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Default Bittman shreds McDonalds "healthy" oatmeal

"A more accurate description than “100% natural whole-grain oats,”
“plump raisins,” “sweet cranberries” and “crisp fresh apples” would be
“oats, sugar, sweetened dried fruit, cream and 11 weird ingredients
you would never keep in your kitchen.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...meal-wrong/?hp

He goes on in the article to talk about why take a perfectly easy,
natural thing to cook and make it unhealthy by adding stuff most
people wouldn't eat if they knew what it was.

It's a good skewering of the fast food giant.

.....

The last paragraph is a doozy.

"Here’s the thing: McDonald’s wants to get people in the store. Once a
day, once a week, once a month, the more the better, of course, but
routinely. And if you buy oatmeal, they’re o.k. with that. But they
know that, once inside, you’ll probably opt for a sausage biscuit
anyway.

And you won’t be much worse off. "