I really like McDonald's Big Mac menu, I have it as often as once or twice a month and the day I have it, I hardly eat any thing else apart form fresh fruits and water. I was just curious to find out how many calories are actually in this menu and how much exercise you should really do to burn it and avoid body fat.Here is the result:
The Big Mac by itself contains 490 calories which might not seem a problem, especially that it contains 24 grams of fat in total, which you might think is ok for one main meal, but it gets a little tricky when you find out that actually 10 grams of this fat is pure SATURATED, which is 50% percent of your total GDA (guideline daily amounts) as a woman!
A medium sized French fries or chips contains 330 calories with 16 grams of fat ofwhich 2 grams is saturated.
A medium Coca Cola counts 170 calories with 42 grams of sugar, which is almost 50% of your GDA! (in average, adults need about 90 grams of sugar every day)
So this menu in total holds 990 calories which is about 50% of your GDA!! And you only had one meal and there are still two more to go for the rest of the day!!
You might think if you go for a walk, you will burn a lot of calories, well let me tell you that if you walked for an hour, you would burn less than 200 calories!! Shocked? If you jog, you will burn about 10.5 calories a minute instead, so a Big Mac menu will keep you jogging for around 1 1/2 hours!
Of course if you are an active person and do regular proper exercise, you have nothing to worry!
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