Week 2: Student Response to Discussion One and Two and Assignment

WednesdayMay 9 at 3:15pm

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As a nutritional and health columnist, it is essential to feed you with the most valuable information about nutrition out there and not steer you wrong. I hope today’s information on fat content will change minds and have you to eat right. A lot of Americans will decide to choose fast food restaurants over anything healthy and light. The reason why because fast food is cheap is when purchasing food most people look at the cost. The cost can range from a dollar to six depending on the meal or a single item. I decided to research on my own and elected three fast food restaurants. The three chosen were Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and Burger King. The nutrition information for all three added up to be more than 100% of fat content. Therefore, Wendy’s website revealed great four dollar meals, the four for four Jr. Cheeseburger, fat grams is 13; grabbing the four for four on a lunch break because it is cheap and convenient, does not validate the bad eating habits. According to McDonald’s, the quarter pounder contains 45 grams of fat content. Burger King is one of a few of my favorites. I only get the whopper from there. Recently, there has been a change to where there are two whoppers for the price of six dollars. Of course, we like the bargain and go for the lowest prices. The whopper with cheese is 46 grams and without cheese is 40 grams. Not a big difference there, according to Burger King. See the thing is we need to start focusing more on healthy fats and not unhealthy fats. I located the information on the restaurants websites.

For the Medicaid portion I did not find anything on the provided website, but I looked more towards other ones. According to Bunis (2018), “The budget cuts $237 billion over 10 years.” The planning for receiving Medicaid depends on if most people are still on it. However, pharmacies are asked to check the pricing for those who are not on Medicaid or insurance.

Tolanda

References

Burger king (2018). Nutrition. Retrieved from https://www.bk.com/pdfs/nutrition.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

McDonald’s (2018). Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Nutrition Summary. https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/double-quarter-pounder-with-c (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Wendy’s. (2018). Jr. Cheesebuger Nutrition. Retrieved from https://menu.wendys.com/en_US/product/jr-cheeseburger-4-for-4-meal/