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Big Macs aren’t particularly unhealthy. Bread, lettuce, tomato, “cheese”, beef... the sauce is the worst offender but there isn’t much of it.

Fries and sodas are much worse for you.

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Yes, but it has gluten.

This is a common myth that comes down to "it has salad in it, how bad can it be?" The answer is pretty bad.

While there's only 540 calories in it that's really a function of the big Mac being quite small.

A burger isn't inherently bad but chain burgers are laced with oil and sugar.

What is wrong with oil and sugar?

Nothing that isn't wrong with metabolic syndrome and diabetes.

The person you're replying to specified that the sauce is where the bad stuff is, and I think basically all the sugar and most of the non-beef fat is in the sauce. Beyond the sauce, any fat in a Big Mac is just from the ground beef, right? Any burger you get from some non-chain place or make yourself is going to be a greasy mess, so how exactly is the Big Mac especially bad?

Not all fats are created equal but yea the guy seemed fine.

It's still just another "my grandpa smoked a pack a day for sixty years and he lived to be 91" story though. Irrelevant.

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