You Are What You Eat!

Eating is a part of our everyday lives. We eat as it is essential for our survival. But are we aware on what we are eating? Do we actually understand what are the benefits and harms of the food we are consuming to our body? The answer for these questions for most of you readers is NO!

Fast food chain outlets such as McDonalds, Burger King, KFC are everywhere in the world. And due to their rich flavours human crave for it. Little do they know that what they are consuming is worse than eating their own shit. In fact it is a lot healthier eating shit than that garbage most of our society call food. Dear readers I am about to enlighten you on the chemicals these scoundrels in McDonalds have been using to produce the food you crave for so much. I would like to ask you to leave this blog as after reading the next paragraph your view on McDonalds will never be the same again. Let’s first start with the McNuggets. Every child’s favourite. McNuggets are made of 50% white chicken. And guess what the other 50% is made of. You guess it chemicals. Dr Mercola a researcher on this McNuggets quoted "Chicken McNuggets, rather than being merely chicken fried in a pan, are a McFrankenstein creation of various elements not utilized by the home cook." Now what are these chemicals found in McFrankenstein Chicken McNuggets?

Coming in first place is an organic chemical known as dimethylpolysiloxane. This is the chemical commercially used in cosmetics, hair conditioners, and dare I say it filler fluid in breast implants. Yeah that’s right you’re eating food plastic surgeons use to enlarge breast. Congratulations! Now let’s go into detail about this chemical. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) belongs to a group of polymeric organosilicon compounds that are commonly referred to as silicones. PDMS is the most widely used silicon-based organic polymer, and is particularly known for its unusual rheological (or flow) properties. PDMS is optically clear, and, in general, is considered to be inert, non-toxic and non-flammable. I know what you must be thinking, Its NON-TOXIC. Yes my dear reader it does say non-toxic but think about Dimethylpolysiloxane, although typically listed as an “antioxidant,” is not a natural antioxidant but instead a synthetic chemical preservative found in many processed foods, varnishes, lacquers, and pesticides, among others. Would you eat that? I know I won’t and I haven’t even gotten to the best part.

Structure Of the Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)

          Besides that, tertiary butylhydroquinone is also present. What’s so dangerous about this chemical one may ask. Well “A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives, quoted”One gram can cause nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse.” Yeah that’s right too many of those Chicken McNuggets made by McFrenkenstein and the Grim Reaper will be knocking on your door. Tertiary butylhydroquinone is more often used as a food preservative. And although both the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have evaluated TBHQ and determined that it is safe to consume at the concentration allowed in foods, we cannot ignore the fact that Tertiary butylhuydroquinone can promote the activation of cancerous cells when we are exposed to it for a long period of time. After knowing this will you dear reader continue to eat food from McDonalds? Will you value your life as it is? By the way this is only on the McNuggets, I haven’t even begun to mention McFrenkenstein’s French fries and burgers which I WILL in my next blog entry.

To find out more on what McDonalds and other Fast Food Chain Outlests have been doing to our body there was a documentary called Super Size Me that really opened my eyes. Here is the link for the full video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eRXuuH9AI