McDonald's is good for you.

I agree with Annie .... I tried restrictive diets a hundred times and never stuck with any of them longer than a few days because I didn't like salads or veggies and going from my unhealthy diet of crap to a nice healthy rabbit food diet was just too big a step.

By allowing myself to ease into it by reducing my crap intake and balancing it with fruits and veg and grains I have actually stuck to this program for 8 months .... that said I did cut KFC and McD's out right from the start ... but have re-introduced the occasional burger to keep me from giving up all together.

As far as the "Confectionary" thing goes - not sure there's specific requirements for something to be described as that. If there were, 284 calories with 4.5g of that from sugar would mean it was well out.

The 100% beef thing seems rather stupid - from what I can work out they are saying their beef is made from beef. Well, duh.
Presumably the suggestion is maybe no pork/chicken gets in there?
They don't say where on the cow the beef is from, nor make it clear that of course there's other ingredients.

Fructose is fruit sugar; it's been around a lot longer than people, never mind the country of the USA - if it's a poison, I'll probably die from that Orange I had earlier!

100g of Chicken breast is like 200 cals and has a TONNE of protein

well, a few tens of grams perhaps :-)

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/product_nutrition.beef.20.cheeseburger.html is interesting reading. Nothing is over 30% of the GDA so it fits easily into a balanced diet. The sugars are in the bun and the ketchup. The beef is "Just pure forequarter and flank". Don't like the look of the cheese though.

McD's are onto a loser whatever they do - if you add up the vegans, vegetarians, anti-capitalists, anti-Americans, foodies etc it wouldn't matter what they actually sold as the blind prejudice of the campaigners would probably win.

McDonalds is bad for so many reasons.

If you want more protein, eat a steak, not a burger that's been made with who knows what bits of the cow, a bun that's full of sugar, and cheese that looks more like plastic. Not to mention the sugary drinks, twice fried fries.....

Not to mention the ethical reasons to avoid McDonalds (and their ilk) such as the cynical marketing of fatty, sugary fast foods to children, their employment of low paid staff, mostly young people, who are frequently bullied into working more hours than they should, pressured into giving up breaks, no guaranteed hours, sick leave or holidays because they use zero hours contracts here in the UK, so they can be fired easily, or effectively made to leave because there are no hours available for them.

I have always wondered if they meat is real meat! That is enough to make me not want to eat fast food.
BUT every now and then, maybe once every 6 months, I have to visit McDonald's and get a double cheeseburger! I don't know why I have these cravings!

Ive always revered McDonalds and Burger King the Colon-cleanse for societal needs. When you were bound up and couldnt take a dump, all you had to do was eat one burger, one order of fries and a milkshake. GUARANTEED to clean your inner 'self' out within 6 hours...

8-P

LOL that made my day

ROFLMAO - the sad part is, Im dead serious! LOL!!!!!

I am Canadian, and this is a Canadian document, but reading these ingredients is enough to get me to make a better choice

http://www1.mcdonalds.ca/NutritionCalculator/IngredientFactsEN.pdf

I also seem to remember some sort of rumour that the '100% Beef' claim stemmed from them using the beef from a company CALLED '100% Canadian Beef.'
I dont know if that is true though...

I think the burger is not good for you. Look at the sodium content, carb content and the fat. The only thing really good is the calories.

In grams:
49% Carbs
28% Protein
23% Fat

Default ratios in MFP are apparently 55%, 15% and 30% as far as a percentage of calories goes.
So we can see if you're aiming for the MFP goal and trying to go for a balanced meal overall, it'd be a little under in carbs and a little over in fat; but not massively.
Of course, if you haven't had much fat that day already, it shouldn't be an issue.

As far as sodium goes - I don't get high blood pressure and am not bothered by the other affects, so it's not an issue for me.

it's not necessarily calories, but what the calories are from (same goes for fats). Super processed food, such as mcdonalds, is bad for you.. your body cannot use this as fuel, it will just slow you down. If you want a cheeseburger, make it at home with meat that isnt full of a bunch of antibiotics, make it from real cheese, try a gluten free bun, ect

LOL, what? I'm pretty darn sure that is completely false. Otherwise you couldn't get fat from them either. This post is so full of awesomeness.

Fat isn't necessarily bad for you. It's an essential nutrient. In fact, many people have success with high fat diets. Part of the reason this low fat nonsense came about because of the government/companies pushing HFCS. Think about that for a minute.

That said, the quality of food... it ain't good. But it's fuel, and if it fits your macros, whatever.

I eat a burger and fries once a week from mcdonalds. I just get the regular hamburger though. I see nothing wrong with it at all.

i ditch the fries and bun, and eat mcdonalds at least once a week.

burgers on shredded lettuce (or salad!) is just frakking win.

beef and cheese are perfectly good foods, so a cheeseburger is also. Not sure the bun does anything for it, but yes it's a good protein source.

Don't listen to this guy.

I think the bigger diet threat at fast food places is the fries. How many times does a person walk in and JUST get a burger? They get fries and a soda or milkshake, too. If you are counting calories, eat what you want, but for people who aren't counting calories, it's the fries and beverage that really amp up the extra calories.