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JARED FOGEL Jared Fogel (the Subway guy) was well overweight - tipping the scales at 425 pounds and he was only 20! Today I am going to convince you that Jared took the right path towards losing his extra weight. Jared gets paid a lot of money for travelling the world and promoting Subway, and telling his story. Jared saved money from eating Subway rather than McDonalds because Big Mac combos are $8 and Subway combos are only $5 - in a week he is saving $21. Jared was walking in the street one day, and he saw a Subway restaurant across the road from his university, and on the window poster it said subs had 6 grams of fat or less, so he started his Subway diet. At the same time he started walking to all of his classes. Not only was the Subway diet cheaper than other takeaways, but they claimed to have healthier food than other places. Research shows that i f you are overweight, you are more likely to develop health problems such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain types of cancer. This is the main reason as to why I would rather eat healthy, as hopefully you will have less chance of getting a health problem in the future. Nowadays when Jared goes anywhere there won’t be as many people staring at him, Jared’s diet started in mid March 1998 and the diet ended early March 1999 - in that time Jared lost a whopping 235 pounds. Could you imagine what it felt like for Jared weighing 425 pounds? How would you feel if you weighed that much? It would be very embarrassing! and he won’t feel embarrassed like he did before. I think Jared is living a better life than he was before and he can do new things - for example, playing sports and not have to buy two plane tickets. This must be more fun than being overweight and being left out of things and made fun of. Jared is definitely healthier because the doctors thought he would die at 35 and now he won’t. Jared must’ve felt sick because he ate McDonald’s alot. Eating and drinking healthier will help but you will need to exercise as well. Jared has received thousands of letters and emails from people doing diets, some are trying Jared’s diet, and some have lost lots of weight as well. The amount of weight that people who have contacted Jared have lost when added together adds up to 160,000 pounds that equals 14,545 skateboards, 10,000 marching band tubas, 1,568 sets of encyclopaedias,842 Jared’s, 492 black bears, 426 gorillas, and 184 grand pianos. This positive effect that Jared has had on other people is another reason why healthy eating is better. I am sure that if Jared had of not done anything about his weight he wouldn’t of been able to help anyone. If I was Jared I would have definitely chosen the healthy path as well. Now that Jared has picked the best choice for him he is healthier, stronger, and fitter. So what would you do? Die at about 35 years old from eating McDonalds every day or live a good, long, healthy life? You have heard what path I would take. I know I have convinced you that my path is the best for Jared too, but you can decide which path you would take - because we are all in our control of our own bodies. But just remember, too much junk food can destroy our lives! By Dylan