Fast food in order of how unhealthy it is?

[Gheld]

That is actually a very healthy sandwich. Fat is GOOD for you, carbs are bad.

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That study shows that people eating whole grains have better outcomes than a group of people who didn't. It DOESN'T say that whole grains are good for you, just that they aren't as bad as what those others were eating. Actually it doesn't even say that, because it didn't control for all the other ways their diets and lifestyle may differ. It may be that those who decided to eat whole grains were predisposed to do other things that would improve their health.

The study did NOT run whole grain diets vs. low carb diets, as far as I can tell.

That's because any properly controlled double blind clinical trial putting high fat vs high carb shows high fat wins.
The only real exception is pregnant women who should eat more grain for the follic acid.

If everybody suddenly started eating optimally based on the best available science it would turn most of the world's agriculture on it's head.

[Tyrgannus]

1. Burger King. No seriously.
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5. Subway

[Gumboy]

That's specifically what I'm referring to o.O

Lol I read that as you trying to say "Super size me" was like gospel truth :P

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How about potatoes? Bread, rice, potatoes they are all cheap energy that people eat with their meals.

i dont eat any of those (not paleo!) but then i would not eat "fast food" unless i was literally starving,

There are plenty of healthy cheap, easy and tasty options that I woudl never eat the shit that passes for food in these places.

[Gumboy]

Carls JR is just a fancy name for "Hardees" (Or vice versa)

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Not even close.

Bread is hard wheat kernels that have been ground into a fine powder combined with powdered stabilizing agents, mixed with fat (these days usually vegetable oil) and then reconstituted with water with salt, sugar, and yeast added to turn it into a stretchy bubbly mass.

My bread is

Flour
Water
Yeast
1 teaspoon of sugar (to activate the yeast)
1 teaspoon of salt

I can use sodium bicarb as a raising agent instead of yeast (so you lose the sugar from the recipe) if I'm making it for a vegan that feels sorry for the poor little mould spores.

[delciotto]

My bread is

Flour
Water
Yeast
1 teaspoon of sugar (to activate the yeast)
1 teaspoon of salt

I can use sodium bicarb as a raising agent instead of yeast (so you lose the sugar from the recipe) if I'm making it for a vegan that feels sorry for the poor little mould spores.

a bit of oil or any fat improves breads a ton, makes it much more tender. And I'm not talking a lot of fat, I use about 1/4 cup for around 100 decent sized buns.

[imabanana]

1 being the worst 5 being the 'best' personally I'd say 1. McD 2. Taco Bell 3. KFC 4. Pizza express 5. Subway, That's just what I personally think from what I've ate and what I've heard about the places above, so if my anybody could give facts it would be good to see

That's fun, over these would have put KFC and Subway on the worst side (KFC at 1... or less), and McD much higher.

And pizzas are definitely on the worst side too.

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This does not take into consideration the chicken itself, which is full of antibiotics, steroids, and growth hormones.

I can tell that you're arguing based on emotional sentiment due to the fact that those things are illegal for use in poultry.

[zito]

Just be aware that there is no such thing as a healthy Pizza.

Tell that to pizza huts new menu or w/e the fuck they are doing now.

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Oh no, a long ingredients list, it must be bad! I mean, exacts of turmeric? That shit's got to be deadly!

It's a fairly decent metric for quality on a lot of things. If something should only have 6 ingredients and it has 20, it's probably going to be pretty shitty because the reason it has so many ingredients are due to cheapness, fillers, preservatives and stuff. It's like when places use margarine instead of butter because it's cheaper, except they're using several ingredients in places of one because they need one to be the main thing, then a couple others to alter texture or color or whatever.

As to whether it means more or less healthy, I can't really say, but it's decent for indicating shitty taste.

[Gheld]

My bread is

Flour
Water
Yeast
1 teaspoon of sugar (to activate the yeast)
1 teaspoon of salt

I can use sodium bicarb as a raising agent instead of yeast (so you lose the sugar from the recipe) if I'm making it for a vegan that feels sorry for the poor little mould spores.

And if you are buying the typical flour it will almost always contain anti clumping agents. Unless you are buying organic or milling the flour yourself.

And vegans are allowed to eat fungus because they are hypocrite.

And I'm not saying all grains are bad all the time. But in terms of nutrition and satiety provided they do a piss poor job compared to other caloric sources.

The amount and quality of grains that most people eat are bad.

[belfpala]

The amount and quality of grains that most people eat are bad.

We can make this statement about any food. Or about anything. Except making money, maybe.

[Zonned]

All food is bad for you in some way just quit worrying about it and eat whatever the hell you want.

[belfpala]

a bit of oil or any fat improves breads a ton, makes it much more tender. And I'm not talking a lot of fat, I use about 1/4 cup for around 100 decent sized buns.

I'm not the bread expert in my house, but I know my gf uses different oils, sometimes egg yolk. She also prefers honey over sugar for activating the yeast.

She's always experimenting. I think she has two kinds of biga in the fridge right now. Oh, then there are her three sourdough starters that have been alive for years. She'd possibly forgive me if I killed her dog. I'd be on the street with all my possessions on the lawn if I killed one of those starters.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

a bit of oil or any fat improves breads a ton, makes it much more tender. And I'm not talking a lot of fat, I use about 1/4 cup for around 100 decent sized buns.

I put a dash of high quality olive oil in it if it's going to be ciabatta. And olives, preferably Greek (because the Spanish ones taste of bugger all).

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Tell that to pizza huts new menu or w/e the fuck they are doing now.

Are you trying to say pizza hut is healthy?

[Zafire]

Subway has more calories than most if not all Mc'donalds meals, Burger king is where the calories are.
An average Mc'donalds meal for me is about 800 calories I think, I consumed double that in a single Burger King meal.

Then you're doing it wrong. A Whopper Jr with no Mayo is 300 calories. A Whopper with no Mayo is 510 calories. Whoppers are big sandwiches.

Everything at McDonalds besides their classic grilled chicken sandwiches and salads are higher than that.

[Tziva]

You can't really rate a restaurant based on healthfulness since it varies pretty widely depending on what you order. While almost all of them have menu items that are super bad for you, many places also have healthier options that range from "mildly less bad for you" to "decent." For example, my absolute favourite thing from Jack in the Box is one of their salads which isn't too bad for you, but I'd never rank the entire restaurant on that salad.

No one eats fast food for health reasons, though. People eat it either because they like it and/or it's convenient.

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You can't really rate a restaurant based on healthfulness since it varies pretty widely depending on what you order. While almost all of them have menu items that are super bad for you, many places also have healthier options that range from "mildly less bad for you" to "decent." For example, my absolute favourite thing from Jack in the Box is one of their salads which isn't too bad for you, but I'd never rank the entire restaurant on that salad.

No one eats fast food for health reasons, though. People eat it either because they like it and/or it's convenient.

Ugghh aside from vegetables. Personally I wouldn't buy a salad from Mc Donalds (or any other FF resturant) in the first place. People eat it because they don't really know what's in it then there are those people who don't care or are to ignorant to understand.