McDonalds = Obesity?

Last week I watched a T.V. documentary with my mother on how McDonald's is the lead contributer to obesity. The reporter on this issue spoke to numerous managers and CEO's of McDonald's in North America. The reporter also traveled to Asia and met with one of the CEO's of McDonald's who overlooked McDonald's in Asia, Africa and India. McDonald's meal plan is the same throughout the country. Although McDonald's has added apples, 1% milk and salads to their menu most people stick to the regular numbers ones or two's shown above the registers. Also, a standard happy meal for children comes with burgers or chicken nuggets, french fries and a soda. A customer must ask for apples to substitute for the fries and a water to substititute for the soda. If the customers don't know what McDonald's has to offer how will the diet ever become healthy? Across the world in China, the infamous feature around America, the drive through, is brand new to the Chinese. There are only thirteen present drive throughs which took a lot of training and discipline for the Chinese to understand how to use one. For instance, they showed a clip of one McDonald's worker, who was working the window of a drive through, walk out of the store and around the corner to where the car was parked waiting at the window. However, not only do the workers need training for such a new invention but as well as the drive through customers. For example, some customers first drive through the exit instead of the entrance while some park their cars and bring the food into the restaurant after they waited in line at the DRIVE THROUGH! While I found this information amusing at the same time I found it interesting because drive throughs are common in America. Back to the nutrient of McDonald's I don't think they should be blamed for obesity because there are plenty of other fast food restaurants such as Burger King, Wendy's and Checkers just to name a few whose diets are similar to McDonald's. Also, McDonald's advertise the packs of apples and 1% milk on their commercials which most Americans probably see because the media is big a thing. I wish the documentary went into a futher investigation on McDonald's in other parts of the world as well because to learn about China's culture was interesting.