- I think its a real look on the eating habits of some people and awakening our minds about eating on fastfood. But of course you have to use your own judgement about this, and for me, the moral lesson of the story is watch what you eat and eat moderately. And of course do some exercising.
- Morgan spurlock put his health on the line to show the world just how bad mcdonalds 'food' really is. And he showed us! he went from healthy and fit to FAT and SICK in 30 days! this is a brave, brave man - i mean 30 days of nothing but mcdonalds? he deserved the sundance award for putting himself through this cruel and unusual punishment for the benefit of millions of unsuspecting mcdonalds patrons! the moral of the movie - DO NOT EAT AT MCDONALDS OR YOU WILL GET SICK AND FAT!
- We gain weight easily and body mass index (BMI) increased.
- Mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and liver damage.
- Feeling of depression and headaches which are relieved by a McDonald's meal = ADDICTION.
Do you think the government or state should take more responsibility on their citizens' health?
I think that citizens and the government should take responsibility for mortgage, food crisis. It is too bad that it seems sometimes these days that is only when survival is threatened are we willing to respond to the human need of others. It’s amazing that so many people are indifferent to the number of people being turned out of their homes in the current mortgage crisis. There are people opposed to the government assisting these victims. If, on the other hand, a natural disaster had caused these folks to lose their homes, the same hard-hearted people would move like gang busters to try to save them. The idea seems to be that these mortgagees wound up in this situation through their own bad judgement. Of course, they would have everyone believe those of us not caught up in the problem have never made mistakes or gotten ourselves in trouble.
I am certain there were many people who, in their anxiety to own their own home, failed to read the fine print but I’m equally sure that some mortgage lenders and realtors intended to mislead their clients just to make more money. But the fact that the government failed to protect people from unfair business practices is our fault because we are the government. As citizens, we don’t get to pick and choose the roles we want to play in governing. If we’re going to reap the benefits of citizenship, then we have to bear the responsibilities.
The mortgage crisis is driving the economy, so many of us are suffering because of the irresponsible acts of a few. Experts can argue all day about whether or not we’re in a recession, but times are hard for some people.
I disagree with those who are trying to compare these times to the days of the Great Depression. The situation may be similar but we are not the same kind of people we were then. In those days we felt that we were all in it together because we were concerned about the plight of the country. Today the CEOs and other folks living on the high end are totally unaffected. Gas and food prices mean nothing to them.
I would hope that before long some of our political leaders would get concerned with the way our food is being processed. The recent scandal in the beef market where sick cows were allowed to get into the food supply is just one example of the kind of scary things we read about in our newspapers. Every day some of us see chickens being trucked to food processors that appear to not be in the best of health. But what can we citizens do about it?
For a civilized society we seem to be notoriously indifferent to what is being fed to us and our children. We don’t care that the water we drink is contaminated. Since we claim to be the best country in the world, do you really think other countries should become like us? Are we the example of what a civilized society should be?
I don’t know how many times I have heard that the Food and Drug Administration is understaffed and unable to test our food supply. My question is, what is being done to remedy the situation? Or better still does anybody have plans to do anything about it.
Think of ways in which the state/government can do to promote health of the citizen?
Prerequisites for health
The fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity. Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites.
Advocate
Good health is a major resource for social, economic and personal development and an important dimension of quality of life. Political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioural and biological factors can all favour health or be harmful to it. Health promotion action aims at making these conditions favourable through advocacy for health.
Enable
Health promotion focuses on achieving equity in health. Health promotion action aims at reducing differences in current health status and ensuring equal opportunities and resources to enable all people to achieve their fullest health potential. This includes a secure foundation in a supportive environment, access to information, life skills and opportunities for making healthy choices. People cannot achieve their fullest health potential unless they are able to take control of those things which determine their health. This must apply equally to women and men.
Mediate
The prerequisites and prospects for health cannot be ensured by the health sector alone. More importantly, health promotion demands coordinated action by all concerned: by governments, by health and other social and economic sectors, by non-governmental and voluntary organizations, by local authorities, by industry and by the media. People in all walks of life are involved as individuals, families and communities. Professional and social groups and health personnel have a major responsibility to mediate between differing interests in society for the pursuit of health.
Health promotion strategies and programmes should be adapted to the local needs and possibilities of individual countries and regions to take into account differing social, cultural and economic systems.
Health Promotion Action Means:
Build healthy public policy
Health promotion goes beyond health care. It puts health on the agenda of policy-makers in all sectors and at all levels, directing them to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions and to accept their responsibilities for health.
Health promotion policy combines diverse but complementary approaches including legislation, fiscal measures, taxation and organizational change. It is coordinated action that leads to health, income and social policies that foster greater equity. Joint action contributes to ensuring safer and healthier goods and services, healthier public services, and cleaner, more enjoyable environments.
Health promotion policy requires the identification of obstacles to the adoption of healthy public policies in non-health sectors, and ways of removing them. The aim must be to make the healthier choice the easier choice for policy-makers as well.
Create supportive environments
Societies are complex and interrelated. Health cannot be separated from other goals. The inextricable links between people and their environment constitute the basis for a socioecological approach to health. The overall guiding principle for the world, nations, regions and communities alike is the need to encourage reciprocal maintenance - to take care of each other, our communities and our natural environment. The conservation of natural resources throughout the world should be emphasized as a global responsibility.
Changing patterns of life, work and leisure have a significant impact on health. Work and leisure should be a source of health for people. The way society organizes work should help create a healthy society. Health promotion generates living and working conditions that are safe, stimulating, satisfying and enjoyable.
Systematic assessment of the health impact of a rapidly changing environment - particularly in areas of technology, work, energy production and urbanization is essential and must be followed by action to ensure positive benefit to the health of the public. The protection of the natural and built environments and the conservation of natural resources must be addressed in any health promotion strategy.
Strengthen community action
Health promotion works through concrete and effective community action in setting priorities, making decisions, planning strategies and implementing them to achieve better health. At the heart of this process is the empowerment of communities, their ownership and control of their own endeavours and destinies.
Community development draws on existing human and material resources in the community to enhance self-help and social support, and to develop flexible systems for strengthening public participation and direction of health matters. This requires full and continuous access to information, learning opportunities for health, as well as funding support.
Develop personal skills
Health promotion supports personal and social development through providing information, education for health and enhancing life skills. By so doing, it increases the options available to people to exercise more control over their own health and over their environments, and to make choices conducive to health.
Enabling people to learn throughout life, to prepare themselves for all of its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential. This has to be facilitated in school, home, work and community settings. Action is required through educational, professional, commercial and voluntary bodies, and within the institutions themselves.
Reorient health services
The responsibility for health promotion in health services is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions and governments. They must work together towards a health care system which contributes to the pursuit of health.
The role of the health sector must move increasingly in a health promotion direction, beyond its responsibility for providing clinical and curative services. Health services need to embrace an expanded mandate which is sensitive and respects cultural needs. This mandate should support the needs of individuals and communities for a healthier life, and open channels between the health sector and broader social, political, economic and physical environmental components.
Reorienting health services also requires stronger attention to health research as well as changes in professional education and training. This must lead to a change of attitude and organization of health services, which refocuses on the total needs of the individual as a whole person.
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