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McDonald's weirdness and a few other bits and pieces.
The Big M:
- McDonald's have donated $2 million dollars to the Scripps Insitute. They are funding research into childhood obesity - how weird is that?
- This Aussie show takes the video camera into a McDonald's restaurant and orders the entire menu (item by item). The point of the ridiculous stunt is that McDonald's still try and upsize!
- In Japan they don't bother with printing nutrition info on McDonald's wrappers - they encode it so people can scan it with their wizzy mobile phones. The code will direct their phones to an online site with the appropriate nutritional information.
Good, weird, and flawed:
- Traineo is another free site that tracks fitness goals. There is a neat feature where you can nominate other to be your 'motivators'.Don't like chopping onions? Get some onion goggles - "Their hip design may result in a few giggles but you'll have the last laugh".
- The Healthy Dining Finder is attempting to gather nutrition information from a vast array of restaurants. Early days for the site - but should be interesting to watch.
- The National Institutes of Health has released a new guide to lowering cholesterol (a dietary approach). It's easy-to-read but must be read with caution. Cholesterol research is constantly throwing up new data, and I believe that the traditional dogma relating dietary cholesterol with "bad" cholesterol is flawed.
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I can't imagine why anyone who walks into McD's would even bother to look at the nutrician information. Just look at my interactive fast food browser which graphs and compares fast foods and you'll see why eating their food is grounds for obesity.
ReplyOk, the little scanner thingy is a cool idea. Not so much for McD's, because - hello!! JUNK FOOD!! - but it would be handy to have for everything else. I know how valuable journaling your food intake is, and I try to be honest and faithful with it - honest, I do - but to have a gadget like that, where I could just scan and go. How incredibly handy. If it weren't so bloomin' expensive, which I'm sure it is. And I'm sure if they tried to introduce it here, there would be all KINDS of people yelling that it's not needed.
ReplyIt does suprize me that they go through all this trouble when it barely makes any difference. I don't see why because they can have other choices of healthier food and people should be satisfied. The food isn't the cause of gaining weight but the person ordering it.
Reply"I can't imagine why anyone who walks into McD's would even bother to look at the nutrician information."
Well, I personally like the Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Off the top of my head, I can tell you it has 510 calories. I eat over 3000 calories a day, split into 6 meals. I eat clean almost all of the week. Is it really so bad if I make one of my 42 meals in the week a Quarter Pounder with Cheese (with no fries or drink)? You can be health-concious and still eat at McDonald's.
ReplyI think it is really useless to imagine that any one who goes to McDonald's will be interested in nutrition information. Each and every one of us know that when they go to McDonald's, they are going for their favorite food is all about junk not healthy food.
ReplyFast weight loss: Not true, as shown above by me.
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