Thread: Burger King

It seems that this week, in New York City, Burger King are launching a 2,500-calorie pizza burger. For those of you who aren't aware, the daily recommended intake for an average-sized male is 3,000 calories. It varies due to height, age, weight, and gender. However, that means that one of these burgers is almost the recommended intake for a healthy male. Surely there's something seriously wrong here? Is it any wonder people are obese when we continue to allow one item of food to be so ridiculously laden with calories?

Is there any defence for this? It's just gratuitous, if you ask me.

I can just feel my arteries hardening as I think about it...uhhg. Really, are we that bored with food that BK feels it's okay to offer such a ridiculous item?? I just researched it, it has FOUR Whopper patties plus the pepperonis and cheese. Good heavens...what's next, a serving of lard? Seriously, I hope it is meant to serve more than one person.

To answer your question, Sam...No, there is no defense for this. They are responsible for what they offer us, however, it can be said, we are responsible for what we eat. I only hope people will realize that we need to teach the future generations to be careful for their health. We need them to be strong and healthy.

BK is competing with the KFC Double Down for the lucrative culinary suicide market.

I've always been told that two thousand to 2,500 calories should be the daily limit for an adult male except for people doing heavy manual labour. My daily intake usually runs 1,600 to 1,800, which is really more than I need.

2,500 calories at one meal is intended for those wanting to find a tasty, if not tasteful, way to remove themselves from the gene pool.

There is a reason I don't eat at Burger King. That isn't one though.

But remember, consumers are stupid, American consumers especially so. If it comes with an "awesome" commercial, or it defies common sense, people will want it. Though I think there should be more regulations on what ungodly creations fast food companies can and can't make. This thing is obviously disgustingly unhealthy and probably drastically increases your chances of your heart saying "Fark this, I'm done."

I work there and I haven't heard about this yet :/ and one of my boss's who receive announcements like these usually updates me on these things. I pray they decide not to go through with this.

Thank God I'm a vegetarian and only stick with salads and small portions of foods...

the daily recommended intake for an average-sized male is 3,000 calories. It varies due to height, age, weight, and gender.

Go north to Cambodia or Vietnam and tell them they should have a 3,000 calorie a day diet. For that matter come this side and tell the people in the Toledo District they should have a 3,000 calorie a day diet. That's twice as much as the body needs unless you are working in a field every day.

Given my mostly sedentary lifestyle these days my doctor has recommended 12 to 14 hundred calories a day. I eat more than that, but I shouldn't. For a couple of months last year l lived on just over a thousand a day, mostly beans and greens and an egg about once a week.

We eat more than we need. A genetic memory of early days when food was harder to get keeps us pushing our snouts into the trough.

Originally Posted by mybloodyxxsweetheart

Thank God I'm a vegetarian and only stick with salads and small portions of foods...

How long have you been a vegetarian? A lot of people who stop eating meat think that salads and greens are the only things you should be eating. Hopefully, you know how to balance out proteins and the various vitamins and minerals your body needs.

I've seen plenty of fat vegetarians.

I'm also a vegetarian. I eat roughly between 4,500 - 6,000 calories a day. This isn't a typical diet. I work out of doors as well as run 70+ miles a week.

Burger King really disgusts me. But what disgusts me more is that T.V. show: "Man vs. Food." However, as Garza mentioned something about gene pools, I think this style of gluttony is a great way to limit population growth. You 'take' this food that could be going to someone else, causing him to starve and die, and you 'give' it to a person who is one greasy burger short of the graveyard. Even if you don't manage to kill either one of them, you still send them to likely places like hospitals, which then pushes out on the already over-indulged belly of the healthcare system.

Just hearing about this makes me not want to eat for a week. Bleh.

Originally Posted by Mike

Burger King really disgusts me. But what disgusts me more is that T.V. show: "Man vs. Food." However, as Garza mentioned something about gene pools, I think this style of gluttony is a great way to limit population growth. You 'take' this food that could be going to someone else, causing him to starve and die, and you 'give' it to a person who is one greasy burger short of the graveyard. Even if you don't manage to kill either one of them, you still send them to likely places like hospitals, which then pushes out on the already over-indulged belly of the healthcare system.

I agree with this. This whole system is killing people but I disagree with the population control aspect. Where is the control aspect of this whole system? The system starts a vicious cycle that whole classes can't get out of. At least in American if you look at the numbers, the poor are the most obese. And that is because the foods that are the most harmful are the cheapest and the quickest. They don't really have a choice to have a healthy diet. I went raw for like a month, and I fresh fruits and vegetables is so expensive. There is no way they could afford it. It is true that you don't feel as full and you can eat a lot more veggies than with a slab of meat between a bun. Also we are taught that the feeling we are trying to achieve when eating is one we feel with meat and bread and such.I see this as class warfare to an extent. Giving the people who can't afford healthcare the most health problems, adding to the over taxed healthcare industry which reverberates to effecting the people who aren't as caught up in that destructive system. Because patient X has adult onset diabetes due to a poor diet and no insurance because they can't afford it, the hospitals jack up their costs to make up for their losses, thus leaving patient Y who tries to be very healthy stuck with paying $25 for two aspirin within a hospital visit.

