Mr. Jacobs dreaded when he entering into a new environment and started to work under their culture and was discussed with employees and community. Mr. Jacobs made a community center that would allow members of community that would help people with health related question. Under Jacobs’s leadership Windber has established an affiliation with the Plane tree treatment system, which integrates meditation, massage, music and other holistic methods in to traditional health care, and the wellness center which offers fitness training, yoga and acupuncture. He made connections with the employees of the hospital and the community at large. Mr. Jacob first interviews each of the employees to find out what they wanted from the community and from the hospital.
Nagbae Saylee December 9,2008 Bisci 004 Extra Credit Why Are American So Fat Why is American so fat? The movie “Super size me” by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explains it to us in two words fast food. What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for an entire month? The movie talk about for 30 days he can’t eat or drink anything that isn’t on McDonald’s menu, he must eat three squares a day, he must consume everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. Spurlock walks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and an equal number of regular folks while chowing down at the Golden Arches.
David starts by teasing these overweight individuals that are bring a lawsuit against McDonalds, but then later admits that he used to be overweight as a child and was able to change his life around. He made a point to show health concerns with being obese and eating fast food regularly, such as type two diabetes which has risen about twenty-five percent since 1994. This raise in diabetes also requires much funding for the United States to spend to try to find a cure. David explains how there is very few alternatives for the youth of America because those health alternatives are more expensive and harder to find. False advertising is also another unpleasant practice that fast food companies use to lure in costumers.
Introduction The rapid increase of overweight and obese people in the United States has been described as an “epidemic” (U.S. government), but people still do nothing or are not worried enough to stop this up going problem. Morgan Spurlock is an north American cineaste who filmed the documentary “Super Size me”. The documentary daily narrates his 30 day Mc Donald’s diet and the consequences that it had on the health and physical appearance of Spurlock. Furthermore, it also interview people in the streets and experts in order to gain credibility and have a stronger impacts in the viewer opinion. Nevertheless the documentary is extremely biased, it makes the fast food companies looks like enemies and it doesn’t even give a point of view which could go against his ideas.
Schlosser shows the effects of the fast food revolution on the American economy when he states, “The McDonald's Corporation has become a powerful symbol of America's service economy, which is now responsible for 90 percent of the country's new jobs” (4). “The Founding Fathers” starts off by giving background information on Carl N. Karcher. Carl grew up on a farm Sandusky, Ohio with six brothers and one sister. His father always instilled in him a belief of working hard for a better life. So when Carl got the opportunity to go work for his uncle in Anaheim, California he went for it.
When President Obama moved to the White House, a Five Guys staffer suggested sending him a T-shirt. “That’s cheap!” Murrell shot back. Playing coy worked, and soon Obama, trailed by TV cameras, stopped by a store. He ordered a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, fresh jalapeños, and mustard — a classic example of Five Guys’ formula that sells 2 million burgers a week and was named Zagat’s “best fast food burger” for 2010. For this reporter, evaluating the burger first-hand was problematic: I’ve been a vegetarian for more than a dozen years.
This is the main point that Morgan Spurlock has attempted to emphasis in the documentary. The theme song ‘Supersize Me’ even portrays this message with lyrics like “…drive-thru diet, pack more weight on, cardiac heart attack…” Morgan Spurlock goes as far as to compare people who eat too much McDonald’s to drug addicts. People who eat McDonald’s at least once a week are actually called ‘heavy users’, and people that eat it three or more times a week are known as ‘super heavy users’; inferring that McDonald’s is like a drug and these people are the addicts. While on his McDonald’s diet, Morgan Spurlock encounters many health scares including one where he is shown calling his Mother to discuss his health. Morgan Spurlock would have included this because it emphasis’s how truly worried they all were for his health at this point because not even the doctors imagined the extent of damage the experiment had caused.
MODEL CRITIQUE* Critique of Greg Critser’s “Too Much of a Good Thing” Citing statistics on the alarming increase in the rates of childhood obesity, especially in the industrialized West, Greg Critser (L.A. Times Op-Ed, 22 July 2001) argues that parents can help avert obesity in their own homes by more closely supervising the diets of their children, serving reasonably sized portions, and limiting snacks. Critser, who has extensively researched obesity in his book Fat Land: How Americans Become the Fattest People in the World (Houghton Mifflin 2003), argues that through education we can create a leaner cultural norm, much as the French did earlier in the century when faced with a similar problem. The stakes for maintaining a healthy body weight
After seeing, “Super Size Me,” it has shown me the devastating effects of excessively eating fast food. The documentary shows Morgan Spurlock was made to show the increasing spread of obesity throughout the United States society. Many lawsuits were brought against McDonald’s for increase in obesity. In “Super Size Me”, Places like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s also advertise toys that are included in kid’s meals to cause children to want to get those meals rather than something healthier. The increasing spread of obesity has become an epidemic and if Americans do not change their eating habits it will greatly effect the world to come.
After decades of lies and industry propaganda, the truth is finally coming out: junk food kills. Even after the effort of some states to tax soda pop, require healthier school lunches, or mandate calorie information in chain restaurants, obesity rates are still growing. Studies have shown that school organic gardens, salad bars and healthy lunches improve the health and academic performance of young people. Healthy eating habits and gardening skills nurtured and developed at an early age most often have a lifetime impact. A 100% tax on junk food and beverages would help pay for the collateral damages of this industry: the $150 billion in diet-related disease and health-care costs now incurred by the public and taxpayers for obesity and diabetes.