Want inflamed arteries? Eat McDonald's for Breakfast

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The Worst Breakfast You Can Eat
It may be fast and convenient to stop at McDonald's for breakfast on your way to work, but this may make you think twice: Eat two McMuffins and two hash browns for breakfast and your arteries will remain inflamed until lunchtime, HealthDayNews reports of a new study from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Why worry about inflammation of the arteries? This is a direct pathway to atherosclerosis and heart disease.

The specific breakfast cited by the SUNY Buffalo researchers is a McDonald's Egg McMuffin, a Sausage McMuffin, and two orders of hash browns. Total calories: 930. (It was supersized to reflect the typical amount of calories in a fast food meal.) Eat this and within an hour, it will trigger inflammation, says study co-author Dr. Paresh Dandona. What's more that inflammation continues for three or four hours longer.

Most of us are well aware that high-fat, high-carbohydrate meals raise our cholesterol levels and send our blood sugar rates soaring. That puts us at greater risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But now nutritionists are aware there is a third danger: inflammation of the blood vessels. The fats and carbohydrate sugars appear to release "free radical" molecules within the blood cells, which in turn trigger the inflammation, reports HealthDayNews.

When nine healthy young adults ate this 930-calorie McMuffin/hash brown breakfast after an overnight fast, their blood showed a definite change compared to individuals who ate no breakfast. Those who ate the McDonald's breakfast displayed "evidence of free radical generation by the circulating white blood cells, which would cause inflammation within the white blood cells," Dandona said.

The primary culprits of the McDonald's breakfast are the hash browns, cooking oil, and muffins--not the egg or sausage. The SUNY Buffalo team is now studying the effects of 300-calorie and 1,800-calorie breakfasts. Note that McDonald's isn't the only breakfast that can stress your arteries. Sit-down restaurants and even home-cooked meals can do the same thing.

The study findings were published in the April issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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This makes me want to go to McDonald's ALOT more :eek: :sad:
 
I don't usually eat breakfast anyway.

Probably the unhealthiest breakfast I ever had was the Meatnormous sandwich at Burger King. It had eggs, chease, sausage and bacon on it. I'm still living that one down.
 
Elrohir said:
I don't usually eat breakfast anyway.

Probably the unhealthiest breakfast I ever had was the Meatnormous sandwich at Burger King. It had eggs, chease, sausage and bacon on it. I'm still living that one down.
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It'd probably be healthier to actually eat a Mcd's breakfast than nothing at all - provided that you lead an otherwise healthy lifestyle, of course.
 
Dreadnought said:
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This makes me want to go to McDonald's ALOT more :eek: :sad:
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I stopped eating at McDonalds after seeing "Super Size Me", that movie shows a LOT worse sideaffects of junk food than inflamed arteries...
 
Bah. Wendy's is far better than McD's anyways.
 
warpus said:
It'd probably be healthier to actually eat a Mcd's breakfast than nothing at all - provided that you lead an otherwise healthy lifestyle, of course.
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I don't skip breakfast because I eat too much; unless I get up early (6:00 or so) I'm usually just not hungry in the mornings. I usually eat late lunches and dinners too, as well as a snack or dessert around 10:00 or 11:00. I think it's probably healthier to eat only when you're hungry than just eat because you know most people eat at that time.
 
Havnt eatern in Macca's for what 8 years now.
 
I haven't eaten there since I started going to better places. I don't need a propaganda movie to tell me how much it sucks.
 
I always eat a bowl of Raisin Bran for breakfast.

Besides, I prefer Taco Bell myself. :D
 
Elrohir said:
I don't skip breakfast because I eat too much; unless I get up early (6:00 or so) I'm usually just not hungry in the mornings. I usually eat late lunches and dinners too, as well as a snack or dessert around 10:00 or 11:00. I think it's probably healthier to eat only when you're hungry than just eat because you know most people eat at that time.
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I too find I have no apetite early in the morning, if I rise at say 10am onwards as I sometimes do at weekends I can eat, otherwise I just can't stomach anything of any real size, sometimes I'll try and force myself to eat say a sandwich but usually I don't enjoy it. I have a tea break at work at around 10ish am where I tend to eat and then again at lunch, it seems to work better that way. As to being healthy unless your actually physicaly craving food I can't see a problem, I know that starvation puts stress on the heart, but I believe that this takes some time to have any effect, not being a medical expert though I'm not sure what effect consistent non eating in the morning would have but with most things I'd say if your body isn't asking for it, then how can it be doing any harm to you? But then I not a nutritionalist.

Mcdonalds is real crap both in terms of being fairly empty nutritionally and it just not being a great standard of food anyway, If I did eat in the morning I'd go for something like Shredded wheat with half fat milk. What you really need in the morning is carbohydrates: long chain ones that take a long time to break down and give you a long term boost of energy, not Fat and short chain sugars, that much I do know.
 
warpus said:
It'd probably be healthier to actually eat a Mcd's breakfast than nothing at all - provided that you lead an otherwise healthy lifestyle, of course.
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Breakfast isn't necessary, contrary to what Genral Mills wants you to think. ;)

Why are people so suprised that fast food is bad for you?
 
I eat at McDonalds like once a month.

And I do it for the soda. (My parents hate buying soda)
 
Fast food in generals sucks big.
 
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