OT Drugs/Weekly Big Mac vs Daily Joint

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@@@@@@@@@@ Gene:

> I'd bet that eating a Big Mac once a week is more harmful than

> smoking a joint every day.

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No way!!! If you eat three meals a day, then your one Big Mac meal

is about 5% of your diet. When you think about the nutrient

distribution in traditional diets with starches and things, you could

get all your nutrition from maybe about only about 70% or so of a

high-quality diet. As long as the other 30% doesn't screw you up,

then you break even. Now, if 30% of your diet was Big Macs, about

one per day, then the glycemic load of the bun, the sodium, and the

concentration of chemical nasties in all the ingredients might be

enough to set you back a little, but smoking a joint every day would

probably set you back a fair bit too from densensitization to

neurological effects, carcinogens, etc. I would imagine the joint

would be much worse and the Big Mac would be in the neighborhood of

daily coffee, depending on individual physiology. Now throw in some

fries as part of the 30% and the trans fats and extra glycemic load

might push things a bit closer to the joint. But I can't see any

measurable negative effect from a weekly Big Mac if the other 95% was

a decent NT diet, while a dialy joint's got to be bad news. I

wouldn't be surprised if a weekly joint was harmless though, but I

don't know enough about it. Can't say I've ever tried either one...

Mike

SE Pennsylvania