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In Jessica Lundgren’s essay, “Eating Fresh” in America: Subway Restaurant’s Nutritional Rhetoric, has stated many different strategies Subway uses in their commercials to persuade consumers that they are choosing the healthier choice when getting food at their fast food restaurants. Americans today are worried about what they can do to lose weight and maintain a good diet. Lundgren did a great job mentioning the five aspects to Subway’s nutritional claims that they follow which includes: the making of nutritional claims, a visual rhetoric that makes the restaurant’s “healthy” food options appear to be numerous and exciting, the comparison of the Subway product with the products of other, less “healthy” fast food restaurants, the clear indication

When the consumer has been served a days worth of calories in a meal that has probably over 1500 calories, and the cost of the meal is probably five dollars while eating at the establishment few times a week the consumer is at risk for many health issues. McDonalds adds many additives, sugar and salt to make their food tasty. Many health issues arise such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. With McDonalds not buying meat from the US, changing out oils, adding sugar and salt is a recipe for a failing restaurant when Americans are eating healthier, wanting more organic choices. and care what is going into their bodies and their children’s bodies. Restaurants like Chick-Fil-A are serving many healthy choices to choose from. The

Larissa Gedney wrote that fast food is often perceived as a completely unhealthy food choice, but lately fast food companies have upped their games in the health business. Just because they’ve gotten healthier it doesn’t mean that you should eat it four to five times a week. Some restaurants are better than others, for example McDonald's Bacon Clubhouse Crispy Chicken Sandwich is 750 calories, while Chick Fil A’s Chicken Sandwich is only 440! Caesar Barber could eat an elephant and gain less weight than eating at McDonald's.

After seeing the commercial, people that have never been to fast food restaurants or those that do not believe in fast foods, would go to the McDonald brand as they got the information that they offer nice food.The commercial meets some ethical standards which are set to regulate ads. The advertisement is within the limits of decency. The people in the place are well groomed as people would while they go to eat. The place is clean to appeal to the people on the health standards, they are catered

To start, McDonalds uses propaganda to manipulate people into consuming their food. This may not seem like an issue, but they do not educate their customers for what they are buying. For instance, one in four McDonald's don’t have their nutrition information in Manhattan. There are 83 McDonald’s in Manhattan, so almost 21 stores in the chain will not provide the nutritional information to their customers.

People may recognize the logo or read the company’s name because Bic is a common brand that many people are familiar with. “Learn more about safety at GrillwithBic.com” is at the bottom of the page. This line makes Bic seem more reliable because website shows that the company is official and that you can learn more about it easily. The ad appeals to pathos by using these phrases because they would make the targeted audience feel like Bic is the right brand to use. The phrase “More for your money… Always!” is the phrase that appeals to pathos the most because it would make the reader think that Bic and their lighter is affordable and worth it.

“Food portions in America's restaurants have doubled or tripled over the last 20 years, a key factor that is contributing to a potentially devastating increase in obesity among children and adults” (NHLBI, 2013). Not only have the portion sizes in restaurants increase over the years, but this increase has doubled and sometimes as much as five times larger than when first introduced (Young & Nestle, 2007). The Daily Council of California wrote that some meals that may appear average in size is a lot bigger and contain a lot more calories than expected. The authors further stated that a large order of fries could contain around 1,000 calories, and your favorite burger with an extra-large soda can total over 2000 calories in one sitting (Dairy Council of California, 2018). Wendy’s Dave Hot ‘Juicy ¾ Triple burger contains 1090 calories, the big breakfast with hot cakes at Macdonald can cost you about $5.99 but punish you with over 1350 calories for only one

The dollar menu was first introduced in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Burger King and Mcdonalds were some of the first to put this on their menu. In an article called “Healthy Food Access, the Built Environment, and Youth Perceptions: A Review of Literature” it said “unhealthy food items are easily accessible, cheaper, and better advertised to the younger population”(par. 4).This cheap and unhealthy way of living has been going on for 20 years. In addition since the first dollar menu, buying healthy foods is still very expensive. For example; a head of lettuce is more expensive than a cheeseburger at Burger King. There has not been any sort of change over this time period, with the amount of power these fast food restaurants have. Mcdonalds makes the most money out of all the fast food chains, worth billions of dollars. Other fast food chains such as Wendy's and Burger King are both worth almost ten billion. That goes to show the extreme power these fast food chains have in their possession.

"Typical fast food meals consist of hamburgers or cheeseburgers, french fries, and sugar-sweetened sodas. They are frequently 'super sized' at very little additional cost, encouraging children and

The food industry has cleverly manipulated millions of people's minds for the simple reason, money. They persuade you to purchase their products which benefits for them since they derive more money. An article from the Business Insider “This One Statistic Shows Just How Much McDonald's Tries To Entrench Itself In Everybody's Minds” written by Kim Bhasin, he writes how “McDonald's is the brand that spends the most on ads, racking up $963 million in ad spend last year.” This shows that this major industry would endeavor to that extent into spending that much money per year. According to the article “How Much do Companies Spend Marketing Junk Food to Children?” by Andrea Canada, she writes about how “Companies spend $1.79 billion annually to market food to children with only $280 million for healthy foods.” With this it shows that it’s not only McDonald’s that spend so much money to advertise unhealthy foods but other companies as well. Lastly, even if there are advertisements for healthier food, they aren’t promoted as much

In recent years there has been a growing epidemic of obesity, especially in America. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey posted on the Center for Disease Control website there are 12.5 million children from ages 2 through 19 that are obese. Many people are starting to complain that the commercials and ads for these restaurants are the result of such an incline in obesity. Although there have been current ad campaigns aiming at children to live a healthy life style there are still hundreds of advertisements that are putting restaurants in a sort of ultimatum position. Either restaurants change their advertisements or they improve their menus. In 1979 McDonalds debuted their world famous Happy Meals to the

What kind of message is the food industry sending when "one-fourth of the McDonalds in Manhattan don't have any nutritional information whatsoever"? On the streets of New York random people were asked what a calorie was and not one person could define the word "a calorie is the measure of the energy content in food." Wouldn't it be wise of the food industry to inform people of this information rather than to just post the nutrition facts on the side of a box? It is a form of media literacy when next to the picture of a salad they write "healthy" when in reality McDonalds salads are less healthy than a quarter pounder.

For decades the Fast-food industry has supplied Americans with tasty, comforting food, quickly and at a low cost. It was not until recently, when the health craze first hit America in the late 1980’s that the corporations developed a new approach to marketing health food products to fit their customer’s wants (Nielsen). The most common fast food chains, such as McDonalds and Subway, started advertising “healthier” food items on their menus to continue appealing to the general public. While fast food restaurants give the impression of offering healthy food, nutritionist studies show healthy alternatives are not as nutritious as advertised and can lead to possible calorie underestimation and overconsumption (Chandon 85). In order to

•In the recent times McDonalds has been blamed for the high fat content in its products and many consumers perceive that the food served at their outlets is not healthy. Also, the consumers are becoming increasingly health conscious these days. McDonalds

Obesity is probably the most significant issue facing the McDonald’s Company today. The corporation has been severally blamed for the menace due to its wide range of junk foods. As the world’s largest fast food company, it has become a target of most health related films such as Super Size Me. This is because the public blames the company for failing to give nutritional information concerning the items on its menu (Baron, 2010).