4a+Summer+Baranello

=__ ﻿ Food Choices at McDonalds and supersize me comparisons __= and bad choices. I have also given my reaction and personal thoughts to watching this movie. Here is what I came up with. ||
 * Hello. My name is Summer Baranello and I am a Food Educator who works for the company Healthy Living. I have currently finished watching the film “Super Size Me”. I have created graphs and charts for the comparison between good choices
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 * [[image:summer's_sodium.JPG width="345" height="200"]] || [[image:summer's_total_fat.JPG width="359" height="206"]] ||

=Analysis = 1.What is the caloric difference between your healthier meal option and the poor choice meal option? A- The caloric difference between the two meals is 1440 . 2.What is the fat grams difference between your healthier meal option and the poor choice option? A- The fat grams difference between the two meals is 51.5g. 3.What is the milligrams of sodium difference between your healthier meal option and the poor choice option? A-The milligrams of sodium difference between the two meals is 975mg. 4.What is the saturated fat or grams of suger difference between your healthier meal option and the poor choice option? A-The saturated fat or grams of sugar difference between the two meals is 32g. 5.Suppose fast foood in America never existed. What might be different in the USA today? A-If there was no fast food the world would have a lower obesity count and some people would find it harder to go out and buy a quick snack during an activity. Also the population would be a bit larger and a large amount of people would be much healthier. 6.What conclusions can you make regarding fast food after analyzing the data? A-Fast food can be healthy and unhealthy, but it all depends on the persons choice. They can choose to make a good decision or a bad decision.

=Reflection = ﻿Mr Spurlock goes to several McDonald's restaurants in search of posters and handouts with nutritional information and discovers they are difficult to read or not available at all.This is not totally the business's fault. If the American people actually cared about the nutritional value that much they would of asked the workers themselves. They obviously were not asked a lot by the customers for these charts because they would of put them up in the stores for people to see. The film discussed portion sizes and serving sizes. A sensibal portion size is a small. It is more than enough because over the years the small serving size became the medium, the medium became the large, the large became the extra lrage and then came supersize. These portions are very large and more then enough for one meal. The film compares the current fast food revolution to the tabacco industry. One speaker posed the question,"Is Fat <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the Next Tabacco?" They were discussing the addictive trait in the food that is sold for consumption. The food stimulants <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and the chemical combination of sodium and certain fats is what creates the craving throughout the brain.The film also <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">discussed school lunch programs and " a box cutter is a chef's tool", as well as natural foods and the effect on students <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">of an alternative school.The major points in the film that surrounded these ideas were most of the foods sold in schools <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">are artificail. The schedule for the school shows only a few times a month they completly cook one small portion of a meal. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Almost everyday the children and teachers consume this artificial food and this is considered very unhealthy. I think they <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">should still cook the food at the school. Obviously there is a large number of mouths to feed, but their are many healthy <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">recipes that can be made in short amounts of time. So there is no excuse for lazy cooks. If they dont want to cook at all <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">then they should not have applied for that specific job. All of these unhealthy choices can be altered in some way to make <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">it much healthier.