Weight Watchers- Eat McDonald's to Lose Weight

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Weight Watchers says eat at McDonald's to lose weight (opinion)

 

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Written by Administrator | 15 March 2010

(NaturalNews) Weight Watchers has now officially endorsed Chicken McNuggets as a

" healthy meal " in New Zealand, where McDonald's restaurants will begin carrying

the Weight Watchers logo on several menu items. This bizarre and inexplicable

decision has now made Weight Watchers the laughing stock of the health world

where nutrition and weight loss experts normally don't use " McDonald's fast

food " and " weight loss " in the same sentence.

 

As The Guardian reports, " As part of the deal, which the company says is the

first of its kind in the world, McDonald's will use the Weight Watchers logo on

its menu boards and Weight Watchers will promote McDonald's to dieters. "

 

Nutritionists, not surprisingly, were shocked at the announcement. The idea of

eating at McDonald's to lose weight seems a bit ridiculous, and anyone who

believes that eating Chicken McNuggets will cause you to lose weight is arguably

one nugget short of a Happy Meal. Sometimes you just have to point out the

stupidity of these things, even at the risk of offending someone who has

convinced themselves that eating more Chicken McNuggets is their ticket to a

slim, fit and sexy body.

 

Watch your weight balloon!

Weight Watchers, by the way, never actually claims that eating the foods they

endorse will cause you to lose weight. If you examine it carefully, even their

name isn't really about weight loss. It's about weight watching... as in, watch

your weight grow larger by the day...

 

A " weight watch " is sort of like a " tornado watch " or a " tsunami watch. " You

keep your eyes peeled and wait for something disastrous to happen -- such as

ballooning to 300 pounds while engaging in unhealthy eating McHabits based on

snarfing down meat parts from factory-farmed cows raised in bovine concentration

camps that might more accurately be called " Cowschwitz. "

 

If Weight Watchers is going to endorse McNuggets, then why not just endorse the

entire McDonald's menu and throw the logo behind Big Macs and ice cream shakes,

too? It's not like Weight Watchers is trying to " protect its reputation " by not

crossing a line, you know. Once you've endorsed McDonald's as " healthy " food,

that line is no longer anywhere in sight.

 

Of course, McDonald's products merely join a long list of questionable foods

marketed under the " Weight Watchers " brand name -- a brand that in my opinion

has discovered great commercial success in selling the false hope of weight loss

to clueless consumers who are unwilling to read ingredients lists on food

labels.

 

Not coincidentally, Weight Watchers has now become the " McDonald's " of the

weight loss industry -- and industry filled with so many scams and shams that

the idea of eating Chicken McNuggets to lose weight doesn't even seem that

strange to many people.

 

We live in a world where corporate promotional lies are disgusting at best, and

criminal at worst. We're told that psychiatric drugs will make you happy, that

chemotherapy will make you healthy and that eating at McDonald's will make you

lose weight. We're told that sugary junk drinks will give you " energy " , that

toxic vaccines are necessary for your immune system to work correctly and that

buying silly pink-ribbon products will somehow cure cancer.

 

At the same time, we're told that vitamins are dangerous, that sunlight causes

cancer and that there's no such thing as a cure for type-2 diabetes. Everything

that's good for you is discredited as bad while everything that's toxic is hyped

up as " healthy. "

 

I suppose in light of the corporate-sponsored sick-care insanity that passes for

medical advice these days, the idea that eating at McDonald's will make you lose

weight doesn't seem as insane as it really should.

 

But that doesn't make it any more true.

 

In a world gone mad with dietary misinformation touting fictional foods,

insanity can now be marketed to the intoxicated mainstream as if it somehow made

sense.

 

.... and people swallow it.

 

Sources for this story include:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/03/weight-watchers-mcdonalds-obesity