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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
So much this.
Big Mac combo at McDonald's:
Big Mac: 520 calories
Large Fries: 560 calories - 600 with ketchup
Large Pop: 330 calories
It's 1450 calories, if they refill their pop they've just reached their daily calorie goal in a single mean. But the amount of people who think that's a normal lunch, and have a hefty breakfast and dinner on top of it are way to frequent.
And then they may 'run' on a treadmill for half an hour and think they've burned off that meal when they might have burned off the 330 calories from the single drink.
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Absolutely, and it makes our population unhealthy, unproductive and a severe drain on government spending. It's funny that you can't show someone having a drink on a TV commercial, you can't advertising smoking, but every break I see another way to poison myself with fast food and how "it's the best!". Kills thousands of people a year but lets continue to allow marketing for it. I find it hard to blame people when it's constant media assaults and ####ty "food" loaded with addictiveness.
That being said, shaming, be it fat shaming, smoking shaming, drug shaming, etc. just doesn't work. It won't change people and usually just pushes them farther into their addiction. As grown-ups we really need to stop thinking that putting people down is a mature way to deal with them.