McDonald's Tries to Convince Moms That its Food is Nutritious

re: McDonald's Tries to Convince Moms That its Food is Nutritious

Nat — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:54:20 GMT

In Australia MacDonalds have managed to have the Heart Foundation give a range of their products the "Tick of approval." Sadly, the Heart Foundation bases heart health on low fat and salt content. Just another example of money being more important than people's health. How many companies and organisations are prepared to profit from human misery and how long will we allow them to get away with it?

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C Ed Wright — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:48:34 GMT

I quit Mickie D's over 30 years ago, after ordering a 'Big Murk' ("Special Sauce" etc.) and not being able to bring myself to swallow what I was chewing. It actually made me queasy, and I have a pretty strong stomach. I spit it out into the bag, got lunch somewhere else, and never looked back.

I'll suffer Burger King only on the extremely rare occasion of absolute necessity, ever-watchful that the multinational illegals there don't jam it in the microwave. But ever since the Mother Jones expose of the meat packing chains that supply the freakfood industry, the idea of eating manburger spoils any real appetite for Whoppers and even God isn't quite sure what goes into the fried-food batter for the "chicken" & "fish" so-called sandwiches.

Ever notice the astounding disparity between the pictures and what you actually get at any freakfood restaurant? Never mind, "Where's the beef...!?" Hell, where's the lettuce & tomato!?

Only real food can be healthy, and can only (but not always) be found almost exclusively in the perimeter of the supermarket, not the aisles (except olive oil, a little pasta sometimes, a few canned goods & certain condiments), and in certain trustworthy "regular" restaurants.

BTW, for your own safety, BEWARE OF ANYTHING FROM COMMUNIST RED CHINA!!!

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KAC — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:22:33 GMT

I ate mostly fast food and frozen dinners as a child. I do not take my kids to any fast food restaurants. My kids don't like to eat french fries like I did as a kid. My kids eat salads as one of their favorite foods.

I'd like to see how McDonalds chose these 6 applicants. I'm sure it was those who ate McDonalds all the time. What a scam!

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americanbeauty — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:47:51 GMT

garya, what do you mean the play area is healthy? Can you imagine the feces material, snots, sneezes, boogers, and other bacteria on those balls? No way would I let my kid in that filth-infested area! Yech! It's almost as bad as the food!

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RickW — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:59:11 GMT

I would be interested to see the criteria used to whittle 4,000 down to six. One could surmise that, of the 4,000, only 6 actually LIKED McD's.......

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corgi — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:44:07 GMT

I spent several years repairing kitchen equipment in all types of restaurants and military chow halls.
The cleanest kitchen you will ever eat in is the mess hall at a military base. They maintain scrupulous cleanliness or heads will roll.
Fast food restaurants [all of them] are sewers, their cookers are almost all contaminated with OLD food remains and grease. It would make a junk yard dog puke.
Their food storage areas are highly questionable and the freezers dont always freeze well enough to keep food from defrosting.
The kitchen help has turned to minorities and illegal aliens and they have never seen or experienced sanitary conditions and DO NOT practice them either. A fast food joint is a good place to kill someone just by feeding them there.

There are plenty of alternatives that serve decent food at competetive prices and wont make you sick.

My son used to pester me to go to McD all the time, till I told him the burgers were made from billy goats. He hasnt asked to go to one since, that was 32 years ago.

If you dont have health insurance, stay away from the fast food joints.

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curious7 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:32:24 GMT

By now many of us understand Big Business will tell any lie, and pratice any, and all available deceptions to grow it's bottom line, or at least keep the bottom line intact. As earlier Mercola articles have revealed for instance "McDonald's Chicken McNuggets," you know that mystery chopped meat formed into finger food many of our children find irresistable. Made mainly from laying hens too old to lay any more. Frozen, then stored in a warehouse somewhere, for who knows how long, before being served to McDonald's customers. To say this food has nutrition, is to say my bicycle is cable of going to the moon, under it's own power. What a joke.

So McDonald's has been very crafty, appeal to the children and Mom, and Pop will follow. Of course the Fool's Drug Administration will side with Big Business, and not enough of us will mount a challenge to what ever McDonald's says about it's food. They say, very much like the Tobbaco Industry used to say, "You Cannot Prove Your Claim." It is and always will be about MONEY. Not about bad health, or the human beings effected.

