger King or Taco Bell. I suppose I ate Wendy’s food maybe two months ago, but I did have Hardee’s sourdough burgers two nights in a row a couple of weeks ago, heh.
Oddly enough, the main drawback to fast food is the inconvenience of it. I do not carry cash, period, thus it just doesn’t work for me. Hardee’s accepts credit & debit cards, hence my having eaten there. I don’t even want to know how horrid what I eat when I stop there is, healthwise.
My vice, if you want to call it that, when it comes to fast food… of course it’s not fast food, it’s “good food fast” ;) …is Sheetz. The good thing, in a way, is that nutritional information is readily and clearly available on the website, the bad news is just the same, lol.
When they introduced “Burgerz” I had to look up how horrid for the body they were; mainly because they tasted so incredibly good. One of those delicious hunks of cooked animal flesh will clobber up 80% of your recommended saturated fat intake for the day… yikes. It’s a burger though, it is to be expected on some level.
What freaked me out is when I just now looked at the information for the little breakfast sandwiches that I love. I usually get two of them, and usually on the biscuit, versus the english muffin. With sausage and hot pepper cheese, that will takes me to 114% of the recommended daily intake of cholesterol and 90% of the recommended daily intake for saturated fat. Yikes, double time. Even worse, in some ways, is that the sodium content when eating two is 86%. That’s not counting the addition of ketchup, tomatoes, onions, or peppers.
The good news is that I rarely eat them, but will I continue to eat them? Absolutely. I do think I’ll just get one of them from now on though, heh, I won’t feel so bad about it, in theory, heh. If one were to eliminate the cheese, the figures are substantially better, doing away with the sausage and getting something else improves the figures even more. It’s really interesting, to me… probably boring to everybody else. You do not want to look at the information for a hotdog though, oh my god.
I rarely eat three meals a day, usually I’ll eat once… that’s just the way I work and I’m not hungry for the rest of the day. That makes these food choices not nearly as bad, but if one were to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, it’d be awful.
