Find out the nutritional information of your favorite McMeal.
Now if I could just get this info to appear on the menu at every fast food place, along with the list of “ingredients”, I’d have an automatic fast food deterrent in place at all times. I don’t know about you but I don’t read food labels of crap food if I plan to eat it. Maybe I should read them now when I’m not hungry so I’ll remember the ick when I’m about to inhale it.
-maria
For winter quarter I am taking a nutrition class. They shoved us right in by starting us off watching Super Size Me. If you haven’t seen this, you need to see it. I have new found motivation to resume my anti-fast food kick. My husband and children are not thrilled but the longer we can ward off things like liver failure, obesity, diabetes and colonoscopies - the better.
The thing that struck me the most was how much companies like the golden arches target and groom children to be lifetime consumers of their products. They do a good job of explaining that in the documentary. That part made me cry.
I stumbled across the entire Super Size Me film online so you can check it out.
So far the class is teaching me the reasons behind a lot of the things most of us already know. Just as with my biology class, the more I learn about the human body and how it works, the easier it is to make better decisions. Just as I said in my personal blog the other day:
“Be Cool. Stay in School!”
-maria
