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Anyone who has ever walked past a McDonald's and smelled that delectable grease should know it's a house of gastronomic excess. No food establishment that leaves your fingers glistening and your clothes smelling like sizzled meat can be good for you. So it's tempting to scoff at the lawsuit heard in a Manhattan court last week on behalf of overweight New Yorkers who say McDonald's food made them fat. And scoff folks did--on chat shows, in the papers, even overseas. "Perhaps they should also take out a lawsuit against staff for saying 'Have a nice...
...Pelman, 14, Jazlyn Bradley, 19, and several other teenagers say in their suit that "as [a] result" of eating Happy Meals, McMuffins and Big Macs over the years, they "have become obese [and] developed diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure" and other problems. The young people claim that McDonald's didn't adequately warn them that its meals contained lots of fat, salt and sugar, even as the company pushed bigger, more sinful portions via "supersize" enticements. Their lawyer, Samuel Hirsch, says the chain's kid-focused ads and toy promotions portrayed McDonald's as child friendly, leading...
...Napier, 47, earned her marketing stripes over 20 years at Procter & Gamble, most recently as vice president of its North American drug business, where she launched the company's hot osteoporosis drug, Actonel. Now she'll try to shine up the Golden Arches as senior VP of marketing for McDonald's. Napier has plenty of work on her plate: the firm's domestic sales are down 1.5% this year, and its shares are down 40% in the past six months. Plans include closing 175 restaurants in 10 countries and laying off as many as 600 workers...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...
...additions Luke Ruscoe; Ben Logan; Andrew Salter; Saul McDonald...