A millennial family member was ranting about eating breakfast at McDonalds being unhealthy

[Anonymous]

"Eating breakfast at McDonalds is not healthy and eating hot dogs at baseball games is not healthy..." Blah Blah Blah

But when I pointed out to her that we have members of our own family (plus many friends of theirs) who are in their 80s who have been eating breakfast at McDonalds and eating hot dogs at baseball games for most of their lives she literally had no answer or reply when I pointed that out to her

On any given morning most McDonalds restaurants are filled with senior citizens on a daily basis.

Now my question to you is have younger become people so involved at staring at their smartphone screens that they do not notice the world around them?

I apologize for any grammatical errors. English is not my 1st language.

[Anonymous]

She’s right, it’s not healthy.
-Not a millennial

[Anonymous]

No they are not healthy...but every bite does not have to be healthy. And healthy eating is not a guarantee of a long life

[Anonymous]

Like anything, done in excess, it is unhealthy. For instance, if you only eat hotdogs at baseball games, you are eating roughly 40 hotdogs a year (assuming you don't go to away games.) As for the senior citizens eating breakfast at McD's, how did they get there? Walk? Are they socializing? Life isn't about eating living in your basement and eating steel-cut oats.

[Anonymous]

Weird post. Lots of people who do unhealthy things live to 80. There are also people who ate broccoli and had heart attacks at 40. Does that make broccoli unhealthy?

[Anonymous]

You are not being logical.
1. If you wanted to try to figure out if eating McDonald’s is healthy, you’d compare the health of people eating at McDonald’s vs the people who don’t eat there and see if there is a difference. You wouldn’t just look at the people who are there.
2. Just because something is unhealthy does not mean it will kill you, so the fact that these folks are still alive doesn’t mean eating at McDonald’s is not unhealthy.
3. You also have to look at what the people in McDonald’s are eating and how often. I believe the draw for the senior citizens in the morning is the cheap coffee; they may not be eating big McDonald’s meals every day.

This is just a stupid thing to argue about.

[Anonymous]

Smoking is also unhealthy but I've met smokers in their eighties...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like anything, done in excess, it is unhealthy. For instance, if you only eat hotdogs at baseball games, you are eating roughly 40 hotdogs a year (assuming you don't go to away games.) As for the senior citizens eating breakfast at McD's, how did they get there? Walk? Are they socializing? Life isn't about eating living in your basement and eating steel-cut oats.

I went to a Yankees game and I saw a guy who was easily 100+ years old eating a hot dog. I forgot his name but everybody at the game knew who he was. He has been a fan of the team since before the team was called the Yankees. I think he is still alive.

[Anonymous]

Millennial here. My generation is incredibly preachy about processed foods, all while sitting on the couch eating DoorDash every night and consuming edibles constantly.

[Anonymous]

Who cares? Eat what you want. Don’t eat what you don’t want. Who appointed this person the good police?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are not being logical.
1. If you wanted to try to figure out if eating McDonald’s is healthy, you’d compare the health of people eating at McDonald’s vs the people who don’t eat there and see if there is a difference. You wouldn’t just look at the people who are there.
2. Just because something is unhealthy does not mean it will kill you, so the fact that these folks are still alive doesn’t mean eating at McDonald’s is not unhealthy.
3. You also have to look at what the people in McDonald’s are eating and how often. I believe the draw for the senior citizens in the morning is the cheap coffee; they may not be eating big McDonald’s meals every day.

This is just a stupid thing to argue about.

Plenty of them are eating. I have stood in line behind them.

[Anonymous]

Correction: “food police.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are not being logical.
1. If you wanted to try to figure out if eating McDonald’s is healthy, you’d compare the health of people eating at McDonald’s vs the people who don’t eat there and see if there is a difference. You wouldn’t just look at the people who are there.
2. Just because something is unhealthy does not mean it will kill you, so the fact that these folks are still alive doesn’t mean eating at McDonald’s is not unhealthy.
3. You also have to look at what the people in d are eating and how often. I believe the draw for the senior citizens in the morning is the cheap coffee; they may not be eating big McDonald’s meals every day.

This is just a stupid thing to argue about.

When you are very old, the social element of eating at McDonalds is what is healthy, not the plastic sausage.

[Anonymous]

An egg mcmuffin is not really that unhealthy, but almost everything else is.

Why can't you just have a normal conversation about it. Food supply in the United States does not make it possible for everybody to have inexpensive healthy food.

Just because someone is old doesn't mean they are healthy.

What is your education level, perhaps it's hard for you to have an educated conversation because you aren't educated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An egg mcmuffin is not really that unhealthy, but almost everything else is.

Why can't you just have a normal conversation about it. Food supply in the United States does not make it possible for everybody to have inexpensive healthy food.

Just because someone is old doesn't mean they are healthy.

What is your education level, perhaps it's hard for you to have an educated conversation because you aren't educated.

They have made it all the way into their 80s and 90s. That alone is an accomplishment.