McDonald's Makes You Sick--Very Sick.

Wow I can feel a spin coming on, but really who eats at fast food places 3 times a day everyday??? I don\'t eat at macdonald\'s,(maybe once a year) but I do think anything in moderation is ok, anything overindulged in will cause problems.

No wonder pets get cancer.....not that the world needs any more pets.

Whelan,

Garret ate Sub-Way for 11 months every day. He didn\'t get sick, but he did loose weight. If someone ate lets say salads [100% organic] for 30 days, I really dought that they would get sick. I understand your point of moderation, but I think in this case with Macdonalds. There is some real concern about their foods. If there wasn\'t, do you really think they would have invested millions into adding a healthy menu option?

Kevin Gagnon

Well I don\'t totally disagree with you Kevin, but I wouldn\'t eat KFC steady or chocolate steady, so why fried greasy anything steady, I\'m not saying McD\'s is good for you, I\'m just not believing that the example was particularly fair,...these are suppose to be fast foods, ready when you are because, you are in a hurry, no time to cook, emergency services, or at least that\'s how they started. Now everyone, or should I say many people, don\'t know how to cook, or won\'t bother to learn, so kids are eating this crap everyday for lunch instead of decent homemade lunches, same for supper, everyone is running from work, to drive the kids to sports or other social activities. We are living a nightmare if we buy into this program.

I was talking to a woman the other night, she drives through the McD\'s to feed the kids on certain school nights cause there isn\'t enough time between school and after school activities, then she fights with them to get homework done,bath and into bed before 10pm. Then the child is crabby next day, this child is 7yrs old,she drags the baby along or pays for babysitters to accomplish this feat,(about 5nights a week she is running) so how healthy is this entire lifestyle never mind the fast food!

Everyone seems so afraid that their kid won\'t be well rounded, organized everything, from age 2 they are having play dates, their entire lives revolve around such a tight schedule that it\'s a wonder more kids aren\'t having heart attacks. We are dealing with extremes either the parents are overindulging, or they are living in poverty and can\'t indulge in sports etc., so they give in to junk food, it\'s cheaper and faster than wholesome food. We have the results in teenage obesity, and stressed out teens who are depressed and suicidal, using drugs and alcohol to run away from the pressure to be.

Everyone is blaming the system, but really what is wrong with real home cooked meals, families that allow their children to play without adult organization, and not having a 7 day a week schedule like a corporate ex by the time you\'re in grade 2...??? When I was a kid, my mother used to play store with us, she folded the clothes laid them out and we purchased(with imaginary money) a pile to put away. She got her work done, we enjoyed the game, learned about money and had fun doing a cooperative family activity. None of us was in a hurry, we didn\'t have a schedule that involved going anywhere except to bed on time. Nobody was stressed.

I just think that one fast food restaurant is only a symptom of a sick society, our values have gotten lost as we strive to be the best parent, employee, and have the perfect children, with all the social rounding of an adult, opportunities which somehow we believe will give that child such an advantage in this competitive world, but really I think we are cutting short the real adventure of life, learning to cook, eating as a family, playing tag and make-believe, using tools at hand to play games rather than buying all the pro-type equipment. Yes McD\'s is trying to change their menu, because the consumer is demanding it, but perhaps we ought to start demanding more out of life and less from restaurants? Just a thought...

The impressive part is just how quickly he got sick, and how sick he got. Within days he was throwing up, breaking out, and generally not having a good time. And he started out as a very healthy person.

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JvH

I guess this(quote from article) is key:

\"People from the food industry were saying, \'You can\'t link kids being fat to our food - our food is nutritious.\'

\"I said, \'How nutritious is it really? Let\'s find out.\"

I still think it\'s our choice, the lifestyle we decide is going to impact our lives, it isn\'t realistic to say 30days 3 meals a day at a fast food outlet, but I agree that the restaurant is misleading the public by saying it\'s nutritious, when this experiment indicates, it isn\'t! Still I am sure that experts for fast food, would say this was not a scientific study, blah blah, but I don\'t need anyone to tell me that a food that\'s odor saturates your vehicle, house and entire body, isn\'t a good thing! If it\'s being promoted as a healthy lifestyle choice, and isn\'t they should be sued...if it is just what it is then, it\'s your choice.

I hope Dairy Queen doesn\'t start telling me that their banana splits are healthy, cause I\'ll have to give them up for sure! I think we should have the right to make decisions, but I also think we should be told up front, that ice cream is full of fat, great thanks that is my choice, I\'ll take three...

Well, duh, like, we didn`t know that the food was garbage!

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Dave Ruston

Well said.<p> I think the year was 1978. That's when Mom had to get a job to make ends meet, even though Dad made decent money.<p> To further your point, I think the co-relation between our societies values declining and needing to have two incomes in a family are the direct result of over taxation.<p> If Mom didn't have to have a job so the family can have that second car to shuttle the kids to hockey practice to Gnome, Alaska 3 times a week and save a little so her and Dad can take a week off once a year and spend a little time in the tropical Lethbridge sun; I think we as kids would have learned a little more than where the spare key was kept so we could let ourselves in after school.<p> I truly feel for the single mom who has to do that in todays world.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

How is this any more relevant than my Richard Gwyn submission that was rejected....?

Perturbed...we all get rejected sometimes, it is good training for a future in politics, chalk it up to experience...I write articles all the time, books even that have been rejected more times than you can imagine...breaks my little heart but I have to suck it up and try again...so keep on trying, cause your contributions are greatly appreciated!

No offense Perturbed, but Richard Gwyn is one of the worst commentators in Canada. He never says anything original. His writing is terrible--his columns have a circular motion that makes you sick, much like MacDonald\'s. He and Carol Goar (she\'s almost as bad) are the worst columnists writing for national papers (The Toronto Star).

If only The Toronto Star would reject his articles, like Vive does...

For my money, the best columnists are Chantal Hebert, Jeffrey Simpson, Ian Urqhart, Rick Salutin, and a few others at the Star I can\'t recall.

One last thought--the only commentator worse than Richard Gwyn on the national scene is Rex Murphy--and he\'s incomprehensible.

Hi anonymous. I agree, Richard Gwyn IS the worst writer in Canada. Carol Goar isn\'t as bad, but Gwyn is terrible. Chantal Hebert is one of the best political writer in any paper, and the best commentator on the CBC.

My sumbission was entitled: \"Richard Gwyn loses all credibility.\" Perhaps that gives you an idea about my attitude towards Gwyn. I simply found one of his articles so ridiculous, I thought it would been a definitve sign that he had lost it.....arguing that \"Trickle-down economics works,\" and \"It is the only way to stimulate an economy.\" (Two blatant lies.)

My concern is that this site goes through prolonged periods where NOTHING new is posted. I think that a humourous article that illustrates the iognorance of what we are up against is much better than a day-and-a-half of nothing.

If too many submissions are rejected, we\'ll get about as much traffic as the CDM forums--in other words NONE.