A very serious problem we face in today’s fast food culture is obesity. It is a term that refers to a “complex disorder involving an excessive amount of body fat. Obesity isn't just a cosmetic concern. It increases your risk of diseases and health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.”
Obesity is a problem that is hard to solve because of the influence that is showered on a person by the advertisements created by the fast food companies. The companies spend billions of dollars per year on these ads, and they must work because the companies have this money every year to spend. If it didn’t work they would not be in business with that much cash outflow on just ads. This is shocking due to the fact that veggies and …show more content…
This was approved by all the doctors in the movie that Morgan Spurlock’s health report was vastly different post Mc-Diet compared to pre Mc-Diet. As most would guess, matters took a turn for the worse. His cholesterol was higher; he was gaining fat and weight rapidly, 24.4 pounds in a month, which is extreme considering that it is roughly one pound increase per day. Worst of all, he was getting addicted to the MacDonald’s food. He would feel depressed or even headaches which would only get better after he ate MacDonald’s …show more content…
To list a few things, it was finer dining and way too expensive to be considered a fast food restaurant. Next would be food choices, the one in India had actual food such as chicken sandwiches with more chicken and veggies and less cheese and sauce. They had fruit salads, pork steaks because beef is not eaten there, etc. Of course there were also burgers, fries, samosas, milk shakes, and drinks. However most of these items might not be the healthiest choices over home made good food but some of these however are healthier than the options offered in MacDonald all over North America. Another fact that was a bit hard to believe is the number of fast food restaurants there are in North America, for example there are more than one thousand four hundred restaurants in Canada alone where as in India there are just over two hundred fifty
Obesity is a problem that is hard to solve because of the influence that is showered on a person by the advertisements created by the fast food companies. The companies spend billions of dollars per year on these ads, and they must work because the companies have this money every year to spend. If it didn’t work they would not be in business with that much cash outflow on just ads. This is shocking due to the fact that veggies and …show more content…
This was approved by all the doctors in the movie that Morgan Spurlock’s health report was vastly different post Mc-Diet compared to pre Mc-Diet. As most would guess, matters took a turn for the worse. His cholesterol was higher; he was gaining fat and weight rapidly, 24.4 pounds in a month, which is extreme considering that it is roughly one pound increase per day. Worst of all, he was getting addicted to the MacDonald’s food. He would feel depressed or even headaches which would only get better after he ate MacDonald’s …show more content…
To list a few things, it was finer dining and way too expensive to be considered a fast food restaurant. Next would be food choices, the one in India had actual food such as chicken sandwiches with more chicken and veggies and less cheese and sauce. They had fruit salads, pork steaks because beef is not eaten there, etc. Of course there were also burgers, fries, samosas, milk shakes, and drinks. However most of these items might not be the healthiest choices over home made good food but some of these however are healthier than the options offered in MacDonald all over North America. Another fact that was a bit hard to believe is the number of fast food restaurants there are in North America, for example there are more than one thousand four hundred restaurants in Canada alone where as in India there are just over two hundred fifty