The documentary Supersize Me that we watched by Morgan Spurlock was an interesting piece of film. I thought that it helped to shed light on the problem of obesity in our country and showed how eating too much fast food is very detrimental to your health..Food at McDonalds and other fast food restaurants is not healthy and even the healthy stuff, like salads, have dressing (with a large amount of fat) to accompany them. On friday after the football game I went to McDonalds and decided to try the Apple Dippers. This is just apples in a bag, but McDonalds cannot have just that, they have to add caramel on the side to dip the apples in.
While certainly a lot of the blame for the obesity crisis should be blamed on fast food establishments, I don't think all of it should. There comes a point when you look yourself in the mirror and realize that it is your decisions that effect your weight. We do not live in a dictatorship where you are forced to go to McDonalds or Burger King for meals. Instead, you have the choice to not eat foods that are bad for you, and you have the choice to exercise and be healthy. It's true that the bombardement of advertisements that we see throughout our lifetimes is very tempting, but it is time for Americans to have some self control and not eat as much fast food.
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i absolutely agree with Travis, for once, A LOT of the blame should be blamed on fast food places. And their foods are EVERYTHING BUT healthy. And most fast food places like McDonalds make their prices so low so you can buy more, and more, and more without feeling guilty. People KNOW that fast food places are bad for them, they just deny it and eat their food and gain the weight as well as the poor health that comes with it. It is absolutely ridiculous how fast food places have created a variety of sizes that go up to a super size. It's like they want to KILL us. As much as a nice fat cheeseburger with a nice supersized coke seems to us, it is killing our health, as well as our image.
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