When you eat a hamburger you take in a relatively high amount of fats and calories but only a very, very few of the vitamins and minerals essential for the good health of your body.

An occasional McDonald’s isn’t going to do you much harm, but eating regular hamburger meals is going to cause and imbalance and result in inches on your waistline.

It’s a question of nutritional balance. In order to function at its optimum level your body needs fats, carbohydrates and protein which provide it with energy in the form of calories; plus vitamins and minerals to strengthen your bones and muscles and repair your cell structures. McDonalds nutrition is not that healthy.

Why Hamburger Meals are NOT Good For You

Hamburger meals are relatively high in calories and low on essential vitamins and minerals. A plain ordinary 3.8 oz McDonald’s hamburger contains 250 calories. But the best selling Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese++ contains 740 calories.

Two Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese++ provide nearly all the calories an adult male requires to keep him going for an entire day.

A Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese++ will give the diner a sudden injection of energy, which, if it is not burned off relatively quickly, will turn to fat on the waistline. The problem with these fast food calories is that they contain “bad” trans fats.

The waistline problem is exacerbated by the calorie content of the rest of a McDonald’s meal. A medium portion of French Fries adds another 380 calories. A side serving of Newman’s Own® Creamy Caesar Dressing = 190 calories.

A medium size Coca-Cola contributes a further 210 calories.

A Baked Apple Pie dessert will add 260 calories and a Strawberry Sundae would add 270 calories.

So 2 Double Quarter Pounders® with Cheese++, plus a side order of medium French Fries with Caesar Dressing, a medium Coco-Cola and a Baked Apple Pie would give you 2,520 calories in one meal. That is enough calories to last a grown man doing an ordinary job for an entire day.

The Problem is that’s Only One Meal!

Even if you stoke up like this once a day, you will still need to have breakfast, plus one other meal where you will consume even more calories. And if you don’t burn off those extra calories they will add to your waistline at an alarming rate.

Can you see now that eating meals that are high in calories and which contain virtually no vitamins and minerals is setting you on a slippery path to obesity?

A Seventeen Mile Walk Will Burn Those Calories

To burn off 2,520 calories you would need to walk nearly seventeen miles, according to a computation on calories burned walking worked out by Nutritionists in Great Britain. Don’t worry, seventeen miles is only about 34,000 steps. Considering that the average sedentary person averages under 3,000 steps a day do you think you could manage 34,000 steps?

The Body of Your Dreams

It’s your body and you only get one in this life. If you look after it well it should give you a long and healthy life. Make it look good and it will attract other people to you. Feed it right and it will give you the energy and strength to achieve your dreams.

You take care about which gasoline and oil you put into your car to ensure that it runs properly. You have your car serviced regularly to check that it’s in good health and ensure that it lasts as long as you want it. But, do you take similar care of your body? You are the only one who can do this.

Do you ensure that you put the right energy, vitamins and minerals into your body? The foundations of our Private Weight Loss Success Formula are eating tasty, healthy food, exercising in practical ways that fit in with your busy lifestyle and hypnotising yourself to ensure that you can always master those sudden urges to eat foods which are harmful to your ideal body cause.

Bottom line is that every human being should aim to enjoy eating the foods that will keep their bodies healthy, attractive looking and full of energy for as long as they need them.

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