McDonalds is somewhere everyone has eaten at, at least once in their lifetime. What they do not know is what they are eating. People today trust anyone with their food in order to save time for work and other important tasks. The time spent on cooking meals in America has "fallen by half since the mid-sixties" (Pollan, "Cooked" 3). Nutrition has been put in the hands of fast food corporations around the world. Unfortunately, fast food corporations such as McDonalds are mainly concerned about money, not health and nutrition. The food produced by McDonalds and other fast food establishments is the unhealthiest food people can eat and leads to serious illnesses. Nutrition is something that is lacking in the modern day human diet. McDonalds has played a vital role in decreasing the amount of people who cook. It leads people to have less shared meals and massively unhealthy amounts of
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The film was called Supersize Me and focused on the health effects of eating McDonalds. Morgan Spurlock came up with the idea for the movie when he wanted to see what would happen to his body if he ate McDonalds every day for 30 days straight. The rules he set for himself were to supersize meals only when asked, eat three meals a day, only eat from McDonalds, and try everything on the menu at least once in the 30 days. About halfway through his experiment Spurlock 's doctor told him that his McDonalds diet was wiping out his liver due to the high amounts of fat he was consuming. Spurlock did not stop his experiment and ended up permanently damaging his liver in order to make a point: eating at McDonalds and other fast food restaurants has extremely negative health effects. The movie had a huge impact on how people felt about eating McDonalds, but it did not stop them from buying. The fact that people can get a quick meal at a low cost is too convincing for most to stop eating fast food, no matter what the consequences
The film was called Supersize Me and focused on the health effects of eating McDonalds. Morgan Spurlock came up with the idea for the movie when he wanted to see what would happen to his body if he ate McDonalds every day for 30 days straight. The rules he set for himself were to supersize meals only when asked, eat three meals a day, only eat from McDonalds, and try everything on the menu at least once in the 30 days. About halfway through his experiment Spurlock 's doctor told him that his McDonalds diet was wiping out his liver due to the high amounts of fat he was consuming. Spurlock did not stop his experiment and ended up permanently damaging his liver in order to make a point: eating at McDonalds and other fast food restaurants has extremely negative health effects. The movie had a huge impact on how people felt about eating McDonalds, but it did not stop them from buying. The fact that people can get a quick meal at a low cost is too convincing for most to stop eating fast food, no matter what the consequences