Saturday, May 1, 2010

SUPER SIZE ME

First of all I have to give credit to Morgon Spurlock, for putting his body through this experiment, knowing all the danger to his health, just to show us what eating fast food can do to our body.
An observation I made during the the movie is how much lager the cups and meals have become, compare to when fast food was at it's inception. It all come down to marketing and money. Food company spend a lot of time thinking of way of get us to spend our money. They know that naturally people associate big with much more, thus making the cups and meals bigger so people will spend more money.

As much as fast food is tasty and cheap it's not good for our health. After a month of eating fast food Mr Spurlock cholesterol was ten folds what he started with, his bloodpressure , weight etc all want way up.The doctors even advise him to stop before he finish the movie,because they fared he died. Most interestingly fast food doesn't have much nutritional value, according to the movie, a meal at a fast food only account for four nutritional value, moreover the ingredients in soda and meals are made to get us addicted. For example, in the movie after nine days fast food mr Spurlock began to feel bad when he's not eating fast food, and as soon as he eats he felt much better.

The kids are the one's who is suffering from all this unhealthy eating. Imaging if their parents or siblings are sick because of unhealthy eating?Even if you teach you kids not to drink or eat fast food because of all the consequences ,they are too many distractors, for example, peer pressure, some fast food have play places and clowns, advertisement. The average child sees about ten thousand advertisement. Schools doesn't provide cook food anymore, moreover there is no physical education so kids don't exercises. The sad part about this is there a connection between unhealthy food, exercise and behaviour. According to the movie, schools that serve healthy food and provide there students with physical education have better behaviour.

The government who's job is to make sure that it's citizen are protected isn't doing anything about about it because they are getting money from lobbyist. Lobbyist spend millions of dollars lobbing for fast food co operations to pass laws banning people from suing fast food co operations. It's time we start to take our health and food in our own hands .

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