Posted on 03/31/2013 10:59:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The director of nutrition for McDonald’s is insisting that the menu offered at the fast food chain is healthy.
Speaking about the launch of the new McWrap, Dr Cindy Goody said healthy eating is a top priority at the franchise.
McDonald’s Corp. has been stepping up the pace of its new menu offerings as it struggles to grow sales in the challenging economy. Last year, the company ousted the head of its U.S. division after a monthly sales figure fell for the first time in nearly a decade. …
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I wouldn’t necessarily call McDonald’s food, healthy.
I think “benign” is a more accurate term.
The menu is healthy. It’s written on a paper napkin. Probably no more than 15 calories. :-)
However, the menu has a lot of carbs.
It’s the last place to go for healthy food.
Not everyone eats the Japanese Model diet.
It is fast for a reason people. You are not supposed to live on it. I can’t see a reason for people to increase their fast food spending in a time when we are not needing more idle time.
I know people who would not say they eat fast food too much and they eat at least one meal a day there. It is a problem when one fast food meal a day is not much.
McDonalds should not take their arguments down the “fast food is not unhealthy” line. It should be down the “freedom to eat what you want” line. Most of it is bad for you when you eat it everyday. I will stand with the freedom line, not the part of a healthy diet line.
If you go out with your liberal friend and they order a salad with a side of ground beef a bit of dressing, why then that’s healthy, a proper salad. But if you take that same salad, put it in a Kaiser roll, add your ground beef add a bit of dressing and it becomes a fast food killer.
Who cares, or to use one of Hillary’s statements, What Difference Does it Make? I refuse to go to Mickey Dee’s because I got food poisoning there several years ago after eating one of their chicken sandwiches.
I grab something from a fast food place because it’s fast and, until the government started screwing with things, in most cases because I liked the way certain things taste. But seems like fewer and fewer places put out a product any more that has any taste to it.
Best oatmeal ever.
You can walk into one and eat reasonable healthy...
Unsweet tea, a couple of regular hamburgers makes a decent meal with out killing you with carbs...
Don’t change Micky Dees, I love you. I know what to expect, it is priced right and tasty. BTW, I weigh 115
Nobody has ever forced me to eat at McDonald’s. Those who think eating there is unhealthy shouldn’t eat there and stop complaining about those that do. If eating at McDonald’s was “healthy”, they’d be having the same problems that most school cafeterias that are serving Michelle Obama Gaggy Meals are having right now.
It is healthy if you exercise self control. There’s small portions, salads, and lo-cal drinks, even fruit juice. Problem is nobody eats that stuff. Back when I worked there we’d sell about 50 salads a day, and at least 100 bigmacs during lunch rush.
Like paper.
What about banning people who have Medicaid from eating fast food?
And no food stamps except for foods in the lean protein, high fiber, healthy fats, etc. categories.
Is that too drastic?
Because I’m telling you, it’s a vicious cycle.
If your job doesn’t provide decent health insurance and you aren’t buying decent insurance yourself, i.e., Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, etc., you ultimately, at some point, will be using taxpayer $$$$ to cover the medical bills which result from an anti-nutritious diet.
Why should taxpayers be stuck paying for self-inflicted heart disease, diabetes, etc.?
If a few dozen people were on Medicaid it wouldn’t be a big deal, but there’s 58 million people who rely on it — for life.
Hell, even NPR published a study recently which essentially said that “disability” is the new welfare.
There’s too many people in the cart and not enough people pushing the cart.
Or we could just get rid of the socialized blight that is medicaid.
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If you eat 100% anything, it's not healthy.
McDonald's can be part of a balanced diet.
It would require that the consumer be a rational being capable of thinking for him/herself, and not a zombie obeying Moochelle Ubama.
“I wouldn’t necessarily call McDonald’s food, healthy. I think “benign” is a more accurate term.”
Yea, there is a tendency for people to think that if they go to the supermarket, buy the same basic ingredients, cook it in a similar way, it will somehow turn out healthier to eat.
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