McDonald’s Downfall: Even Kids Aren’t Eating Fast Food Anymore
More signs that awareness is growing
Healthy Living
Despite the billions in endless marketing on all major children’s programming avenues, even kids are eating less disease-breeding fast food. That’s the declaration from the latest statistical study on fast food consumption that comes along just as McDonald’s continues to lose profits month after month.
And we’re not talking about a small change here. You have to remember that the fast food industry absolutely thrives on convincing children to eat their chemical-laden garbage. It’s the heart of their ‘unchanging market’ as I would call it. A market that, quite unfortunately, cannot process the reality of what they’re eating.
After all, how many times do you recall chowing down on some french fries as a young child and only thinking about the next bite? You weren’t concerned with the toxic ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup, MSG, trans fat, plastic yoga mat chemicals, preservatives, and the medley of other items that you were consuming.
Whether it’s the parents or the failing appeal of barely passable ‘food,’ we are now seeing a statistical decline in children chowing down as their ancestors did. Between 2003 and 2010, the percentage of children eating fast food on any given day went from a high of 39% to a lower 33%. It’s not perfect, but it’s also data from 2003-2010. I suspect if we examined the data from 2010 into 2016, we would see a much sharper decline.
Still, it’s progress.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, coauthor Colin D. Rehm is one of the first to actually look into the meta data of what children are actually eating. Previously, other studies focused on much less serious (and more profitable) issues like whether or not children preferred chicken nuggets or burgers.
According to Rehm:
“Most prior studies have focused on menu items, but this (one) actually looked at what children are eating… The take-home message is that changes can be made, whether they are due to consumer preference or due to what the restaurants have done themselves.”
He’s absolutely correct. Changes can be made, and we are seeing them already in the functional economy as McDonald’s nears its financial low point. It’s only as parents truly begin to discover what’s in their food that they make the conscious effort to protect their children as well. This transition, even in children, is happening on a level that we have truly never seen before when it comes to the food supply.
Even children refuse to buy into the marketing lies spewed by companies like McDonald’s, who refuse to adjust their menu to suit those who do not wish to devastate their bodies with low quality food.
 | Natural Society staff contribution |
It’s a simple decision. My stomach says “NO” to Mac’s.
Mac and Don’s deserves to lose business, but the blame for this being a staple of our kids diet has got to fall squarely on the medical system and the government that handed them a protected monopoly on our health care. People shouldn’t have to be experts on how to eat, but in this day and age you pretty much have to be if you want to stay healthy.
We must break-up the medical monopoly!
yes to that point……then leads to the wonder of how to break up the other monopoly’s also, which decrease our possible tomorrows….?
The government was supposed to breakup monopolies, not create them. Well, at least we have some small progress here, but yes there is so much more to be done, and time is running out; for tomorrow is looking rather grim.
Yes again. I suspect If you and I did a careful study, Gov has been right on board of creating Big Business (monopolies) from the start….there have been a few regresses in that….but in the limelight, Few is the magic word…..so here we are today desiring to be free of propaganda….That Outrageous Stuff…..that Dishonest Stuff……….God we both know it when we see it in adds and how about the …..adds controlling the tv…….I can hardly watch tv anymore….it’s disgusting. Do you think there might be a revival of quality to that technology?
I think as the public catches on to an existing form of propaganda (mind control) the predator system simply shifts to new, more advanced techniques and technologies. To that point, technology is now moving way faster than the body politic can adapt to.
I believe the only hope is in educating people to use critical thinking and constantly remind them that we live in a predator system.
Time is running out though, the problem of background radiation and dispersed radio-nuclei from nuclear waste is a problem that cannot be fixed…ever.
you said it! Critical thinking. I am educated out of A ONE room school in the country…begin 1950, then on to Col Grad and I wonder if people today are even getting close to that…in the partial control with the Fed Gov being ….so in effect the educated can not think as a critic!….I may be over stating my concern….the last of your comment is not up for discussion….Tis The Truth
Sadly i dont see why they would. If there making a profit out of it, the government wouldn’t care about the health of everyone. also the medical monopoly gets money from our diseases and unhealthy lifestyles.
They give us pills and medications for almost everything yet isn’t it realistic to think that we don’t need all these pills and medications to make us healthier?
Most medications are undoubtedly forced upon us to give them a healthy profit instead.
Watch this just-released documentary, first episode available until this evening.
http://links.mp2201.com/a/144/click/433429/418165866/5a66d651082f3907d690bd76483b2098f61056c8/7e0178727983daf401dc2675b6fa2f8d99b6a4b6
As I recall Mac and Don’s was a key cog in Obama’s job recovery plan. A couple years ago Obama was crowing about all the jobs he created, and 2/3 were flipping sliders at Mac and Don’s. Are people really waking up, or is it cheaper to buy some burger and make your own sliders at home?
yes, good point…..I have my doubt’s of people waking up….tis a difficult question all around the corporate and political scene….they might finally wake up if the Fed Gov makes a night raid upon the sleeping households….of some non descript neighborhood….and with these US Military so called training endeavors coming up soon here in OUR Country….I for one, am extremely concerned of Obama’s hidden cards and the US Military going along…each of them took an oath………….and it damn sure does not say….get after your own people….
