I just couldn't keep my mouth shut, why is McD's the ruination of America?

It just goes along with all the other fast food places in this country, since nobody ever seems to have the time to cook a decent meal for themselves anymore, so they all go for the quick meal all the time, and get really fucking fat, and then there kids see that, and they do the same, and so on. No wonder this country keeps getting fatter, and I love how people say the only person you can blame for you being fat is yourselves. But thats not true, because even the stuff out there for you that is claimed to be "healthy" for you is just as big of a scam as the next.

There are so many better places to get fat than at mcdonalds.

...and how is this related to license plates?

Then why not "Fastfood, the ruination of America."

I have to disagree with you about it being everyones fault BUT my own, I am fat, it is my fault. If I CHOSE to eat healthier and excercise more, I wouldn't be so fat, but I don't so I am.... No ones fault but my own.

What are some of the said "scams" out there?

Welcome to seek, are you new hear?

I'm not going to even begin to explain to you some of the scams out there, someday when you feel the need to lose weight you will learn them on your own, or you will get fatter while trying to diet. There is a reason why the majority of this country is obese, its because diets make people fatter.

McDonalds is the ruination of American, not fastfood, because McDonalds is one of the ways that it all began.

If people want to get skinny, they can. End of story. People do it all the time. There are many ways, some work better than others, but it can be done. People ONLY have themselves to blame for being fat. Unless its genetic... then you can blame your parents. McDonalds provides a service. It includes being able to give you a unhealthy meal in a short time. If you don't realize it is unhealthy, then you're retarded... and again only have yourself to blame, but unless McDonalds has developed a brain wave that moves your hands to your mouth in a repetitive manner with french fries in your hands, then its not their fault that you come in 5 times a week.

The screwed up thing, is that if you excercise regularly, you don't even need to diet all that strenuously to lose weight. But people put infinite energy into these Atkin, fucked up diet fads, when just running for half an hour a day would be a lot easier.

Just the kind of "conspiracy theory" answer I assumed I would recieve....

McD's is no worse than Wendy's, Arby's, etc, and not as bad as Hardee's hell they pride themselves on making bigger nastier sandwiches.

I would have to assume the the reason McD's is so evil in your eyes is because some dipshit with a camera told you so, and you are one of those brains out there that believes anything that gets on camera must be a fact....

EDIT:: I'm done [/rant] [/hijack]

Nutrition>excercise. There are no if ands or buts here. The only thing people lose when they go on a diet and just eat less of the crap they where eating before, is muscle, thats why when they gain it all back, they feel 10 times worse than they did before, and its even harder to lose than it was the last time.

Well, perhaps I overstated my point. With proper and sufficient exercise, one can eat whatever they want, within reason. This was more in the spirit of home cooked meals with very light eating of fast food. But there's no need to "avoid carbs, or proteins, or milk on even number days, or whatever the fad diet of choice is telling people" if exercise is used. You can eat homecooked hamburgers, ice cream, etc. just go run.

It's been proven for centuries before us where exercise was far more common place and there were none of these fad diets. It's proven in me (although I might still have that youthful speedy metabolism). I eat WAY more unhealthily than I should, but also play ultimate 3 hours a day twice a week then run and/or weightlift on off days.

But upon further consideration of your post, you said nutrition>exercise... not "dieting". So perhaps I will be quiet and agree now. Or maybe nutrition = exercise, but I really want to yell at fad dieters some more.

"Nutrition>excercise. There are no if ands or buts here."

well your wrong, you can eat mcdonalds and lose weight if you want to, I PROMISE. hears the equation to follow to lose weight
calories out > calories in
but is mcdonalds a good choice of food? of course not, food loaded w/ bad calories and doesn't fill you up

McDonald's is definitely no worse than any other fast food joint. If they had never existed, then someone else would have thought of the same idea. Why? Because we're a country full of lazy people, constantly looking for ways to make laziness more convenient.

With that said, I love McDonald's. It's tasty, cheap, and satisfying. But I also almost never eat there because I don't want to get fat, which is my choice. Some could care less about their weight, which is also their choice.

I have to disagree with the point that you can eat whatever you want and still lose weight, from personal experience. If you run and run until you damn near pass out, and then go home and indulge on Royales w/ Cheese each day, I promise you won't lose shit. You probably won't GAIN weight, but you will not lose it either. It's more than just a simple calorie count, the type of food going in your body matters too.

The Atkins diet is stupid, anyone who thinks they're going to lose weight from that is an idiot. And even if they do, have fun dying from a heart attack at age 40. There is no easy way out of a "diet", it has to be balanced.

I'm not going to quote everybody so I'll just reply to as much here as I can now, because I'm in the apple store in west county malll.

I never said McDonalds was the worst fast food for you, they are all bad. and Nutrition is > excercise to an extent. Excercise still has its place, but if you eat crap your whole life there is no point.

Calories in DO NOT = calories out, whoever said that is a moron, calories are not created equal.

I agree with whoever says fad diets are stupid, like the atkins diet, carbs, proteins, and all of the other stuff fad diets try to exclude still have there place in a true diet if you know how to use them properly.

Anybody else have any comments about my signature, because its not going to change, before places like mcdonalds came around, there where no where near as many fat people in this country.

Coorelation does not imply causation grasshopper. There were not nearly as many fat people before computers, hybrid cars, HDTV, and before the planet Pluto was discovered. I believe there are a multitude of changes in American society that are causing it to become more obese, and McDonalds is just a part of it.