McDonalds can win the fast food health fight

Who is the most popular object of ridicule on YouTube today?

Is it the President? Osama bin Laden? A World Cup referee?

No, it’s McDonald’s.

The video above, a 20-year old Happy Meal commercial, is from happier times. Today you’re more likely to see Ronald McDonald portrayed as a zombie, a demon, or just physically abusive.

There’s a method to the madness, a growing public backlash against McDonald’s, driven in part by health advocates, and culminating last week in the Center for Science in the Public Interest threatening to sue the company over its Happy Meals.

This follows by less than a month a decision by Santa Clara County in California to ban Happy Meals. The ordinance sets calorie (460) and salt (600 mg) limits for meals that can be promoted with toys as premiums.

The effort has drawn instant pushback, both from local reporters and conservatives angry over a big company being pushed around.

But regular readers of this blog know the issue goes beyond McDonald’s, to the idea of cartoons being used to sell unhealthy choices, and to the unhealthiness of fast food diets.

McDonald’s tried to dodge all this by making apple slices an option, next to french fries, in its meals. Its opponents are calling that a dodge.

The answer here does not likely sit with legislators or law courts. It lies with McDonald’s taking up the carrot being offered in Santa Clara and seizing an opportunity.

It would not be hard to get Happy Meals inside the Santa Clara law. Make low fat milk the standard drink, cut back a bit on salting the fries, and you’re done. McDonald’s might make up for any loss by adding premiums (for teens or adults) to larger meals geared to bigger bodies.

If you think it’s crazy to imagine a 40 year old buying the equivalent of a Happy Meal, you haven’t been to a ballgame and watched some dad dig around a box of Cracker Jack looking for the prize.

McDonald’s actually has tried to be a good corporate citizen in the past. It added salads to its menu. It complied with labeling laws. Look at its international operations and you’ll see it following a host of dietary and marketing rules set by culture and government around the world.

In other words, this doesn’t have to become a conflict. It’s a challenge for food science to mass produce healthier meals in ways that can be loaded on trucks and delivered by teenagers. But it’s not an impossible challenge.

My guess is that, at some point this summer, McDonald’s will take that up. The pressure will remain, but this is not going to turn into a war between fast food and health.

The company that can deliver a healthy fast food meal is going to make a lot of money and earn a lot of goodwill. McDonald’s puts more money into research than any company in its industry. I think they can do it.

Skin Care With Chocolate

Chocolate for Beauty

Usually chocolate to be consumed as a snack. Chocolate could lifted skin cells die and crisis-aging skin cells. With brown skin care you can make yourself at home, how easy and efficient.

Treatments such as:
1. Chocolate honey mask
Ingredients: Dark Chocolate, honey, sugar, and butter.
how to make: chocolate cairankan way on the team, kemuadian mixed with other ingredients. Stir until evenly, set aside for 10-15 minutes until cold, then could olehkan to face evenly.

2. Chocolate masks
Ingredients: Dark chocolate, salt, and full cream milk.
how to make: Melt chocolate with the way the team, then mix with salt and full cream milk. stir until evenly, set aside for 10-15 minutes, until cool, then olehkan evenly in the face.

3. Chocolate bath soap
ingredients: Dark chocolate, liquid soap without any scent, full cream liquid milk.
how to make: first the heat full cream milk, and then input the depth slice of chocolate milk warmed, stirring until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. bathub prepare your bath. Pour the chocolate mixture, mix ddengan liquid soap, and wait until your shower bathub frothy.

Usefulness Honey For Beauty

Benefits of Honey for Beauty
Honey contains a lot of properties for health and beauty, including the following

Benefits of Honey is used for beauty has been proven since the days of Cleopatra. so many benefits of honey good for health and beauty. Some tips below is how to use honey for beauty. And of course there are a number of beauty products that can be purchased in stores are made from honey, for you who do not want complicated, but if you prefer to take the benefits of pure honey to polish your beauty, see honey beauty tips that we contributed this.

1. Benefits of Honey for the mask: Apply pure honey to your face and leave for about 15 minutes, until dry. Once dry, rinse your face with warm water.

2. Honey Benefits For Shiny Skin:

To moisten, soften and make the skin shiny, take with a bottle of honey while you shower. Apply to the skin and pat with both hands until dry. While the pat-nempuk skin, the honey will stick in your skin. Wash sticky honey that is used after you finish. And you can enjoy the results with skin that look beautiful and bright!

3. Honey bath: For sweet smell and soft skin, add ¼ to ½ cup of honey in your bath water

4. Honey scrub: Mix 1 teaspoon honey with almond flour seikit into the palm of your hand. Slowly rubbing his face as a face scrub. Then wash your face with warm water to remove the honey.

5. The benefits of honey for Cleaner Face Each Day: Mix 1 tablespoon honey with a little milk powder in the palm of the hand. Apply on the face to clean all the dirt and make-up, and then washed clean with warm water.

6. Shiny Hair: To make your hair shiny, combine 1 tablespoon honey, juice of one lime, and a little warm water. Rinse your hair with shampoo as usual and then pour the mixture on the hair. Dry the hair in the usual manner.

7. Hair Conditioner: To maintain healthy hair and scalp, mix ½ cup of honey and one tablespoon of olive oil prophecy. Spread evenly into the hair and scalp, then take the hair cover and let stand for 30 minutes in a closed state. After 30 minutes, keramasi with shampoo and rinse your hair as usual.

8. Benefits of Honey as a skin toner: To tighten, soften and moisturize the skin, mix one citrus fruit skins plus one tablespoon of honey in a blender until smooth. Gently rubbing a mixture of honey had to face and leave on for 15 minutes. Then wash your face with warm water to clean the mixture.

Healthy Foods for Healthy Living

Healthy Foods for Healthy Living

There are several ways diet would lose weight if you follow the right way as they are designed. but it does not mean that all foods fit into a diet is a healthy food, but it does not mean you should change your diet to conform with the rules of the diet.

Rather than worry about following the diet, it's better to think about a healthy lifestyle instead. Begin by learning to choose foods that are good for you.

The closer the food is taken from the cycle of nature, then the food is better for you. Fresh fruits and vegetables have a lot of great vitamins and minerals, boiled them to retain the most nutritional value and be careful with sauces, they may be high in calories and fat is not good for you.

Apple is good for the body, but the apple pie made really not good for the body. Serve seafood two or three times a week. Fish and chicken meat will be healthier on serve in the form of baked than fried

make it a habit to drink water, milk and 100% fruit and juice as the main drink softdrink and limit sweet drinks. If you are bored with mineral water, try adding a few pieces of lemon to add a touch of flavor.

Do not forget to eat a variety of foods to get all the vitamins and minerals you need to be healthy.