Disney Dismisses McDonald's

I think that I believe that Walt Disney needs to show 3D animations of The Little Mermaid, and teach children to start having the importance that a sea-food rich diet does have significent health benefits and that work is being done to cut down on mercury pollution.

But remember, have a metabolic check up, reduce grains, and variatize your meat, fruits, and vegtable intake, and go organic. McDonald's foods are unhealthy, because of all the trans fats, potatoes, and buns we are eating. The potatoes seared in vegtable oil transolates to damaged Omega 6 fatty acids and trans fatty acids, on top of carcingenic-rich, high carb potatoes, buns that are refined and further spike your insulin levels, and the patties that are seared in trans fats and shortening.

What McDonald's needs to do is to buy burger patties organic, cut off the buns and replace then with lettuce wraps, and serve it on a side of steamed vegtables or green leafy salads, and start serving a variety of fish, seafood, and chicken. Chicken nuggets should also be pulled from the menu. They also need to add acording to the metabolic type, like high-protein or high-complex carb-high fiber foods, but remain moderate on fat contents, while eliminating trans fats, excessive omega 6 fatty acids, and refined fats. Everyone needs fiber in the diet, but potatoes, yams, and starch are poor sources of fiber. Nuts, fruits, veggies, and dark chocolate are good sources. But everyone needs animal protein, while refraining from soy products. Best of all, Grass fed bison meat is the greatest meat for health!

Yes, I am looking foward towards a life while I can take out foods from fast food places that are great tasting, while at the same time, gentle on the body.

James (great name by the way). Interesting stuff - but go easy on the repetitive dogma. Now... tell me where I could get hold of grass-fed bison meat if was living in... say... Australia. Presumably they don't serve it in Happy Meals just yet.

Good for Disney!

I say there is absolutely nothing Goofy about this decision. In fact they would be down right Daffy to continue to profit by feeding the kids junk food with all the evidence out now regarding childhood obesity and diabetes.

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(Response to Kim
"James (great name by the way). Interesting stuff - but go easy on the repetitive dogma. Now... tell me where I could get hold of grass-fed bison meat if was living in... say... Australia. Presumably they don't serve it in Happy Meals just yet."

You can order bison online at various web sites. It's not found in supermarkets...yet, but with public awareness about the healthy contents of bison, we should start seeing it in store and even fast food chains within 10 years. Make sure that the bison is grass fed. Try googling Bison. At various web sites, you can order bison patties, steakes, round tips, and even liver and hearts. If you want to use oils for cooking, use extra virgion coconut oil, grass-fed butter, or grass fed, clean animal fat. You don't have to use oils for grilling, just don't overdo it. Burned meat has cancer-causing carcinogens. Because bison is leaner, cook it in lower heat or cook it for a shorter time.

Well, I'm here in Australia, and have no desire to start importing Bison meat from the US.

Actually, I think US meat isn't being imported here at all at the moment, due to it being contaminated with Mad Cow and being declared unsafe for human consumption across the world. The USDA seems to be screening most of the information Americans are receiving about their own contaminated food supply, but I can't imagine that bison meat, theoretically 'grass fed' or otherwise, would be any better.

Kids are obese because they're demanding and being fed rubbish foods by weak and ill-educated parents. Banning soft drinks from schools will not solve the problem - kids will just buy them outside school and ask their parents to buy them at home. Education about healthy choices - education *to parents, not just kids* - is the key to solving the childhood obesity epidemic.

You need a licence to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child. Families need education about healthy choices, from non-government unbiased sources. But as that isn't going to happen any time soon, I guess it's all about personal responsibility.

If you're a kid, choose your parents wisely.

I ate at McDonald's all the time in my younger years and never got fat. But then I was usually hitting the drive through after a long session of surfing at the beach. Maybe childhood obesity has more to do with activity level than what they eat. Maybe if I had a Play Station or XBox back in the day I would have been fat too.

I think childhood obesity has everything to do with activity. When I was a child I was very thin, I liked to eat, but I rode my bike all day, I walked everywhere, I swam, I played games like hide and seek after supper with the whole neighborhood. Now I do nothing and am not thin.

Children should have healthy diets. We did. There was not a lot of fast food then. However, when there was we ate it. It sounds like Disney is making a more politically correct statement than something of substance that will have an effect on today's children sorry to say.

