Many Hospitals Serve McDonalds Fast Food at their Cafeterias

• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-04-25 21:33

  Many US hospitals, including children's hospitals, continue to serve McDonald's fast food in their cafeterias
  
  Wednesday, April 25, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
  
  (NaturalNews) Many people still think of hospitals as places where the sick become healthy, and where disease is nursed into wellness -- but these notions could not be further from the truth. Besides being cesspools of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" and filth in many cases, dozens of U.S. hospitals, including children's hospitals, continue to serve McDonald's fast food to guests in their cafeterias and lobbies, a telling indictment of Western medicine's prevailing lack of discernment and knowledge in the area of proper nutrition.
  
  The group Corporate Accountability International (CAI), a consumer advocacy group, recently sent a formal letter to 21 U.S. hospitals that still serve McDonald's to guests and visitors, urging them to "stop fostering a food environment that promotes harm, not health." The group cites numerous statistics that point to junk foods, like those served at McDonald's, contributing to the very diseases now being treated at U.S. hospitals.
  
  "The rates of children suffering from diet-related disease are staggering," says the letter. "Today, private practices, pediatric clinics, and emergency rooms are increasingly bearing witness to children suffering from preventable chronic conditions related to the food they eat [...] in the decades to come, one in three children will develop type 2 diabetes as a result of diets high in McDonald's-style junk food."
  
  You can read the entire petition letter here:
  http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/node/1654
  
  Hospitals that still serve McDonald's include Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago; the Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis; Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego; and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. CAI is urging these hospitals and others to end their contracts with McDonald's, and begin working towards the implementation of food options that support the role of improving health, rather than counteract it.
  
  "We hear from physicians saying kids come in for their diabetic check-ups and they hear the parents saying, 'If you are well-behaved, we'll take you for a treat at the McDonald's down the hall," said Sara Deon, director of CAI's McDonald's campaign, to USA Today about the hypocrisy of the situation. It is akin to NaturalNews selling pharmaceutical drugs while simultaneously promoting health and wellness through nutrition.
  
  If hospitals were truly about health, they would focus on serving more organic, grass-fed, and 'superfood' items
  Getting rid of McDonald's is a start, but most hospital food, including the food served to sick and dying patients, is completely devoid of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, probiotics, and other important nutrients that promote health. In fact, most hospital food is highly processed and loaded with toxic chemicals, which puts patients at risk of developing further illnesses and infections.
  
  Some hospitals are starting to do things right, including over 40 hospitals in the Northeast that have begun purchasing clean, local foods, including grass-fed meats, to serve to patients (http://www.americanfarm.com). But many others are still greatly lacking in the nutritional department, and patients nationwide are suffering as a result.
  
  Sources for this article include:
  
  http://yourlife.usatoday.com
  
  http://www.activistpost.com

  
  
  Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/035675_hospitals_McDonalds_fast_food.html
  
  :imdead:
  
  Can you say "Repeat Business"?
• Maenad wrote on 2012-04-25 21:38
  Is a business so bad for wanting repeat customers? How else do you expect the hospital to make more [s]of your[/s] money?
  
  /End sarcasm
  
  Did not know this. Really hospitals? Really? [Insert image of hospital with giant scumbag hat]
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-04-25 21:45
  Yes, blame the food, and not the lifestyle. Totally McDonald's fault that people get diabetes nowadays instead of having an active lifestyle.
  
  It could be summed up as a money problem. McDonald probably paying the Hospital so it can stay inside the Hospital. Medical costs aren't cheap, and some Hospitals want to save on certain parts?
  
  Although the news source seems kind of questionable.
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-04-25 21:52

  Quote from EndlessDreams;848402:

  Yes, blame the food, and not the lifestyle. Totally McDonald's fault that people get diabetes nowadays instead of having an active lifestyle.
  
  It could be summed up as a money problem. McDonald probably paying the Hospital so it can stay inside the Hospital. Medical costs aren't cheap, and some Hospitals want to save on certain parts?
  
  Although the news source seems kind of questionable.

  
  
  Yes I agree that people need to take responsibility for their own lives, however, I find it quite sad that hospitals are (seemingly) endorsing food that is obviously extremely bad for you.
  
  If you don't like the source I provided, then look it up yourself.
• Rin wrote on 2012-04-25 21:58
  It's not like the hospital staff directly serve their patients food from McDonalds. That's the decisions of the patients themselves.
  
  What is "superfood"?
• Kollin wrote on 2012-04-25 22:00
  Couldn't the hospitals have chosen to partner up with a different fast food restaurant? Like, one that has decent tasting food?
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-04-25 22:05
  Wow, that's hilariously bad. LOL
  Blaming the people for buying food there is pretty silly in this case. Pretty poor ethics on the hospital's part. Their upper management has no shame.
  
  Related:
  

  BOSTON, Md., April 15 (UPI) -- A group of doctors has called on the administrators of 22 hospitals in the United States to remove McDonald's restaurants from their facilities.
  
  The nation's top pediatricians, cardiologists and child psychologists have joined Corporate Accountability International to pressure hospital administrators to end contracts with the fast-food restaurant, the Boston-based organization said in a news release Tuesday.
  
  "Kids are being treated for diet-related conditions like diabetes on one floor in the hospital and given the wrong message by being offered the world's most recognized junk food brand on another floor in the hospital," said Dr. Francine Kaufman, former president of the American Diabetes Association. "The practice earns McDonald's an undeserved association with healthfulness among parents and children alike … and it should be curtailed."
  
  Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2012/04/15/Doctors-No-more-McDonalds-in-hospitals/UPI-38111334515389/#ixzz1t5mS1Ptg
  

• EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-04-25 22:10

  Quote from Rin;848417:

  
  What is "superfood"?

  
  
  Probably some term for certain brand of food from the extreme bias due to the nature of the news source.
• Juno wrote on 2012-04-25 22:16
  McDonald's isn't extremely bad for you.
  
  Buuuuut I'll have an easier time moving mountains than getting anywhere with that, so w/e.
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-04-25 22:17
  Superfood
  Stuff you should eat, basically. But as the article states, the term isn't really regulated, so some companies abuse the label as a marketing tool.
• Episkey wrote on 2012-04-25 22:22
  I remember seeing a hospital just like this.
  It had a McDonalds inside and everything. I remember seeing the Doctors eating at it and everything ... I guess it's just the convenience?
  
  I would never do it though.
  
  

  Quote from EndlessDreams;848442:

  Probably some term for certain brand of food from the extreme bias due to the nature of the news source.

  
  
  My inner medic part of me ... :died:
  
  At least Yoorah handled it. Gesh.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-04-25 22:48
  Oh the irony.
• Claudia wrote on 2012-04-25 23:12
  Well, note to self; when I work in a hospital, bring apples and other fruit for my little patients.
  
  Or at least, for myself.
  Yuck, fast food.
• Kayate wrote on 2012-04-25 23:30
  Imagine a diabetic going to the cafeteria to eat something to only find out that they are serving only McDonalds I would be pissed if I were diabetic.
  
  But that only implying that McDonalds is the only thing they have on the menu.
• Rin wrote on 2012-04-25 23:32

  Quote from Yoorah;848457:

  Superfood
  Stuff you should eat, basically. But as the article states, the term isn't really regulated, so some companies abuse the label as a marketing tool.

  
  
  Redundant term.