McDonalds Fast Food: Toxic Ingredients

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:

• paying to harm your own health;
  
• your children’s health;
  
• reducing your quality of life because the toxicity of eating synthetic chemicals will trigger illness;
  
• 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:

• sodium phosphates;
  
• bleached wheat flour (nutrients removed);
  
• food starch-modified (likely genetically-modified);
  
• dextrose (sugar);
  
• partially hydrogenated soybean oil and cottonseed oil with mono-and diglycerides, (trans fats);
  
• Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil) (trans fats);
  
• TBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleium dervived product;
  
• Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent (a form of silicone used in cosmetics, and Silly Putty).
  

Look for yourself
Download this nutritional information chart.
It’s a long PDF document of all their menu items. Find the foods you
buy in the left column, and see how much trans-fats, and sugars are in
them. THEN, visit McDonald’s web site, select the foods you eat, click on the nutrition
link, and scroll down to the ingredients list. If you can’t pronounce
any of the ingredients and don’t know what they are then is it wise to
eat them? 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.

Source

http://www.endalldisease.com/mcdonalds-fast-food-toxic-ingredients-include-putty-and-cosmetic-petrochemicals/

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