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Why McDonalds Fries Should Not Be In Your Stomach

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You might have seen the documentary of a guy who ate only McDonald food, thinking that he ate too much of it so it was obviously unhealthy. We all prefer french fries on every visit to McDonald, no meal is complete without it right?

But check out this time lapse experiment of McDonald's food products and see for yourself what is the worst food they serve that shouldn't be in your stomach.



These French Fries Contain Bad Fats

Frying up your food is sure tasty, but bad fat or saturated fat is what turns a potato into a time bomb for cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Not all fats are bad and more people are learning that fats come in the categories of the bad fats and good ones. While good fats such as vegetable oils including olive oil and sunflower are actually having some protective effects on your health, the bad fats or saturated fats are directly linked to the clogging of your arteries, it is the bad fats that cause far greater damage. Damage done by saturated fat is found in margarines, vegetable shortening and everything that is partially hydrogenated. Bad fats have been shown to raise levels of bad cholesterol or low density lipoprotein. Saturated fats also stay in your body longer and raise circulating blood triglycerides that lower the good cholesterol or high density lipoprotein. When you consume these bad fats they make the platelets in your blood streams. These sticky little platelets then form clots that connect to the walls of arteries which supply vital areas of your body with oxygen and nutrition. These little clots create a wall of plaque which will eventually lead to heart attack or a stroke.
Reference: fitnea.com

They Are Very Toxic

In order to make French fries, they must be cooked at high temperatures which cause the chemical, acrylimide to be released. Acrylimides are a known cancer causing agent that also causes nerve damage.
Potatoes are grown in the ground and have a higher pesticide absorption level than almost any other food product. Fries are cooked in oxidized oil that is re-used for weeks at a time!
Potatoes have a very high glycemic index meaning it turns to sugar very quickly in the body. Eating a baked potato (or equivalent quantity of French fries) is the sugar equivalent of a large piece of chocolate cake!


They Contain SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE?!

This preservative is the reason McDonald's fries will retain a fresh-looking golden brown color rather than turn black when placed in a jar for two months. Yuck. This same ingredient is often found in commercially prepared cake, pudding, waffle, pancake and muffin mixes, and it is also added to refrigerated dough products, flavored milk, cured meats, potato products and canned fish.

They Also Contain DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANE

What's an anti-foaming agent doing in your fries? Bizarrely enough, this silicone serves a purpose: McDonald's manufacturers likely add some to the water when boiling the potatoes before frying and freezing them for shipment. This probably helps speed up the process (no foam spilling over) and cuts back on cleanup afterward. There's no proof that ingesting this stuff is harmful, but why would you want to?

Reference: livestrong.com

But Still A Lot Of People Eat These Stuff




The Verdict


So what do you have to say about these? The picture above is so tempting. I'm drooling already. But personally, though it will be really painful for me to not eat my favorite fries (in Burger King) I won't be eating french fries like I used to! Maybe if I bake one myself, I won't be feeling guilty. Anyway, stay healthy folks!

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