On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:24:41 +0000, SteveR
> wrote:

>I've finally had a chance to sit down and watch _Super Size Me_, and I'm
>looking at doing some analysis to check up on Morgan Spurlock's
>findings. Obviously I'm not about to go on a McDiet like he did, so I
>decided to grab the nutritional information sheets from the McDo web
>site, and write a small program to go through meal combinations for
>three McDonald's meals a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner - and to
>verify the averaged nutritional content (especially calorie content) of
>such a diet.
>
>** This is not commercial research, and I have no plans to publish the
>results anywhere, except maybe here if people are interested. I am an
>occasional poster here, and this is not any kind of homework assignment
>or trolling post. It's just me trying to satisfy my curiosity. **
>
>I also wanted to have a "control" diet, with two healthy meals -
>breakfast and dinner - and a McLunch. This would be a second function
>of the program, where it uses healthy food at breakfast and dinner, and
>simulates someone going out for fast food at lunch. Again, the program
>would average the results over the entire McDo lunch-time menu.
>
>I'm looking for suggestions for the breakfast and dinner meals -
>something healthy, but something that "regular folks" might eat if they
>were trying to eat healthily rather than what nutritionists would
>suggest. I want to get third party suggestions so that I'm not
>colouring the research too much with my own ideas and slants on things.
>I need some sort of nutritional content information about the recipes,
>and again, since Morgan Spurlock concentrated on the calorie content,
>that's probably the most important part of the information I need.
>
>Thanks In Advance,
>--

Try http://www.nutritiondata.com. There is a LOT of information on
that site so it helps to study the various sections on the home page
carefully and click around. Hours of nutritional fun :>

This is what I use to keep track of my diet:
http://209.48.219.53/default.asp

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!