The McDonalds diet lady will be on The Daily Show tonight

[AlCzervik]

should be amusing.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml

[Rising Phoenix]

1. I think this lady is nuts

even if by some mircale she is losing weight, her health in other ways is going to suffer, cholesterol, blood pressure, malnutrition, it just can't be healthy

[dolo amber]

3. I think she's making 'healthy choices'...

I mean, I think that's the whole schtick. I've only heard a little about this, but I'm under the impression she's being the anti-Supersize Me guy and showing how if you make the right choices you can eat McD's every day and lose weight.

Not by any stretch advocating here, and I could be completely wrong...that's just what I thought it was all about. :hi:

[Taverner]

15. Exactly

IN a way, she's actually bolstering his thesis.

Remember, Spurlock wasn't against McDonalds perse, but against the supersizing of everything.

[AlCzervik]

6. i agree, just because she may be eating less calories it doesn't mean

they're healthy calories, she could accomplish her goal by eating 1500 calories a day of just eating crisco.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

12. I think she's mainly eating salads

Lettuce and veggies are still good for you -- even if they are served to you at a McDonald's.

[AlCzervik]

13. no, i saw her on some show and she eats a McGriddle? every morning

sometimes salad for lunch and some form of burger or sandwich for dinner.

[Hugin]

14. My sweetheart can't eat those...

Hurls like clock work four hours after eating one.

We're talking "projectile".

I suspect it's some herb or spice in there.

[Not_Giving_Up]

16. What I read was fish sandwiches

Lunch and dinner....ick!

[kick-ass-bob]

2. And she's from NC.

:hide:

[LastKnight]

4. how fat do you have to be

to eat McD's and LOSE weight?

seriously?

when multiple daily meals from McD's are a calorie decrease from what youre eating now, i mean come on...

[Hugin]

5. I've lived on "University Starch" long enough to know.

Nutrition can be found on any buffet.

You just have to be creative. However, I *do* miss my
natural teeth.

(j/k)

[underpants]

7. Funny-The Today Show this morning-ARE sodas making kids fat?

I didn't catch the report but it appeared to be right out of BIG SUGAR'S P.r. department-throughing questions into a no brainer.

[Hugin]

8. LOL!

"Big Sugar"... Alas, a *new* enemy of the people.

[underpants]

10. uh...Prag

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57782-2005Apr15.html

U.S. sugar policy stands for all that's bad about our political system. The government restricts imports through a series of quotas, pushing U.S. sugar prices to between two and three times the global market rate. As a result, a handful of sugar producers, notably in Florida, a battleground electoral state, pocket $1 billion a year in excess profits. To protect this cozy arrangement, the sugar barons plow a chunk of their revenue back into the political system. During the 2004 election cycle, two Florida sugar companies gave a total of $925,000 to election coffers.

Also
http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/080405/ew5.htm?date=080405&story=ew5.htm

As World Health Organization Tries To Battle Global Obesity, U.S. Sugar Giants Wage Campaign of Deception
http://www.newstarget.com/000948.html

The World Health Organization (WHO) is trying to combat rising global obesity by adopting and promoting nutritional guidelines that would urge people to drastically reduce their consumption of added sugars (like the sugars found in soft drinks, usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup). But the U.S. sugar industry, sometimes called Big Sugar, is aggressively fighting the guidelines, claiming that sugar isn't bad for you!

[Hugin]

11. Cripes!

I wanna be a sugar baron!

I bet Tom Delay is in this up to his neck.

Sugarland, TX... Hmm.

[underpants]

17. Everyone literally has their hand in the cookie jar

I have no idea of the political breakdown of contributions (Jeb is BTW a big recipient of Bacrdi Rum money) but suffice it to say-if you think we are getting ripped off by the oil companies you should see what the sugar companies are doing to your wallet. Remember the sudden reversal on dietary advisories a month or so ago? Surely direct from BIG SUGAR.

The arguments about what (or if they are) makes kids so fat this day is BIG SUGAR trying to change the argument away from their (overpriced) product and the products it is used to make (look up Fructose and see how much you consume--movie popcorn butter for instance).

Bill Maher is one of the few pundit types willing to even mention this issue.

[Hugin]

18. Well, bless Bill Maher then...

It's a wake-up call to us all.

The fight for civil rights and balanced nutrition is
a never ending battle.

Corporatist! *spit*

Yeah, I've noticed they've managed to get Corn Syrup
into just about everything.

