; It may also be lacking in appropriate amounts of iodine.Dr. Sun Young Lee of Boston Medical Center and her fellow researchers examined several comparable items from Burger King and McDonald’s. Restaurants from each of the fast food chains were selected in the Boston area at random. Two menu items from each category were purchased and the iodine content of each homogenized item was measured.
“A large portion of Americans consume fast food as a major source of nutrition,” Dr. Sun Young Lee of Boston Medical Center, one of the study’s primary authors said. “However these foods, except most items containing milk and fish, are not good sources of iodine, an integral component in the human body, especially for pregnant women.”
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American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)
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June 26th, 2010 at 6:36 am
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August 17th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
From what I know, iodine can only be found on seafood, so just eat some seafood if you want to fill out the emptiness of iodine.
It is just a case of wrong choice; I don’t think that it is right to avoid these burger joints since we are the ones that are making the wrong choice.
August 7th, 2011 at 10:58 am
It’s not the food it’s you. Stop being pigs and give me my Big Mac! BiG PIG.