OK, we all crave junk food every now and again... you don't? Well lucky you then! For the remaining 99.9% of us that find ourselves craving junk food week after week you might have ended up asking yourself the question "When is junk food OK for me"? You'd be forgiven for thinking, given the outrageous claims that many junk food manufacturers doll out, that it's really quite OK to indulge every so often. Well, as we should all know by now... "there is no such thing as an unhealthy food, only an unhealthy diet" but that's no excuse to not know what you're getting yourself into.

A friend of mine sent me this article which I think is well worth a look. For reasons unknown to anyone, a (possibly mad) lady (probably from American) left a McDonalds Happy meal out for a year to see what would happen (or maybe she was just lazy). The results are quite startling (and a bit disgusting). It turns out that almost nothing happens and this is due to the amount of preservatives. It doesn't take a nutritionist to work out that there must be something pretty nasty in there if even the flies left it alone!

Do yourself a favour, go grab a Subway or even better, a healthy, nutritious snack of nuts.

(Image courtesy of Daily Mail)