I've recently noticed people mentioning weight loss from
kicking their diet soda habit. I've often wondered if there
was a link to fat there. Artificial sweeteners tie up one's
metabolism whether or not they produce fat tissue.

Got any links to "Big Water" in your favorites list?

[underpants]

19. The coming privatization of drinking water?

See Indianapolis or Atlanta (fully privatized)

Also see Vivendi---> owns US Filter----> anyone in the water business buys from US Filter in one way or another.....Vivendi is a ( :hide: looks around) a French company ssssssssshhhhhhhh

I guess all those 'Murka lovin' Murkans in Indy and Atlanta (any city really) don't pay their water bills as a means of civil disobedience for the French not taking their troops (7K) out of Afghanistan to follow us into the fustercluck in Iraq.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/water/atlanta.html

http://www.foe.org/WSSD/vivendi.html
Vivendi Environnement is the environmental services (water, energy, waste and transport) subsidiary of French media and communications company Vivendi Universal. It claims to be the number one environmental services company in the world and the largest water company in the world. Vivendi Universal shares are traded on the French and U.S. and Canadian stock exchanges. Vivendi's water division - Vivendi Water - was formed from Vivendi Water Systems, Compagnie Generale des Eaux and U.S. Filter. In this report "Vivendi" is used to refer to Vivendi Universal and subsidiary Vivendi Environnement.


ON EDIT-privatization and the French water barons (Freeper heads to explode)
The Water Barons:
A Handful of Corporations Seek to Privatize the World’s Water
http://www.freshwater.net/TheWaterBarons.htm

France’s Suez and Vivendi Environnement, and Thames Water, owned by Germany’s RWE AG, dominate the private water market globally. They are joined, to a lesser extent, by Saur of France and United Utilities of England, working with Bechtel of the United States. In 1990, private water companies were active in about a dozen countries. By 2002, they were operating in at least 56 countries and two territories. The companies have worked closely with the World Bank and other international financial institutions and lobby aggressively for legislation and trade laws to require cities to privatize their water. In major cities around the world—such as Buenos Aires, Manila and Jakarta—the World Bank flexed financial muscle to persuade governments to sign long-term contracts with the major private water companies. Of the 193 short-term loans the bank approved from 1996 to 1999, 58 percent had privatization as a condition. In the United States, the European water giants have gone on a buying spree of America’s largest private water utility companies, including USFilter and American Water Works Co. Inc. Of the seven major private water companies in the United States today, only one is still U.S.-owned. The companies have tripled their political contributions in the United States and are trying to persuade Congress to require cash-strapped municipal governments to consider privatizing their waterworks in exchange for federal dollars. Revenue trends reflect the companies’ global expansion. Vivendi Universal, the parent of Vivendi Environnement, reported earning more than $5 billion in water-related revenue in 1990; by 2002 that had increased to over $12 billion. RWE, which moved into the world water market with its acquisition of Britain’s Thames Water, increased its water revenue a whopping 9,786 percent—from $25 million in 1990 to $2.5 billion in fiscal 2002.

[Hugin]

21. Dang, you were just *waiting* for that one...

weren't ya?

GREAT! Thanks for all of the info underpants!

What a tangled web they weave.

It'll take me awhile to read through all of this.

[underpants]

22. No I just did a quick google search

Amazing how NO ONE talks about either of these.

[FlaGranny]

20. You know, sometimes you have to wonder if

sugar IS all that bad. When I was a kid, back in the 1940s, there was no artificial sweetener. Everyone used sugar. Deserts were a part of every meal. We used pure cream off the top of the milk to make whipped cream, too. We ate bacon, eggs, steak, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and pies. We ate "healthy" foods too, but we really didn't worry too much about what we ate at all. There were no "light" foods.

People weren't fat back then. Well, maybe a couple of people in my small town were a little heavy, but nothing like you see now. Back then, it was very rare to see a morbidly obese person.

I believe that if the only problems were sugar and fat, there would have been just a high a percentage of fat people back in the 1940s. There weren't.

Becoming more sedentary probably has a lot to do with it, and I'm betting that certain food additives play their part, too. Our modern society has changed our lifestyles and put things into our food that don't belong there, but it has NOT changed our appetites.

[jpgray]

9. You could lose weight eating almost anything

It will always be a matter of calories taken in vs. calories burned. But losing weight on -any- McDonald's fare wouldn't be as healthy as losing weight while eating healthier food (i.e. fewer empty carbohydrates and animal fats).