4a+Daniel+Laine

Welcome to my page! My name is Daniel Laine, and I work for "Healthy Living". My job here is to discuss fast food and it's effect on American society using examples from the film "Supersize Me", and by graphs I have prepared about fast food.






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ANALYSIS

Fast food is full of bad choices that can make people gain weight and hurt their health. However, better choices are available in fast food restaraunts. At Wendy's, the caloric difference between a healthy choice and poor choice meal is 1550 calories, the difference in fat is 63g, the difference in sodium is 1460 mg, and the poor choice meal has 16.5 more grams of saturated fats. Even though these options are available for much healthier meals, most Americans do not make healthy choices. If fast food never existed in the United States, the general population would be much thinner and healthier. Ultimately, people can make better choices regarding fast food, but do not. Instead of getting high calorie and fat meals, people can substitute their food items for healthier ones. Overall, fast food makes people less healthy and makes them gain weight.

REFLECTION

During the documentary, "Supersize Me", Morgan Spurlock consumes nothing but food from McDonalds for a full month. Throughout the film, they show what has happened to Morgan's health, as well as peoples healthiness in the U.S., and the effect of fast food on bad health. Mr. Spurlock found that nutritional menus are hard to read or not available. This is so that people are less aware how unhealthy their meals are, so they eat more and spend more money. McDonalds lures young children by giving them things they want. I would conclude that McDonalds caters to kids, in order to gain them and their parents as customers, and so the kids become very dependent on McDonalds and fast food. To do this, they advertising kid friendly meals, giving out free toys, and having cartoons with Ronald McDonald. During the film, portion sizes are discussed, and the difference between sensible portions and supersized portions. Sensible portions are enough to make you feel full, and nothing more. Supersize portions, however, are unneccesarily large. Over the years, the average portion size has skyrocketed into huge amounts of unneccessary food. Throughout the film, Morgan goes through changes emotionally, physically and socially. He gains over 15 pounds during the movie due to an extremely unhealthy and fatty diet. His bad cholestoral level went up sharply, and his vital organ function decreased a notable amount. Emotionally, he becomes sad and sick after eating, and while he eats, he gets a euphoria. This is similar to behavior of a drug addict trying to quit.