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One of the critical factors to surviving Covid, if you end up in hospital, is not being obese. To this end there is a drive to get Britain fitter and remove junk food adverts from prime time for children.


All great steps in the right direction should a second wave hit, as it is looking like now.


But can anyone understand why the golden arches are now advertising new menu items like the "double quarterpounder with cheese" ? (double the fat and calorie contents I suspect)


Surely that flies in the face of the campaign to reduce obesity!

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womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> Well

> . What a question.

> You might ask why eat out to help out applied to

> establishments serving chips...



Indeed but chips on the side are different from a whole menu that falls into the junk food category

I could also ask why mcd was also in the eat out scheme ?


Just strikes me as very Contrary !

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