According to news reports Prince Charles, whilst visiting the Imperial College London Diabetes Center in Abu Dhabi, commented to their nutritionists "Have you got anywhere with McDonald's? Have you tried getting it banned? That's the key.". McDonalds response was that they had moved on and included more healthy options on their menu. That's certainly true and fair play to them for that.

However the fact remains that if you're looking for a healthy meal McDonalds probably isn't the place that you think of going. That would be akin to calling at your local knocking shop and requesting a peck on the cheek. No, if you're going to go to McDonalds then in all probability what you want is a Big Mac, Medium Fries, small Chocolate Triple Thick Shake. To you sir or madam that will be 1360 calories and 59g of fat, all served up with a sullen grunt from an economic migrant.

Meanwhile, what of Prince Charles' food preferences? This from the Telegraph web site: "Two of the mutton dishes Prince Charles enjoyed at the Ritz were prepared from sheep grazed at his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire. Gary Rhodes said the campaign had revived his own interest in mutton and he now served a variant of Irish stew made from mutton encased in a suet pudding." The fact remains that posh restaurants are just as prone to serving up high calorie, high fat dishes as any junk food restaurant. Are we going to ban those too? At least McDonalds are good enough to publish their nutritonal facts on their web site, something which I don't expect to see The Ritz do any time soon.

So perhaps it's best to stay at home and enjoy healthy food there. My advice to all of you is to ensure that your kitchen staff have read Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle so that they can serve up meals according to its nutritional recommendations. Get your Personal Private Secretary to have a word with your butler about that.

Sorry, what do you mean you haven't got a butler?