As always, it's the dose that makes it bad ...

Salt is what makes your nerves work, too much salt somehow makes you fat or something. I forgot the reason, but I think the amount you should have is about 500mg a day or something.

Fun fact: McDonalds big mac contains 1050mg of sodium

Salt is not bad for you, only refined sodium chloride is.

Also water makes sodium kersplode

Salt is what makes your nerves work, too much salt somehow makes you fat or something. I forgot the reason, but I think the amount you should have is about 500mg a day or something.

Fun fact: McDonalds big mac contains 1050mg of sodium

Salt/sodium is an electrolyte, which can cause health problems if they're out-of-balance. Some salt is good (and, for the record, a certain amount is required for the proper operation of some of our bodies' systems), but too little or too much can cause circulatory collapse.

That's why McDonalds has been attempting to lower the sodium content of its fries and hamburgers; both to change their unhealthy image, and promote proper eating habits.

That's why McDonalds has been attempting to lower the sodium content of its fries and hamburgers; both to change their unhealthy image, and promote proper eating habits.

It took long enough for McDonald's to realise that killing your customers is a bad idea because dead customers cannot buy burgers.

salt, cholesterol and high fat foods have never been proven to be unhealthy in any way. in every study ever done if you read past any bias the results are
salt doesn't harm you in reasonable amounts.
cholesterol is only bad if small, dense LDL caused by sugar
Unsaturated AND Saturated fats do no harm to the body.

McDonalds fries kick ass though

I usually traverse about 5 miles a day on foot, also every day I get a taco bell volcano burrito (used to be a big mac but McDonalds is rebuilding the closest one and I don't want to walk in the other direction.

Salt is absolutely vital for all cooking: after a Bandit-killing-spree I always search every Barrel to find those Salt Piles.

salt, cholesterol and high fat foods have never been proven to be unhealthy in any way. in every study ever done if you read past any bias the results are
salt doesn't harm you in reasonable amounts.
cholesterol is only bad if small, dense LDL caused by sugar
Unsaturated AND Saturated fats do no harm to the body.

If fat people exercised once in awhile instead of just eat all the time then they wouldn't need to worry about what they eat too much, as long as you do enough exercise within, I don't know, a month? Even casually? You wouldn't have this problem. That said people don't notice but avoiding eating fruit and veg causes it's own problems like constipation which I'd argue is even worse than being overweight because of the amount of pain it causes.

It's people just doing nothing but sitting at their computers or on their couches all day doing nothing but eating that are the real issue here, not salt or what fat content is in your food. Even someone like me who does spend a lot of time on the computer manages at least 3 hours of exercise each week.

When a burger contains 50% of your daily salt needs and twice the fat it doesnt take long to outgrow your pants and if a meal requires massive amounts of salt to make it tasty then you have to wonder just how **** it really is.

I cook my own food, so sorry, I don't really get where you're coming from :P

I'm still more concerned about the extremely high fat and carbohydrate content of all western foods these days than the salt content. Fun fact, a lot of real Asian food has a decent amount of salt in it, and it's still MUCH better for you than any western food.

Another fun fact: The vast vast majority of all Asian food in the west has been westernized to include the fat, carbs, etc. just so they can get American customers also. If you go to China or Japan and order some of the foods you might find in an "authentic" Chinese or Japanese restaurant in the west, it's MUCH more bland, has a lot more vegetables typically, and has the wonderful side effect of being sooooo much cheaper (at least in China).

I spent a couple weeks in Shanghai... didn't see a single fat person.

Except me at 5'11" and a beefy 150 lbs.

Yeah, in part because you can go out to eat in Shanghai (or Qingdao, where I spent a few weeks), and get actual food, i.e. stuff that is edible, rather than a pile of grease on a plate covered in sugar and filled with preservatives.

Doing that is HARD in the west. Over there you can go just about anywhere and get healthy food.

I had McDonalds when I got back, promptly threw up violently. Real Chinese food made me weak

In hindsight I couldn't identify most of what I had there... I think there were noodles in some things but they felt and tasted... different....

Also I had pigeon

You just got used to eating natural food instead of pink goo and other preservatives.

I ate all sorts of weird things also. Duck feet, Chicken feet, Duck gizzards, meat gelatin (I would not recommend this, nasty), cooked blood (somehow cooked, I didn't ask), and even things that don't even have an english name.

The most impressive thing I remember though is with EVERY meal, they would have HUGE bowls filled with vegetables that were cooked fairly plainly, but still very good. I thought it was also funny how the people would fuss at me for eating too much meat and starch. I started eating like they did and my body thanked me for it (my digestive system operated normal for once, apart from learning how to use the holes in the ground they have for toilets in most public locations).