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**__ Analysis __** I have been hired by the company //Healthy Living// for their Food Education department. My assignment is to react to the film “Supersize Me” and prepare my analyzed data into a Wiki website. I had to pick a fast food restaurant and find and analyze different meals on their menu. Finally, I have to reflect on what I have done as the end result. I started off by making a healthier meal option and a poor choice meal option for //Wendy’s//. There was a 980 caloric difference between the two options. The healthier meal option contained 31 grams of fat and the poor choice meal option contained 99 grams of fat, which is a difference of 68 grams of fat. Also, in the healthier meal option there was 2,650 milligrams of sodium and in the poor choice meal option there was 2,935 milligrams of sodium. That is a 285 milligram difference between the two options. Finally, the healthier meal option had 18 grams of sugar and the poor choice meal option had 36 grams of sugar. That is an 18 gram difference between the two options. As you can see there is a major difference between the two options.

If Fast Food in America never existed we would have less of an obese population. There would probably be a decrease in diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol in the U.S. Also people would not have to spend money on fast food, and may spend more time at home eating together. People would have to prepare food at home instead of going through a drive- thru.

After analyzing the data regarding fast food my conclusions are, that eating fast food is unhealthier than I thought. The large amounts of sodium and sugar that are in fast food increases people’s risks of getting diabetes and high blood pressure. Finally, the more saturated fat that people take in (eat) increases the chance of them becoming obese.

**__ Reflection __** In the movie “Supersize Me”, Morgan Spurlock takes on the challenge of discovering what fast food does to someone’s body. Morgan goes to many of the McDonald restaurants in New York City for this project. Morgan Spurlock goes through physical, emotional, and social changes during his McDonald-ization. Physically Morgan gained a lot of weight, headaches, got tired more easily, he started to get heart palpitations, and he had fat accumulations to his liver. Morgan gained 17 pounds in twelve days, and gained a total of approximately 24.5 pounds at the end of his experiment. Morgan also experienced emotional changes, such as depression and mood swings. Since he was depressed he was mostly tired and did not have the energy he had before. Morgan socially changed, for example when he started his project he would interact with people in the restaurants. After a while he would just stay to himself.

During the documentary, Morgan talks about how McDonalds lures in young children. He explained that McDonalds caters to kids by making a happy meal, putting a toy inside every happy meal purchased, commercials, a playground on the property, and parties. In the movie Morgan was allowed to interview young children, so he showed them flashcards with different pictures on them. The flashcards that all of the kids easily recognized were fast food places and their logos, for example McDonalds. I feel that McDonalds does cater to young children because they are an easy target. Kids will enjoy the toys, playground, and will ask their parents to come back again and again.

This film compares the tobacco and fast food industries, saying that they are the same in many ways. Both industries sell products that people can become addicted to and that are unhealthy. For example in the movie, a man told Morgan that for one month he had at least two Big Macs a day. That became his routine and he became dependent on it. Like tobacco people know that it is unhealthy, but when they start to use tobacco or eat fast food frequently it is hard to stop the cycle.

“Supersize Me” discussed how school lunches should be more balanced, have more healthy options, as well as natural foods. During the taping of this movie Morgan visited a school lunchroom. They showed a girl purchasing chips, a pop tart, a muffin, and a sugared drink. The lunch lady said that they can’t monitor what kind of lunch the students are having, and that may be her snack. They filmed the girl going back to her table, and that was her lunch. A recommendation that I would make for my school is that they would have more healthy options, that they would make more food there, and not have it brought in by another company. This task was a great experience to learn from. I learned a lot while creating this page, such as fast food businesses, and fast food in general. I would like to research more about this topic in the future.