Friday, October 23, 2009
Super Size Me
Morgan Spurlock shows the effects of fast food on a person's body by going on an all McDonald's diet for thirty days. Morgan starts out as a healthy male with a body weight of 185 lbs. After eating McDonald's for only two weeks, he gains over five pounds. After twenty days he is advised to stop his diet because it may cause irreversible harm. Morgan Spurlock weighs over 200 lbs. and endangers his liver at the end of his McDonald's diet. Fast food is addicting and extremely unhealtlhy, especially when consumed on a regular basis. Many assume it to be a major cause of obesity. Fast food industries have a lot of influence in many places, like congress. Fast food manufacturers know that what's in their food is unhealthy, but they do not put money in researching ways to make their food more healthy even though they can. People don't choose to be healthy either. People choose the convenience and taste fast food instead of eating healthy, so it's not just the fault of the fast food industry. Fast food is a problem because of the obesity it causes, but there is little action being taken to reduce obesity and one of its major causes, fast food.
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I agree but to a certain extent Mcdonald is not trying to find a healthy option they dont care. All there trying to do is serve food thats good and have a good taste not trying to help their consumers lose wieght. Mc donalds pride themselve on being fast and cheap, most of the times vegatable arent cheap and hard to make good in a mass production. I dont think it is Mc donald responsibility to make food healthy but to put in their consumers laps just how many calories. This society is moving to fast and we have a problem slowing down for just a minute to cook dinner. Kids shouldnt make Mc donalds or even fast food their primary source of food.
ReplyDeleteI also find in certain communitied Fast food is all over the place it isnt neccessary to have all those fast food restuaurants. In the inner city they should have restrictions on having so many fast food restuarants they lore in children to eat unhealthy things putting pressure on them. Thats why I move to take away so many fast food restuarants