4A+Kaitlyn+Coyne

Hello. My name is Kaitlyn Coyne and I just completed an intership at Healthy Living, and currently working full time for Healthy Living in their Food Education Department. As my first assignment, I had to react to the film "Supersize Me" and to take all of the data I have prepared and put it into a wiki website. This way, people who view the website can make sense of my conclusions.
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There were many differences health wise between my better choice meal and my poor choice meal. The difference in calories was 1570. The difference in sugrar was 24.5 grams. The difference in total fat was 65 grams. Lastly, the difference in milligrams of sodium was 1400. I strongly belive that if there was no fast food in America, obesity would almost be extinct. There were many conclusions I made regarding fast food. One conclusion I made was that if you make a better choice for your meal, you can be saving a great amount of calories, sugar, fat and sodium. Another conclusion I made was that fast food is not good for you even if you do get the better choices.

Reflection: In the movie Super Size Me, Mr. Spurlock went to several McDonald's. He asked for nutritional information sheets, but most of the resturants neglected to have them, and if they did, they were in extremley small print. I belive this happened because McDonald's doesn't want anyone to know how un-nutritional their food actually is. Morgan went through many physical and emotional changes. He gained a lot of body fat, and his cholestoral sky-rocketed. He had an increased change of liver disease and heart attack after the "experiment" was over. Emotionally, Morgan would become very depressed and moody when he did not get McDonald's. The documentary shows how McDonnald's lures young children. One way that McDonnald's do this is by making all happy meals come with toys. Another way is that their "mascot" is Ronnald McDonnald, a friendly clown. I would conclude that McDonnald's caters to kids because they have playgrounds in many McDonnald's, and they have birthday parties. In "Supersize Me," many people compared tobacco to the fast food industry. They then said, "Is Fat the Next Tobacco?" What they meant by this was that tobacco is very addictive and kills many people every year. This relates to the fast food industry because obesity is increasing in America every year and is killing people every year also. Now people are starting to belive that fat is becoming the next leading killer in America next to tobacco, and soon, obesity will become as bad as smoking.