Apple slices are one of the healthiest meal choices served at fast-food restaurants today, but only upon request of the customer. Instead the customer is automatically supplied with greasy trans-fat filled French fries. (Tucker,Charlotte) If the fast-food companies would give the apple slices as the standard the America Public Health Association (APHA) pronounced (affa) says that meals would be much healthier. APHA is a research company solely dedicated to studying health factors of food and the health of the individual who consumes the product. With three out of every five people in the United States obese or over weight, partly due to the very unhealthy options served at these fast-food restaurants. The fast-food industry does provide a few healthier choices but what they fail to do is display them as much as they do their unhealthier alternatives. The fast-food industry has made a few strides to provide healthier options, but they are not doing enough. A couple of the strides they have made are offering some items the McDonalds Corporations lists as “healthy options.” One of these products that I would like to bring to your attention is the oatmeal that McDonalds serves. McDonalds claims that this product is healthy for you with all of its dehydrated fruits and nuts they serve with it. What they do not show is the extremely high amounts of sugar and salts that this oatmeal contains inside its cup. The oatmeal is offered in the mornings as a healthy option but in fact it has the same amount of calories as a double-cheeseburger. (Bittman, Mark) In addition to the oatmeal being offered as an alternative many fast-food restaurants have began offering fruits such as apple slices, raisins, and dehydrated banana chips. These are... ... middle of paper ... ...ica on the horizon. Works Cited Yahia,Najat. “ Eating habits and obesity among Lebanese University Students.” Nutritional. Journal. 18, Oct. 2008 Web. 17 Feb. 2011 Tucker,Charlotte. “ Study Fast- Food Chains Targeting Kids Through Unhealthy Options.” The Nations Health. 7 Jan. 2011 Web. 21 Feb. 2011 “Fattening Up Asia” Investigators Chronicle Magazine and Web Content. 7 Jan. 2010. Web. 21 Feb. 2011 “Fast- Food Restaurants In The U.S. Industry Market Research Report – New Report Published; Newly Released Report, Fast Food Restaurants In The U.S Industry Market Research Report, Provides Detailed Company Analysis.” Official Spin 10 Nov. 2010 Web. 21Feb 2011. Morrison, Maureen. “ Kids Seeing More Fast- Food Ads?” Advertising Age. 21 Dec. 2010 Web 17 Feb. 2011 Bittman, Mark “How to make Oatmeal … Wrong.” New York Times 7 Jan 2011 Web 20 Feb 2011
people, with 650 million of those being obese. Also, 41 million preschool children were overweight in 2016. Imagine how many there would be now? There are more deaths linked to overweight people than underweight, according to (World Health Organization, 2018). ‘Supersize Me’ is a documentary, created in 2004, which investigates
Analysis of Documentary: Supersize Me The McDonald’s Corporation, the largest fast food chain in the world, was once known as a carefree place for people to consume a cheap and convenient meal. However, in the last decade, the restaurant has transformed into the main representation of global obesity. In 2004, an expository documentary was released that gave audiences a chance to view the effects of consuming an excessive amount of fast food from McDonald’s. This film, Supersize Me, effectively delivers
to show the difficulties that the south central farmers faced. Another documentary that I have seen is “Supersize Me”. The plot of the documentary highlights obesity in America due to easy access of fast food. The documentary provides facts such as America is the most obese nation in the
Super-Size Me Super-Size Me is a 2004 documentary by Morgan Spurlock. He is an American independent filmmaker. This documentary explores the fast food industry’s influence on our nation. America has become the fattest nation in the world. Mississippi is the fattest state in the nation. Obesity is a national epidemic. Almost over a million Americans are either overweight or obese. About 60% of them are adults. Since 1980, the total number of children that are obese has doubled. Obesity is now second
How is food advertised? What kind of food is the most advertised?Who do the food industries target when they advertise their food. Food is advertised in many different ways whether it is through social media, ads, television commercials, at schools, on public transit, and so forth. Most, food that is being advertised is food that is high in sugar, processed food, high in carbohydrates and fast food. All of these foods are very unhealthy to the children in society and as the years go by more children
