CNBC , Katie Little, News Associate, 23 Dec 2013
CNBC's
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Bob Pisani share their opinions
on posts on McDonald's employee website which "bashes" fast food.
Oops, it
happened again.
McDonald's
employee resources website is giving out even more odd advice for workers. This
time, it's about the industry it helped make ubiquitous—fast food.
"Fast
foods are quick, reasonably priced, and readily available alternatives to home
cooking. While convenient and economical for a busy lifestyle, fast foods are
typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt and may put
people at risk for becoming overweight," reads one post on the site, which
includes a picture of a hamburger and fries, two items that the fast-food giant
specializes in selling.
Another
post labels a meal with a cheeseburger and fries as the "unhealthy
choice" and one with a submarine sandwich and salad as the "healthier
choice," noting that it's more of a challenge to eat healthy when visiting
a fast-food place.
A separate
post writes "it is hard to eat a healthy diet when you eat at fast-food
restaurants often," adding that large portions make it easy to overeat.
The site
also advises people to limit how many fries they eat.
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"In
general, people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease must be
very careful about choosing fast food because of its high fat, salt, and sugar
levels," the post said, adding that items from fast-food places are
"almost always high" in calories, fat, sugar and salt.
The posts
appear to be content provided by a third-party vendor.
McDonald's
defended the posting in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
"Portions
of this website continue to be taken entirelyout of context," McDonald's
statement said. "This website provides useful information from respected
third-parties about many topics, among them health and wellness. It also
includes information from experts about healthy eating and making balanced
choices. McDonald's agrees with this advice."
The company
also noted that it has added healthier menu options in recent years, including
"oatmeal, grilled chicken, egg whites and real-fruit smoothies."
It was the
latest in a series of gaffes involving the site.
Last month,
the company detailed tipping advice for workers, many of whom make around
minimum wage. It listed pricey suggestions for tipping au pairs, personal
fitness trainers and pool cleaners from etiquette maven Emily Post—advice it
removed after a CNBC inquiry. McDonald's told CNBC the post was third-party
material and said it would "continue to review the resource and will ask
the vendor to make changes as needed."
Although
the McResource Line is nominally a site for employees, it is accessible via a
registration process that does not actually verify employee credentials,
meaning anyone can register for it by providing a username and email address
and selecting a McDonald's region.
This advice
is available on McDonald's site at a time when the fast-food giant has been
working hard to distance itself from fast-food's reputation as bad for you,
adding more fruits and vegetables and fat-free chocolate milk.
At its annual
shareholder meeting in late May, McDonald's CEO Don Thompson defended his
company's food, saying, "We don't sell junk food."
McDonald's
also saw backlash after it advised employees to get out of holiday debt by
returning unopened purchases and after it published a budget guide that
included no money for heat and $20 a month for health care.
—By CNBC's
Katie Little. Follow her on Twitter @KatieLittle
Answer: For thousands of years, these foods have worked for humanity. In these cases you speak about, the main culprit continues to be the way in which these foods are collected and processed. You won't find these allergies in third-world countries, and you won't find them within the children who work on farms, where they eat the foods directly. There will eventually have to come a day when you relax some of your efficiency attributes and go back to the way food was meant to be collected and eaten. And yes... there are effects from how the dairy animals are treated, too. Going back to some basics will help, and so will eliminating some of the procedures that supposedly create a "safer food." These procedures have instead made them begin to look like foreign food to the Human body.
(15) Question: Dear Kryon, please help us understand the increase of allergies. What can we do to heal this phenomenon?
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Kryon Q&A
(39) Question: Dear Kryon: I've noticed how many children are developing severe allergies to foods (my daughter included). When I've researched this, it seems that most of the allergies are essentially to seeds, grains, legumes, eggs, and dairy. I've noticed that these foods all hold the potential for life, or in the case of dairy, are essentially used to sustain the first stages of life in an animal's baby. My feeling is that because we're not releasing the life force within these foods (that is, sprouting, etc.), they're becoming harmful to us. I would like your impressions of this.
(39) Question: Dear Kryon: I've noticed how many children are developing severe allergies to foods (my daughter included). When I've researched this, it seems that most of the allergies are essentially to seeds, grains, legumes, eggs, and dairy. I've noticed that these foods all hold the potential for life, or in the case of dairy, are essentially used to sustain the first stages of life in an animal's baby. My feeling is that because we're not releasing the life force within these foods (that is, sprouting, etc.), they're becoming harmful to us. I would like your impressions of this.
Answer: For thousands of years, these foods have worked for humanity. In these cases you speak about, the main culprit continues to be the way in which these foods are collected and processed. You won't find these allergies in third-world countries, and you won't find them within the children who work on farms, where they eat the foods directly. There will eventually have to come a day when you relax some of your efficiency attributes and go back to the way food was meant to be collected and eaten. And yes... there are effects from how the dairy animals are treated, too. Going back to some basics will help, and so will eliminating some of the procedures that supposedly create a "safer food." These procedures have instead made them begin to look like foreign food to the Human body.
(15) Question: Dear Kryon, please help us understand the increase of allergies. What can we do to heal this phenomenon?
Answer: Reduce the steps in your food chain, which are adding chemistry to fresh food.
(13) Question: Dear Kryon, I’m very concerned about the obesity epidemic, particularly in the U.S. Around me I see people getting bigger and more unhealthy, all for the sake of convenience and saving time. You mentioned at one point a famine, and I suspect the famine won’t be from a lack of food, but from an abundance of food that has no nutritional value.
(13) Question: Dear Kryon, I’m very concerned about the obesity epidemic, particularly in the U.S. Around me I see people getting bigger and more unhealthy, all for the sake of convenience and saving time. You mentioned at one point a famine, and I suspect the famine won’t be from a lack of food, but from an abundance of food that has no nutritional value.
I wonder how we can honor the Earth by eating nothing that comes straight from it? Of course this involves caring for the lands and oceans as part of a bigger issue and making that connection, too. Is this what it will finally take for people to switch to a healthier way of living?
Its amazing how detached people are from the food they eat. We don’t even honor our digestive processes, the way we combine foods. Whatever happened to nutrition? Atkins is no solution; there is no balance in it. Gastric bypass is all about quantity reduction, not quality increase. When will people make the direct connection between what/how they eat and their health? Is a change in diet and lifestyle part of the upcoming shift?
Answer: The shift has little to do with it. It’s a culture-specific problem and has to do with consciousness of health. Go study the cultures on your planet that have very few overweight Humans. Start with the Japanese. They have some of the same western work ethics and live in very sophisticated industrial-based environments. Yet they aren’t overweight. It’s about the core food groups and the combination of them.
Answer: The shift has little to do with it. It’s a culture-specific problem and has to do with consciousness of health. Go study the cultures on your planet that have very few overweight Humans. Start with the Japanese. They have some of the same western work ethics and live in very sophisticated industrial-based environments. Yet they aren’t overweight. It’s about the core food groups and the combination of them.
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