Thoughts and things from the mind of Ronald McDonald
From the SuperSizeMe Board
Published on February 1, 2005 By RonaldMcDonald In Business
BAN McDonald's in Schools JoeMaggard Feb 01, 12:34 PM [ Reply ]
What's my take on all of this? Sadly, most people will eat whatever is available. So if you make unhealthy foods available, that's what they're going to eat, and if those foods cause cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and other health disorders, then that's what you're going to see in the population. It's no coincidence that the U.S. population is currently suffering from skyrocketing rates of all these chronic diseases. The solution, therefore, is to have new options available for people.

Let's face it: We shouldn't have U.S. hospitals stocking foods that destroy cardiovascular health. The whole idea is ridiculous. But it is equally ridiculous that we have McDonald's and other fast food restaurants in our public schools. Why are we feeding our schoolchildren junk food that's promoting chronic disease and impairing their ability to learn... and then turning around and complaining about the plummeting quality of education across our country? It's the food, stupid! And if you don't understand that point, it's probably because you had lunch at a fast food restaurant today and your brain isn't functioning too well.

I say we ban fast food restaurants in hospitals and public schools across the nation. No hospital and no public school with any degree of ethics should support the financial success of food and beverage companies that serve disease-promoting products. This behavior has gone on for far too long. Hospitals have sold out to fast food restaurants in order to make a buck on a lease. They have, in a sense, exploited the health of their patients in order to earn some extra money. And then those very same hospitals and clinics turn around and charge patients a couple of hundred thousand dollars to perform cardiovascular surgery that was caused by the very same type of foods those patients ate in the lobbies of those clinics in the first place.

Everybody else who has any remaining cognitive ability would agree with Toby Cosgrove on this. The man is right, he deserves credit for his courage in standing up against McDonald's, and I hope he is victorious in evicting the restaurant from the clinic.

Let it be the first of many such evictions. It's time to boot fast food restaurants and soft drink companies from all our institutions of learning and health.

from Newstarget.com


Comments
on Feb 01, 2005
I've always wondered about the logic of fast food offered at schools. However I remember eating in school cafeterias where they plunged the ladle through a couple of inches of grease to get to the "Thursday Surprise" lurking somewhere underneath. If the government food isn't going to be any better, then what's the difference?

Also, since most of what we eat or drink has been connected to cancer, with what would you suggest we replace it? We can't eat spinach and tofu every day.
on Feb 01, 2005

Para,

Nor would we WANT to eat tofu every day. Read about the impact of phytoestrogens in the diet when soy is used as a significant portion of one's diets.

So that leaves us with....lentils and barley! And Gid shall lead the lentil revolution!

on Feb 01, 2005
So that leaves us with....lentils and barley! And Gid shall lead the lentil revolution!


I gave them up for Lentil!!! ;~D
on Feb 01, 2005
Thanks for replying to my post guys, I appreciate your input. Ronald