The Fast Food Mafia

Johnny Rockets' advertisement pictures

 This advertising poster is mostly located at the chain restaurant, johnny rockets throughout the United States and expanding.The reason why I chose this picture is because first, it tells us how a bottle of coca cola used to cost only 5 cents!!!! We all know the currency value is different than from before, but still 5 cents is a pretty chocking price. And also the fact that they are using the “summer” theme to direct to the audience, which is always helpful because people relate summer with fun, relax, laying on the beach and just having a good time. I like the tactic they used because it is like saying; “thirsty? Drink coca-cola!!” But what about water??? People can still drink water when they’re thirsty or even natural and healthy juices for summer time, not just soft drinks, in this case coca cola. Thats a good reason of why people specially kids are drinking more and more coke everytime.   

Give or go!!!

This link will lead you to watch a funny commercial about fast food. Despite the fact that the video is funny because of their love and fight scenes it is very frustrating to actually compare this type of selfish behavior to regular people. It could be true that some people, specially young adults would behave somewhat like the couple, but I personally disagree with the fact that the commercial is taking it to the extreme making people actually believe that they’re food is so good that they would even fight with their loved ones for it. A strong message like this would definitely encourage more and more people to have a taste of the advertized food probably just to experiment if the effect is really that strong on people.

Research Paper draft

The human’s health is commonly affected by new diseases that are rising every year, affecting the world’s population by large numbers. In our society, it is helpful to be aware of this disease most importantly when the majority of habitants do not know how does diabetes functions and how does it affects the internal system. It is extremely important for a citizen to have a detailed knowledge of the America’s # 1 disease.

   Everybody has at least one person they know who suffers from diabetes. It is a disease that spreads rapidly and silently among humans. Before we can discuss the prior aspect of diabetes which is its consequences, we need to understand how it appears in our systems. Diabetes is a disease based on high contents of sugar inside the blood. Insulin, a liquid located in the pancreas, its function is to control blood sugar contents in our bodies. When the pancreas is not producing enough or is resistant to insulin that is when the sugar levels rise up having as a result diabetes in the blood. Diabetes is categorized in three types; type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is present mostly in children of 15 and younger age. This type of diabetes is more complex than the other types because it is often diagnosed when the person is older and when there is little treatment to take into action. Atkinson Mark in his Estimating the Cost of diabetes type 1 in the U.S.A., states that, “We find that each year type 1 diabetes costs this country $14.4 billion in medical costs and lost income. In terms of lost income, type 1 patients incur a disproportionate share of type 1 and type 2 costs.” In this quote we can see how the author explains that the in the United States, people who suffer from diabetes need to spend a highly amount of money in order to sustain their own health status. Unfortunately the cause of this type of diabetes is still unknown and therefore it is more complicated to look for a possible treatment or cure.

Type 2 diabetes is more common than any other type. In this stage the glucose levels, which is a type of sugar that gives energy to the body, are not kept in normal levels due to the lack of insulin produced by the pancreas. This type of diabetes can be caused by genetics inherited by the person’s ancestors, but a major factor of getting this type of diabetes in specific is the daily ways the communities are accustomed to develop, some examples are eating habits, lack of exercise and overweight.     

The Gestational diabetes is very rare and it is developed inside a woman’s blood when she is pregnant even though she did not suffer the disease before the pregnancy. The most dangerous outcome of this type is that most women always stay with the disease afterwards, having possibilities of developing other diseases that are influenced by diabetes, like high blood pressure, hypertension, obesity and many other health complications.

We can see how there is much more than just the simple word diabetes. People are underestimating the concept of diabetes, and in order to fully understand diabetes, people who are affected with the disease should know this kind of information, and that way learn how to live more comfortably under the diseases' disadvantages.    

           

Foodborne Disease

During my chapter 9 reading process I came across an issue that caught my attention, the extreme number of people getting sick by a foodborne disease. American families have meat as the prior dish on the table, but most of the time these families are unaware of the internal meat composition. According to Schlosser, page 195 “every day in the United States, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by foodborne diseases, 900 hospitalized, and fourteen die.”  These people most likely didn’t know that they were consuming infected meat, therefore continued to eat it through the days. This arises a problem because us, as meat consumers, might have just eaten a piece of meat that was infected by in this case a low percentage of foodborne, and might not have a severe negative consequence in our health, but families around the USA have to face this probability every time they wish to eat meat.

A positive outcome of this problem is that it may bring distrust when it comes to buying meat from any company, but unfortunately people might realize this issue when the problem is directly related to them, friends or relatives. I make this statement because sadly people know about the existence of meat diseases and yet are still buying the products from the same company or don’t take time to research their new company of choice. Further complications may also arise from this intoxicated meats, According Schlosser on page 196, “There is a strong evidence not only that the incidence of food-related illness has risen in the past few decades, but also that the lasting health consequences of such illnesses are far more serious than was previously believed.”  This quote is very important because it shows that illnesses’ consequences do have a greater negative outcome in the future, although we might not feel it at the present time. To conclude people should be more cautions when it comes to meat consumption, keeping in mind that there are diseases out there waiting to be consumed by us.

Prospectus

In our society we see as our way of eating affects people both physically and healthfully. Adults make decisions that they believe are the best for each, but children need a role to guide you on what is right and what is wrong. That's why it is that obesity in children is an issue that we as adults must regulate and try to find a solution. But first in order to achieve this mission we must understand how it works, and how does diabetes affects children, that way we can make an attempt to regulate it. In this project I seek to directly investigate the effects of obesity in children, and what are the most dangerous the factors that make children acquire the disease. I'm also going to investigate how the fast food consumption influences the development of diabetes, and as a result of these promote other diseases. To help conduct my research I will find information using the databases provided by the school, and from there I will use articles, books and reports from health experts, I will also use a lot of medical sources that way it will be easier to explain the effects on the children's body with a more professional view of points.  

If You Are A Man.... You Have To Eat Meat???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGLHlvb8skQ

This link will lead you to a video that basically states that; men must eat meat.

In this commercial, Burguer King is portraying groups of men singing and marching through the streets proclaiming taht meat, Burguer King, is teh real man food. We can see how in this commercial the company is associating masculinity with eating Burguer King. The message this is trying to send is that in order to be a "MAN" you must eat like one, and teh best place to do this is at...... Burguer King!!!! I actually asked my brother if he truly feels like this, if he needs to eat "strong" food in order to promote his inner status.... He said " not exactly, but us weird to see a guy eating light stuff... a true guy eats like a man." He didn't exactly answer my question but in other words he said yes, that's a man stereotype, too bad that there might be a lot of youngsters that will be carried away with this commercial, some because tehy want to improve their "manly" image.