McDonald’s and Resistance, Kind Of
Almost one-third of children’s hospitals are embracing fast-food outlets on their premises. What’s in it for the kids?
Coke and McDonald’s — Partners in Slime
McDonald’s and Coca-Cola Company continue to want more junk-food addict customers, and at an even younger age.
McDonald’s and Its Ilk
Last time, Childhood Obesity News mentioned Dr. Andrew Bremer and his concern that “McDonald’s and chains of its ilk are contributing to obesity.” That means fast-food joints in general. Some of them are actually changing their ways, often because of legislation, sometimes because they want a few public-relations points chalked up in their column. In […]
McDonald’s, Why Don’t You Do Right?
Last time, Childhood Obesity News looked at how Tim Carman constructed an article around the gimmick of imagining the far-out funny stuff that could happen if the McDonald’s corporation were allowed to do anything it wanted at the most recent Olympics. But every absurd possibility he thought of turned out to be true, even what […]
McDonald’s and Marathons
Every now and then, it’s necessary to check the fast-food front and see what the big boys have been up to. For instance, McDonald’s got some publicity when a man made news by restricting his diet to McDonald’s fare during his monthlong training period for the Los Angeles Marathon. Joe D’Amico, known as the “McRunner,” […]
Obesity and McDonald’s, Chapter 821
The Weigh2Rock website collects comments from children and teens, of a kind that would not be possible if they were not anonymous. It strains credulity, that there could be a 16-year-old girl walking around out there weighing 560 pounds, yet this was posted online: i eat at mcdonalds everyday .. i am adicttied and i […]
Academia, Government, and McDonald’s
Bloomberg stringers Michael Wei and Margaret Conley reported the astonishing news that acceptance into the Chinese branch of McDonald’s Hamburger University is harder to attain than admission to Harvard University. What they meant was, the ratio of applications to acceptances is under 1% at Shanghai’s corporate training center, whereas Harvard magnanimously takes in around 7% […]
Same Stuff, Different Day – McDonald’s
What? Time to check in with the McDonald’s empire again? Yes, because those rascals just won’t stay out of the news. They seem to operate on the Water Balloon Principle of Ethics. You can squeeze a water balloon in one area and some of the water will move to a different place. But the balloon […]
McDonald’s Not Gone Yet
Just recently, Childhood Obesity News discussed public schools — the celebration of holidays in them, the bringing of treats to them, and the holding of bake sales to financially support them. What has not yet been mentioned is the Happy Meal fundraiser. That’s right, McDonald’s has encroached on the educational life of the children of […]
McDonald’s Still Making News as Childhood Obesity Culprit
An Associated Press news article from Sao Paulo, Brazil, recently reported that a McDonald’s manager successfully sued the company for making him obese. He worked there for 12 years, and packed on 65 pounds while diligently sampling each day’s fare to make sure that it tasted good. The free lunches granted to employees helped, too. […]