I actually think people are waking up, but not fast enough. Despite what the media says, even the partially awake can see that the recovery is a cock and bull story.
6 years ago I was in Manila, Island of Luzon, and Dolores, Eastern province of Samar, Philippine Islands. Cops at the doors of the malls waiting to check what you were bringing in, and the military going on patrols in the towns. I thought “how odd” for being a republic, and Marcos being gone. Now after his highness king barry passed the NDAA (National Detain Americans Act) I see that every where in the USA today. The fact that just a few speak up about this tells me most are still sleeping, or hypnotized by the amazing feats of Kim Kardashin’s ass.
yea about the ass….problem is the control of the MSM and it being censored….SO to get a feed back of the even 40% of Americans, is difficult…..
when looking back, objectively at this Corp’s past, it deserves to be kicked out of the Restaurant business…..that is, gone bankrupt….no one eats there anymore…..will do it!
Same with Sears, Kmart and a bunch more…no one shops there anymore…..will do it!
The internet has brought these possibilities about! CLEAN UP YOUR ACT, AMERICAN CORP’S
I wouldn’t be surprised if king barry subsidises Mac and Don’s.
The only problem with socialism,is you run out of people to pay for it.
running out of people might be a minor problem….In actuality I believe socialism robs the new born, the young, the old of their individualism….which is more valuable to each than any dollar figure or political idea as suppression….
You forgot the “yet to be born”. Us oldsters need to remind the youngsters how it was really like when we left things to “The Beaver:.
you know what…..I have watched so little TV in my life that the show….leave it to Beaver…wasn’t it? I am only familiar with the title and a vague picture of one of the stars…..ha………I’m a poor oldster to get a fragrance out of our past from the bube tube of TV…..a magnificent technology….I think the 24 hour clock, killed…a usual semblance for relevant telecasts with little commercial ads…….if there ever was such a thing
actually I wouldn’t be surprised of that either
also….I wonder who set this guy calling himself the Pres..up for the take over! You and I are talking to each other and both, I suppose have done much to try at an answer. to that! He is an impostor not born in the US and falsified his ID’s and so forth…and the US House,Senate,Supreme court go along with this……………All that taken together is an Extreme situation…………….Mark MY, or Our word…………..if that also describes your thoughts………….People just don’t realize whats happened……………….Tis maybe just the Beginning…I don’t know that for sure……………..But Christ…..this event is massive…
The Rothchilds and Soros brought us barry. Barry’s as phony as GMO bologna!
I’ve had over 6 years now of hope and change to research a lot of shit. That rat Soros made a killing on Deepwater Horizon. Did you know barry gave him 20 billion to drill for oil off the coast of Venezuela 6 months before the “LEAK”? I should say hit with space ray. Soros also made a killing when the midwest was HAARPed several springs ago. All them dykes blasted, those poor farmers up to there eyes in debt, and Soros to the rescue to buy them out a penny to the dollar. Ja Shore Youbecha! Barry’s been very very good puppet to his masters.
I agree about Nam. I see were close in age. I guess you weren’t exposed to agent orange since you up in years. Most the guys I see at the VA are there because of agent orange, and a multitude of other things to boot. But hey, Monsatan made a killing. So did a lot of other chicken hawks!!
well, am living. Out of Nam in mid 1970…then within a few yrs. small lumps have appeared on, arms, legs, mid-section and I suspect the fat cells are localizing bad chems from going on to other parts……also, tks for your take on Obummer….and Soros, if I am not mistaken is a Jew, also….the whole damn situation of that bunch of Jews have been a disaster on world wellbeing…even fingered in Lincoln and JFKs deaths and the last one, I was a first year student at college when that came over the radio on a Friday…and every since I studied it carefully…and witnessed it as live as could be over the radio live….from an art class, which had a radio on by chance….I sometimes wonder how I have retained a semblance of optimistic health…..but that part of myself, remains……
Soros helped round’em up in Hungary. Talk about a judas goat. Rothchilds shot Andrew Jackson too. Didn’t kill him, but clipped him. They don’t like anyone to rock there boat.
LOL I’m going to take a not so wild poke, but I bet you read veterans today?
