1:09:02
at least once a week
"heavy users."
1:09:05
Im not kidding.
1:09:06
72% of the people who eat
at McDonald's are heavy users.
1:09:09
They also have
another category --
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the "super heavy user."
1:09:13
These people eat their food
1:09:15
three, four,
five times a week and up.
1:09:17
22% of the people
who eat at McDonald's
1:09:20
are super heavy users.
1:09:22
If you look at the menu
at a fast-food restaurant,
1:09:25
they use
all of the addicting components.
1:09:27
They'll take a slab of meat,
cover it with cheese --
1:09:29
cheese, of course, which is
filled with the casomorphins,
1:09:33
the opiates that are found
in the cheese protein --
1:09:36
and then they serve it
with a sugary soda,
1:09:39
which has
the addictive powers of sugar
1:09:41
with plenty of added caffeine.
1:09:43
Now, you might be
a 12-year-old kid.
1:09:45
Your brain is no match
for that combination.
1:09:47
In 2002,
McDonalds France
1:09:50
took out a full-page ad
in a French magazine
1:09:52
in which a nutritionist stated,
"there is no reason
1:09:55
to go to McDonald's
more than once a week."
1:09:57
McDonalds corporate
headquarters in the U.S.
1:09:59
freaked out, saying that
this is only one opinion,
1:10:02
and that the vast majority
of nutrition professionals
1:10:04
say that McDonald's food
can be a part of a healthy diet.
1:10:07
So, we thought we'd randomly
call some nutritionists
1:10:09
to see what their opinions were
1:10:11
when it came
to eating fast food.
1:10:12
How often do you think that
people should eat fast food?
1:10:15
Ideally, never.
1:10:16
Rare to never.
1:10:17
The less, the better.
Zero is the best.
1:10:20
Hopefully, no more often
than once a month.
1:10:22
If you were stranded
on a deserted island
1:10:25
or if we get bombe
d with anthrax,
1:10:27
and that's
the only food available,
1:10:29
that's the only time
you should eat fast food.
1:10:31
We called 100 nutritionists
all over America,
1:10:34
and the results
were not on track
1:10:35
with the "vast majority"
McDonald's talked about.
1:10:37
Only 2 out of the 100
1:10:39
said you should eat fast food
two times a week or more.
1:10:41
28 said once a week
to once or twice a month.
1:10:45
And 45 said
you should never eat it.
1:10:47
95 of them agreed
that it is a major contributor
1:10:50
to the obesity epidemic
sweeping America.
1:10:52
Okay.
1:10:54
Okay? Okay.
1:10:58
Hi, Morgan, how are you?
Bridget Bennett from Health.