9A+Mike+Fernandez

Hi my name is Mike Fernandez and I work for Healthy Living at the the Food Education department. At many fast food stops, there are a lot of calories, fats, and sodium, try having a salad and instead of that large Coca Cola, have a bottle of water. If people make healthy choices wherever they go, their life would be better and they would have less risks. Please take some time to check out the graphs and facts about McDonalds and what to have there.




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===﻿ ﻿ ﻿﻿ Hi, my name is Mike Fernadez, I work for Healthy Living in the Food Education department. There are many healthy choices at resturants and fast food joints. However, there are many unhealthy choices at resturants and fast food places. For example, at McDonalds, the healthy choice diet has 980 calories while the poor choice diet has 2,530 calories. Now, thats a difference of 1,550 calories. Also, at Mickey D's, the grams of total fat of the healthy choice diet is 47 grams while the grams for the poor choices 85 grams. The total difference of the grams are 38 grams. Next, the better choice diet has 1,085 milligrams of sodium while the poor choice diet has 1,760 milligrams of sodium, making a difference of 675 milligrams of sodium. Finally, the total amount of saturated fat grams for the better choice diet is 10 grams while the amount of saturated fat grams for the poor choice diet is 32 grams, making a difference of 22 grams. If fast food never existed, it would be a good and bad thing because the obesity rate would go down however I think that people would not get a lot of food because I think food prices would jump. Conclusively, fast food is bad for you, but it makes food more affordable. The total amount of anything like calories or saturated fat will always be higher for the poor choice meal. In my opinion, I say that there should be more healthy choices and people should be making those ﻿ choices too. ===

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=== ﻿ ﻿ ﻿My job is just like Mr. Spurlock's in which we both try to educate the person who is eating. The difference is that I work for a company, he doesn't. Mr. Spurlock went to several McDonalds restaurants and tried to find where they kept their nutritional information. he discovered that the items were hard to find because McDonalds doesn't want anyone to know what is in or what they are eating. If they did want people to see their nutritional facts, it would probably be in one of their "supposed" healthy meals. McDonalds goal is to lure in children because they either don't know or don't care about what they are eating. They lure children in by advertising, their cartoon that McDonalds had for a while, and they lure them in by their happy meal with toy. McDonalds caters for kids, they just don't care about what they eat, they care about their profits and money. People compare how fat is the next tobacco, they mean that food is addictive and we need to eat it, and obesity death rates are rising. They relate it to the fast food industry and fast food restaurants. McDonalds has recently gotten rid of their supersize me portion. McDonalds should just stick to the small and medium sizes. The sizes went from small and not a lot to a lot and larges with more money. All in all, my job is just like Mr. Spurlock's job. We both try to discover what companies are giving their customers. We both try to educate the consumer. ===