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Katee Roux — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:13:28 GMT

When my husband & i were first dating (& we still did "fast food") he asked one day where i wanted to eat & i said "doesn't matter." He drove into a Jack-in-the-Box & i was shocked to my toes. Years before i'd had a bad reaction to one of their salads & had stopped eating at their facilities. At that point, i'd lived in my neighborhood for about 12 years, 3 blocks from this Jack-in-the-Box (are they California only?) & had never set foot in the place. Every day i drove right by it AND NEVER SAW IT because for me it didn't exist.

We laughed about it, but never went there again.

For him, McDonalds was the same "non-existance." He calls McDonalds "the gas station."

It hasn't been too hard for us to give up the fast food.

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amyz — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:05:17 GMT

I have one question -- Why would anyone with a dietary problem (like a celiac, or any other allergy) even remotely think for a second that ANY "fast food" would be a good choice?

Just a thought.

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amysnaturals — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:36:14 GMT

I am so incredibly blessed to live in a rural community that hasn't been influenced yet by too many fast food restaurants. The only "chain" store is Subway, and that opened less than a year ago. We own Super Size Me, which happens to be both of my daughter's favorite movies. Yes, the language is prevalent, but the over all moral is fantastic. "The proof is in the pudding", and you cannot deny the effects "Scarf and Barf" had on Morgan's body. I am a relatively young mom of 32, and I grew up on the restaurant scene. When I married ten years ago and moved to my husbands home turf, I learned how to cook, and in the recent couple of years, how to be more healthy as well. I can thank Mercola for that one!
Sadly, there are so many folks out there who aren't willing or able to take the time to train their young one's how to eat and cook properly. Maybe they don't possess the know how or confidence to give it a try, but it is well worth it. One tidbit I will pass along is you are never too young to keep learning something new. Did I grow up knowing how to garden or cook? No, however I felt it important to return to our ancestor's ways and haven't been disappointed since. God bless you all. You might want to check out a book by Rex Russell: What the bible says about healthy living. Fantastic read.

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nonew3 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:27:59 GMT

I once worked behind the scenes at a fast food burger restaurant (not McDonalds, but another famous franchise chain), and I saw what went on there. It got so that even after I quit working there, it was a year before I could eat another hamburger. Beef patty juices were everwhere. I came home covered from head to toe with it, pickle juice, mayo, and the works. I was a walking hamburger. I am now a vegetarian after having worked there and after having later on worked at a processed fish factory that stunk of processed fish goo to high heaven, stuff that was made into seafood gooey stuff for a fast-food sandwich chain's seafood submarine sandwiches. I often cleaned out huge vats of pureed fish goo and assembly-line equiptment covered in fish goo with a lab coat, heavy thick rubber boots over my shoes, a hair net, thick long work gloves that went almost up to my elbows, safety googles, and lots of caustic chemicals. You can't get me anywhere even remotely near that stuff now that fast food joints call food. If McDonalds is any bit like the burger place and fish factory where I worked, I want nothing whatsoever to do with that place. I wouldn't even let a dog eat there. And, after all I have experienced and seen with my own eyes, you really can't blame me for going organic vegetarian. I have only one word for all this: Yuck!

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samurai — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:43:44 GMT

Oddly, I saw on Fit TV Dr. Barry Sears, the author of The Zone Diet, which promotes a healthful diet, created the "Go Active" part of McDonalds. I find that sad, and ironic.

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marjana — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:28:03 GMT

First that I must say is Mc Donalds is a danger for our health.
I am a physician for years, in my country (Serbia, Europe) fast food is very popular especially for children and adolescence. I see every day that mother take a lunch for small children in Mc Donalds, that is selfish!!!
When you contract a habit on this kind of food you destroy not only your health but yours posterity.

Warm regards,
marjana

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tatiana_3 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:43:27 GMT

I find it to be a waste of time to print your pages, because some of the printing is missing at the sides of each page. Which side depends upon how your page is set up. Don't you have someone who works there who is capable of determining if the whole page can be printed out before you offer it to your public? I tried to print many of your articles but now won't bother, because this missing printing problem occurs every time. Yours truly, Tatiana Reed

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Rosebud713 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:35:39 GMT

When my older daughter was 16 yrs old, her first job was working at a nearby McDonald's. It totally grossed her out. She's 22 now and refuses to go anywhere near McDonald's. Good for her! Unfortunately, a friend of hers was raised on McDonald's and that's all she knows to eat. She wouldn't know good wholesome food if it slapped her in the face. She's extremely obese at only 22 yrs old, weighing in at almost 300 lbs. Talk about SUPER SIZE ME!!
As far as these moms are concerned, I think any mom who takes her kids to any of these fast garbage places (I refuse to classify any of their garbage as "food") ought to be arrested for child endangerment.