Obesity has been linked to hypertension, coronary heart disease, adult onset diabetes, strokes, gas bladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, endometrial, breast, prostate and colon cancer, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, asthma, impaired fertility and lower back pain, with all these risks why would anyone even go near McDonalds? McDonalds may be addictive but shouldn't people have enough self-control to be able to stop them from eating it? some people's oponion is that McDonalds is just like any other complany, they're just trying to make money, it doesn't force feed people, people have a choice.
McDonalds has a ridiculous amount of fats and sugars in their food's, and people may have the choice of eating the food's, but McDonalds could help a lot by making their food healthier, only 7 items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar, and a super size coke, fries and Big Mac have so much fat in them that it would take 7 hours straight of ecercise to burn it off, that can't be doing anything good to help the obesity epidemic in America.
The documentary "Super Size Me" proves that McDonalds can seriously affect someone's health. Filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock, did an experiment in which he ate nothing but McDonalds for an entire month, and he ended up with extreme deteriorations of his health and harrowing visits ti the doctor, during the month he put on 25 pounds, and his cholesterol jumped from 165 to 225.
In my oponion there is no doubt that McDonalds can seriously damage your health, but how can it be said that the obesity epidemic in America is entirely the fault of McDonalds? Do they force feed people there food? No. McDonalds is just a company trying to make money, if people do not have enough self control to not eat too much of it, then it is the individual, not McDonalds, who is mostlt to blame. Also, McDonalda isn't the only fast food restaurant, in short, McDonalds really isn't helping, and should sell more healthy foods, but they are not entirely to blame.
I think that McDonalds normaly gets the blame for the obesity epidemic in American because the company is bigger and more famous than any other fast food company, and so it receives the bulk of the blame despite there being so many other food chains similar to McDonalds in America. At the end of the day, if a person wants to eat healthily, surely they would not go to McDonalds in the first place, there may be a huge amount of McDonald's adverts that could be accused of brain washing in America, but there are also plenty of pro-health adverts that encourage people to lead a healthy lifestyle. I think that it isnt really the fault of McDonalds that people are eating too much of there food, but it is very easy to see why people do go to McDonalds because there food does taste nice and it is very easily available, and if some one does not have time to cook a decent meal then McDonalds may seem like a good idea.
