Wednesday, January 20, 2010
We are not greatly concerned with the rival claims of these fast-food chains. What concern us in the light of these figures are the nutritional norms. The advertisement looks accurate; it quotes the websites of MC Donald’s and Burger King as its data source. From this it follows that if you eat a turkey and ham subway sandwich for break-fast, a Big Mac for lunch and a whopper for dinner, then you total daily intake will add unto just 1508 calories. So going by Indian nutritional norms, eating such junk food will leave you severally undernourished!
Now, all these yours we have been under the impression that Americans are overweight precisely because they stuff themselves with Big Macs and whoppers. A Big Mac is a double Decker sandwich, with two meat cutlets, cheese, tomato and lettuce wedged between three layers of bread. A whopper boasts that it has even more meat than a Big Mac. Both are fatty. A Big Mac has 35 grams of fat, a whopper 40 grams would be a recipe for obesity, I had always thought. But according to our nutritional norms, this is a recipe for under nourishment.
0 comments:
Post a Comment