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Happy Meals for Good Grades

pebert — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:48:49 +0000

In Seminole County, Florida, kids who get good grades get rewarded by getting a coupon for a free Happy Meal. Sounds like a good idea… not! This just adds to the list of ways fast food companies try to target children. Not only is this unhealthy for the children, but it puts parents in a horrible position. Parents trying to make their children have good eating habits end up feeling like the ‘bad guy’ by taking what their children earned. Rewarding children with unhealthy food is foolish, and will contribute greatly to obesity in America.

Mother Knows Best!

pebert — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:53:19 +0000

Parents influence their children to have certain habits and to make certain decisions, especially when the child is very young. So why not teach them good eating habits? From the start, parents should set good examples, and restrict what their children eat. Everything the child puts in his or her mouth should be nutritional. It should also go as far as limiting time in front of the television. If the child doesn’t see as many advertisements, they won’t be as inclined to eat the food. Starting children off with good eating habits will lead them to have healthy eating habits throughout their lives.

Television=Obesity!

pebert — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:07:45 +0000

It has been found that high school students who watch over 5 hours of television also eat less fruits and vegetables. Consequently, they eat more fast food and snacks. This proves that the advertising by the fast food restaurants works! “Television watching impacts diet choices adolescents make five years later,” said Daheia Barr-Anderson, an assistant professor of kinesiology and the leader of the study. Teens who watch a great amount of television eat 200 more calories on average, which is a big difference. Ultimately, this will change the teens eating habits down the road, causing them to have poor health.

Super Powers from Subway!

pebert — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:28:04 +0000

It is a fact that Subway has some healthier options as a fast food restaurant than others such as McDonald’s and Burger King. Although it may be a better menu to eat from, they also use the same advertising techniques as unhealthy fast food restaurants. They only show the good things about Subway when mentioning that they have have 7 sandwiches that have under 6 grams of fat. They also over exaggerate the positive effects of eating Subway when showing a lady eat a box of cookies and say, “It’s okay, I ate subway last night.” What about everything else on the menu? Why don’t they ever mention their Chicken and Bacon Ranch Sandwich that has 580 calories, 30 grams of fat, and 1400 milligrams of sodium all packed into a 6 inch sandwich. They have healthy options, but who really orders a Veggie Delight sandwich? Subway has a much healthier menu than others, but this shows that all fast food restaurants have things to hide.

Beware of Chicken!

pebert — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:39:35 +0000

It may be true that chicken has less fat than beef, but one extremely important thing is being overlooked. Sodium. Most people assume that ordering chicken at a fast food restaurant is much healthier than ordering a cheeseburger, but that’s not always the case. Fast food restaurants use chicken as a healthier alternative to keep people interested, but most people do not realize that it can be just as harmful as the beef. Chicken gets dry much faster than beef, therefor they use sodium to keep it moist. As mentioned in my previous post, too much salt can lead to increased blood pressure which increases the risk of stroke. Not only does it apply to fast food restaurants, but to restaurants such as Applebee’s and Chili’s. Know what you are eating before you put it in your mouth!

Clogged Arteries!

pebert — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:24:29 +0000

Hungry Jack’s, a fast food chain, has a new burger called the ‘Double Angry Angus Burger’ in Australia. The name fits it well, considering it rips your insides to shreds! Not literally, but it contains 5.6 grams of salt compared to the 4 gram daily salt consumption set forth by the nations health authority. Along with all the salt, it contains 26 grams of saturated fat. Professor Bruce Neal, chair of the Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health (AWASH), has accused the fast food chain of recklessness and undermining the broader industry’s effort to cut salt from their menu offerings. When there is too much salt in ones diet, it can lead to high blood pressure, which is the main cause of cardiovascular disease and stroke. If you like clogged arteries and high blood pressure, then Hungry Jack’s is the place for you!

Indestructible French Fries

pebert — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:42:10 +0000

This is a DVD extra from the movie, Supersize Me. This movie is about a man who eats McDonald’s for every meal, everyday for 30 days. Aside from the actual movie, this extra shows how their food decomposes after certain periods of time. He puts a a real burger and fries from a normal restaurant in seperate jars. He then puts different McDonald’s items in seperate jars. All the burgers start decomposing after two weeks, besides the Big Mac. It took over three weeks for the Big Mac to start decomposing. The real shocker is, after the whole experiment, the french fries from McDonald’s did not decompose at all. The french fries from the normal restaurant almost immediately started decomposing. What this shows is that McDonald’s loads their food up with preservatives and chemicals. Imagine putting all these chemicals and preservatives in your body. What does it do in your body?

Tummy Ache

pebert — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:25:02 +0000

Recently I met up with my friend, Santi Arias. I went to his apartment and he was eating 3 Snack Wraps from McDonald’s. They had grilled chicken, ranch dressing, lettuce, and cheese all wrapped up in a tortilla. McDonald’s promotes the Snack Wrap as one of their healthier choices off the menu. He ate it, and we were just talking and playing video games. Within an hour, he got a really bad stomach ache, and it bothered him to the point that he asked me to leave. There is a possibility that it wasn’t the snack wraps, but chances are he got sick from what he ate. What bothers me is he ate what was considered to be healthy from McDonald’s, and he still ended up getting sick. There could be many other factors that lead to the stomach ache, but it leads me to question, if this food is healthy, how could it make someone sick??

Black Taco?

pebert — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:56:30 +0000

That’s correct. Black Taco. Taco Bell just introduced its newest member of the menu, The Black Jack Taco. Who would eat that, right? Well guess what, everybody is buying them! It is only 89 cents, and is on their “Why Pay More!” Value menu. It seems that all fast food restaurants are adopting these value menus and attracting people who want to save some cash flow. But is it healthy? It may not seem so bad, considering it has tomatoes, lettuce, and it isn’t very big at all. The Black Jack Taco has 17 grams of fat! 0.5 of it is trans fat, which is the worst to eat. In addition to the fat, they had to use food coloring just to make it look like that. I’m not a very big fan of fat, or food coloring. So is the Black Jack taco friend, or foe? Foe!

Ew!

pebert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:39:35 +0000

Have you ever drank toilet water? Hopefully not. Have you ever had a drink at a fast food restaurant with ice in it? Probably. A girl named Jasmine Roberts did a science project for her middle school where she tested the ice given out at the restaurants, and then she tested the toilet water from the same restaurants. 70 percent of the time, she found that the ice was dirtier than the toilet water. The ice had bacteria in it, and some even had E-coli. E-coli comes from human waste… Ew! So next time you eat at your local fast food restaurant, you probably should not get ice with your drink. Or you could just drink the toilet water. It’s up to you!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=1641825