Two articles that I saw today

maleficent said:
There's a book that I've mentioned a bunch... Mindless Eating.. by doctor something or antoher.. in the book he refences a study or two that points out.. even if nutrition info is presented - people will still choose to ignore it... or overeat in other areas because they think they are eating lower calorie.. (the study involved people eating at subway -which posts it's nutrition info on their napkins, vs mcdonalds - in most cases -people got out of mcdonalds with lower calories...


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I hate the mindset that people are not willing to take responsiblity for what they put into their mouths and want info hand fed to them and don't want to use common sense - On no planet are a huge portion of deep fried potatoes smothered in cheese smothered in ranch dressing even remotely considered healthy or even low calorie...
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On the other hand though, to have that huge portion of fries smothered with whatever artificial crap once every few months shouldn't be big enough of a deal for that one day that people are going crazy over the amount of calories and fat. I think the bigger concern should be how often people are feeding this crap into their bodies, not how many calories the different items on the dollar menu have. (though I would still like to see nutritional values and what have you if I were diabetic or something of the sort)

I'm not sure this is even relevant to your post, I just wanted to quote you for the mention of big fry portions.
 
maleficent said:
On no planet are a huge portion of deep fried potatoes smothered in cheese smothered in ranch dressing even remotely considered healthy or even low calorie...
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On my planet, everything is healthy and good for you. Especially fries smothered in cheese. :drool5:
 
maleficent said:
Begin rant...
I hate the mindset that people are not willing to take responsiblity for what they put into their mouths and want info hand fed to them and don't want to use common sense - On no planet are a huge portion of deep fried potatoes smothered in cheese smothered in ranch dressing even remotely considered healthy or even low calorie...
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But the point is that I did not think that the above mentioned fries were good for me. I just had absolutely no idea the severity of the damage I was doing.
This is where posted information would be helpful.
I still may have ordered them when we went there, they are damn good, but may have ordered a smaller entree.
The point is, if i do not know how can I make an informed choice. No, I knew they were not good for me but the extent of there badness is astounding even now.
I take full responsibility, i ordered them after all and ate them, but some information could be nice.
I mean c'mon, they put warnings on cigarettes. Who honestly thinks those are not bad for them. All i am asking is the same thing, toned down a bit obviously or it would never sell, but generally the same thing.
 
McD has nutritional info on the wrapping of the food now! At least here in London they do! And they even have a grown ups caloric needs and a child's caloric needs and how much of it is in their burgers fries etc... it also says how much sugar, sodium etc... everything has! I was very impressed! NOt that I would ever eat there, but my kids love it and I feel better knowing what kind of crap I am giving them!
Camy
 
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