Important: “A typical [McDonald’s] Value Meal (Big Mac, medium fries, medium Coke) delivers about 1,200 calories and three-quarters of a day’s quota of saturated fat,” the letter states. “That is exactly the type of diet that the federal government’s ‘Dietary Guidelines for Americans’ and ‘The Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health’ have recommended against.” Surgeon General David Satcher recently issued a “call to action” on overweight and obesity, saying that those problems “may soon cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking.”