A recent media report in the Sydney Morning Herald mentioned that big old cash cow McDonalds have announced a relationship with Weight Watchers first in New Zealand, and later this year in Australia.
I must admit I did a double take at first when I heard this thinking how on earth is anything on a Maccas menu worthy of making the cut for someone using Weight Watchers but it seems to be true.
Just like the Heart Foundation before them, Weight Watchers have sold their soul to the highest bidder.
I used to be a big supporter of the Heart Foundation including volunteering for them at the City to Surf before their alliance with the dirty M’s but now have brushed them for good.
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Weight Watchers, while I was never a big fan, have a part to play as they portray sensible eating habits while enjoying cheat meals. I don’t recommend everything in their plan but it’s definitely not the worst one out there.
Now they are off my Christmas Card list too.
The meals that get the Weight Watchers seal of approval are – drumroll – chicken McNuggets, Fillet-of-Fish and a sweet chilli seared chicken wrap.
Since when did a chicken McNugget constitute an actual food?
I haven’t seen the insides of a McNugget for a long time but last time I looked the ‘meat’ barely resembled anything that might have once looked like chicken meat in a previous life and throwing them in the deep fryer is not exactly the most nutritious thing just to further destroy it is it!
Ditto for a fillet-of-fish. What ever happened to just eating plain grilled fish on a burger like you can find at a decent take away store?
I wonder how many points these pieces of rubbish will take up on the WW scale. It sure won’t leave much room for anything else that day!
And of course, like the article mentions, the fact that parents may be drawn to Maccas to eat what is marketed as a healthy eating choice does nothing for their kids who are going to go and destroy a McHappy meal with burger, fries and a coke that contains enough sugar to send them hyper for a week.
I guess I’ll be continuing my Maccas boycott and will now add Weight Watchers to the likes of the Heart Foundation that are doing nothing to encourage a healthy lifestyle in this day and age of a massive obesity problem.
Anyone else with me?
What would constitute a reasonable healthy eating plan? Exactly the step by step approach that you get in my Bodyweight Blitz home exercise system
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i totally agree. it sends people the wrong message. people with weight problems obviously don’t fully understand what a healthy diet should consist of, and telling them macca’s is now affiliated with weight watchers just makes them more clueless. its just giving unhealthy people more excuses to eat bad food!
and how on earth is deep fried ‘chicken’ and ‘fish’ ok!!! so frustrating.
thanks again for great blog!
Exactly Kylie! I think most people will be able to see through this as WW selling their soul for some $$
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Know what is in a McNugget?
Water, salt, modified corn starch, sodium phosphates, chicken broth powder (chicken broth, salt, and natural flavoring (chicken source)), seasoning (vegetable oil, extracts of rosemary, mono, di- and triglycerides, lecithin). Battered and breaded with water, enriched bleached wheat flour (niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, modified corn starch, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dried whey, corn starch. Batter set in vegetable shortening. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent, oh, and some chicken, less that 44%.
Have a look at http://www.dietriot.com/fff/mcd/mcd.html
and you will never eat this shit again.
Read this site too:
http://www.alnyethelawyerguy.com/al_nye_the_lawyer_guy/2007/03/so_what_really_.html
anything that has 10 lines of ingredients should not be on a healthy eating list. That is ridiculous. Thanks for sharing the ingredients and the link Alan. For everyone else check out the dietriot link. Interesting to know that in a ‘healthy’ grilled chicken breast that Maccas sell contains this much rubbish:
Chicken breast meat, water, seasoning [flavors, dextrose, salt, chicken flavor, (contains chicken broth; wheat starch, thiamine hydrochloride, chicken fat), sugar, spices, calcium silicate], modified food starch, sodium phosphate, salt. Coated with vegetable shortening.
What ever happened to just plain old grilled chicken?!
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