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BAD EFFECT
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Shocking Facts About McDonald's
GOOD EFFECT
McDonald's:
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BAD EFFECT
McDonald’s Actually
Warns Employees of Fast Food’s Unhealthy Side Effects
A post on the McDonald’s employee resource website appears to ironically discourage individuals from consuming fast food, citing health reasons.
“Fast foods are quick, reasonably priced, and readily available
alternatives to home cooking. While convenient and economical for a busy
lifestyle, fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat,
sugar, and salt and may put people at risk for becoming overweight,” reads one
post on the site, according to CNBC.
One post, which labels a cheeseburger and fries as an “unhealthy
choice,” says “although not impossible it is more of a challenge to eat healthy
when going to a fast food place.”
McDonald’s,
however, defended the posts Monday and said it was taken out of context.
“Portions
of this website continue to be taken entirelyout of context,” McDonald’s said
in a statement, according to CNBC.
“This website provides useful information from respected third-parties about
many topics, among them health and wellness. It also includes information from
experts about healthy eating and making balanced choices. McDonald’s agrees
with this advice.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/25/mcdonalds-warns-employees-of-fast-foods-unhealthy-side-effects/
BAD EFFECT
5 Reasons to Never Let Your Kids
Eat McDonald‘s
1. It‘s a lie.
McDonald’s, really fast-food in general, isn’t real food. The
“nugget” isn’t a part of the chicken’s anatomy, real ribs have bones (I’m
looking at you McRib), and, most importantly, real food rots. Check out this McDonald’s
hamburger from 1999.
Yes, it’s been sitting on a shelf for 14 years. There’s not a spot of mold or a
single maggot. If nature’s natural composters don’t recognize it as food,
neither should you. If you feed your kids McDonald’s, you forever alter their
concept of what real food looks, feels and tastes like.
2. It‘s heinously unhealthy.
There are few things that derail your health like fast-food. The
average McDonald’s meal contains so much sodium, unhealthy fat, sugar and empty
carbs, it’s staggering. It is the exact opposite of what any doctor or
nutritionist (even the good ol’ USDA MyPlate) would consider a healthy diet. A
2004 study published in “The Lancet” found that eating fast food more than
twice per week is linked to rapid weight gain, increased risk of developing
type 2 diabetes, and sometimes fatal cardiovascular health problems. In fact,
the processed fat in McDonald’s food (and other fast food) promotes endothelial
dysfunction, which is linked to erectile dysfunction down the road. Is all of
that really worth a couple of minutes without whining?
3. The company refuses to acknowledge what
its food does to kids.
Sure, sure, every day we hear that McDonald’s offers a plethora of
healthy choices, blah, blah, blah. It doesn’t matter. Offer as many weird,
wilted salads as you want, but almost no one buys them,
and certainly not kids. If McDonald’s is so healthy for kids, why doesn’t the
company prove it? Instead, McDonald’s has consistently refused to assess the impact it has on
children’s weight and health.
4. It hurts families.
Are you looking forward to the holidays? Planning family meals and
special Christmas morning surprises? You’re lucky. For the millions of parents
who have no other option but to take jobs in the fast food industry (because,
you know, if they go on public assistance while looking for better work they’re
called mooches), these luxuries don’t exist. In recent years, McDonald’s has urged its franchises to stay open on
Christmas day. To add insult to injury, workers at company-owned
restaurants didn’t receive overtime for working the holiday last year. This is
on top of the frighteningly low pay, zero benefits and
general exploitation.
5. Because your kids are their
future.
We haven’t even begun to discuss the impact McDonald’s and other
fast food chains have on the environment and agriculture (i.e. factory
farming). If those issues matter to you, the last thing you should do is
introduce your kids to this food. It’s no secret that one of the oldest items
on the McDonald’s menu is the “Happy Meal,” a kid-sized sack of fake food
accompanied by a plastic, Made in China toy. McDonald’s has and always will
target children with its advertising. Why? Because kids, especially crying,
screaming ones like in the NYC custody story, are very persuasive. Those
commercials and toys are meant to get kids eating McDonald’s early, so that they’ll be customers for life. (Did we mention
fast food has been proven to be intentionally addictive?) Once hooked, McDonald’s knows your
kids will return as adults, allowing them to continue their gross, destructive,
exploitative practices in perpetuity.
