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Wow... this serioiusly does not surprise me.
It's really upseting when some people put the blame on McDonalds for any other fast food place because their fries aren't fried in lower fat oil. I'm no nutrition expert, but I would think it's safe to assume that if you eat a ton of McD's fries every day all week long, it's not going to make much of a difference if they are fried in lower-fat oil or not.
My junior year of college I gained a TON of weight.... and I KNOW it was because of my eating habits... and the lack of my exercise habits. I always went to Wendy's, Whataburger, Chili's, you name it... for almost every other meal, and never really exercised. I am pretty sure if those fries were fried in lower-fat oil it wouldn't have made that much of a difference because of the frequency of me eating fast food.
And I"m not saying all overweight people put the blame on other sources, but by looking at the flurry of lawsuits on fast food restaurants, it seems some do.
Earlier in the thread someone asked if obesity should be made into an actual disability, and I personally don't think it should be.
A disability should be something you have no control over, like if you were in a car accident and you lost one or all of your limbs... you can't really do much about that. Sure you can get prostetics (please excuse my spelling) but you will never really have full use of them ever again. And disabilities like that are black and white... you either have it or you don't.
When it comes to obesity, who's going to decide what's the deciding factor? What's the weight limit... or whatever.
Obesity is largely on the rise in America... we'd have too many people claiming diability!
And many people (please note I'm not saying all) can do something about their obesity, but don't. It would be throwing money into a black hole.
That's just how I feel about it though, I don't expect anyone to agree with me.
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