I have to agree, common sense says you should know better. IF YOU ARE FAT, EAT LESS FATTENING FOODS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,880210,00.htmlFat attack on Big Mac thrown out of court
David Teather in New York
Thursday January 23, 2003
The Guardian
McDonald's scored a landmark victory when a US judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit that blamed the fast food chain for causing obesity.
The case had been closely watched by the fast food industry in the US, which feared a deluge of actions from overweight people. New York judge Robert Sweet said he had been aware that finding in favour of the plaintiffs could spawn thousands of similar 'McLaw suits' against all kinds of restaurants.
The lawsuit had been filed five months ago by the parents of two girls in the Bronx who alleged that McDonald's failed to properly disclose the ingredients of its food and led to health problems including diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.
One of the daughters is 19, stands 1.7m tall (5ft 6in) and weighs 123kg (270lb). The other is 14, 1.5m (4ft 10in) high and weighs 77kg (170lb).
The elder girl was said to eat a McMuffin for breakfast each morning and a Big Mac meal for dinner and the younger said she ate at McDonald's three or four times a week.
The elder girl's father, Israel Bradley said in an affidavit: "I always believed McDonald's was healthy for my children."
In his determination, Judge Sweet was bluntly dismissive of the claim.
"If consumers know the potential ill-health effect of eating at McDonald's, they cannot blame McDonald's if they, nonetheless, choose to satiate their appetite with a surfeit of supersized McDonald's products," he said.
The case could be refiled if it could be proven there were dangers to eating McDonald's food that were not commonly known.
McDonald's hailed the ruling as a victory for commonsense and said it had been providing nutritional information for the past 30 years. "We trusted the court to use its commonsense to dismiss this claim. That's exactly what the judge has done," a spokesman for the company said. "We said from the beginning that this was a frivolous lawsuit."
A company lawyer added: "Every responsible person understands what is in products such as hamburgers and fries, as well as the consequence to one's waistline and potentially to one's health, of excessively eating those foods over a prolonged period of time."
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