Supersize it

[RightF00T]

Mmm..gotta love Checkers.

[gofaster]

Local paper was running a story about people trying to lose weight, the Adkins and South Beach diets, and fast food.  Blimpy and Subway were shone in a positive light, while BK and McD's were the dens of evil trying to change their image.

Buried in the story was this interesting tidbit:

In Florida, concern about how rising obesity rates might devour the state's health care budgets prompted Gov. Jeb Bush to appoint a Task Force on the Obesity Epidemic. The panel's conclusions are to be delivered to state legislative leaders next month. Bills have been filed that could affect school lunches, nutrition and physical education.

Currently, most Florida schools have meals prepared by fast food companies as special offerings.  Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and Burger King are examples.  It will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

[Frogm4n]

They wont change the school lunches. They like to farm stuff out to corporations, and it never works out well. They care about profits not the well being of the children.

Its like my school, University of South Florida. They give control of the on campus book store to barnes and noble this year. Teachers put in orders for books, and barnes and noble dosnt fufill all the orders. Their mentality is that the classes might not all be full, so if a teachers says they need 50 books , they order 30. And if more are needed they will order them. Well its a good business move(less left over books sitting on the shelves), but its bad for the students. 3 out of 4 of my classes i will have to wait till sometime next month for the rest of my books.
There are some things that should just be left to the public sector. Sure the book store had alot of leftover books in past semesters, but the students were always able to have books in time for class.

[FUNKED1]

Yeah I think the government should decide what we eat.  We are just too stupid to make decisions for ourselves.

[Pongo]

Shows how hard being married to a vegan is on your constitution. That guy would survive like a week in the wild.

[narsus]

McDonalds definately causes problems with me, especially the fries, stomach turns to knots usually.

[Frogm4n]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
Yeah I think the government should decide what we eat.  We are just too stupid to make decisions for ourselves.

The government should never decide what we eat. If people want to be idots and eat at fastfood, by all means let them.

The issue is that in alot of schools the kids dont have any options but fast food.

[maslo]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
I havent been to a burger joint in over a month, been eating Japanese food,  and then yesterday I went to mcdonadls and had a bigmac. I felt sick, nasty stuff.

i trough, that my stomach is having problem with sutch things, because of my age....
but it seems to be an international issue

i didnt visit MC for 4 years now, execpt one on malta and it was same crap may be even worster that we have here...

i have no balls to call that *food*

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by Frogm4n
The issue is that in alot of schools the kids dont have any options but fast food.

Then we should end socialized education.  

[vorticon]

my schools cafeteria makes poutine...wich in the end cant be much better for ya than mcdonalds...

[straffo]

I'm surprised none spotted the obvious conspiration.
I'll give you a hint: french fries.



I've myself nothing against fast food (how strange is it for a frog ) it's just that it should not be anything than an occasionnal temptation.

Once or two a month won't kill you if you have a normal nutrition

One of the more surprising think I've heard of is the difference of size between an US and a French portion.





Vort. I think the poutine is a less than subtil attempt of crime againt cooking

changing mind while typing lead to strange sentences

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Man, what a bunch of rutabagas. "Oh no, not fatht food. My tummy sthimply can't take it."
-SW

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Frogm4n
Its like my school, University of South Florida. They give control of the on campus book store to barnes and noble this year. Teachers put in orders for books, and barnes and noble dosnt fufill all the orders. Their mentality is that the classes might not all be full, so if a teachers says they need 50 books , they order 30. And if more are needed they will order them. Well its a good business move(less left over books sitting on the shelves), but its bad for the students. 3 out of 4 of my classes i will have to wait till sometime next month for the rest of my books.

My wife is finishing her MIS degree at USF this semester and this is the first time the book buying has been a complete clusterchunk.  She likes to get her books early so she can read ahead and be prepared for first day of class, but this year she was extremely frustrated because the books for her class didn't arrive until the 2nd week of class.  We made 2 trips to the main bookstore and 2 trips to the St. Pete campus (she's taking 2 classes, 1 at each campus), and each time they said on the phone that the inventory showed the textbooks had come in, but by the time we got there the shelves were bare.  

I guess all the student griping about the high cost of textbooks has come back to bite the next generation.

[lazs2]

I eat pretty much whatever I want.   I don't think anyone would call me 'fat".   I have never had heartburn or even a stomach ache except for when I got my gut split open in a car wreck and food poisoning twice.

everything in moderation.   I don't eat out a lot tho... had to inspect to many kitchens I guess.

lazs

[Vulcan]

And his girlfriend, a vegan chef? "She was completely disgusted by me," he said.

OK, so we don't know the whole story. But it sounds to me like he might have been on a majorly different diet before doing the McD's thing. Hardly scientific is it.

I know McD's isn't the healthiest stuff around but what this guy describes (vomiting after a few days of eating it) sounds like pure melodrama from a bunch of left wing tree hugging vego's.

I'm sure if you took me OFF my fast food diet and put me on that rabbit food I'd be vomiting, getting the shakes and nausea after a few days too.