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Hello, my name is Kiana Calandra and I am here to promote healthy eating habits and to inform you about the dangers of fast food establishments. Food education is very important in our lives today. A lot of today's population is very unhealthy and a lot of people are dying at a young age because of it. My first assignment was to react and tell you about the film "Supersize Me." When you are reading this page be sure to read everything! It gives you a lot of information about how dangerous it is to eat at these fast food places. When you are reading try and think about when you ate Wendy's (or any other fast food establishent) and how you felt after you ate it. I hope this page makes you think about what you are eating and the next time you want to eat at this place, you think about what will happen in the future.




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On the graphs you can see the difference in a healthier choice food option at Wendy’s and a poor choice option at Wendy’s, but what does that all mean? Well, in the healthier choice option there is only 820 calories, in the poor choice there is a total of 2390 calories. That’s more than one person is supposed to eat in a whole day! The caloric difference would be 1570 calories. In fat grams there is a difference of 65 grams. That’s a lot of fat you would be saving! In milligrams of sodium there is a difference of 1400 mg. and in saturated fats or grams of sugar the difference is 24.5g. Let’s suppose that Fast Food in America never existed, I think that there would be little to no obesity in the U.S.A. There were many conclusions I made regarding fast food after the analyzing of the data, one of the conclusions was that even if you pick the healthier choice that doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Another conclusion I made was that when you actually look at the ingredients of the food you can realize that you are eating sometimes more than half of what your suppose to be eating on a regular 2,000 calorie diet. The last conclusion I made what that if you want to eat at a fast food restaurant like Wendy’s the healthier choice saves you a lot of calories, sodium, saturated fats, and fats.

Reflection: In the movie,Super Size Me, Mr. Spurlock goes to sevral different McDonald's restaurants, he tries to find posters and handouts with nutritional information and discovers that they are very difficult to read or to find at all. This happened beacause McDonald's does not want there customers to know how un-healthy there food is. When Morgan Spurlock started to eat McDonalds a lot of things chanegd about him. For example, he starts to gain weight and he had an increase of liver disease. Morgan also changed emotionally. He was happy everytime he ate and he wanted more and more of it. He was becoming addicted.When he did not eat McDonalds he got moody and depressed. McDonald's lures young children into the place by the toys and Ronlad McDonald. The toys that the food establishment promises is really what the kids want. Some parents dont realize the dangers in this. If your kids eat this food then there children are probably goint to eat this food. All of this starts with the parents. The kids at school choose to eat the lunch that they are eating. The descisions of eating all begins with the parent/guardian. Some of these kids were eating massive amounts of food, Some of them are only eating a bag of chips. Both of these are not good eating habits. A usual lunch assists of maybe a sandwhich and a snack, that would be a normal amount of food, not 2 sandwhiches, a couple snacks and drink. That is an unbelievable amount of food for just one kid to eat!