I know most if not all grunts in the shit from one degree to another was exposed to that shit. Along with anyone handling, transporting, or spraying that shit. That’s nothing new either. The psychos in the government have been using military as guinea pigs for a hundred years now. My dad from asbestos, and my uncle from radiation. There are a lot of awake vets today. Those people that say the military would never shoot the populace need to pull there head out of there ass. Mack, Ike, and Patton had there outfit shooting WWI vets. aka “The Bonus Army, from the 1933 coup. Yuppers as Smedley would say “War IS a Racket”.
seems no one in the Military listened to Smedley did they. Actually myself, I don’t read Veterans Today….I’m not much into being a veteran …except to say, live the oath or get the hell out….and arrest people like barry…..and??? the military is just as corrupt as all the rest of the D C bunch….arresting no body for treason..the word may as well not be in the American political scene…….I would give near anything to know what an honest………50 years from now in this country is like! Any guesses?
I know when I was in the suck, several guys had a great tool box when they got out. Complements of the tax payer.
They say you need 3% to start a revolution,but a bunch of geezers ain’t going to do it.
Wish in one, and shit in the other. I know what I’d like to live to see. I’d gladly volunteer to flick the switch, push the button, pull the trigger, or kick out the chair.
I read VT just so I know whats really going on. I hope some day soon people get out of that left right thing. They don’t get it that there both on the same team for the most part, and neither one is the home team.
I think I can see lots of blood in the street, but who’s is the question.
Here’s a thought, what would it be like to have a souped up wheel chair with armor, and 4 M-60’s and 4 500 round back packs on the back. And have Ma Deuce between your legs with a couple belts of armor piercing rounds. Gee I’m back to my happy place.
good laugh from here on that answer……You’re correct that the best antidote to whatever comes…..is humor! Being raised in the sage brush hills and creeks of Montana, I have a tendency to see the world as lilly white and fresh as driven snow. Course it’s not that way…..All I have to do though, is step out into the open natural world and again for me, its right there where natural beauty never blinks…and all appears as well and good……THEN in steps Man…..where the and & buts begin…….where by, follow, the blood running in the streets……I suppose I expect that to change. When in ten’s of thousands of years, it has not……So 50 yrs from now, tis not likely that my (fresh as driven snow) will have arrived yet! been good to say hello from here in Montana
Being from Podunk MN, I’m a typical Nordski (Norwegian). I’m about on the line of Waconia Township and Laketown Township. Between the 2 townships we have 84 lakes. Great place for birding and fishing. Also perfect for our state bird the mosquito. With in a 5 mile radius there are at least a couple dozen Trumpeter Swan nesting areas. Eagles, hawks, and falcons up the ying yang. Seen Snowey Owls and Owl Hawks here on rare occasions. Woodpeckers galore. I have a 4K acre lake with Muskie’s Northern’s, Bass, Walleyes, and pan fish a couple blocks down the hill. Being close and high to a lake extends my growing season even a month. There’s something about the water that makes me want to sprout horns and dawn the animal skins.
You’ve got to remember the Mothers of Invention. Here’s a couple lines from Movin to Montana.
I might be movin’ to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss
Raisin’ it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
That I can sell uptown
I’m ridin’ a small tiny hoss
(His name is MIGHTY LITTLE)
He’s a good hoss
Even though
He’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
Blanket on anyway
Well I might
Ride along the border
With my tweezers gleamin’
In the moon-lighty night
And then I’d
Get a cuppa cawfee
‘N give my foot a push . . .
Just me ‘n the pygmy pony
Over by the Dennil Floss Bush
that is hilarious……….after I regain my senses, seemingly lost from your mighty prose hitting it’s stride….I will write back a bit later today……in the mean time, go catch and release a lake trout for me will Ya!
Perhaps! Then! You’re a neighbor of Garrison Keillor near his famous Lake Wobegon/prairie home companion..local. Personally,
Am not retired. Each day except Sat is spent using this comp…..Today, lost my Favorites toolbar, into the Recycle Bin…That’s right! The whole Bin got emptied…along with 2500+ youtube music songs I had one by one saved to the tool bar…..Whew,,,,,will be a while replacing those! I am a musician, long standing since the age of five….After your last message, did find Mothers Of Invention song Montana. It was new to me….youtu.be/OeD6wLQLF2Q
Quite a story behind Zappa’s life. He is certainly unique in Pop music…Looks as though the two of us should direct email, occasionally rather than via this blog….I don’t know how to go about that….Is there a way through disque for the two of us to accomplish that?…….
Will console myself after the Bin empty….with some wds of Lightfoot,,,,” in the early morning rain, with a dollar in my hand with an ach’kn in my heart and my pockets full of sand”……And those lake trout? I suspect them to be…”carry on” in this man’s army…..Just as well! in that way, all is well up at the lodge……
and no did not know Barry gave Soros any as you say….tks for the tip
Yes!!!
I feel like they don’t deserve a second chance–that they will do anything for money, so even if they improve their menu options it is not because they care about people. No, they were willing to poison us. They don’t deserve a second chance even if they change their menu. They should actually be fined or serious legal action should be taken against them for what they have done.