McDonalds has been around long since 1940 and has expanded all over the world into 119 different countries, transplanting over 36,000 outlets. It’s found at gas stations, shopping malls, college campuses, sporting events and even hospitals. McDonalds is monopolizing itself in each block and taunting us to dine there. The people are aware that McDonald’s food can be harmful to our bodies but what makes people continue to consume their food is not just because it is delicious, it’s also affordable and convenient. Although McDonalds offers affordability and convenience, we end up paying a higher price, with our health. As McDonalds claims it’s profit ladder, the consumer’s climb a much different ladder. Americans holds the record of highest percentage
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McDonalds can afford to make changes, therefore they need to further their efforts into revolutionizing their menu with healthier choices. The majority of Americans are racing against the clocks, having affordable food to grab on the go is conveniently efficient. We have to go to school, go to work, pick up our children, do chores, run errands, and magically get eight hours of sleep at the end of the day. Many of us struggle to find the time to cook or to even go grocery shopping for ingredients. In the movie Food Inc. the Gonzalez family would rather chose to spend five dollars on a meal at a fast food restaurant, rather than a piece of fruit at the supermarket. Although they know the health risk they are taking they have very few options that will accommodate their busy life schedule and expenses. Michael Pollan emphasizes in the movie Food Inc, that “We’ve skewed our food system toward the ‘bad’ calories” and that we should work towards a day where we walk into a supermarket where the fresh fruits and veggies cost less than the …show more content…
A premium southwest salad with grilled chicken holds 320 calories with 960mg of sodium, 9g of fat (3g saturated), topping it off with dressing adds 100 calories and 6g of fat. If ordering their Caesar salad with chicken and dressing, we are better off ordering off the grease menu. A movie called Super Size Me blew up in 2004, where a healthy young man by the name of Morgan Spurlock volunteers to film a documentary on what would happen to Americans if they consume McDonalds everyday for a month. In addition, he will limit himself to only walking five thousand steps, which is hardly even a work out, and never taking down the offer of supersizing his meal when asked. Ordering every single item on the McDonald’s menu and consuming about five thousand calories a day for a month, in that short amount of time he gained 24 pounds which is a 13% body mass increase, cholesterol shooting up 65 points and nearly doubling his risk of coronary heart disease. For the 24 pounds he gained within the one month of strictly eating just meals from McDonalds, it took Morgan 14 months to drop the weight. Super Size Me pulled the alarms, giving America a reality check on the epidemic that quietly consumed the nation. As competition arises in America and people are becoming knowledgeable about the health epidemic, it pressures McDonalds to formulate a healthier menu to put
McDonalds can afford to make changes, therefore they need to further their efforts into revolutionizing their menu with healthier choices. The majority of Americans are racing against the clocks, having affordable food to grab on the go is conveniently efficient. We have to go to school, go to work, pick up our children, do chores, run errands, and magically get eight hours of sleep at the end of the day. Many of us struggle to find the time to cook or to even go grocery shopping for ingredients. In the movie Food Inc. the Gonzalez family would rather chose to spend five dollars on a meal at a fast food restaurant, rather than a piece of fruit at the supermarket. Although they know the health risk they are taking they have very few options that will accommodate their busy life schedule and expenses. Michael Pollan emphasizes in the movie Food Inc, that “We’ve skewed our food system toward the ‘bad’ calories” and that we should work towards a day where we walk into a supermarket where the fresh fruits and veggies cost less than the …show more content…
A premium southwest salad with grilled chicken holds 320 calories with 960mg of sodium, 9g of fat (3g saturated), topping it off with dressing adds 100 calories and 6g of fat. If ordering their Caesar salad with chicken and dressing, we are better off ordering off the grease menu. A movie called Super Size Me blew up in 2004, where a healthy young man by the name of Morgan Spurlock volunteers to film a documentary on what would happen to Americans if they consume McDonalds everyday for a month. In addition, he will limit himself to only walking five thousand steps, which is hardly even a work out, and never taking down the offer of supersizing his meal when asked. Ordering every single item on the McDonald’s menu and consuming about five thousand calories a day for a month, in that short amount of time he gained 24 pounds which is a 13% body mass increase, cholesterol shooting up 65 points and nearly doubling his risk of coronary heart disease. For the 24 pounds he gained within the one month of strictly eating just meals from McDonalds, it took Morgan 14 months to drop the weight. Super Size Me pulled the alarms, giving America a reality check on the epidemic that quietly consumed the nation. As competition arises in America and people are becoming knowledgeable about the health epidemic, it pressures McDonalds to formulate a healthier menu to put