More McDonald’s Misinformation
Before all you Ron McDirty fans out there start shouting from the rooftops about the high school science teacher who lost 37 pounds in three months eating only McDonald’s, here are a few things to keep in mind. He limited hi
Continue Reading | Add CommentChicken McNuthin’
What’s in your chicken nugget? If you believe this new study in the American Journal of Medicine, you’re feasting on skin, bone, cartilage, guts, and fat–and not much meat. The researchers took samples from two
Continue Reading | Add CommentToday’s McDonald’s/Starbuck’s rant. It’s a twofer!
Starting today, McDonald’s plans to put nutrition facts on their menus. My response? BFD. As I noted on my Facebook page, remember when Big Tobacco put warnings on cigarette packs? Did it do jack to stop morons from smoking?
Continue Reading | Add CommentThe Big Meat Glue Ballyhoo
Last week, I posted a snide, little comment on the Real Fitness Nerd Facebook page slamming a recent call for transparency regarding transglutaminase, a “meat glue”used to stick smaller pieces of meat together. It̵
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Today, I’m looking to the Nerd Herd for writerly inspiration: I noticed that McDonalds has stopped using the “ammonium hydroxide and fatty beef offcuts” in their burgers: Is it true that they’ve cut out tha
Continue Reading | Add CommentWhen Kids Eat Crap!
If you have at least half a brain in your head, you’re probably not surprised by the news out of England that a teenage girl who has lived for most of her life on McDonald’s chicken nuggets and freedom fries ended up i
Continue Reading | Add CommentIn McDefense of McRib
Fellow Fitness Nerd Steve Edwards has been having a party over at his Straight Dope blog featuring something he likes to call “National People Behaving Badly Week.” I told him I’d plug it today, although frankly,
Continue Reading | Add CommentHappy Meals: The Key to Immortality?
From the “I wish I would have thought of this first” department, writer Joann Bruso decided to see what would happen if she bought a Happy Meal and let it sit on her office shelf for a year. Here’s how it turned
Continue Reading | Add CommentChicken McThrowdown!
Okay, I know I should probably write about this new study showing that abdominal fat increases mortality rates, but as I look it over, two words come to mind: BORING! Hey, scientist guys, we get it, okay? It’s bad to have a
Continue Reading | Add CommentHappy Saint Fatrick’s Day!
OMG! I love that headline! Sometimes, I rule! Anyway, I hope you’re all getting your Irish on, but before you get too jiggy with it, I thought I might share the nutrition facts for a small Shamrock Shake from McDonald’
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