McDonald's Advises Its Employees To Stay Away From Fast Food

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McDonald's Advises Its Employees To Stay Away From Fast Food


A McDonalds website providing resources to its employees advises against eating hamburgers, fries and sodas. CNBC first noticed the latest in a series of strange pieces of advice provided by the fast food company to its employees. "While convenient and economical for a busy lifestyle," McDonalds says of its primary product, "fast foods are typically high in calories, fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt and may put people at risk for becoming overweight."

It goes on: "In general, people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease must be very careful about choosing fast food because of its high fat, salt, and sugar levels." CNBC notes that the content here comes from a third party, A.D.A.M., Inc., credited at the bottom of the page. You can browse similar advice from the company on eating healthy here. A spokesperson for McDonalds told CNBC that the company would examine the content in question. Here's another sample:

http://news.yahoo.com/mcdonald-39-advises-employees-stay-away-fast-food-225500247.html

[hobbit709]

1. McD would have to climb up about 6 levels to get to CLUELESS.

[CFLDem]

4. Lol

[Scuba]

2. So just tell your pool boy to bring you a nice salad!

[marble falls]

3. How tone deaf can a corporation be? Of course drug lords don't want their slingers on dope, either.

[diabeticman]

5. Hypocritical management. Maybe if they paid their employees a living wage their workers would

be healthier. I have a brother working at McDonalds. His main meal for the say comes when he is working and gets a free sandwich and he gets an Employee discount for other food.


He mainly eats from the dollar menu which may of the items now have gone up in price so it is now a "VALUE" menu.

[Spirochete]

6. In other words

"The company doesn't like furnishing you free meals during your way underpaid shift, so you should eat something else"

[Tien1985]

7. Ok, I get that Mcd's

Hires an outside company to provide content for their employee advice page but you'd think they'd learn to check the content after the first debacle.

[PowerToThePeople]

8. It makes sense to me.

You do not want employees having heart attacks on the floor. If they know fast food is bad, they are giving good advice to their employees to stay away from it. As much as they do not get right, this seems to be a good thing they did.

[Vashta Nerada]

9. Haha.