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 Apparently McDonald's doesn't. The restaurant chain is just now figuring out how to measure trans fats -- a technology that has existed for decades.
I'm still glad McDonald's restaurants exist, though. They make great restroom stops on long highway trips (those big signs are so easy to spot, even when you think you can't hold it another mile). I haven't actually purchased anything from McDonald's in the last eight years, but I have entered their buildings via the side door near the restrooms. All McDonald's restaurants smell exactly the same, have you noticed? |
| It makes you wonder about the other nutritional information McDonald's is about to start printing on its food wrappers, doesn't it?
Then again, it also begs the question: Do people who eat at McDonald's actually read nutrition labels? And if so, can they possibly understand them? Apparently McDonald's doesn't. The restaurant chain is just now figuring out how to measure trans fats -- a technology that has existed for decades.
I'm still glad McDonald's restaurants exist, though. |
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 Thanks to countless dollars McDonald's has spent advertising to children over the past several decades, children are programmed to feel a sense of trust when they see the big "M" logo (the golden arches). But as this photograph clearly shows, the golden arches appear almost directly above these signs advertising beer. What's the message to children here: Trust McDonald's, drink beer?
Acute observers might point out, no doubt, that this particular McDonald's appears to be an "Express Stop" restaurant, which means it's sort of a combination restaurant and mini grocery store. |
| Perhaps the McDonald's menu will soon carry some new favorites such as Long Island Iced Tea and Absolut Strawberry Shake. Perhaps adding alcohol to the menu could even save McDonald's from its steady decline in popularity among customers. It seems that the age of Americans worshipping burgers and fries is long gone… but getting drunk remains forever popular (especially in Arizona).
In any case, I'm willing to bet these beer signs aren't actually the fault of the McDonald's company. |
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 Thomas Robinson, the director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Packard Children's Hospital, reveals that children prefer the taste of foods wrapped with the McDonald's logo over the taste of the very same foods wrapped in plain paper. Apparently, the McDonald's logo is perceived by the brain as an indicator of tastier food, and the children actually project that expectation onto the foods during their taste experience. Their brain actually believes the food tastes better! (Remember, the taste experience happens in your head, not on your tongue... |
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| I'm still glad McDonald's restaurants exist, though. They make great restroom stops on long highway trips (those big signs are so easy to spot, even when you think you can't hold it another mile). I haven't actually purchased anything from McDonald's in the last eight years, but I have entered their buildings via the side door near the restrooms. All McDonald's restaurants smell exactly the same, have you noticed? There's nothing quite like the consistency of factory food mixed with chemical taste additives.
Is bottled water bad for the planet? |
| Then again, it also begs the question: Do people who eat at McDonald's actually read nutrition labels? And if so, can they possibly understand them? Apparently McDonald's doesn't. The restaurant chain is just now figuring out how to measure trans fats -- a technology that has existed for decades.
I'm still glad McDonald's restaurants exist, though. They make great restroom stops on long highway trips (those big signs are so easy to spot, even when you think you can't hold it another mile). |
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 REPPED: Mike: This is Mike Adams, and with us today is Loren mcdonald, the vice president of marketing at EmailLabs, one of the most well-known email marketing service companies on the web. Thanks for joining us today, Loren.
McDonald: Thank you. I'm enjoying being here.
Mike: For those who aren't familiar with EmailLabs, could you give some background of what EmailLabs does and your own involvement with the firm?
McDonald: EmailLabs has been around almost five years now. |
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| Finally, we now understand why people keep going back to McDonald's even though the food is so nasty: It's the wrappers! Which brings me to my great idea: Why not just serve the wrappers and avoid using any meat ingredients, thereby saving millions of cows each year from the slaughterhouse?
They could just wrap up large pockets of air and change the names of the menu items to things like "Air McMuffin" and "Big Air." These names would be a hit with the customers, too, because after eating at McDonald's, people already experience "Big Air. |
| Apparently, the McDonald's logo is perceived by the brain as an indicator of tastier food, and the children actually project that expectation onto the foods during their taste experience. Their brain actually believes the food tastes better! (Remember, the taste experience happens in your head, not on your tongue...)
Finally, we now understand why people keep going back to McDonald's even though the food is so nasty: It's the wrappers! |
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| All comments about McDonald's in this story are pure satire and/or personal opinion. Nothing in this photo or story is meant to imply that the McDonald's corporation actually sells beer or endorses beer.
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| REPPED: On a recent road trip to Phoenix, Arizona, I stopped to take a driving break and found myself staring in disbelief at the scene depicted in this unaltered photograph: A McDonald's restaurant is apparently advertising beer! As you can see in this picture, a neon "Miller Lite" sign is clearly visible in the window, as well as a "Budweiser" logo and sale sign.
McDonald's is the same restaurant, of course, that advertises heavily to children and even goes out of its way to build thousands of childrens' playgrounds in its restaurants. |
| Nothing in this photo or story is meant to imply that the McDonald's corporation actually sells beer or endorses beer.
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 Of course, that doesn't mean McDonald's food is any healthier, it just means that the entire Clinic is a nutritional disaster, and that Cosgrove is on the right track by starting with McDonald's. He probably intends to work his way through the vending machines and other food offerings until every item available for sale at the hospital is consistent with heart health.
Another interesting point about all of this is that some of the workers at the clinic don't appreciate the hospital acting as their parents. |
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| I haven't actually purchased anything from McDonald's in the last eight years, but I have entered their buildings via the side door near the restrooms. All McDonald's restaurants smell exactly the same, have you noticed? There's nothing quite like the consistency of factory food mixed with chemical taste additives.
Is bottled water bad for the planet?
