9A+Kevin+McHugh

Hello! My name is Kevin McHugh and I work at the Food Education Department of "Healthy Living." I created this page to show everyone the harmful effects of eating fast food. I have created several charts on fast food products at McDonald's. Please take the time to view these charts and notice what harmful effects eating fast food can do to your body.
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After my studies, I noticed a huge caloric difference between the healthier option as opposed to the poor choice meal. The healthier meal held only 670 calories, while the poor choice meal held 2,530 calories. The healthier meal had 25 fat grams, while the poor choice had 85 fat grams. The healthy meal had only 140 milligrams of sodium while the unhealthy meal had 1,400 milligrams of sodium. The healthy choice also held only 9 grams of sugar while the unhealthy choice held 113 grams of sugar. As you can see, there is a huge difference between eating healthy and eating unhealthily. If fast food in America never existed, America would be a healthier and skinnier place. Fast food is deffinetely not worth eating after seeing what it does to your body. It makes you fat, unhealthy and can cause disease or obesity. Fast food is one of the worst things you can do to your body. It is much better to eat healthy, so I hope that after you have seen these charts you will take into consideration what you put into your body.

__Questions For Reflection__
When Mr. Spurlock went to McDonald's, nutritional information is almost impossible to find. This is so because the people at McDonald's understand how terrible their food is for you, so they do not want you reading about what it actually does to your body. They know that if more people knew what they were consuming, and the effect it was having on their bodies, they would lose a tremendous amount of customers. Morgan Spurlock went through emotional and physical stress through his McDonald-ization. He threw up from the unhealthy items he consumed, and he found himself feeling depressed. Portion size of meals has changed over the years. Super sizing is no longer available at McDonald's because it is extremely unhealthy. McDonald's is able to lure young children to their restauraunt through advertisements, the clown and play houses for them. It can affect the children's future because they may wind up becoming fat and eating McDonald's all the time. Fast food is almost like the tobacco industry because they keep finding more and more about how bad it is for you. Eventually, people may even find that fast food is just as bad for you as tobacco. School lunches are becoming more and more unhealthy, and they are effecting students. Items such as Snapple and french fries have become an entire lunch for some students, which is extremely unhealthy.

Fast food is one of the most unhealthy things that you can do to your body. Take my advice and stay away from it. It may taste good, but in the end, eating it is not worth it.