Should food companies be restricted to advertise to children? It's been a debated topic around the whole world. Food companies should be restricted from children. There are some things a child should know on how they advertise, where they advertise, the effects of their advertising, and the government regulations. Although food company advertisements can be bad they also have economic benefits. To begin with, in order to know if food companies should be restricted from advertising to children it
“Supersize Me” is a riveting documentary about one man’s challenging, Morgan Spurlock, to eat fast food for thirty days and to see the effects on the human body. The movie also shows the psychological and social effect of the American people by fast food companies. The movie in itself was a scientific method; containing all four types were used surveys, observations, experiments, and existing sources. As a documentary, it has no choice but to gather data from within or existing sources and display
Documentary filmmaker and hero, Morgan Spurlock, created ‘Supersize Me’ to accentuates the dangers of fast food and the consequences upon the human health. Spurlock was inspired by a failed lawsuit of two girls who, attempted to sue McDonalds for their health issues; obesity, hypertension and diabetes. The suit failed as the judge ruled that was no primary evidence their sufficient health issues were caused by eating from McDonalds. Spurlock was inspired to take a stand on behalf of the girls and
“At least 25% of all Americans under age nineteen are overweight or obese” (161). In Greg Critser’s “Too Much of a Good Thing”, Critser, a published author of a book about the epidemic of obesity, explains how America has become obese. Critser published his piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2001 after the United Nations came to New York to discuss the rising issue of obesity. Critser moves on to listing facts and past studies to convince the audience of concerned parents that there is a problem.
understand its meaning. Which is simply as its name. Foods that can be prepared and served quickly. In the wake of World War 1, hamburger was consider an infamous and undesirable food. However by 1930 every corner of the nation accepted it as a main stream meal and eventually as a staple diet. Fast forwa... ... middle of paper ... ...ivated until all the food is gone” and living in a world where food is constantly availabe and loaded with hard to resist fat, sugar and salt means constant arousal. Our
“Nearly one third of the United States eats fast food regularly and there is a close relation between the fast food restaurants and obesity. This increases the obesity in younger people” (“Fast food obesity” 9). Every time a person gets in the car to go somewhere he or she will more than likely pass a fast food restaurant on the way to their destination. These restaurants are not good for the human body. They draw people to their food by fast, simple, and cheap quality items on their menus. Restaurants
"Every responsible person understands what is in products such as hamburgers and fries, as well as the consequence to one's waistline, and potentially to one's health, of excessively eating those foods over a prolonged period of time” (Wald, 2003). This was a statement made by McDonald’s lawyers in 2003 during a court case in which McDonald’s was being sued for their failure to inform people of the nutritional value of their food. The vast majority of overweight or obese people in the United States
“Would you like to super size that?” Many people in today’s society are well aware with the ever-popular phrase and concept of “super sizing.” The term, supersize, according to Webster’s Dictionary is “a larger than average or standard size.” Today, the term supersize is correlated with the fast food business’s cleverly targeted marketing tactic to persuade customers to a larger size food product at a marginally greater price. Although statistical findings demonstrate that since the late nineteen
Jim Skinner had to clean up a big mess after the 2003 slump, and did so by coming up with a strategy to turn everything around. His strategy had to consist of staying competitive with the numerous other fast-food restaurants popping up all over the world. In order to maintain this, they had to reorganize the way they presented themselves to the community. Jim Skinner did so by cleaning up the customer service, cleaning up and modernizing the physical buildings, and changing the menu to the changing
physicians that documented his health status stated that Morgan Spurlock as in good health. The physicians agreed to evaluate him again after a month of strictly fast food consumption to evaluate his medical status. Throughout video documentary “supersize me” Morgan Spurlock developed fast food cravings after 3 days of eating McDonalds. Within 20 days his essential vitamins were very low. Spurlock also acquired a condition called a fatty liver which is harmful to the body and causes fatigue and abdominal