What happens if i eat mcdonalds

By Shirley Gomez - New York. What are you most excited about? How does it feel to have a meal named in your honor? How did you come up with the idea? What can you tell us about the commercial for the meal? Will there be any special giveaways during the time the meal is available? What is the weirdest food combination you like to eat? Speaking of ice cream, we associate your name with something sweet. Definitely a McFlurry with extra Oreos in it.

But it's safe to say that if you want to go super healthy at McDonald's, you're also super limited. And as an every-day option, well, we all know that's not going to happen, right? Even if you start with the best of intentions, it's just a matter of time before you splurge on a Big Mac, fries, and Coke, and it's all downhill from there. So, we're not talking about what might happen if you stick to the handful of healthy things out there in this article.

We're talking about the real world And strangely, "healthy" and "unhealthy" might not be too far apart when it comes to the impact McDonald's may have on your body. As unlikely as it sounds, there are people who have taken on eating at McDonald's every day as a sort of challenge, and proven that it's possible to lose weight. In , the Huffington Post reported that high school biology teacher John Cisna turned himself into a guinea pig for his students.

They designed a menu where he would eat McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 90 days. At first, the menu was pretty healthy, but by the end, he was including things like Double Cheeseburgers.

He stipulated that the students had to design his menu based on federal nutritional guidelines, and he added exercise to his schedule. By the end of 3 months, he'd lost 37 pounds. He's not the only one who's done it. In , a British postman decided to go on the McDonald's diet. After 30 days — during which he ate everything on the menu at least once — he lost 16 pounds.

There's a huge caveat here, too — he also spent an hour at the gym every morning, and said that a non-sedentary career and his training as a bodybuilder probably helped him shed the weight. Bottom line? Dietitian Kara Landau told The Independent that just because one person had the lifestyle to do it, that doesn't mean everyone can or should try.

Here's the thing: While people have demonstrated that it's possible to lose weight while eating just McDonald's, Business Insider says that McDonald's is still a horrible plan for getting healthy.

As they put it, "Health is about more than weight. While the pounds might come off, there are other things going on in a body that's getting nothing but McDonald's. That body isn't getting nearly the amount of other things it needs — things like fresh fruits and vegetables that help control blood pressure and prevent heart attacks and strokes. Skipping those can even make a person more prone to degenerative conditions like cataracts and vision loss. It's also likely that along with the weight loss will come vitamin deficiencies, and that's going to impact things like bone health and your immune system.

Wrap that up with the double whammy of a diet high in saturated fats and sodium, and even if you end up losing weight, you're still likely to suffer from some of the other not-so-positive effects of eating McDonald's every day.

The more we learn about the little ecosystem of bacteria in our digestive tracts, the more we realize how important it is. According to Healthline , a balanced gut microbiome is crucial for things like managing our weight, and preventing conditions like irritable bowel syndrome. Your gut microbiome also impacts blood sugar levels, and helps the body absorb crucial vitamins and nutrients.

So, when a father-and-son research team found that eating McDonald's every day for just 10 days destroyed the gut microbiome, it was a big deal. According to Time , professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London Tim Spector recruited his son, Tom, a University of Aberystwyth genetics student, for an experiment. They also say that after just three days, he started to feel And, his skin started turning a little grayish. By the eighth day, Tom wrote for The Telegraph , friends were getting concerned.

He stuck it out, though, and along the way, he collected regular stool samples for testing in several labs. At the end of the 10 days, he found he had destroyed his gut bacteria. While he'd originally had 3, different species of microbes in his system, the McDonald's diet killed 1, of them.

And that could cause a domino effect that impacts all those other parts of your body. When Tom Spector spent 10 days eating nothing but McDonald's — for science! After eating, he would feel so sick that he'd have to sit down.

And the tiredness and lethargy — the sort of feeling we associate with a post-Thanksgiving snoozefest — continued throughout the day, but at the same time, he couldn't sleep well. Angus Stewart of Edith Cowan University says via The Conversation that there's definitely something food-related going on here.

He says that research indicates that it's foods with "an imbalance of nutrients" that will make us feel most sleepy after eating them — particularly, foods that are high in carbohydrates and fats, but low in other things. And here's why. Most fast food, like burgers, french fries, and even sodas, are loaded with simple carbohydrates.

When your body breaks down a McDonald's meal, your blood sugar levels spike, and in order to deal with these spikes, insulin is quickly released to help bring the sugar levels down, leading to spikes in insulin itself. While healthy bodies can handle this from time to time, daily insulin spikes from eating fast food can lead to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

While manageable, diabetes is the 7th most common death in the United States. Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter to get the latest food news delivered straight to your inbox. Besides the fact that you're more likely to develop diabetes, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, your heart health will suffer in other ways because of your regular McDonald's habit.

Fast food is full of hidden added sugars, and these amounts are in stark contrast with recommendations by The American Heart Association AHA. For example, if you're starting your day off with McDonald's Big Breakfast with Hotcakes , you'll have eaten your entire day's worth of sugar and fat before noon.

Love a good McFlurry? It's a sugary monstrosity, equal to consuming seven of the chain's Apple Pies. And don't even get us started on soda, an inevitable part of the McDonald's experience for most.

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