If you came across the article on what the Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte, has been eating in China, you may finally be telling yourself that ordering one of the value meals will not harm your body. Yes, I agree that if you eat a Big-Mac once every month, your health will not be greatly jeopardized. (I still refuse to put the grease and low quality burger into my body.) But before you march into the “golden arches”, or any other fast food joint, you may want to compare the amount of calories that you burn everyday to how much calories that Ryan Lochte could burn in a practice (hint: Ryan burns about the same amount of calories that I burn from a week of exercising in just a single practice).

Word of advice: use the same amount of money that you could spend on a value meal on better beef and make yourself a healthier burger on your beloved grill.