If I eat really crappy food, like McDonald’s, before work where I walk upwards of 6 miles a day or more, I’m obviously burning off some of the bad stuff in the food, but why? What makes walking burn off and lower the consequences of eating really bad food?

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If I eat really crappy food, like McDonald’s, before work where I walk upwards of 6 miles a day or more, I’m obviously burning off some of the bad stuff in the food, but why? What makes walking burn off and lower the consequences of eating really bad food?

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It doesn’t burn off the “bad” stuff. It burns off the calories. The bad stuff would be considered inflammatory like vegetable oils, deep fried, nasty additives etc. so you are not negating the negative aspects of trash food you are just compensating for the additional calories because you are active