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Ronald McDonald is concerned about your kids' health. Sure.
McDonald's, the multinational food chain whose name has become synonymous with junk food, has the best interest of your child's health when it came up with the idea for McDonald's R Gym, a play area for kids equipped with exercise bikes, dance pads and other equipment that would keep them physically active while wolfing down tons of Big Macs and fries. According to this news release:
Yesterday, a Whittier, Calif.-based McDonald's restaurant opened its doors to the world's second McDonald's R Gym, a dedicated in-restaurant play area that features interactive game zones designed for children aged 4 to 12.Equipped with stationary bicycles attached to video games, dance pads, basketball hoops, monkey bars, an obstacle course, and a host of other games, the R Gym is intended to provide a fun, easy and convenient way for children to increase their physical activity.
"McDonald's, with its wide variety of menu choices at various nutritional profiles, now also offers a variety of activity for children that promotes exercise and physical fitness," said Bonnie Modguno, registered dietitian and McDonald's consultant. "It's important for kids to eat a well balanced diet but it is equally important for them to play. Now, parents can bring their kids to McDonald's to accomplish both."
Too bad the exercise bikes and all the fitness stuff of the McDonald's R Gym are only available to kids. All that equipment could have saved documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock from gaining 25 pounds, extremely upping his cholesterol levels and suffering headaches and nausea from continuously eating only McDonald's goodies in the course of shooting the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me.