There have always been horribly obese and gluttonous people in any time period and in any country. They exist and with the opportunity to stuff their face till they burst they will do it knowing that they are getting bigger and bigger. But suddenly everyone is like that? Suddenly everyone doesn't care about how big they are and they have just fallen in love with the food? I blame what they put in the stupid stuff. Obesity didn't really become a problem in the US until they started putting high fructose corn syrup in the sodas and then anything they could think to put it in to. Do you know what they also use corn for? To fatten cows quicker so they can go to the slaughter. The average life span of a cow going to the slaughter is about six months. People know what this stuff does to people, but they still peddle it out for a quick buck a quick gimmick. I bet that pizza burger thing isn't even good. It is the novelty they are hoping with attract customers. What ever happened to go quality food? What ever happened to enforcing the idea of moderation?

Some executive might say, "Oh we are just giving them what they want." But I say that is crap, they are telling them what they want. Who in the world would actually ask for a 2,500 calorie meal?

The whole food industry disgusts me. Unfortunately though, in this busy world, people use work, kids, responsibilities and chores to give themselves a reason not to cook at home for themselves and their families which leads them to the drive thru down the street. BTW, does drive thru bug anyone else besides me? I've heard, but don't truly want to believe, that this is an acceptable spelling. The fact that this spelling could be "acceptable" bugs me thoroughly as well.

I'm sure this whole fast food fiasco the world is currently in has some roots in sociology/psychology. People are no longer growing their food, working the field and getting the satisfaction of a job well done when they wash and cook their very own vegetables for a meal that they can truly say they saw from start to finish. So they try to compensate with the tastiest meal they can find to give them that satisfaction with no care for health, quality or preparation.

I do believe it's a problem with the people just as much as the restaurants, but honestly, BK isn't the first one. For those of you who have heard of Chipotle, one burrito there can pack 1500-3000 calories depending on your toppings. Some places try to defend themselves saying items with this many calories aren't intended for just one person, but clearly the item is made, marketed and served with the assumption one person will eat it. But then again, if you eat this crap and decide not to share or split it... who can you really blame?

I believe though, as consumers, we count on industries to tell us what is food. And not just fast food or restaurants, but grocery stores as well. We expect to walk in to do our weekly/monthly shopping and see good choices. In my belief, chips are not food. Candy is not food. Pastries, Pringles, soda, pop tarts, fruit roll ups... etc are NOT food. Yet they are sold in grocery stores and some people give this crap to their kids on a regular basis. Then they turn around and claim they are "healthy" for not eating at fast food places. Yea right.

I'm very into healthy eating and avoiding things that aren't natural. High fructose corn syrup is evil. If you didn't know, it actually affects the chemical released when our brain wants us to stop eating to give us that "full" feeling. HFCS delays this chemical release and makes us eat more than we normally would had it not been added to the food it is in. Because of this, it also breeds an addictive quality in the food. Food industries know this, and that's why they put it in absolutely everything they can think of. Look at the lable of some of your favorite foods, even your "health" or "diet" foods. You'll be surprised.

I would love to see a actual grocery store where, when you walk in, there's no candy at the front registers. No crap in the bakery. No aisle full of Doritos, Cheetos, cheese dips and Oreo's. No freezers with breaded, fried, prepackaged and frozen chicken fingers. No hot pockets. I want to go to a grocery store where there are loads of fresh fruits and vegetables. Where the things on the shelves are whole grain breads and rice, genuine olive oils and fresh meats. Now tell me, where is that grocery store? Certainly not here in America (which is the fattest country in the world). If it's where you live, please tell me and I'll move, because this is the problem. We can't go anywhere and have someone show us what real food is without being bombarded and lured by the other crap on the shelves. It's enough that we have it on TV, billboards and when we drive down the street, but to have it in the only place where we can reasonably find food to sustain ourselves and our families is unacceptable.

There are plenty of places in 'America' where you can shop the way you are talking about. Perhaps nowhere in the U-S part of America, but in Cuba, Trinidad, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, Honduras... Plenty of places.

But all these places have been infected with fooditis as well. Belize, for example. We have an ideal climate for all kinds of fruits and vegetables. In some areas mangoes and other fruits are buried by the ton every year because so much excess is produced. We can grow almost any kind of vegetable you can name. We export corn, beans, and rice.

But about half the population is malnourished. Belizeans are addicted to sweet soft drinks and fatty snacks, white rice and bread made with bleached wheat flour.

So don't think you are going to change the eating habits of a people by opening a shop that sells healthy food. What you have to change are people's attitudes toward food. With all sorts of fresh fruits and vegetables available and affordable here, the big problem with the Belizean diet is a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables. The number one cause of death in the country is adult onset diabetes.

I think it is our responsibility to be smart about our food choices. We have to remember though, we can't completely cut out things like sugar and starches. In moderation they are good for us. We have to have a healthy balance. One cookie isn't going to hurt us, a piece of candy isn't going to hurt us, a slice of bread isn't going to hurt us...as long as we are eating healthy meals that make sense.

Fast food isn't always a great choice, but we have to remember it's our decision what we stuff in our faces.

On a side-note, if you become too fat, a disgusting process of the cervical flesh covering over the genitals occurs. I guess this is the equivelant of your body saying WE DONT NEED ANYONE ELSE AS FAT AS YOU ARE!!!!! I guess tisnature's way of removing the fat ones from the gene pool.

On the Simpsons, Krusty Burger sold a killer hamburger with bacon and cheese and a fried egg. I thought it was pretty funny -- but it turns out Pancake House sells one just like it.