Obesity Suit Dogs who... ??? JoeMaggard Jan 25, 06:36 PM [ Reply ] Court reinstates part of suit accusing the company of tricking kids into eating fattening foods. January 25, 2005: 7:07 PM EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court Tuesday revived part of the widely-watched obesity suit against ???????? Corp. that accuses the world's biggest fast-food company of using misleading advertising to lure children into eating fattening, unhealthy foods. The U.S. Second Circuit C...

Health Care: Can We "Take it Back" in 2005?... Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Sunday, January 2nd, 2005 The United States Health Care system, called "Western Medicine," is broken beyond repair. It is so deadly, expensive, corrupt, inefficient, and riddled with "special interest" that there is, absolutely no starting point to use to begin to set it right. The government agencies WE THINK we put in place to monitor our health system have been completely corrupted by thos...

I'm Free Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free, I'm following the path God laid for me. I took His hand when I heard Him call, I turned my back and left it all. I could not stay another day, To laugh, to love, to work or play. Tasks left undone must stay that way, I found that place at the close of day. If my passing has left a void, Then fill it with remembered joy. A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, Ah yes, these things, I too will miss. Be not burdened with t...

Rest in Peace Charlie Bell JoeMaggard Jan 16, 11:55 PM [ Reply ] Today, in Australia former McDonald's CEO Charlie Bell died of cancer at 44. A scrappy kid from the suburbs of Sydney who started as a fry cook and rose to CEO of the Company, Charlie Bell was well known for his quick wit and that Aussie sense of humor. My issues with the McDonald's Corporation are well known, but to the many hardworking folks who are simply trying to make a living working there, I'm very sorry about the loss ...

Needles in McDonald's meal, woman claims Files a lawsuit; says hospital removed 3 she swallowed Friday, January 14, 2005 By Michaelangelo Conte Journal staff writer WEST NEW YORK - A North Bergen woman has filed a lawsuit against McDonald's, claiming she swallowed three inch-long needles while eating a Crispy Chicken Sandwich at a Bergenline Avenue restaurant. Beatriz Bermeo spent three days at Palisades Medical Center, where the three needles were surgically removed from her dige...

More McMadCow? You bet! JoeMaggard Jan 11, 12:38 PM [ Reply ] Canada finds new case of mad cow disease-source 11 Jan 2005 17:40:46 GMT Source: Reuters By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Canadian veterinary officials will announce they have found a new case of mad cow disease in a briefing slated for 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), an agricultural source told Reuters on Tuesday. "The case is confirmed. They have the results of the 'gold standard' test," the source told Re...

McDonald's Dirty McTactics!!!! JoeMaggard Jan 06, 10:55 AM [ Reply ] Ok, here's the deal...McDonald's is being evicted from the Cleveland Heart Center by Heart Surgeon Toby Cosgrove, so McDonald's calls him a racist. For simply having the common sense to want to set a healthy example for the patients, McDonald's has seen fit to drag a gifted Surgeon thru the dirt. Calling people ugly vile names is the way McDonald's operates folks, it's the way they do business! I'm just glad the whole wo...

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the par...

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the par...

Obesity rises among preschoolers Friday, December 31, 2004 Jamie Stengle Associated Press Dallas - More than 10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported Thursday. That is up from 7 percent in 1994, according to the heart association's annual statistical report on heart disease and stroke. The 10 percent number comes from 2002, the most recent year for which figures are available, and the situation is probably even worse now, said...

Editorial Hospital has right to seek healthy food Dec 29, 2004 A food fight has broken out at a hospital that is noted for its heart care. The director of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, heart surgeon Toby Cosgrove, wants some fast food purveyors to get out of his large urban facility. He has successfully convinced Pizza Hut to abandon its restaurant location, but McDonald's is standing firm on its intention to stay for the remaining 10 years of its lease. Cosgrove says he isn't tr...

Darwin at Work DrS Dec 27, 01:43 AM [ Reply ] Maybe the intelligent beings on this planet will recognize fast food for the adversive and destructive product that it is, and will obstain from eating it...while the ignorant feast, fatten, and perish. Seems like Darwin's theory hard at work to me. I wouldn't have a problem with it, if it weren't for the fact that my tax dollars will be used in part to provide health care to keep the McDieters alive. I know it sounds cold, but the ignorant wi...

McDonald's says Surgeon Racist JoeMaggard Dec 21, 08:48 PM [ Reply ] Wanna know how low McDonald's will stoop in an effort to discredit an innocent person they find threatening...UNBELIEVABLE! McDonald's has the nerve to accuse a Doctor who saves lives daily of being a racist! Hell hath no fury like a corporation scorned The head of the Cleveland Clinic, heart surgeon Toby Cosgrove, has criticized the presence of a McDonald's in the lobby of the hospital renowned for its cardiac car...

McDonald's digs in to hold spot at Clinic Monday, November 22, 2004 Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove wants to rid the nation's premier heart hospital of its McDonald's franchise - purveyor of artery clogging burgers and fries. But McDonald's, which contends it now offers lots of healthy choices and will work with the Clinic to tweak its menu, isn't "lovin' it." McDonald's corporate veep Marty Ranft defended the franchise, and vowed in a letter to Cosgrove that "McDonald's...

Hospital targets the Big Mac Restaurant chain in battle with Cleveland Clinic By Ceci Connolly Updated: 7:53 p.m. ET Dec. 15, 2004CLEVELAND - The Pizza Hut is shuttered, its neon sign collecting dust on the floor. But knocking down the Golden Arches has proved far more difficult for Toby Cosgrove, the new head of the Cleveland Clinic. A heart surgeon who has cleaned out a career's worth of clogged arteries, Cosgrove didn't think Big Macs, supersize fries and inch-thick, six-cheese p...