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Purpose:

- Find out if fast foods really can have bad affections on people who eat it more than once/month

- Searching for the trues behind McDonalds’ food

- The link between eating fast food (McDonalds in this case) and having diabetes, over weights, heart failures…

Hypothesis:

- If you eat fast food everyday for your 3 meals and burn less than 1500 calories a day then you will soon be overweight after two moths.

- If you drink a lot of sodas and milkshakes in day time then you will have headaches later at night because of all the sugar you put into your body.

- If you eat fast food mostly everyday in a month then you will be food addicted even though you try not to eat it anymore in the next month.

Materials:

- A healthy man

- Fast foods.

- Medical checking’ equipments, doctors, nutrient advisers.

- A complete diet full with fast food.

Procedure:

- Begin with a man who has excellent health, take him to 3 doctors to check and take all possible observation (personal medical history, family medical history, weight, height, addiction, blood pressure, breath pressure, heart rate…)

- Make a diet plan with McDonald’s fast foods for 3 meals in a month. 4 followed rules:

1/ Just when he was asked for super size, he can order it. Otherwise he can’t have a supper size meal.

2/ Just eat only what McDonals (MD) sales.

3/ Must eat through everything on the MD’s menu in a month.

4/ Must have 3 meals a day

- Start the experiment, take possible data & observations every day.

Data:

Observation:

- Eachday MD serves 46 millions people all around the world

- 1/4 Americans choose to walk in a fast food restaurant for a meal everyday.

- 1/3 children born in the year 2000 can develop diabetes in their life times.

- There are only 7 item on the MD’s menu that don’t contain sugar: diet coke, fries, harsh browns, ice tea, coffee, sausage and chicken nugget

- There are at least 17 millions people suffered from diabetes type 2 all around the world in the year 2002.

- Weight gained -> breast cancer, colon cancer, gall bladder disease, respiratory problem, stroke, asthma and adult onset diabetes

Conclusion:

Through the movie and Morgan’s story, we can see that eating fast food is definitely a supper fast way to damage your health, gaining weight, having diabetes, heart disease… because:

- Unbalance diet with lots of fat and sugar but lacks on vegetables, healthy sugar (comes from fruit and veggie, rice…)…

- Processes food, mostly cooked by frying can cause heart disease.

- Sugar and fat all come from unnatural sources and whatsoever ingredients (old chicken’s meat, chemical sugar, chemical cheese…)

- The calories given are too high and most of them come from fat and sugar -> impossible for a person too eat fast food every day and use all those calories.

Besides, MD and other fast food restaurant are training us to eat fast food as much as possible. The kids are fed with high calories lunch meals at school, go over to MD with their parents and even when they are staying at home, tons of fast food’s commercials can be caught on TV. Time in gym class is limited, time to exercise after work is also as little as possible.

Although people is lacking on time now but stop eating fast foods, exercises and cook meals at home are easy, possible and cheap to do in order to get a good health, clean up the world’s environment, which is filling up with overweight, unhealthy people and help the kids to grown up in a better way.

Possible errors:

- Morgan weighted 203 pounds and later then after 8 days he weighted 202 pounds.
-> The true is Morgan is not getting skinnier, he just lost some muscle mass to gain some fat mass. As soon as more fat mass is gaine, he will pull up some pounds again.

- No information is provided in the fast food store and TV is filled with fast food’ commercials

-> the government, somehow should support the healthy food’s companies to introduce their products to the customers. Also open classes to talk about nutrients in everyday meals can be very helpful to.

- Kids don’t know what to eat

-> Parents, teachers and older people should teach children how to choose their food wisely and take away as much as possible the chances for them to eat fast food