McDonald's Unhealthy Meals

McDonald’s is the world’s largest hamburger fast food restaurant. McDonald's serves about 68 million customers daily. The company began in 1940 as a barbeque restaurant. Then it became America’s favorite fast food. McDonald’s has extremely changed a lot over the years. Now you can go to a McDonald’s and purchase a cheap, unhealthy hamburger that is over 800 calories. In 2011, an NPD group report stated that Happy Meals sales were down six percent, from 1.3 billion to 1.2 billion orders.  Mc. Donald’s has been on the news recently. The recent news story was about “Pink slime” Pink slime is a substance created by throwing chickens in a machine and crushing their body parts to make chicken nuggets out of them.

One positive aspect of this is that McDonald’s contributes to society by having charities for children with cancer. For every happy meal that is purchased, a penny is donated to hospitals for children with cancer. McDonald’s isn’t known for selling healthy foods but some things on their menu are quite healthy.  In Technomic’s 2009 kids and moms consumer trend, report “overwhelmingly chose McDonald’s as their fast-food restaurant. “In total 37 percent of kids chose McDonald’s”. Their Happy Meals contain a lot of calories, sugars, and sodium. After a while McDonald's has been adding nutritious sides to the happy meals.

One the downside, McDonald’s is what makes your stomach sick. One example of a fattening food is the cheese burger. The cheeseburger will sit in the stomach for a long period and it will dry out. Also their chicken nuggets have an unhealthy ingredient in it. Such as pink slime. Pink slime is a substance from a machine that separates chicken parts and then gets breaded into pieces of chicken nuggets.

America isn't the only country selling unhealthy fast food to children. Italy’s McDonald's sells “pizzarotto” which is a small stuffed calzone with tomato and mozzarella cheese. In Thailand a McDonald's serves a barbeque hamburger with pork, and contains high calories and high fats. All around the world people are eating these foods and sooner or later the amount of obese children will rise.

McDonald's happy meals McDonald’s foods is an unhealthy choice for people over all.  Communities all around the world should have fresh and healthy restaurants. They should have these restaurants so that the number of obese kids will decrease.

References

(Fox News January 12, 2015) http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/01/12/healthiest-mcdonald-happy-meal-menu-items/

(Dan Myers October 7, 2014)

http://www.thedailymeal.com/mcdonalds-biggest-menu-flops

Friedman, L. (January 6, 2014) McDonald's diet unhealthy even if you lose weight. Business Insider. Retrieved on March 6, 2015 from http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-diet-unhealthy-even-if-you-lose-weight-2014-1