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People like to bash McDonalds, I love it. I'm a very health-conscious person. I'm 5'10", 155 pounds, 53 years old, and have a nicely defined body (you can see

People like to bash McDonalds, I love it. I'm a very health-conscious person. I'm 5'10", 155 pounds, 53 years old, and have a nicely defined body (you can see my abs!) It's easy to count calories in McDonald. An Egg McMuffin is 310 calories. A regular hamburger is 240, a Big Mac is 563. I can have an Egg McMuffin and black coffee for breakfast (310 calories), two regular hamburgers for lunch (480) calories, and a Big Mac for Dinner (563) and be at 1353 calories, which leaves me with 650 calories for healthy snacks (fruit, vegetables, yogurt) and be at 2,000 calories/day. It can be an excellent way for people on a budget to get some meat several times a weak. (Buy the hamburgers, w/o buns, and eat them with rice and broccoli!)

ciaranm 10y ago
You're being downvoted because it's cool to hate on McDonald's, but I agree with you. From my experience in the UK, their menu is increasingly easy to find nutritional information for (the print it in big font on -all- of their packaging), and they offer alternatives for fries/sodas if you like. Much of the McDonald's menu is far healthier than 'real' restaurant equivalents, which use much more oil/salt because the international community isn't scrutinising every menu item.
- ablation 10y ago
  I think they're being downvoted because they're a new account with no submissions and no other comments bar this one, which looks a little... ah... suspicious?
  - FunctionalMan 10y ago
    I've had a bunch of comments, but I think new users are shadowbanned by default.
    - kw71 10y ago
      I saw your "dead" comment, thought it was valuable. Your previous comments didn't appear to be antisocial so I vouched it. Your karma went up since then so apparently some people agree. You're still flagged for whatever reason, so whatever you write will still be invisible until someone using showdead comes along and decides it shouldn't be hidden.
- tobltobs 10y ago
  Or he gets downvoted because he thinks healthy food has something to do with calorie counting or those nutritional information printed on the package.
  - ciaranm 10y ago
    Healthy food does have something to do with the amount of calories it contains. It's not the be-all or end-all, but if you're consuming less than you use, you'll lose weight. Weight is by far one of the largest risk factors for a huge number of medical conditions and problems, so I'd be amazed to hear how calories/nutritional content of food isn't related to health!
    - Programmatic 10y ago
      > It's not the be-all or end-all, but if you're consuming less than you use, you'll lose weight. I'm not really weighing in on one side or the other in terms of the overall argument, but unfortunately metabolisms are rather sneaky. Calories in < calories out = weight loss sounds nice, but unfortunately calories out is a moving target in that your metabolism will ratchet down and be more efficient and/or consume muscle if calories in is insufficient.
      - FunctionalMan 10y ago
        Have you learned how to create matter from nothing? This is pure nonsense.

ciaranm 10y ago

You're being downvoted because it's cool to hate on McDonald's, but I agree with you. From my experience in the UK, their menu is increasingly easy to find nutritional information for (the print it in big font on -all- of their packaging), and they offer alternatives for fries/sodas if you like. Much of the McDonald's menu is far healthier than 'real' restaurant equivalents, which use much more oil/salt because the international community isn't scrutinising every menu item.

ablation 10y ago
I think they're being downvoted because they're a new account with no submissions and no other comments bar this one, which looks a little... ah... suspicious?
- FunctionalMan 10y ago
  I've had a bunch of comments, but I think new users are shadowbanned by default.
  - kw71 10y ago
    I saw your "dead" comment, thought it was valuable. Your previous comments didn't appear to be antisocial so I vouched it. Your karma went up since then so apparently some people agree. You're still flagged for whatever reason, so whatever you write will still be invisible until someone using showdead comes along and decides it shouldn't be hidden.
tobltobs 10y ago
Or he gets downvoted because he thinks healthy food has something to do with calorie counting or those nutritional information printed on the package.
- ciaranm 10y ago
  Healthy food does have something to do with the amount of calories it contains. It's not the be-all or end-all, but if you're consuming less than you use, you'll lose weight. Weight is by far one of the largest risk factors for a huge number of medical conditions and problems, so I'd be amazed to hear how calories/nutritional content of food isn't related to health!
  - Programmatic 10y ago
    > It's not the be-all or end-all, but if you're consuming less than you use, you'll lose weight. I'm not really weighing in on one side or the other in terms of the overall argument, but unfortunately metabolisms are rather sneaky. Calories in < calories out = weight loss sounds nice, but unfortunately calories out is a moving target in that your metabolism will ratchet down and be more efficient and/or consume muscle if calories in is insufficient.
    - FunctionalMan 10y ago
      Have you learned how to create matter from nothing? This is pure nonsense.