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   Bruce4671 said, about 6 hours ago

   Well ….. I must admit that a 1/4 pounder w/cheese was once my favorite vice. Then it became a habit, then an addiction. I kept asking myself, self…why can’t you ever seem to lose weight? Then i’d spot the arches and…well.
   
   I’m happy to say it’s been years (and 40 pounds) since I visited MickyD. But, the choice was mine to make, the path mine to take and thus the accomplishment more satisfactory.
   
   There are many people that can eat whatever they want and never become overweight (I married one such alien).
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   Harleyquinn said, about 6 hours ago

   Oh no, must eat, must eat there, they like make me super size everything and I must eat it all.. with a diet pop to boot.
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   Harleyquinn said, about 6 hours ago

   You know what gets me? They had to make part of the menu “healthy” but yet no where else do they say what they serve is meant to do anything but taste good and satisfy your hunger. You do not want that? Eat somewhere else. It is not their job to weigh you and tell you how much you can eat. If you can pay for it, you can eat it. And that is how it should be. If you do not know by now that eating a super sized meal and the only workout you get is from your door to the car, drive through, back to your door, can make you fat, then you deserve to be fat.
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   russell5419 said, about 6 hours ago

   Free choice, i myself choose not to go to Mcdonalds, my choice, people who want to go should not be ripped off just because our government is trying to protect ourselves from ourselves, I can decide what I want to eat, not Mrs.Obama, and that goes for my kids also. If they want to eat junk food for lunch, then who cares, I did when i was in school and I am in good shape.the government should just butt out. I loved lunch time in grade school, I got to eat all the good stuff I didn’t eat at home, i felt independent and thats good for a kid.
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   Darren Blair said, about 6 hours ago

   A few years ago I did a paper on the whole “McDonald’s makes you fatter!” hysteria as part of my MBA.
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   Among my findings?
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   1. The film “Super-Size Me” is invalid from an academic or scientific standpoint, as the author left no actual record of just what he supposedly ate; without this record, it would be impossible for anyone to reproduce his experiment.
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   2. Two different people conducted experiments to determine whether or not a person could improve their health by eating at McDonald’s. Both people ate each menu item once, then went to their preferred style. Both succeeded. Both left records of the meals consumed. One man followed a modified Atkins diet and kept a written log, while the other made it a point to substitute for healthier options (such as going for tea or coffee instead of soda) and kept the wrappers & cups as visual proof.
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   3. School lunches and school fitness programs are, on the whole, more important in determining a child’s level of obesity than fast food, yet get far less attention. For example, the majority of school lunches served by the city of San Francisco would fail the standard the city put in place for Happy Meals… which is both ironic and hypocritical given the fact that the city council member who pushed for the standard was once in charge of the city’s school lunch program.
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   4. A number of foods deemed “healthy” actually aren’t. For example, in some regards a hamburger can actually be healthier than a “Deluxe salad w/ chicken”.
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   The long and short of it is that it all comes down to (A) schools needing to ensure that people get a good education in regards to nutrition & fitness and (B) people needing to take responsibility for what they do and do not eat.
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   ConserveGov said, about 5 hours ago

   The Dems are already talking about the Hamburger Tax.

   Or maybe they will just limit people to one small cheeseburger using Obama(non)Care as an excuse.
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   olfart said, about 5 hours ago

   Hey, if we have helmet laws for motorcyclists then we should have cheeseburger laws for the rest of you. Whatever the insurance mafia wants.
   I would prefer freedom for all of us.
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   ruff said, about 4 hours ago

   @ConserveGov

   Glad you found an angle to politicize the subject. Your sponsors must be proud.
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   goweeder said, about 4 hours ago

   @Darren Blair

   …..in regard to…..
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    Rockngolfer said, about 4 hours ago

    I go to Burger King, or Checkers.
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    Rockngolfer said, about 4 hours ago

    There was a Hardee’s commercial that I saw just one time.
    It showed a very pregnant woman, standing, holding the biggest burger with everything, using both hands, and the narrator said, “Enjoy it while you can, you won’t be able to come back (to Hardee’s) for 13 years.”
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    Gore Bane said, about 4 hours ago

    Don’t like McD’s? Don’t eat there. Or is this the “tyranny of free choice”, as the liberal buzzwords go?
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    ansonia said, about 3 hours ago

    I guess personal responsibility is out the window. It’s someone else’s fault if you’re fat.
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    ansonia said, about 3 hours ago

    @ruff

    So he politicized the issue by stating a fact?
    Mayor Bloomberg is waaaaay out in front.
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    bobwinners said, about 3 hours ago

    Well, when you go into a McD’s, the menus all have the caloric value of each item printed on them.
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