快餐与美国文化

Extra Credit
3 Categories Total Fat Content Total Saturated Fat Content Total Calories
Essential Questions
What do FF restaurants offer to customers? To what extent is the FF industry to blame for the obesity epidemic? Does FF have a place in a ‘healthy’ diet? How are McDonald’s new nutritional labels comparable to the Surgeon General’s Warnings on cigarettes?
An Analysis of the Fast Food Industry on American Culture
Health Education
SUPER-SIZE ME
The Value of the Movie?....Why Make it? What are Morgan’s Underlying Themes and Patterns?
Increased Caloric Intake Increased Total Fat Increased Sat. Fat Increased Cholesterol Increased Sodium Increased Refined Sugars
Undernourished AND Overweight
Become familiar with serving sizes and basic nutrient recommendations. Helpful Hints: PAGE ONE-NOTHING TO DO W/ INTERNET! (just read)
What areBiblioteka the Effects of FF Consumption?
The Purpose of FFFrenzy:
Access FF restaurant web sites and analyze the nutritional content of the commonly consumed food selections identifying basic nutritional patterns.
Can You Eat ‘Healthy’ @ FF Restaurants
Arby's Light Roast Chicken Sandwich: 276 calories 7 gr fat 23% calories from fat 33 mg cholesterol 777 mg sodium
Wendy's Chili 210 calories 7 g fat 30% calories from fat 30 mg cholesterol 800 mg sodium
McDonald's Vanilla Shake 310 calories 5 g fat 15% calories from fat 25 mg cholesterol 170 mg sodium
Burger King's Chunky Chicken Salad 142 calories 4 g fat 25% calories from fat 49 mg cholesterol 443 mg sodium
What Came First?
Fast food restaurants are simply responding to society's desire for quick, inexpensive food!!!! OR Americans are inundated with poor food selections creating an overweight society!!!
The Heart Attack Grill
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Fast Food Trends
Nearly 1/3 of kids eat fast food each day FF intake has increased 5 times since 1970 More than 47% of the money Americans spend on food will be spent at restaurants in 2005 vs. 25% in 1955, says the National Restaurant Association. $476 billion eating out in 2005