McD, BK, Wendy In and Out, 5 Guy proved one thing. There's always room for one more.

Btw, apparently there's a similar scam going on at McD near where I live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8HthNo7AsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJlO7s1hpQU

If Trump eats so much McDonalds food, do they send for take out, does he have an official taster, or have they installed a McD's in the White House?

My Dad taught at McD's University in Chicago.
He said Ray used to fly around in a private jet, look down and say "See that town? What town is that? Put a McDonald's there."
and 6 months later *BAM!* McDonald's.

Beared is dyed orange for something about 'Wear something Orange today to support the 10,000 Marylanders with MS!'.

Product placment is pretty suspicious. Is that a pillow or a bag? He also mentions McD's in another report http://youtu.be/NnOY0ODuK34

Although the attention gained may be a tiny bit offset by McDs trying to get away from obesity and poor health food image. Jimmy does not look like the peek of health and fitness. Its easy to infer his McDs diet is a contributing factor. Although im sure the publicity he gives them far out ways this.

You're probably right. Haven't eaten at either of them for over a decade.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not some paleo-vegan-organic-raw food zealot. If there's butter, bacon or chocolate involved, I'm there.

I would just rather give my money to my local fish and chip shop than to the likes of mcd or burger king.

But still - it's leagues better than the crap at McD.

@budzos
@lucky760
@Truckchase

It wasn't a clinical study, I think the point was merely to show that it was possible for a overweight, borderline obese man to eat only MCD menu items, be satiated and maintain the calorific deficit needed to gradually lose weight, provided basic exercise was maintained.

I don't think the point was to stress that changing to MCD made his diet better (in that case adding exercise is obviously cheating), just to show that it is possible to lose weight and eat MCD.

Taking this as a reference for calorie burned:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Calories-burned-in-30-minutes-of-leisure-and-routine-activities.htm

45 mins walking is about 300 calories burned. Considering that teaching is primarily a pretty sedentary job (outside of class), that's only freeing up an extra 15% of your roughly daily intake needs of 2000 calories.

Not huge. I think the main takeaway here is, junk food or not, if your goal is losing weight (ignoring long term health complications), then it's all about portion control.

@JiggaJonson

As above, I think this is the main issue. I usually want half the portion that take away food outlets offer. Pricing structure then distorts the cost of the smallest size to make the larger 'value meal' much more attractive. One reason why I tend to prefer sashimi eat outs.

The problem with this sort of thing is now a bunch of people are going to justify their eating habits based on this "study" because they'll gloss over all the relevant details. All people are going to see is eating McDs is A-OK.

There isn't any health justification for eating McDs, it is junk food, you just need to accept you're going there to eat some junk food and be ok with that.

The whole issue about calories is a misdirect, there are dozens of other more important reasons why McD's is worse than trash. A couple of examples - the food is loaded with all manner of artificial ingredients, it's lacking in quality fiber, it's highly processed (low nutritional value), and the quality of the macro ingredients is very poor - i.e. the use of trans-fats as @RedSky points out, as well as the use of poor quality sugars (i.e. HFCS) to sweeten the dough.

That's not even to mention the exploitation of their workers, rainforest clearing to raise cattle, wasteful use of plastic packaging etc.

My guess would be he stuck to zero calorie drinks and avoided fries.

Had a quick on their nutritional website, a Big Mac is 520 calories, which is not great but not absurd. The issue is, you add a large fries (500) and coke (280) to that and you've added exactly 150% more calories on top.

All up being 1300 calories or about 2/3rds of your daily intake in one meal. Provided you avoided the sides though, it wouldn't be too hard to stick within the limits.

The issue is that MCD makes the minimum mandated attempt to educate customers. Australia legislates that food energy levels be published in a prominent fashion alongside the rough recommended daily energy intake of 8700kJ. They usually publish most of these on the side in small font. Having been over in France recently they didn't have them, I'm sure that's the case in most countries.

The larger issue with MCD and other fast food is the use of trans-fats and excessive sodium.

Trans-fats act as an insanely effective preservatives that keeps their produce looking like it'd been cryogenically frozen even years on. They're also have a reputation for clogging arteries causing heart attacks, strokes and the like.

Sodium which boosts blood pressure when ingested is a flavour enhancer which is probably why it's used in excessive amounts (e.g. a Big Mac has 40% of recommended daily Sodium). Even if this guy kept within calorie limits he would have easily been breaching recommended Sodium levels and in the long term would be elevating his risk of high blood pressure, stroke or various kidney diseases.

Let's be clear, $15/hr is gonna make a difference. If current minimum wage is $7.25 it's more than doubling the wage. That means doubling the salary costs for every business employing people for minimum wage. It seems the left is all excited about moving twice as much money from Walmart and McDonalds back to it's employees. The thing is, it doesn't just hurt corporate employers, it hurts ALL employers. In particular the mom and pop shops that open up to provide alternatives to Walmart and McDs. Raising the cost of entry to new business owners seriously hurts and undermines the little guy.

My point is the idea of striking a balance in minimum wage is very important, because shifting it too much in EITHER direction makes the 'wage-slave' problem worse. Either buy worse conditions for the lowest end of the working class, or by making it even more difficult to start out working for yourself.

This video doesn't really tell the whole story. maybe shes not even full time. I worked at mcd as a teen and they gave raises every year. yeah only about 0.05 cents.
this whole fight the power stuff gets out of hand.

*promote the *art

Yeah, Chipotle had McD fund them, but the founder Steve Ells bought out their stake once he had the cash to do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipotle_Mexican_Grill

Most people work at McDonalds because they hire unskilled labor and it's only a temporary job until you move on to something else. The very few who might want to make a career out of working McDs would probably not be a twenty year employee flipping burgers for $7/hour. Most likely they'd be promoted, even manage, and maybe some day become Mayor McCheese.