Leanne - YES! Great response :>D

More activity? Isn't that what the McDonald's play areas are for ;-)

Seriously though - I think we will see some of these fast food marketing schemes slowly unravel over the next few years. I honestly doubt whether that will make the slightest difference to childhood obesity.

Re: James response... ermm... did anyone notice me say something about repetitive dogma...

In order to incorperate activity and, uh, bison into one's regime, I advise children to take the following steps:

1.) Band together (no heroes, please)
2.) Track down a herd on foot
3.) Select your bison
4.) Square off with it all by your onesies

When that doesn't work, go home and nuke a Boca burger; you'll have created a massive caloric defecit, and humored a few members of every American's favorite deteriorating wild population. XP

-waves "save the 'son" banner-

I wonder how many calories would be burned chasing down bison? And will McDonald's offer a wheat-free version of a McBison burger?

i gotta say, what mcyd's is doing, will actually probably work to some degree...not in the 'obesity' sense, but yes, children aren't goin gto bother their parents as much for that fast food if there isn't 'good enough' incentive for them...and let's face it, disney toys are the only incentive to children from 2-15yrs old! i mena, i'm 30, and well, if they brought back the mickey mouse, or donald duck, or goofy toys....i'd be in like flyn ;) the whole reason being for parents, why they give in sometimes more easily than others, is that disney toys of ANY kind are considered collectables. so, no collectibles incentive, no mc d's. i know personally, my children have not asked me for mc d's in almost a yr. and i think we've maybe had it 5 times in the last yr..... i dunno, just my 2 cents of a rant i guess :) take care all!!

As a mother of two with a third on the way I don't feel Mcdonalds is a threat to my kids. I believe activity is the largest part in child obesity. Don't get me wrong a healthly diet is hugely important also. Fast food is not ment to be ate every day its quick and on the go. Also I give the fast food industry credit for their attempt to offer apple slices and milk as an option. Choice is the American way, and you do have to live with the choices you make.

Activity is a factor, but definately not the cause of obesity. What one puts in the mouth has a lot more impact.

Different people have different food sensitivities. One kid doing the same activity and given the same (junk) food as another kid, can gain more weight than that kid.

It happens all the time.

Nature doesn't use technology to make food. Food exists in nature. It is not created by man. Once you start fooling around with it, engineering tastes etc, you get problems with human bodies that were not evolved to handle it.

A note to all the 'McDonald Apologists', don't worry, you guys are winning out. McDonalds is here to stay and so is Obesity. We 'nature' eaters simply don't have to marketing budget to fight McDonalds.

When I was a kid, I was never interested in the toys. I just liked the french fries. But my mother had enough sense to limit how often we went there.

I think activity definitely has a big role in childhood obesity, but some kids do eat way more fast food than they should. When we were little, my parents only took us to McD's if the toys were really great in the Happy Meal (for my sis and I, it was the mini Lego kits and the Barbies that made us want a Happy Meal). Usually, since we only cared about the toy, we'd eat the chicken nuggets and maybe half the fries and the drink, then just play with the toys and go run around for a while. Now they have the "Big Kid" happy meal or whatever where they get larger portions, too. I'm glad Disney is being somewhat responsible by not putting cool toys in Happy Meals. Why doesn't McD's put, say, a jump rope in the Happy Meal? Or something else kids would use to be active? They did something like that with pedometers and salads once...they should bring it back.

Jen, re your bison hunting post: you rock!

As a child, I grew up near a McDonald's but my parents never took me there for any meal. My mother in particular held the attitude that McDonald's wasn't "real food" and not healthy. And you know, she was right. I was a slender, active child and didn't have any problems with weight until I hit my 20s. (And even then I avoided McDonald's--my addiction was to good ol' fashioned Southern-style homecookin'.)

"I think that I believe that Walt Disney needs to show 3D animations of The Little Mermaid, and teach children to start having the importance that a sea-food rich diet does have significent health benefits and that work is being done to cut down on mercury pollution."

Wow, i just happened to read james first post there. Seems liks he's quik to preach his diet...Now IS this EVEN a diet, seems more like a mind numbing cult to me...
After all whos willing to go up to there five year old and explain to them that there watchingthe little mirmaid so that they can learn to like eating fish? if i were five the thought of me eating, ariel, flounder, or sabastian would more then likly bring on nightmares.
In the end i dont even like seafood, and im more then healthy...