The location we chose to place our public health sticker was at McDonalds fast food restaurant located 2.5 miles away from the University of South Florida campus (Fletcher Ave). We chose this location because it’s open 24 hours a day and there is a high population of college students. In college, students tend to eat tasty, fast, and low cost meals. McDonalds provides a variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner items ranging from fried foods to fresh salads.
Although the menu provides many healthy options usually those are not the top preferences. Feeding children high-fat, high-sodium, low-nutrition “foods” is causing higher rates of obesity in the United Staes. McDonalds feeds 1% of the worlds population every day. Which results in the selling of more than 75 hamburgers every second. Just by these two facts it shows our population for the most part are not choosing the healthier lifestyle. As well as utilizing a more “convenient” way of purchasing their food.
Fast food restaurants are one of the top reasons why society today are living unhealthy lives. Do you want high blood pressure? By using the drive-thru and getting a McChicken for just a day time snack off the $1 Menu give you about 2/3 of the recommended daily amount of sodium.
We placed our sticker there to raise awareness on healthier choices. So don’t let the fun jingles, convenient trips, fast and ready food, and the cheap promotions lead you to making wrong decisions.
Group: Jeanine Alasmar, Haley Belisle, and Lauren Palmer.
Group: Jeanine Alasmar, Haley Belisle, and Lauren Palmer.
Fast-food restaurants in general have been very detrimental to public health because they promote laziness and improper nutrition. You don't even have to get out of your car and walk to the counter because you can just go through the drive-thru and get a cheap meal filled with excess sodium and fat. Unfortunately, though, for many low SES people and struggling college students, fast food chains like McDonalds are the only affordable places to dine out. It doesn't hurt that the food usually tastes good too. Who is actually going to order a SALAD from McDonalds when there are advertisements all over the place of these tasty looking burgers and fries?
ReplyDeleteThis was a great location to go. Society has become so complacent in lazy habits, that food convenience has taken over. McDonalds is well aware of how they affect peoples lives in terms of health, but their main focus is making a profit. As public health students, we just need to keep promoting health and wellness. As i said, great choice of locaton for the sticker, hopefully it changed some lives! :)
ReplyDeleteThis was a great location to go considering McDonald’s is the most popular fast food chain and can be found all over the world. I think that McDonald’s has a very sneaky marketing scheme because if you have ever noticed, they are always trying to lure in children by showing happy meals and the toys that come with them in television commercials. As we all know, we form our eating habits at a young age, so that’s why they try to promote their food to youngsters. Though McDonald’s has tried making their happy meals healthier by adding apple slices and milk as additional options, most choose fries and a soft drink instead. Also, parents think that McDonald’s chicken nuggets are healthier than a burger, but in all reality they are not since they are fried in fatty oils. In my opinion, McDonald’s promotes poor nutrition to kids and is the main reasons why the younger generations have such high obesity rates. Yes, they are convenient and inexpensive, but they can have horrible, lasting negative effects on your health.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this is public health. I will admit, as a college student, McDonalds is an easy, cheap, and tasty choice. Considering the fact that McDonalds feed so many people and is such a large enterprise people and the public in general should be aware. McDonald’s does have healthy choices that are overlooked, and aren't advertised as much as the unhealthy food. This will probably make people think twice about what they order when they are eating out or even begin cooking home cooked meals more often. This will definitely help with the health of the public.
DeleteI loved you picked a place like McDonald’s to promote public health, by putting the sticker in the menu you make people aware of what they are eating and even if they get unhealthy food that time, maybe the next time they want to eat they will try to find healthier choices. Diet is fundamental for people’s health and what we eat is directly related to how we feel and how healthy we are. Public health has everything to do with promoting healthier food, because by doing this we can prevent diseases such as diabetes or cardiovascular diseases which are two of the most common and, sadly, deadly diseases of this time. Good job.
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