Posted on 07/21/2013 3:33:41 PM PDT by DallasBiff
You might think that customers buying their lunch at McDonald’s would order meals with fewer calories if someone handed them a slip of paper reminding them that women should eat no more than 650 calories at lunchtime and men should not exceed 800 calories. But you would be wrong.
Instead, researchers found that diners who received these supposedly helpful reminders actually purchased more calories than those who didn’t, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health.
The study authors — from the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Cornell University’s Department of Applied Economics and Management — stood outside two McDonald’s restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They approached diners on their way in and asked them to save their receipts and conduct a short interview after they ate their lunch.
In addition, some diners were handed information on the number of calories men and women should eat at lunch, and some were given information on the total number of calories men and women should eat in an entire day. A control group was not given any advice on the calorie front
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Oh dear lord, this opens the gates for our own segment of FR bores who are now going to post how they “never eat at McDonalds”. Yawnnnnn.
When I go out to eat it’s a treat. With some it is a life style. If you always ate out you probably would need to watch what you ate
I can’t remember the last time I saw an A&W Root beer drive in or a Shakey’s pizza in the U.S. but both are all over Japan.
touché
I typically avoid McDonalds if I can help it. There are healthier alternatives ... even still, their $1 coffee is great (beats Starbucks hands-down) and their new Chicken McWraps are a decent healthy alternative to their burgers.
I've also come to like their egg white and tomato McMuffins.
Between the Chicken McWraps and their egg white and tomato McMuffins, McDonalds really can offer a healthy/health conscious choice when they want to. (The Chicken McWraps are what got me back into a McDonalds. That, the egg white and tomato McMuffin's and coffee are all I ever order.)
Finger food? (Or maybe just a thumbs up for the chili?)
There's still an A&W Drive In on I-94 in Southern Wisconsin. Been there, it's great.
The last Shakey's Pizza I've ever seen was more than 20 years ago in Orland Park, IL - not far from where I live. Ate there ONCE, it was positively CRAPPY pizza! I didn't think it was possible to find something worse than Domino's pizza, but Shakey's was it!
I’m thinking that if you’re going to McDonalds for a meal, you’re not thinking about calories.
I have had some bad things happen in my life so at 5'10 131 lbs, I'm going for the calories! I'm up from 106.
Wrong end of Moochelle. Put her big fat ass on the cup, wrapper, etc.. and McDonald's will be out of business in 30 days.
I’m guessing you are single....not that there’s anything wrong with that but sardines stink LOL!
The Premium McWrap is a winner... clever packaging, fairly decent value. What has turned me of from McDonald’s, however, is the discontinuation of the line of 1/2 lb. Angus Beef hamburgers.
The patties they use for their hamburgers, even the 1/4 Pounder, are about the equivalent of shredded cardboard molded together with a binder flavored with diluted beef boullion cubes. The fish sandwiches... the breaded fish fillet measures 2-1/4” by 3” about the size of a business card.
I wish What-A-Burger was all over the country. Good sandwiches. I like their salads, too.
Did have their Angus burger once and thought it was good. Agree their regular burgers are just north of beef bouillion soaked cardboard. Blecchh!
Congratulations! Eat more fries...yum
A quibble: I care quite a lot about calories — now I look at the menu and ask myself, how many calories can I get for a buck here?
Were the fish fillet sandwiches always so small? It seems like once upon a time it took one sandwich to satisfy me but now I find myself wishing for a second.
I like McDonalds when I order their food “cooked fresh”. However, with all the new calorie information on the menu boards the menu is much too busy. Hard to look at.
Frankly, I think McDonalds would roll in the dough if they would introduce a “classic” menu that would feature fries cooked in beef tallow.
Give folks what they want. Not what the Center for Science in the “Public Interest” wants you to offer.
Me too. I'm sure they've shrunk.
Ain’t liberty great!
Of course not! Just like everything else, keeping the price the same but reducing the quantity/quality is the game to appease "low information consumers". A true "half- gallon" of ice-cream is no more (with rare exception), breakfast cereal boxes contain less cereal by weight, candy bars have shrunk, and my absolute pet peeve... one pound of coffee is now 13 ounces. The day will come when they change the packaging of butter... real, unsalted stick butter... you know, the kind that I could get on sale and get rain checks on when it was $1.47/lb... they will start out by selling 1/2 kilos... then shrink that to 400 grams or whatever the conversion is... when they start screwing with a Gallon of milk... it's done. They already shrunk the 1/2 gallon cartons of orange juice... I refuse to purchase these... or the 1-1/2 liter bottles of soft drinks.
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