bilby
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If your argument is that eating exclusively McDonald's is not somehow not going to negatively affect one's health, that's not something needing a scientific study. Do we need a scientific study to tell us water is wet?
What is the characteristic of McDonald's food that you think is so obviously going to negatively affect health that we can dispense with even testing the hypothesis, and jump straight to considering it to be true?
McDonald's are widely reviled, but there's nothing particularly different about their food - it's all made from the same kinds of things that other food vendors sell. If they were selling cyanide burgers or strychnine sauce, then you might be able to skip the study. But I don't see how your confidence is justified in the case of the actual stuff they sell - it's all perfectly edible.
What is the ingredient in McDonald's food (or the missing vital nutrient) that makes it so uniquely hazardous as to allow you to jump to that conclusion?
Fillers and chemical preservatives. You won't necessarily find either in a burger made by your local independently owned fast food joint. Though good luck finding out without doing your homework first.
And do note that I am aware "Salt" can technically be considered a chemical preservative, don't be pedantic you all know exactly what I mean by the phrase.
Which fillers and preservatives used by McDonalds are a problem, and why?
What specifically are the ingredients that are harmful, and how much McDonalds food do you need to consume in order to be exposed to a non-negligible risk?
You seem to consider salt to be harmless at the levels found in McDonalds food (although I am not certain that that's a justified assumption); what are the specific ingredients that McDonalds use that pose a greater health risk than the salt that they use?
I see lots of hand-waving, but no lists of ingredients (nor even just one named ingredient). So far, only lettuce and salt have been named; Both in the context of not being serious threats to health. So what are the things in McDonalds that are risky?