It is sad that the photo illustrating this article shows cheeseburgers. Cheeseburgers haven't killed anybody. Cheeseburgers are not junk-food. Stop making amalgams.
Agreed that the large soda that many wash that cheeseburger down with is certainly worse (320 calories of pure sugar), but they are certainly junk food.
If you choose to make a cheeseburger out of that sort of garbage, that's on you.
> "One cheeseburger is basically a quarter of your fat and sodium for the day."
A cheeseburger is also one third of the meals I might eat in a day, so if anything, one fourth of my daily sodium and fat intake is too little.
If you make a burger out of lean ground chuck, a whole grain bun and real cheese that is a different discussion.
Also, the burgers pictured (McDonald's cheeseburgers) are only ~250 calories, so I don't see how that is one-quarter of your daily food intake.
I’m sure excessive saturated fat consumption from a cheeseburger addiction has killed someone by way of heart disease.