Weight Watchers Approved Meals at McDonalds

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This is just crazy… From MSNBC

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Meals approved by Weight Watchers are going on sale at McDonald’s in New Zealand, the companies said Wednesday, in a deal trumpeted as an enjoyable way to lose weight but that nutritionists criticize as a marketing ploy that doesn’t promote healthy eating.

As part of the deal — which the company says is the first of its kind in the world — McDonald’s will use the Weight Watchers logo on its menu boards and Weight Watchers will promote McDonald’s to dieters.

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Some of the items that are approved are Chicken McNuggets and the Filet-O-Fish. Both are high fat and fried. I suppose if you are just trying to get people to eat by a point system like Weight Watchers does, you can allow them to eat stuff like this but it is not a good way to get people to adopt a healthy lifestyle. In fact, it is probably damaging since there are now people who will eat deep fried food from McDonalds that never would have before. I would like to see how much money Weight Watchers is going to make off of this…