Only in America: The fast-food diet
A man loses weight by eating only McDonald's — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
An Iowa man claims he lost 37 pounds after eating only McDonald's for three months. John Cisna says he set calorie limitations and regularly exercised in order to lose weight while on the fast-food diet. "It's our choices that make us fat," he said. "Not McDonald's."
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