McDonald’s trims fat to focus on healthy fare

YOU don’t normally associate low fat yoghurts, salads, orange juice and mineral water with burger chain McDonald’s, but from next month all of these items will be available from your nearest Golden Arches outlet.

Having racked up losses of $344 million in the last three months of 2002 the first losses ever reported by the company since it went public in 1965 McDonald's is just about stopping short of offering muesli alongside its Egg McMuffin in a bid to woo customers back.

Outlining the company's new vision to Wall Street analysts, chief executive officer Jim Cantalupo said burgers would be re-spiced, buns reconfigured so they toast better, sandwiches a company