The truest nutritional advice that almost nobody accepts is that there are no magically

good foods and no magically bad foods.

And any food can be part of a healthy or unhealthy diet.

In illustration of this, I took the most vilified food of all, the famous McDonald's Big

Mac, and showed that you can do just fine eating nothing but these.

And hard to believe?

Well, I did show my work.

And it's coming up next, UnSkeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Three Big Macs a Day.

Today we're going to make a frontal assault against one specific manifestation of pop food

food.

The notion that the iconic and oft-maligned McDonald's Big Mac is among the most unhealthy

foods in the world.

This notion is popular among organic proponents, foodies and the majority of the population

who conflate fast food with unhealthy food.

It's gotten to the point that virtue signaling by vilifying the Big Mac has become a de facto

requirement of the modern foodie movement.

Foodies will typically throw up their hands in horror at the prospect of eating even a

single Big Mac, let alone one every day.

But food science shows that such a reaction is unjustified.

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