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McNugget ... McNastiest?
Alan Rushing
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"What's so bad about nuggets?
They would be bad enough if they were merely chunks of chicken that had been breaded and deep-fried in oil. One documentary describes McDonald's nuggets as chickens "stripped down to the bone, and then 'ground up' into a chicken mash, then combined with a variety of stabilizers and preservatives, pressed into familiar shapes, breaded and deep fried, freeze dried, and then shipped to a McDonald's near you."
Aside from chicken and oil, those "stabilizers and preservatives" are said to include dimethylpolysiloxane, a form of silicone also used in cosmetics. Another additive is tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), a form of butane. According to one report, chicken is only about 50 percent of a McNugget; the remainder is a mixture of corn-derived ingredients, sugars and synthetic substances.
If a four-piece serving of Chicken McNuggets carried a nutrition label, at first glance it wouldn't seem too scary: 190 calories, 12 grams of carbs and 12 grams of fat. But consider that more than half of those calories (56 percent) are from fat-and protein accounts for a mere four percent. Add a whopping 360 mg sodium, and its image as "the more nutritious fast-food snack" fades."
Reference Link:
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/chicken-nuggets-how-bad-are-they
"What's so bad about nuggets?
They would be bad enough if they were merely chunks of chicken that had been breaded and deep-fried in oil. One documentary describes McDonald's nuggets as chickens "stripped down to the bone, and then 'ground up' into a chicken mash, then combined with a variety of stabilizers and preservatives, pressed into familiar shapes, breaded and deep fried, freeze dried, and then shipped to a McDonald's near you."
Aside from chicken and oil, those "stabilizers and preservatives" are said to include dimethylpolysiloxane, a form of silicone also used in cosmetics. Another additive is tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), a form of butane. According to one report, chicken is only about 50 percent of a McNugget; the remainder is a mixture of corn-derived ingredients, sugars and synthetic substances.
If a four-piece serving of Chicken McNuggets carried a nutrition label, at first glance it wouldn't seem too scary: 190 calories, 12 grams of carbs and 12 grams of fat. But consider that more than half of those calories (56 percent) are from fat-and protein accounts for a mere four percent. Add a whopping 360 mg sodium, and its image as "the more nutritious fast-food snack" fades."
Reference Link:
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/chicken-nuggets-how-bad-are-they
Comments
Brad Steele
The boosters had given the players $2 each for supper. There was a little table offering samples of McNuggets as a promotion. I gave my $2 to Bennie Lee Hawley and he went next door and got a loaf of bread, some mustard, and a pack of baloney. I ate sample McNuggets. I found out later that Bennie Lee ate a sandwich and took the rest home to his family.
I still like McNuggets and eat them regularly.
The butane explains my scorched shorts...
About.com did an investigation and reported:
"Contrary to what has been claimed, however, mechanically separated chicken is not typically found in fast food items such as chicken nuggets and chicken patties, according to MeatSafety.org, a website maintained by the American Meat Institute (a trade association). McDonald's has repeatedly denied that its Chicken McNuggets contain MSP. The McDonald's website states:
The only meat used in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets is chicken breast meat. The white meat is minced before being shaped into nuggets, and then coated with a specially seasoned batter at our trusted suppliers, such as Keystone Foods.
Among the commercially sold products that are made with mechanically separated poultry, according to MeatSafety.org, are chicken and turkey franks, lunch meats, and "other processed products."
So, McNuggets no, hotdogs yes. Besides, if you cook it well enough, it is all edible. [:D]
You eat nothing but McDonalds, you will end up in the hospital. (anyone read that article about the girl in Britain who ended up hospitalized because of her McNugget diet???)
Go on a vegan diet without extremely careful planning...gonna end up in the hospital! Essential Amino Acids are not just a good idea...
Fresh, minimally processed foods are always best, but a "real" meal is not always feasible. Eating McDonalds every so often is not going to kill you either.
I heard this story on the radio this morning-
British teen Stacey Irvine hospitalized after eating nothing but chicken nuggets for 15 years
CBS) Talk about being a picky eater. A British teenager reportedly has eaten "practically nothing" but chicken nuggets for the past 15 years. And now she's paying for it.
Seventeen-year-old Stacey Irvine didn't think her nugget habit was a big deal - until she collapsed one day work, The Sun reported. When Stacey arrived at the hospital, doctors were horrified to find she had eaten chicken nuggets every single day and "never" ate fruits or vegetables.
"My main meal is always chicken nuggets every day," Stacey told the paper. "I share 20 with my boyfriend with chips (fries)."
A 20-piece chicken nuggets meal contains 58g of fat and 926 calories, which exceeds daily recommended intakes of 56g fat, and is almost half of the daily recommended 2,000 calories a day, according to The Daily Mail.
There is a tiny bit of variety in Stacey's diet, according to The Sun. Once in a while, she'll eat a slice of toast for breakfast or snack on potato chips.
Doctors diagnosed Stacey with anemia and swollen veins in her tongue, putting her on an emergency vitamin regimen. Stacey's high salt, high fat diet also raises her risk for future chronic health problems, including heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
"She's been told in no uncertain terms that she'll die if she carries on like this," Stacey's mom Evonne said. "But she says she can't eat anything else." Since Stacey's taste for nuggets started at age 2, Evonne has tried everything, including trying to starve her daughter to get her to eat something healthier.
"I am at my wit's end," Evonne said. "I'm praying she can be helped before it's too late."
Is it too late for Stacey?
"She's not a lost cause," Nancy Copperman, director of public health initiatives for North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in New York, told HealthPop. Stacey may not be getting a balanced diet, Copperman said, but she might be taking in enough calories where she isn't malnourished, so there's still hope she can take on more nutrients to improve her health. Bones, for example, can grow until a woman is in her 20s, so Stacey would still have time to increase her calcium intake. Copperman is not involved in Stacey's care.
She dubs Stacey's monotonous nugget-centric diet as a "beige diet," since Stacey's skipping out on colorful fruits and vegetables loaded in vitamins A, C, E, K, and folate. People deficient in these nutrients can have scurvy, vision problems, or blood clotting issues.
Variety is essential for anyone's diet, Copperman said. So even if Stacey only ate something healthier, like carrots, she'd still miss out on key nutrients. People need a diet that's rich in nutrients, proteins, and fiber, and is balanced to contain fruits, veggies, whole grains and dairy, she said.
http://tinyurl.com/7hlm8nz
How the hell is that even possible? A normal person has to get bored of eating the same damn thing ALL the time
The last line in the article is also exactly what I mentioned: without balance it does not matter if you eat nothing but fried foods, or nothing but salads...you will still be sick from selective malnutrition (getting enough calories but missing something else, like vitamins or essential amino acids).
You did good tying it together, seriously. Very good.
Now I understand how you got and keep your position, attention! [:)] [;)] [^]
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Addendum: now I'm going to do some additional research of the subject. I have absolutely no reason or notion to believe anything that Mc comes out with ... cuzz I have researched them on some other subjects previously. Right! It has nothing much to do with food ... just all that other stuff! [;)]
http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/full_menu_explorer.html