McDonald's Destroyed the Gut Bacteria of a College Kid in 10 Days

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McDonald's Destroyed the Gut Bacteria of a College Kid in 10 Days
Eater | by Khushbu Shah | May 11, 2015, 4:45pm EDT

It's common knowledge that fast food isn't exactly healthy, but just how unhealthy is it? According to Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, it is devastating to a human's gut bacteria. He writes in The Conversation, that eating that type of highly processed food can wreak total havoc on the healthy bacteria in a person's digestive system. Spector wanted to find out just how bad McDonald's is for gut bacteria for his upcoming book The Diet Myth.

Spector had his son, a student at the University of Aberystwyth, eat only McDonald's for 10 days straight. Tom was allowed to eat Big Macs, chicken nuggets, fries, and Coca-Cola. Throughout the experiment, Tom sent his stool samples out to be analyzed by different labs. Tom notes that he felt fine for the first three days, but he started to slowly go "downhill." He became lethargic and after a week, his friends said he had taken on a "strange grey" color.

As for the lab results, they were shocking. Spector writes that Tom's gut bacteria were "devastated." Over the 10 days, Tom lost nearly 1,400 types of bacteria species, or nearly 40 percent of his total variety. Even after two weeks of returning to a normal diet, the microbes in his gut did not recover. Spector notes that "the loss of [gut bacteria] diversity is a universal signal of ill health." He adds that humans rely on the bacteria "to produce much of our essential nutrients and vitamins."

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[cray woshi]

i don't care mcdonald,because more kfc than mcdonald in china.
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[gb2000ie]

How, exactly, is it surprising that fast food which even it's maker says should be eaten as part of a BALANCED diet, is really bad for you when eaten exclusively?

Try eating nothing but a salad for 10 days, you'll be sick as a dog too!

I know we have a bad relationship with food as a culture, and I know McD makes stuff that barely counts, but this kind of BS-science is not helping anyone.

SHOCKER - an UTTERLY unbalanced diet is bad for you!

B.

 

[trencherman]

i don't care mcdonald,because more kfc than mcdonald in china.
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Is it true that KFC in China tastes like fish and chips because of the fish meal
they feed the chickens?

 

[trencherman]

How, exactly, is it surprising that fast food which even it's maker says should be eaten as part of a BALANCED diet, is really bad for you when eaten exclusively?

Try eating nothing but a salad for 10 days, you'll be sick as a dog too!

I know we have a bad relationship with food as a culture, and I know McD makes stuff that barely counts, but this kind of BS-science is not helping anyone.

SHOCKER - an UTTERLY unbalanced diet is bad for you!

B.

You said it right. Variety and balance is the key. Same way as eating less and moving more is the key to loosing weight. Unfortunately, we are entranced by every new diet trend, workout gimmick or so called super food that comes around.

 

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