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,
--
SteveR
(throw away the dustbin, send to stever@... instead)

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