EU Banning Ronald McDonald?

[Lilyofthevalley]

Why didn’t you address gastric bypass surgery?
It’s clear these folks WANT to not eat in excess but they do. Why do you think they have to face a potentially life threatening surgery to stop?
Deliberate? Not really.
I am sure there are fat people in countries where condoms or abortions aren’t available so your analogy is pretty silly.

 

[Cat]

It’s been years and years since the Ronald McDonald campaign was used in the U.S. I miss it. It was sweet and innocent.

Yes, the clown still appears in some McDonald’s products, but usually what’s on the outside of Happy Meals is pictures of athletic children, gymnasts and soccer players and basketball players.

Funny, since they stopped using the Ronald McDonald campaign and started using the athletes, obesity among children and adolescents is at a higher rate than ever in the U.S.

Is there a connection? Perhaps when kids see the funny-looking clown and the blobby Grimace, they associate the food with looking like that, and are more willing to stop eating. BUT when they see the athletes, they associate the food with athleticism, and ask for a second quarter pounder.

It also doesn’t help that McDonald’s got rid of the indoor playgrounds due to fear of lawsuits. A kid used to be able to exercise off their Happy Meal with an hour of playground activity while mom or dad read the paper sitting on one of those little mushroom stools!

MY two daughters grew up eating at McDonald’s or some other fast food place at least FIVE evenings a week. I am not exaggerating. I am a wretched cook who manages to ruin pretty much everything I try to make, and I don’t even like to eat my own cooking. It makes me throw up. (I’m 47, BTW.) So we go out for almost every meal.

My daughters are both thin, one almost too thin. They both have low cholesterol, low blood sugar, low blood pressure, etc. Of course, they are both competitive figure skaters. That helps a lot.

The secret is not eating the Double Quarter Pounder, but instead, eating the four piece Chix Nugget meal an splitting the child’s size fries, and drinking water instead of soda.

And letting them play for an hour after they eat on that Ronald McDonald playground. That’s the other secret, activity. Back when I lived on the farm and did farm chores, I could shovel in 5000 calories a day of high fat food and still stay thin. My dad still does. A clown is certainly active, positively hyper! Perhaps they ought to reconsider banning the Ronald and ban the athletes instead.

 

[Wolseley]

Memo to the European Parliament:

There’s a new invention out now to help curb the amount of junk food consumed by children.

It’s called “parents”.

Outlawing junk food advertising because children are getting fat is sort of like shooting yourself in the foot and then suing Smith & Wesson.

 

[Shoshana]

Wolseley:

Memo to the European Parliament:

There’s a new invention out now to help curb the amount of junk food consumed by children.

It’s called “parents”.

Outlawing junk food advertising because children are getting fat is sort of like shooting yourself in the foot and then suing Smith & Wesson.

Or putting a hot cup of coffee between your legs while driving…spilling it…then suing Tim Horton’s!..go figure…:crying:

I see Bones will not address me…and yet I have said nothing different than the rest…go figure…:crying:

Bones, sin only leads to other sins of the same nature. When fantasy become a problem…when lust becomes a problem…when one views pornography all the times…which could lead to personal abuse…which could lead to fornication…which could lead to adultery…which could lead to abortion…which could lead to same sex…I think you get the picture.

Lust does not necessarily lead to gluttony or vice versa. One is not necessarily connected to the other, etc, etc even if they may overlap one another at times…

One person’s struggle in life (lust for example) is not the struggle your neighbour will have. St Augustine, for example…

Blessings,
Shoshana

 

[Fitz]

Shoshana:

I see Bones will not address me…and yet I have said nothing different than the rest…go figure…:crying:

Blessings,
Shoshana

I think I misunderstood Bones, and I apologize. However, Bones if you are reading this your logic escapes all of us. Shoshana, don’t feel left out. Perhaps I should be left out more, then my posts would be more charitable.

OK, one more point on the McDonald’s thing. I think it is backlash. I don’t think it will accomplish what they are saying it will. I am behind the “children need to go out and play more” theories.

 

[Lilyofthevalley]

It also doesn’t help that McDonald’s got rid of the indoor playgrounds due to fear of lawsuits. A kid used to be able to exercise off their Happy Meal with an hour of playground activity while mom or dad read the paper sitting on one of those little mushroom stools!

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Heck, those indoor playgrounds are a sanity saver for mom’s of preschoolers, and kids during vacation. They still have them in CT and one a tiny one where I live.
I still insist it’s lack of exercise NOT fast food that is causing the fat child problem.
Also, when my children and I do make the mistake and eat at McDonalds we get the SMALL happy meals. There is no need to “super size” ANYTHING execpt water.