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- 1. You say that McDonalds is healthy as long it is eaten within a healthy balanced diet. Doesn't McDonalds incorporate enough variety to provide a healthy balanced diet?
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Firstly, many apologies for the very slow response to your question, as the site went through a few changes, some questions had slipped through the net, so thank you for your patience. McDonald's serves a variety of items that could contribute to a balanced diet. For example, the Fruit Bags, Garden Side Salad and Carrot Sticks contribute as 1 of your 5-a-day fruit and vegetable portions. Any of McDonald’s Premium Salads count as 2 portions. The Toasted Deli Sandwiches can contain as little as 7g of fat. However, McDonald's agrees with nutritionists in that it is important to remember variation, moderation, as well as the importance of regular physical activity, when reviewing your diet and lifestyle.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 2. what would you say you are doing to im prove the healthy ness levels of the food to make it better
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A good diet is a matter of variation, moderation and balance and should be combined with physical activity. McDonald’s aim is to listen to customers and ensures that it offers the right level of choice and variety of menu items to fit into a balanced diet. That’s why over the last few years, McDonald’s has introduced salads and fruit on to the menu, reduced trans fats and salt levels in the food and added nutritional labelling on all packaging, for example.
JULY '07 UPDATE: McDonald's UK now uses a new non-hydrogenated, GM free cooking oil. This reduces the levels of Trans Fatty Acids (TFAs) to their lowest possible levels - less than two percent (naturally occurring TFAs make it impossible to reach zero percent). The oil (a blend of sunflower and rapeseed) has been carefully developed to ensure it does not raise saturated fat content, or change the taste.
FEBRUARY '08 UPDATE: McDonald’s UK now do not use any hydrogenated oil in any food items across the entire menu
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 3. Why don't you use the words 'calories, fat, sat fat, sugar and salt' on your on-pack GDA nutrition labelling?
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The symbols used by McDonald's were designed to make it quick and easy for customers to reference the nutritional information that they required. The key to the symbols is available on the leaflet in restaurants and again on the mcdonaldsmenu.info website.
(December 2007)
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 4. Why don't you put nutrition information for meals on the receipt or bag so people can see the TOTAL calorie/energy/fat intake of their meal? I doubt many people just buy one item in McDonalds and it's difficult enough to keep track of your calorie intake all day without having to add them all up manually.
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This is mainly due to a matter of space. Most of McDonald's bags currently do not have enough surface area in order to provide competent nutritional information on its food item. However, McDonald's has been working very hard to improve and increase its nutritional information. It’s now available on the reverse of all tray liners in restaurants, most packaging and online at www.mcdonaldsmenu.info and www.mcdonalds.co.uk.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 5. Why don't you have a "healthy action" scheme for adults as well as children
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McDonald's has a wide range of choice on the menu, all of which can fit into a balanced adult diet. These include – for example, the Salads Plus range and the toasted Deli Sandwiches (two of these contain less than three percent fat). McDonald's includes these options in promotions such as Monopoly and Free Coke Glasses, so there is every opportunity for adult customers to purchase them. McDonald's also provides a wide range of nutritional information to help customers make choices that are right for them.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 6. are you ever going to include brown breads for your burgers and more healthier desserts such as more fruity choices?
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There is a brown roll option for the Toasted Deli Sandwich, but McDonald’s have no plans for wholemeal burger buns. The desserts currently include the Fruit Bag and Wobble-icious Fruit Jelly. McDonald’s is constantly reviewing its menu options, and if you would like to mention this please contact Customer Services via the ‘Contact Us’ section at www.mcdonalds.co.uk
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 7. how come mc donalds never fills you up
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Everyone has a different digestion rate and food requirements which can affect how hungry they may feel and how much they need to eat to feel full. McDonald's food uses ingredients like you can buy in the supermarket or use at home. Eating a McDonald's burger shouldn't make you feel any more or less full than if you ate another burger of a similar size.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 8. do you think its morally right to sell people food that will make them unhealthy. regardless of the frequency at which they consume, whether it be once a month or thirty times a month?
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McDonald's sells nothing that should make a normal, healthy person ill or feel sick in any way. All ingredients used in the food are similar to those that you would buy at the supermarket or use at home. Nutritionists say that no food should be regarded as ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’. It is a matter of variation, moderation and balance.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 9. is any of your popular food truly healthy when eaten by todays inactive youth who it seems to be aimed at?
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Nutritionists say that individual food items are not ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’. It's a matter of variation, moderation, balance and physical activity in your overall diet that counts. McDonald's does not comment on other companies. However, nutritional information can be found on the back of tray liners in McDonald's restaurants and online at www.mcdonaldsmenu.info.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 10. why do you not care about peoples health, only profits? you cant really say you are concerned about peoples health, can you?
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McDonald's profits are the result of providing customers with a good experience. McDonald's believes the food offered is of good quality and can easily be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 11. Why are your burgers not filling? The majority of McDonald's foods makes me, and most people I speak to, hungry after about an hour you would think with the amount of calories in burgers that it would stay with you for a while!!!
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Everyone has a different digestion rate and food requirements which can affect how hungry they may feel and how much they need to eat to feel full. McDonald's food uses ingredients like you can buy in the supermarket or use at home. Eating a McDonald's burger shouldn't make you feel any more or less full than if you ate another burger of a similar size.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 12. if you ate mcdonalds eveyday could you die
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McDonald's regards diet as an individual choice overall. The company also believes that its food is of good quality, and can easily be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 13. As you know, barpersons and beverage staff aren't permitted to sell alcohol to patrons exhibiting signs of intoxication beyond coherence and ability to make uninhibited decisions. Many scientific studies have shown, with evidence, that 'fast foods' are extremely unhealthy, and should rarely be consumed, if at all. With obesity increasing, is there a protocol in place to deny service to those appearing dangerously/morbidly obese? If not, why?
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Thanks for your very interesting question. Rising public and government concerns over dietary education and obesity is obviously a serious and complex debate and one that McDonald's takes very seriously. The company objective is to ensure that its customers are offered a choice of foods with full nutritional information so that individuals can make the decision themselves, or on behalf of their children, on what they eat as part of a healthy and balanced lifestyle. It is not the company's role to dictate what people should or shouldn't eat. (June 2007)
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 14. Although McDonald's has previously stated that your food preference is an individual choice and your menu can be enjoyed as part of a healthy diet and balanced lifestyle, does McDonald's consider its menu balanced enough that a typical person could subsist entirely on variations of the menu alone?
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No, McDonald’s agrees that eating too much of the same food and doing too little exercise is not good for you. The company recognises that a good diet is a matter of variation, moderation and balance and should be combined with physical activity. You might be interested to know that McDonald’s customers eat at McDonald’s restaurants two or three times a month, which means they get 97 percent of their nutrition elsewhere.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 15. What do you do to encourage people to refrain from eating unhealthy food, and eat healthily
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McDonald’s works hard to promote the benefits of having a balanced and healthy diet and an active lifestyle. However it is not for McDonald’s to tell people what to eat. The menu is constantly reviewed so that it gives its customers as many options as possible. Along with this, a full nutritional break down of all the products on the menu is available on the tray liners in store, and in the ‘Eat Smart’ section of the www.mcdonalds.co.uk website.
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