Buying KFC Buckets Fights Breast Cancer?
April 23rd, 2010The article below doesn’t mention this, but the KFC menu is heavily laden with Monosodium Glutamate (MSG).
Finger lickin’ death.
Via: Washington Post:
I try to keep an open mind, but my brain is just boggled by the Buckets for the Cure partnership between KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
I try to keep an open mind, but my brain is just boggled by the Buckets for the Cure partnership between KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
“Help make the largest single donation to end breast cancer forever,” the campaign urges. The suggestion is that KFC will donate money — its goal is $8.5 million — to the charity at a rate of 50 cents for every special pink bucket of chicken sold over the next month.
But bear in mind that the “F” in KFC stands for “fried.” Here’s a line from the National Cancer Institute’s Web site:
“. . .studies have shown that an increased risk of developing colorectal, pancreatic, and breast cancer is associated with high intakes of well-done, fried, or barbequed meats.”
Beyond that, since obesity raises breast cancer risk, it’s worth looking at some numbers: According to the KFC Web site, an original-recipe fried chicken breast has 320 calories, 15 grams of total fat (including 3.5 grams of saturated fat); a thigh has 220 calories, 15 grams of total fat (4 of them saturated).
So, no, I don’t think that buying fried chicken by the bucket is a good way to fight breast cancer.
if you click on the KFC ingredients link, take a look at the google ads on the LHS! ohweee. or, mmmmhhhmmmm.
I had no idea that KFC was laced so thoroughly with MSG. Guess that explains why I always felt so sick after I ate there.
Guess I won’t be trying that Double Down, after all.