Fast Food Nutrition InformationThe fast food companies want your business. No doubt about that. But they are apt to actually plainly display their fast food nutrition information—that was until federal law mandated that they did so. Let’s take a brief look at why fast food companies do not want you to know what the fast food nutrition information is on the back of that box of French fires, or the triple stacker cheeseburger with extra bacon. Perhaps the first notion that comes to mind is fast food can be really bad for you. If anybody ever saw the documentary, “Super Size Me” they would know what I am talking about. In the documentary a fellow decides to take the ultimate fast food challenge. He decides that for an entire month he will eat nothing but fast food from McDonalds for three meals a day. He does switch it up by eating different items from the menu every single day. All of the items of course, comply with fast food nutrition information guidelines, and even some of them say they are healthy.

After about a month he has gained thirty pounds, his cholesterol is higher than ever, and his body’s toxin levels are off the charts. In fact, he is told by his doctor that if he does not stop eating fast food—he will surely die. Where is that nice tad bit of information in the fast food nutrition information—nowhere, and you know why—because they do not want you to know that it is not healthy. What these big burger town corporations do want you to know is that you can get a rapidly created meal in under a minute at their drive through window; that you can drink all of the soda that you ever wanted and not have to worry about diabetes or heart disease, or kidney disease.

Which leads me back to the next question—how accurate is the fast food nutrition information found inside of fast food restaurants. Actually, considering that it is done by outside companies it is rather accurate, but what they do not tell you is that most food items, such as the cheeseburgers, and other high calorie, high fat items, contain far more than the recommended daily amounts of saturated fats and calories from fat. Considering there is 28 grams in an ounce and the average fast food cheeseburger has about 10 grams of fat—you do the math. That is almost a quarter ounce of fat per burger, but wait—the burger is only about three ounces in all! So the next time you are about to chow into the condiment loaded cheeseburger, read the fast food nutrition information—you may be eating mostly fat bub.