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No one, with all the information available today, could blame the fast food corporations for their own obesity if they choose to eat fast food every day for every meal. The movie, Super Size Me starring Morgan Spurlock, is very realistic in portraying how someone's health will respond to binge eating fast food. This documentary explores the consequences of eating only McDonalds for a month. No intelligent individual could possibly be surprised by the outcome: gaining weight and raising his body mass index (BMI). Although his health problems were extreme, including near-catastrophic liver damage, his course of action was extreme as well. This movie shows that the people who develop serious health problems from eating fast food are those who are completely oblivious to health and insist on eating greasy fast food for every meal. In fact, Scott Caswell provides a different, more realistic perspective in his movie, Bowling for Morgan, where he eats more sensible meals, losing twenty pounds and lowering his cholesterol. Caswell claims, "You don't get fat by eating McDonald's. You get fat by overeating while making documentaries about getting fat." If you try to make yourself become fat or are irresponsible enough to not make good decisions, then you will get fat. However, people who want to spoil themselves at certain times should not be deprived of the apparent difference of taste more

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

Fast food might be easy and cheap but people do not realize how harmful the food is for their bodies. The problem is the food that is served at these types of restaurants, especially McDonalds, are high in fat, salt, processed, and can have harmful ingredients included in the food. While home cooked food takes time to plan and make people know what they are eating, that isn’t the case at McDonalds: “McDonald’s burgers retain its fresh appearance for a very long time. This can easily fool customers who do not have a hint of this alteration in their burgers. The use of excessive preservatives is harmful for your health which McDonalds seems to overlook for gaining more and more

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.

“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.

In 2004, a movie called Supersize Me was a documentary that came out to show the effects of eating fast food consecutively for 30 days. Morgan Spurlock decided to record and document his experience of eating Mcdonalds for every meal for 30 days to show the world what eating fast-food frequently could do to a person's health and body. So, for 30 days he ate Mcdonald's greasy sodium and sugar filled food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, which at the end of the 30 days he had gained weight, damaged his liver, developed depression, and lost sexual function. Spurlock had concluded that living off of nothing but fast-food can be detrimental to a person's health both physically and mentally and supports my point that fast-food can be unhealthy if eaten frequently, but also rewarding with the right food choices and if eaten in moderation.

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.

•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

Because of the omnipotence of fast food chains in America, when we feel the urge for an easy meal, Americans, in general, immediately look to the fast food nation for a quick suppression to their hunger. Because we live in a time-is-money society the most efficient means of hunger satisfaction is the almighty drive-through. Corporations spend billions of dollars advertising to enhance sales of their products. With American catching on to the lack of healthy food options in the fast food nation, fast food chains began campaigning healthier food such as their salads and fruit cups. However salads may sound healthy but a Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken from McDonalds has 320 calories and 90 grams of fat. Where's the

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

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

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).