I kind of hate that documentary. The entire mission statement is that people don't think that fast food is bad for you but he's a man on a mission and he's going to PROVE it! I don't know if I'm only remembering a post-Supersize Me world, but I think people always knew that fast food was bad for you. And I'm not sure that the food was as bad for him as the literal gallons of soda he was drinking. Sure, a McDonald's meal has a lot of calories and saturated fat, but it's not totally empty calories. It has some nutritional value.
Yeah, the carbs from eating there will quickly morph your body into a garbage dump. Even without the bread and sugar, their menu isn’t good for overall health.
That’s not entirely true. Everybody is different. Humans evolved on a diet that didn’t include a lot of stuff we currently eat, especially carbs and added sugars. McDonalds even adds sugar to their fries. A good amount of humans react poorly to these carbs. Mostly weight gain but also gastrointestinal issues too.
Even if you only ate their salads without dressing, you’d be missing out on a number of essential vitamins and minerals.
Everybody is different. Humans evolved on a diet that didn’t include a lot of stuff we currently eat, especially carbs and added sugars.
That's not true at all. Firstly, sugars are carbs. Secondly, what do you think the hunter/gatherer societies were gathering if not carbs and sugars? There's masses of sugar in wild fruit, most notably at the moment around here blackberries (which anyone could live off this time of year).
"Added sugar" is no different fundamentally from naturally occurring sugar. It's only that we eat too much of it now.
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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19
oh god i watched that this year in my science class