Diabetic Diets News

Fast food is a very popular type of food eaten all around the world. The image of it is typified by hamburgers, fried chicken, French fries and pizza.

Nowadays there exists various commercial fast food such as the fast food you get from McDonalds. Fast food has become the norm today, and most people do not care too much about its drawbacks.

Fast food is pretty useful in nutritional value. A typical hamburger with cheese inside provides about a quarter of an adult’s daily nutritional needs for protein, iron, calcium, and zinc.

But of course, they pack a lot more calories than most foods, plus they consist a lot of added “ingredients”, like additives, sugar, salt and fat, especially trans fatty acids.

Caloric content of foods controlling is vitally necessary for persons with diabetes. Let’s take a look at the calorie and nutritional content typically found in fast foods.

Here is a table showing the calorie and nutritional content of some hamburgers/sandwiches from McDonalds (http://www.caloriecontentoffoods.com/).

We hope this information will be usefull both for people with diabetes and other because there is no doubt that fast food leads to obesity and therefor a high risk of diabetes development arises.