5A+Chad+Bender

I'm Chad Bender and I'm an intern at Healthy Living.






 * Analysis **

The caloric difference between my healthier meal option and my poor choice meal option is 1690 calories. The poor choice meal option was 2,740 calories for one meal, which is 700 calories more than the average daily calorie intake. The difference between the fat grams in the healthier meal option and the fat grams in the poor choice meal option is 83 grams. The poor choice meal option totaled at 137 grams of fat, while the healthier choice option was only 54 grams of fat. The difference between the milligrams of sodium in the healthier meal option and the milligrams of sodium in the poor choice meal option is 2,230 milligrams of sodium. The poor choice option was 3,690 milligrams of sodium, while the healthier option was still 1,460 milligrams of sodium. The difference between the saturated fat in the healthier meal option and the saturated fat in the poor choice meal option is 46.5 saturated fat. The poor choice meal option had 59 saturated fat, while the healthier option still had 12.5 saturated fat.

What conclusions can you make regarding fast food after analyzing the data? A conclusion I can make regarding fast food after analyzing the data is that the food served at Burger King locations are very unhealthy. The poor choice meal options are far worse than anything. The healthier meal options are still unhealthy, locking in around 1,050 calories for one meal. If the average human consumes about 2000 calories a day, a "healthy" Burger King meal is 50% of your daily calorie intake.


 * Reflection **

1. 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. Why? 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 might be because McDonald’s does not want many people to know how unhealthy there food products are. For example, Mr. Spurlock goes to about a dozen McDonald’s restaurants in New York. Only about two of them have the actual information in a take-home pamphlet. The rest had a hard to find health chart in either the back of the kitchen or the basement, or no information about their food whatsoever. Most of McDonald’s food is clearly unhealthy, according to Mr. Spurlock’s results. This makes it clear why McDonald’s is not so bold about their food products. 3. The film discussed portion sizes and serving sizes. What are sensible portions verses supersize portions? How have portion sizes changed over the years?

The film discussed portion sizes and serving sizes. Supersize portions are proven to be extremely unhealthy by Morgan Spurlock. Sensible portions would be about three times smaller than the supersize portions served by McDonald’s. The only reasonable portion served at McDonald’s is the small meal. Over the years and throughout the history of fast food and McDonald’s, portions have tripled, if not nearly quadrupled since the arrival of fast food to America. A “healthy” meal at a fast food restaurant still adds up to around 50% of human’s average daily calorie intake.