“McDonald’s executives aren’t just loving it — they’re eating it up.

Roughly one decade after the film Super Size Me skewered McDonald’s for selling food that the hit documentary film claimed was not healthy and lacking in key nutritional elements when consumed regularly, there’s a new, unexpected twist to the experiment that had director Morgan Spurlock gaining weight and getting sick after chowing-down on McDonald’s food for only 90 days.

The new twist: A high school science teacher in the Colo-Nesco School District in Colo, Iowa, says he lost 37 pounds in 90 days also by eating only McDonald’s food — but he followed strict nutritional limits laid out by his students. That included limits of 2,000 calories a day and attempts to stick with daily recommended allowances for protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol and several other nutritional restrictions.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Bruce Horovitz / USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/06/mcdonalds-nutrition-fast-food-mcdonalds-menu/4339395/

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