BAD EFFECT
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.
BAD EFFECT
10 Worst
Effects of Fast Food
Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly.Fast food can also be defined as any food that contributes little or no nutrient value to the diet, but instead provides excess calories and fat. Fast food can be a good way to save time ,but it is not the proper way for nutrition. Some of these foods that are of little nutritional value and often high in fat, sugar, and calories. Common foods include salted snack foods, gum, candy, sweet desserts, fried fast food, and carbonated beverages. Fast food may include chips, hot pies ,pasties, sandwiches, burgers, croissants, kebabs, pizzas, chicken, soups, and salads. It also includes drinks, for instance, milkshakes, and soft drinks.
Disadvantages
of fast food
When you
feel like eating something and think of food, the things come to mind first are
the taste, odor or color. Those who have to look after their weight will think
of the portion size, many others think of energy, fats, sugars, vitamins or
minerals. But do you know that the food we eat may cause side effects and a
list of disadvantages. We are not talking about spoiled or poor quality food.
Freshly harvested or just cooked food may also cause side effects, some are
serious, some are just disturbing, and some may put you into embarrassing
situation. Over time, this can lead to an increased risk for illness and
disease. Fast food is harmful to health. It is a cause of various diseases.
Here we discus some most common disease and other side effects caused by fast
food.
Obesity
10 Worst
Effects of Fast Food
Obesity
means having too much body fat. It is not the same as being overweight, which
means weighing too much. Fast food is high in calories and sugar that
contribute to increased-weight gain. Even small amount of fast food can increase
your calorie intake considerably. Fast foods also replace healthy eating
habits, People who consume fast foods are less likely to eat fruits,
vegetables, milk etc. This change in eating habits can easily lead to obesity.
Heart
Disease
Heart Diseases by Fast Food
People who
eat fast-food four or more times a week, up their risk of dying from heart
disease by 80 percent. Fast foods create a much higher risk of heart disease
because of the high level of saturated or trans fats found in much of the food.
Those fats can clog the arteries and, over time, contribute to high cholesterol
levels.
Type 2
Diabetes
Fast Foods
causes TYPE 2 DIABETES
Fast food
has become a way of life for many busy persons seeking a fast and inexpensive
alternative to cooking at home. Although they may develop type 2 diabetes, this
type of diabetes is often caused by poor lifestyle choices, such as being
overweight and not being physically active. There is a side effect to consuming
frequent amounts of fast food ‘obesity’ which can lead to the development of
diabetes.
Peptic Ulcer
by fast food
A peptic
ulcer, also known as PUD or peptic ulcer disease, is the most common ulcer of
an area of the gastrointestinal tract that is usually acidic and thus extremely
painful. For almost 100 years, doctors believed that stress, spicy foods, and
alcohol caused most ulcers. Fast Foods which may causes Ulcer are Pizzas,
Chips, Salted snakes etc.
fast food
does not provide family members opportunity to set and eat at one place. Every
one can buy and eat walking in the way, driving a vehicle and during his work
in office. The satisfaction which a combine meal provide is lacking in Fast
Food.
walking
eating is irregular way
A healthy
person need to eat at a proper time which fast food doesn’t have. Fast food can
be consumed at any time or some time twice or thrice a day, while home cooked
food is served at proper time which provides opportunity to take rest after
eating.
Waste of
Money
Fast food
consumes too much money as compared to home prepared food. Low income people
can hardly afford continuous use of fast food. It spends a lot of budget and is
also cause of loss of healthy body.
Loss of
Appetite
Normal food
contains appetizer which are not properly present in fast food. Continues use
of fast food may cause loss appetite, abnormal digestion and sometime food
poisoning. Fast food does not satisfy all needs of stomach.
A
well-balanced food contains all essential elements which are necessary for
human development. Whereas fast food does not have all these elements, this
type of food contains some elements in high quantity while others are absent.
So, fast food does not fulfill all needs of body and sometime causes disorder.
