Mcdonald's Super Size Me

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Mcdonald’s has been around for about 70 years, and each year our country gets fatter and fatter and some people don’t know why. Some people, like the people we see on the documentary, go to fast food places once a week, but some people do eat out about 3 times a week. They don’t know how much harm that takes on your body. I was thinking about what I have eaten over the years and what that has taken into my health. In the video Super Size Me, they showed us that Mcdonald’s, is not the place to go when your hungry. Yes I know that it is quick and it may cost less, but there is so much more things out there than Mcdonald's. When the man ate Mcdonald’s for a whole month he was close to death. He could have had a serious problem but was lucky

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