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**Welcome! My name is Emily Handley and I work for the company Healthy Living. I work in their Food Education department. It was my job to analyze the movie "Supersize Me" and to compile data from the film about food education and nutrition.**


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Making the better choices at Burger King is more beneficial than the poor choices. If you are planning to eat at Burger King you should make the better choice. However, no matter what food you get, none of it will be healthy. The caloric difference between the healthier meal option and the poor choice meal option is 1910 calories. The difference in total fat grams between the better and poor meal choices is 103 grams and the difference in milligrams of sodium is 1950 milligrams. There is a 28.5 gram difference in saturated fat between the healthier and poor choice meal options at Burger King.

If fast food in America never existed, I’m almost positive that the country would already be a lot healthier. There is so much fat and sodium in fast food. Fast food is one of the main contributors to obesity. Some people eat fast food everyday of their lives. That’s not healthy! I also think that if there was never any fast food, people would be a lot more energetic. All of the fats in fast food make a person a lot sleepier and more slow moving. Fast food is not good for a person’s body.

After analyzing the data, I have concluded that if you are planning to get fast food that it would be better for the health of your body that you make the healthier choice option. However, it would be best to just not eat at Burger King at all. While researching the food options at Burger King, I found that there is no real healthy choice. The healthiest dessert there is funnel cake sticks. Funnel cake sticks have 300 calories and 210 mg of sodium. To me that can’t be classified as a healthy meal option. If I were you I would skip eating dessert at Burger King. Actually, I would skip eating at Burger King all together.



Morgan Spurlock went to several McDonald’s restaurants in search of posters and handouts with nutritional information and discovered that they were difficult to read or there were none at all. This is because McDonald’s doesn’t want their customers to know just how bad their food really is. Fast food has absolutely no nutritional value. Many people know that fast food isn’t great for them, but not many people know just how terrible it truly is. McDonald’s knows that if their customers knew what their food does to a person’s health, they wouldn’t eat there anymore. Morgan wanted to see how many places actually had the nutritional facts and pamphlets.

During Morgan’s McDonald-ization, he had many changes in his emotion, and physical health. Morgan gained 27 pounds in his 30 days on only McDonalds. He started having heart palpitations, which increased his risk of having a heart attack. Morgan started to have liver and kidney failure because of all of the fat and sodium in all of the food he was eating. Also, he stared changing emotionally. Immediately after eating Morgan would get depressed and would crave the food. Then, right when he would eat, he would get happy again and he wouldn’t be depressed anymore. It just showed that all of that fast food was messing up his body.

In the movie, they talked about the appropriate serving sizes. At McDonalds, the right serving size is a small. If you were to get a supersized soda it would be 42 ounces. A small soda at McDonalds is only 16 ounces. The supersized soda is almost 3 times as big as the small. Sizes at McDonalds have changed over the years though. Shortly after "Supersize Me" came out, McDonalds stopped offering supersized meal options. Instead, they changed the medium into the small, the large into the medium, and the supersized into the large. That is so people will thank they are only having a small when they are really having a medium. Even the kiddie size is big, the drink is 14 ounces.

McDonalds has many techniques and ways to lure kids into the restaurant. For instance, in most McDonalds there is a big, colorful jungle gym either inside or outside. Also, McDonalds gives out free toys to the children in the happy meals. There is also the mascot of McDonalds, Ronald McDonald, who gives out toys and on the television commercials, he plays with the kids and makes them laugh. In the movie it showed that more kids knew Ronald McDonald better than they knew George Washington. One kid thought that Jesus was George Bush. I would conclude that McDonalds caters to kids because kids love bright colorful places with a clown as a mascot and a play area outside. These factors contribute to why McDonalds is so wildly popular with young children.