4A+Kayla+Golub

Welcome to my page! My name is Kayla Golub and I am a current employee of the Farmingdale McDonalds. On this page you will be able to view the healthy choices and the un-healthy choices available to you at McDonalds.
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 * 1) The caloric difference between the healthier meal options and the poor meal options is 2485 calories.
 * 2) The fat difference between the healthier meal options and the poor meal options is 91 grams of fat.
 * 3) The sodium difference between the healthier meal options and the poor meal options is 2395 milligrams of sodium.
 * 4) The saturated fat difference between the healthier meal options and the poor meal options is 46.5 of saturated fat.
 * 5) If fast food in America never existed many people would not be over-weight or obese. There might be better solutions for people on the road, in airports, train stations, in cities, etc.
 * 6) Fast food isn't that bad for you when you don’t have a lot of it. If you make the right choices in the food that you eat there, nothing will go wrong. You shouldn’t have fast food every day, healthy or unhealthy; it's still not good for you. 1 or 2 times a month is enough to have fast food.

The movie Supersize me relates a lot to my job. If you have McDonalds for 30 days for every meal you eat and are limited to a certain amount of exercise every day, you will not be healthy. You will especially not be healthy if you have to eat every item on the menu at least 1 time, and if offered to supersize you must supersize. The scenario that Mr. Spurlock was in was a bad commitment but it was worse that it had to be fast food, but that was the whole point of the movie.

Handouts or posters with nutritional information are not going to be found easily because of how bad the nutritional information is. If that certain McDonalds did happen to have the nutritional information available to you, it was difficult to read. It’s difficult to read because the McDonald employees and owners don’t want it easily available to the customers because they might see the poor/ un-healthy choices on the menu and not want to come back again. Also if the nutritional information isn’t available at all the consumers might think that the corporation is hiding what is in the food and not want to come back.

Mr. Spurlock went through a lot of changes throughout the film. The most obvious change was the weight gain that occurred. Eating all the fat, sodium, cholesterol, etc. will cause the weight gain he occurred. Mr. Spurlock also lost some weight during the film that happened because the weight he was gaining (fat), weighs less than the weight he started with (muscle). He had also gotten really sad or mad when he wasn’t eating McDonald’s and he always craved it. It had become an addiction to him. Mr. Spurlock had also not been very sociable during the 30 days this experiment took place.

Sensible portions are a lot more reasonable compared to a super-size portion. Sensible portions such as small, medium, or large are all a lot smaller and healthier for you. Supersize portions are not meant for 1 person to eat it is meant to be shared among a group of people. Over the years, at McDonald’s and other fast food restaurants have all had the sizes increase. The company started out with only 1 size drink, fries, etc. and now the sizes are small, medium, large, and supersize. Fast food used to be a lot healthier for people when they only had 1 size (the size is the small that we have today).

McDonald’s pulls kids and families in to eating there. McDonalds lure young children in by having commercials, a character/ clown that’s friendly and loves kids, a playhouse inside or outside, hosting birthday parties and they happy meals with a free toy (different toys each week). McDonald’s caters more to kids than any other age-group of people. They try to draw the kids in because then the parents will take them there and they will get more business. McDonalds hosts birthday parties to kids and the birthday party will include: goodie bags for each child, placemats, invitations, party hats, games and prizes, balloons, giveaways, birthday boy/girl greeting banner, and a character appearance.

Therefore, this experiment wasn’t such a great idea because it had put a risk on Mr. Spurlock’s life. McDonald’s and all other fast food restaurants do not like giving out nutritional information because although they do have some smart and healthy choices to eat, they also have some poor and un-healthy choices, too. If you do decide to eat at McDonalds, you should make smart choices. For example, you don’t need to supersize what you are ordering, and you can make the smart and good choices instead of the poor and un-healthy choices that are also available to you. McDonald’s has many ways to lure families in, for birthday parties or even just for a regular meal, but it works because it’s just something they are really superior at doing.