Blog 3.5 McDonalds

If teenagers keep on eating McDonalds on a daily basis they won’t be able to do as much physical activities. According to the very generous U.S dietary guidelines, 1,340 calories represent more than half of a teenager's recommended daily caloric consumption. Meaning some of these calories won’t get burned and will be stored as fat. If teens keep on doing this they’ll be storing fat on a daily basis. Also if the teens don’t participate in any physical activities they will have an even bigger chance of coming obese. McDonalds is one of the reasons why many teenagers and adults are obese. Imagine a teenager having these meals 3 times a week or even more. That's 4,020 calories. McDonald’s meals use to be 680. That's much more than it used to be. Physical activity among teenage boys and girls has dropped optimally because of these special meals.

Obesity has always been high in the United States. Everywhere you turn there's a McDonalds. In my neighborhood there’s a McDonalds. Someone could say in almost every neighborhood they’ll be a McDonalds. This is why so many teens have it because it’s everywhere there’s no avoiding McDonalds. There are other fast food places like Subway, Checkers, Burger King and Wendy’s. When someone eats McDonalds are any other fast food place they consume more calories than usual. McDonald’s meal use to be 680 calories. But then was raised to 1,340 calories. McDonalds now has the option to supersize your meal. Customers are always encouraged to supersize their meals. The regular coke is 16 fluid ounces when supersized it's 42 fluid ounces. When French fries are supersized there more than double the weight of the original order.

If teens keep eating like this soon some will be obese. Some won’t but they won’t be as strong as they used to be. They won’t be able to move as fast as they use to. "Completing this jumbo dietetic horror is the fact that the easy availability of such huge meals arrives in the same years in which physical activity among teenage boys and girls drops by about half." If someone was to eat McDonalds for a month breakfast, lunch and dinner. Like what was done in Supersize me you could get very ill and probably die. Or get some sort of heart condition. The main point eating too much fast food without exercise isn’t healthy for anyone.