Stress
Foods rich
in fat are reason for many diseases related to heart, blood vessels, liver and
many more. It also increases the level of stress. It has been observed that a
rich fat meal can increase your stress level and make you at a greater level of
stress in comparison to those who have a low fat meal. Certain foods and drinks
act as powerful stimulants to the body and hence are a direct cause of stress.
Like caffeine containing foods (coffee, tea, colas and chocolates), White
flour, Salt, Saturated fats, Processed foods, such as junk foods and fast
foods, contain synthetic additives – preservatives, emulsifiers, thickeners,
stabilizers and flavor-enhancers. These foods are called “pseudostressors” or
“sympathomimetics” .
GOOD EFFECT
McDonald's:
Three Strategies To Reignite Sales Growth
“The menu you love, plus so much more,” goes the commercial in McDonald’s site. But judging from the company’s sales in recent years, consumers do not seem to express that love by heading to McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD). And Wall Street has taken noticed, with company’s stock lagging behind major equity indexes.
As we have
written in previous pieces, McDonald’s developed the right business model to
ride on the crest of two emerging trends. First, the baby-boomer trend — the
swelling ranks of teenagers and rising numbers of women in the labor force in
the 1960s, which boosted demand for the company’s fast and inexpensive menu.
Second, the globalization trend — the increasing integration of world markets
in the 1970s and the 1980s — which helped the company transfer the American way
of life to many countries around the world.
That ride
wasn’t always smooth. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the company faced all
sorts of challenges to its business model among different consumer groups, and
it took its toll on sales growth and equity performance.
Nonetheless,
McDonald’s leadership managed to re-ignite sales growth by launching the “Fast
and Convenient” campaign, a radical adjustment of the company’s product
portfolio to meet emerging food industry trends; and refurbishing of McDonald’s
restaurants to achieve a branded, updated, and more natural dining environment.
The “fast”
and “convenient” elements of the McDonald’s concept were augmented by “healthy”
and “more natural” features, adding salads, fruits, carrot sticks to the menu;
and high quality coffee and healthy drinks (either through its traditional
restaurants or the Cafés) which positioned the company to compete head to head
with Starbucks and local cafeterias.
Now,
McDonald’s challenge is far more serious, in our opinion. The two trends that
have propelled the company’s growth are turning from tailwinds to headwinds.
Baby-boomers are no longer the teenagers and the twenty-something they once
were. They place calories and cholesterol count ahead of affordability, speed,
and convenience. The same could be said to be true for a large segment of the
younger, millennial generation.
McDonald’s
is hardly the first place that comes to mind when thinking of a
low-calorie-low-cholesterol menu. The McDonald’s name, which once was an asset
for the baby-boomer market, turned into a liability.
In the
meantime, the world economy hasn’t turned into a single market, but into a
collection of three segments—a global, a local, and semiglobal. McDonald’s
already conquered the global segment with little adaptation of its menu. But
conquering the local segment can be very costly, as the company must come up
with a highly localized menu which competes head to head with local
restaurants.
Besides, the
American image, which helped the company conquered the global segment of the
world market, may be a liability instead
of an asset in expanding into the local and semiglobal segments.
So what can
re-ignite the company’s growth this time around?
Here are
three options:
First, change the company name. But that would certainly have its costs, as the company derives many benefits from a well-recognized global brand. Alternatively, re-arrange the value proposition to change the image consumers have about McDonald’s — place salads and other healthy items, rather than hamburgers and sodas, in advertisements.
First, change the company name. But that would certainly have its costs, as the company derives many benefits from a well-recognized global brand. Alternatively, re-arrange the value proposition to change the image consumers have about McDonald’s — place salads and other healthy items, rather than hamburgers and sodas, in advertisements.
Second, acquire a restaurant chain that is
already riding the new trends — like Chipotle Mexican Grill, Potbelly
Corporation, or The Noodle & Company
— provided that one of these companies is up for sale and that McDonald’s is
willing to pay a hefty premium over current market valuation.
Third, leverage the company’s core
capabilities in franchising and logistics, to create two separate units– one
that caters to the low-calorie-low cholesterol consumers, and another that
caters to the local and semiglobal segments of the world economy.
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