9A+Ashley+Belgrave

My name is Ashley Belgrave, and I work for the Healthy Living corparation. My job is to talk about fast food, and both the negative and positive effects it may have on American society. to help explain these efects I have used exapmles from the film "Supersize Me" as well as the graphs I have prepared about fast food.






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 * Analysis **

Many fast food meals have bad choices that cause you to gain weight or become extremely sick. However, you do have the oppourinty to make a better choices at a fast food restaraunts. At McDonlads, the caloric difference between a healthy choice and poor choice meal is 2,030 calories, the difference in fat is 69g, the difference in sodium is 2,400 mg, and the difference in saturated fat is 50.5 grams. Many Americans countine to make the poor choicing to eat an unhealthy meals even though resturants still sell healthier options. The positive effect of fast food never existed in the United States, is not having about 39.8 million people or every 1 out 6 people died beause they are overwieght. Ultimately, people should make so many poor choices regarding fast food. Instead they should learn to bvecome more aware of what they are eating and puting inot their bodies. Overall, fast food people should make better choices when it comes from fast food, or they can become unhealthy and gain weight.

** Relfection **  In the documentary, "Supersize Me", Morgan Spurlock decides to chanllenge himself to eat nothing but food from McDonalds for a month. During this film, they show how Morgan's health was effected, as well as the health of other people in the U.S. Mr. Spurlock found that nutritional menus are hard to read or not available beacuase McDonlads wants people become less aware of how unhealthy their meals really are, causing the costumer to eat more and spend more money. McDonalds lures young children by giving them things they want. The reason McDonalds does this is to have the children also want their food causing the child to send more of their money on their product. McDonlads advertisments is one of the main ways they cause a kids to want their food. the comppany will usaully spend billions of dollars on these comericals making them kid friendly, showing how the meal always comes with a free toy. Sometimes in these commericals kids see and other children their age hanging out with Ronald McDonald. During the film, Morgan had dicussed the different portion sizes, and the differnce between sensible portions and supersized portions.Sensible portions are enough to make you satifated as if you may be eating a regular meal, and nothing more. Supersize portions, are extremley large. Over the years, the average portion sizes at fast food rehturantrs has skyrocketed, which caused the sale of huge unneccessary food amounts. During the film, you began to notice Morgan going through some changes emotionally, physically and socially. He gains over 15 pounds in that month because of the challenege. Also the doctoors were able to tell that his bad cholestoral level went up sharply, and that a noticeable amount of his vital organ function were decreasing. Emotionally, he becomes depressedafter eating, and while he eatshis meals, which caused him to get a euphoria. You would also began to notice that Morgan's behavior was similar to a drug addict trying to quit.