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**chuecaloversvvp** · 09-01-2012, 12:47 PM

It's not entirely McD's fault, some people just don't know when they had enough, and eat too much junkfood. THEN they try and blame it on McD...

I agree in general with that...
As far as i see it, eating healthy is just common sense a lot of the time. People eat for a variety of reasons other than just physically needing food to fuel their bodies, if they cannot control their eating habits they shouldn't blame the supplier but rather face up to what they have done and seek medical help instead of the lawyer.

Then again, McD does target a huge amount of its advertising at children over here in England, who really don't know any better and often emotionally bully/blackmail their parents to get want they want- i saw a kid having a tantrum the other day in front of McD's because his parents didn't want to let him go inside and get one of those "happy meals".
Given that over here McD's has been selling vegetables and fruit with its meals, it still sells and aweful lot of crap for the public to eat none the less.

Overall, i think McD's should be allowed to go the way it is currently going. IMHO, people should just be educated better about this kind of stuff. More options made available to them, like other cheap places to go and eat healthier stuff.
When i used to go to school many years ago, one of the subjects i did that has probably been the most useful in my life so far was "Home Economics" (there's a variety of names given to this subject though), it basically taught you what goes into your food, how to avoid malnutrition, what things do to you and are made of, how to cook for yourself, RDA requirements, keeping healthy etc etc...It was a great and useful subject to learn, but was an optional one that you only had to choose to do and wasn't made to do- in this day and age, i think such subjects should be mandatory in schools especially with the rocketing health problems around the world like obesity. What do you think?

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chuecaloversvvp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	It's not entirely McD's fault, some people just don't know when they had enough, and eat too much junkfood. THEN they try and blame it on McD... I agree in general with that... As far as i see it, eating healthy is just common sense a lot of the time. People eat for a variety of reasons other than just physically needing food to fuel their bodies, if they cannot control their eating habits they shouldn't blame the supplier but rather face up to what they have done and seek medical help instead of the lawyer. Then again, McD does target a huge amount of its advertising at children over here in England, who really don't know any better and often emotionally bully/blackmail their parents to get want they want- i saw a kid having a tantrum the other day in front of McD's because his parents didn't want to let him go inside and get one of those "happy meals". Given that over here McD's has been selling vegetables and fruit with its meals, it still sells and aweful lot of crap for the public to eat none the less. Overall, i think McD's should be allowed to go the way it is currently going. IMHO, people should just be educated better about this kind of stuff. More options made available to them, like other cheap places to go and eat healthier stuff. When i used to go to school many years ago, one of the subjects i did that has probably been the most useful in my life so far was "Home Economics" (there's a variety of names given to this subject though), it basically taught you what goes into your food, how to avoid malnutrition, what things do to you and are made of, how to cook for yourself, RDA requirements, keeping healthy etc etc...It was a great and useful subject to learn, but was an optional one that you only had to choose to do and wasn't made to do- in this day and age, i think such subjects should be mandatory in schools especially with the rocketing health problems around the world like obesity. What do you think?
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