re: If fast food restaurants didn't exist, would you be any healthier?

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First link states fructose so I see why you posted it. Then it specifiys it is because of refined sugars and HFCS,

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Not exactly. It gives the now common advice of "go ahead and eat fruit because you're unlikely to OD on fructose from that." First of all, I mentioned that I personally do eat berries. Secondly, I find that advice unconvincing as I used to absolutely gorge myself on fruit. Seriously, I'd have mounds of grapes, several peaches and 3 or 4 kiwis...every day. That was absolutely not good for me.

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And spiking insulin can be beneficial to muscle growth when done properly.

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That's irrelevant to the overall negative effects of spiking insulin on leading the body to insulin resistance. You are focused on such things as muscle growth, whereas I'm focused on cancer and alzehimers.

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From the American Heart Association published less than 10 days ago

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Yes, I know. It's sad how politicized and anti-scientific that organization has become - especially with all the new revelations in how corrupted and dishonest the studies were which led to these prescriptions starting almost 50 years ago.

I mean, this is almost laughably sad:

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In addition, many baked goods and fried foods can contain high levels of saturated fats. Some plant-based oils, such as palm oil, palm kernel oil and coconut oil, also contain primarily saturated fats, but do not contain cholesterol.

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Dietary cholesterol is all but irrelevant to blood cholesterol. Any site that is attempting to obscure that from you is not your friend.

ETA: Even the picture of the burgers is misleading. The bread is what's bad for you.