Believe it or not, bottled water is now being sharply criticized in the U.S. by the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental group. |
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| These names would be a hit with the customers, too, because after eating at McDonald's, people already experience "Big Air."
Freaky weather all over the world
What's with all the freaky flooding and strange weather hitting cities around the world? China, the U.K., Southeast Asia and now New York have all been devastated by floods recently, and several other U.S. cities are enduring freak weather events that are disrupting operations and playing havoc with crop production. People in the know are, of course, pointing to the obvious: Global warming. |
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| I haven't actually purchased anything from McDonald's in the last eight years, but I have entered their buildings via the side door near the restrooms. All McDonald's restaurants smell exactly the same, have you noticed? There's nothing quite like the consistency of factory food mixed with chemical taste additives.
Is bottled water bad for the planet?
Believe it or not, bottled water is now being sharply criticized in the U.S. by the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental group. |
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| Of course, that doesn't mean McDonald's food is any healthier, it just means that the entire Clinic is a nutritional disaster, and that Cosgrove is on the right track by starting with McDonald's. He probably intends to work his way through the vending machines and other food offerings until every item available for sale at the hospital is consistent with heart health.
Another interesting point about all of this is that some of the workers at the clinic don't appreciate the hospital acting as their parents. |
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| It was taken at an Express Stop McDonald's just SE of Chandler, Arizona, on Interstate 10 heading towards Tucson. (In the window reflection, you can see a gas pump area and a Carl's Jr. restaurant across the way.) You can stop by there and see the beer signs for yourself. You might even buy yourself a cold one. Just make sure you don't keep driving on the interstate afterwards.
Disclaimer: This photo is offered under the free speech provisions of the United States Constitution and is condered "Fair Use" for the purposes of public commentary. |
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| Mike: We've been talking with Loren mcdonald, VP of marketing at EmailLabs. That's EmailLabs.com. I want to thank you so much for your time today, Loren. Our readers will gain value from your insight. Are there any closing thoughts you'd like to add?
McDonald: In the last year or so, there has been a lot of negative publicity around email marketing because of the proliferation of spam and that type of thing. I would just say that email marketing, like a lot of other marketing vehicles, is growing. It's become a teenager. It's maturing. It's an incredibly viable and valuable medium. |
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 I wouldn't know: haven't eaten at McDonald's since the 1990's when I weighed 220 pounds, was borderline diabetic, mentally depressed and suffered from chronic back pain. At that time, I ate McDonald's almost every day. |
| I don't know whether McDonald's uses sodium nitrite in its own products, but I do know that practically every packaged meat product sold in grocery stores contains sodium nitrite. I also know that the human body is designed to live well past 100. To die at any age under 50 requires a sustained poisoning effort: like consuming soft drinks, fried foods, red meat, refined white flour, added sugars, hydrogenated oils and so on. I wonder what ingredients are in a Big Mac these days? |
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| Toby Cosgrove, director of the Cleveland Clinic and a cardiovascular surgeon, wants McDonald's out of the hospital. He says (paraphrased) it is ridiculous to offer foods that are inconsistent with the heart healthy advice doctors are attempting to give their patients.
I couldn't agree more. |
| But there's something else to consider here, too: apparently the staff member of the Cleveland Clinic are hoping to keep the McDonald's restaurant there! They want to eat Big Macs and french fries, hamburgers and milkshakes.
Shocked? Actually, it's not that surprising to hear when you realize how unhealthy most people who work in the conventional medical industry truly are. This heart surgeon, Toby Cosgrove, is certainly an exception; he's apparently a trim man, 63 years of age, and is one of the few to have the courage to stand up against the fast food industry. |
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 In the meantime, as the founder of Curves said, "We're the McDonald's of fitness centers in America and Canada, and we can be the McDonald's of fitness centers around the world." Yes, they have actually compared their operation to the lowest form of junk food available. Like McDonald's, they will continue to serve up as much of their concept as women are willing to consume, and there are plenty of other Curves wannabes out there if you are looking for bare bones fitness clubs with no services. |
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| The man is right, he deserves credit for his courage in standing up against McDonald's, and I hope he is victorious in evicting the restaurant from the clinic.
Let it be the first of many such evictions. It's time to boot fast food restaurants and soft drink companies from all our institutions of learning and health. |
| But it is equally ridiculous that we have McDonald's and other fast food restaurants in our public schools. Why are we feeding our schoolchildren junk food that's promoting chronic disease and impairing their ability to learn... and then turning around and complaining about the plummeting quality of education across our country? It's the food, stupid! And if you don't understand that point, it's probably because you had lunch at a fast food restaurant today and your brain isn't functioning too well.
I say we ban fast food restaurants in hospitals and public schools across the nation. |
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 If you became overweight drinking soft drinks and eating Big Macs at McDonald's, and you try to sue McDonald's, the restaurant's defense will be, in part, based on the idea that McDonald's food can be part of a healthy diet. Now, I disagree with this because if you look around, every company is saying this. You have 400 food manufactures lined up, and they're all saying, "Our foods, soft drinks, donuts, candy bars, sugary breakfast cereals and margarine with hydrogenated oils can be part of a healthy diet." By the time you have listened to everybody, you have a system of food that can kill you. |
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 It kind of reminds me of dipping Chicken McNuggets into that sweet and sour sauce at McDonald's. I don't know if McDonald's still offers that, since I haven't eaten there in probably 7 or 8 years, but I remember growing up I would eat at McDonald's all the time, and one of my favorite items was, of course, the Chicken McNugget items. This new Tofu 2 Go product brings back some of the pleasant memories of chowing down on Chicken McNuggets, but of course, without all the detrimental health effects of actually eating fried, pressed chicken parts. |
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