Fast food is unhealthy. It does not make people fat, but it can contribute to that end, if one doesn't exercise some moderation - or exercise.

Similarly, video games can also contribute to obesity, if one has no concept of moderation and spends literally all of their free time sitting in front of the TV playing games.

What's the common link? Moderation. People. If people are tits, then they will be unhealthy. It's not the food's fault and it's not the games' fault. Once again, common sense.

I'm too lazy to read through all the comments, so too bad if I'm repeating someone else.

Up here in Canada, Vancouver BC to be exact, there are a number of McDonald's with a game consoles in the play area. Yes, that's right, where there once was slides and plastic balls, they've now got PS2's and XBox's. How interesting.

I thought it was the crappy balance people eat now, also, why dont they have in-game adverts of a thin person eating a mcdonalds salad and playing a video game? it wouldnt help but they could swing it so they make it seem like they arent just after the advertising etc. but want people to make the connection between balanced diet, excercise (read wii controller and eye toy etc.) and mc donalds being part of the diet of a healthy gamer.
you never knw, it might work on the impressionable

oh, mcdonalds, when will your antics ever end?

@TheStripe

Damned straight. And the only reason this American mother is NOT clawing eyes out is because . . . I don't let my kid play endless amounts of games or eat nothing but completely greasy, unhealthy food. Imagine that.

I'm always completely disappointed anytime I see ANY business making concessions for dumbass reactionary pricks who blame "obesity epidemics" or other such nonsense on things that aren't to blame. McDonald's SHOULDN'T have tried taking on some newer, healthy slant to their menu. They should have fully admitted their food was high in calories and fat (WOW RLY?) and said that if customers can't make better health decisions, then it's certainly not THEIR responsibility to. I mean, I've probably seen healthier green things in a SEWER than a McDonald's salad. Their attempts at "healthy choices" are awful. Fast food isn't healthy, but not everything one eats HAS to be healthy - so long as it's only an infrequent occasion upon which that stuff is eaten.

Jack Thompson, McDonald's, and what seems like a frightening majority of American citizens all need to be told but one thing: there is no problem here except for the imbeciles who are supposed to raise these kids. No kid is getting his hands on a violent game if Mommy or Daddy don't allow it, no kid is having McDonald's for dinner every night unless the parentals go out and buy it. Is your kid rolling up to an EB and buying an overly violent game? What the hell is he doing shopping by himself, or at the very least, haven't you noticed an unexplained game title sitting next to his Xbox?

American parents need to wake the fuck up and stop producing an army of spoiled, lazy, entitlement-driven brats and actually start parenting them.

@ Bio - The real issue is that it's apparently becoming a western-world-wide epidemic. This tripe isn't coming from an American, but rather a brit. I shudder to think that our idiocy is spreading.

Wii Fit's in every restaurant, run fat kids run!

supersize me. do video games supply fat kids with fucked up food, food that has protein from worms put into, food that anti-vomit has to be put into. no!

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THE THUMBNAIL

Please don't speak.

I'm all about sitting on my ass playing games and Big Macs.. FUCKKKK I need to sue both, McDonalds AND vidya gaemz.

They turned me into a monster.