For example, it shows us the risks of eating fast food, specifically McDonald’s fast food. Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for thirty days straight. He gained 25 pounds and also doubled his chances for heart disease. It took Morgan 14 months to lose his extra weight and he said it was nothing close to being easy. In addition, this movie shows the ways schools are affecting obesity in their students.
For example, it shows us the risks of eating fast food, specifically McDonald’s fast food. Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for thirty days straight. He gained 25 pounds and also doubled his chances for heart disease. It took Morgan 14 months to lose his extra weight and he said it was nothing close to being easy. In addition, this movie shows the ways schools are affecting obesity in their students.
He allows himself to eat nothing but the unhealthy food from this restaurant for a whole month abiding by certain regulations. He had to eat at a McDonald’s restaurant at least three times a day during this binge, and was required to have every food item on the menu at least one time. However, perhaps the most crucial rule in this experiment was that if at any time one of the cashiers asked him if he would like to “supersize” his meal, Spurlock was forced to oblige. Throughout this month Spurlock gained a total of 24.5 lbs and suffered from mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and an alarming accumulation of fat on his liver. Also, his body mass increased by 13% and his cholesterol level escalated to an unhealthy 230.
Memorandum: Hollywood Reporter Critical Review of the film “Super Size Me” The Film: The controversial documentary film, “Super Size Me”, released in 2004 by Morgan Spurlock, criticizes the McDonald’s corporation and the way their food impacts society. With America’s fast growing obesity rate being at an all time high, Spurlock took initiative and conducted an unscientific experiment to personally experience the effects of daily fast food consumption. For 30 days, three times a day, Spurlock consumes McDonald’s choosing to supersize his meal every time. And all without any exercise at all. Being monitored by three physicians; a general practitioner, a cardiologist, and a gastroenterologist, Spurlock kept track of how his health was being harmed each and every day to prove his point that McDonald’s, as well as every fast food restaurant, isn’t the best choice of nutritional food.
Supersize me Obesity is a problem that is increasing in the industrialized world; it is not just about eating less and perform more exercise, but the consumption of nutritious foods that are not compromised by modern farming methods and manufacturing processes. American documentary film Super Size Me, is about how a young man who wants to do an experiment to find out what will happen if you eat for a whole month, every day, fast food nutrition. Morgan Spurlock recorded experience of eating at McDonald's food three times a day for 30 days. This experiment allows us to thoroughly investigate the effects of physical, mental and emotional excessive consumption of fast food nutrition. After a few week using food from giant McDonald's three times a day Spurlock feels bad and is getting weigh very quickly.
Even though Spurlock makes many valid points in his documentary, I still believe that the eating habits of Americans today are based on their own choices and they should be responsible for those choices. According to the documentary Super-Size Me by Morgan Spurlock, 60% of adults in America are either overweight or obese. Spurlock decided to make the film when he heard about two teenage girls who filed lawsuits blaming McDonalds for them being overweight. His experiment involved him eating only McDonalds for 30 days to see what would happen to his body. Spurlock decided to follow four main rules during this experiment.
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Supersize Me is a great movie that showed people how fast food affects our health and lives. Americans are growing fatter with each passing day. Morgan Spurlock of New York City decided to tackle one aspect of this problem with his idea of studying the McDonald’s way by limiting his intake of food for one month to only McDonald’s and filming this adventure. The purpose of this movie was to prevent people from eating fast-food by showing how fast fast-food can change your lifestyle, not in a good way. The result of the movie finds that the McDonalds way is a super highway to fat city.
McDonalds Menu Not So Easy to Swallow By Campbell Miller-Waugh SUPERSIZE ME (2004), the entertaining, compelling and engrossing documentary which follows the director Morgan Spurlock’s stomach-turning investigation of the habits of somewhat now ‘normal’ American people. In this film, Spurlock undertakes a 30 day McDonald’s binge which arose when he heard of two overweight schoolgirls who brought a lawsuit against the fast food firm. The suit failed to prove that eating McDonald’s was injurious to their health, and therefore, Morgan Spurlock sets out to prove just that. In his travels, he meets a wide range of interesting people: merrily deceitful lawyers, sycophantic food industry supplicants, and a handful of authoritative academics, all in which are assisting Spurlock’s case to demonise Micky D’s. To document the progress of this extreme challenge, he acquires the assistance of not one, but three doctors who give him thorough examinations before the beginning of this life-threatening quest.
BACKGROUND- SuperSize Me is a 2004 documentary film by award winning playwright Morgan Spurlock . Conceived when he learned two teenage girls were suing McDonalds for making them obese, Spurlock endeavors to document the physical and psychological changes that can result from fast food. The premise is to eat only McDonald's food for 30 days as well as limit his fitness regime to that of the average american. Meals, doctors appoints and interviews with leading experts are filmed in an effort to present McDonalds as a hazard to our nutritional well being. Statistics show that today, 2013, more americans can be classified as obese than ever before.