MetaFilter posts tagged with mcdonalds and health

mcdonalds supersizeme

stbalbach — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:00:30 -0800

His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health. "It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart". Spurlock charted his journey from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek documentary which he has taken to the Sundance Film Festival.

Go, obesity!

valerie — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:13:14 -0800

McDonald's launches global campaign featuring Justin Timberlake in an attempt to target kids and teens. Forget the "Smile" campaign, it's "I'm lovin' it" now. (NYT account required)

fold_and_mutilate — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:44:38 -0800

McDonald's meat from antibiotics-injected livestock is now the primary source of antibiotics for U.S. children, particularly for uninsured youths from low-income households. "Unfortunately, some children still fall through the cracks in our health-care system, but luckily, McDonald's is there to lend a helping hand," Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said at a press conference announcing the findings. "So even if a child's family has no health insurance and can't afford medicine, virtually anyone can afford a delicious 99-cent Big Mac with pickles, cheese, and a heapin' helpin' of [the antibiotic] quinupristin-dalfopristin."

Wherein the bastards of the bactericidal, bloody, beef business bear badinage. Fillets (boneless strips of meat specially cut for roasting), anyone?

aj100 — Thu, 08 Nov 2001 08:03:52 -0800

That is McGross Man eats 18,000 Big Macs.

plinth — Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:08:04 -0800

Worried about nutrition? Then you should be very scared if you eat at:

Even Subway which sells its food as healthy (low fat) contains more sodium than canned soup.