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.
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.
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.
I’ll eat fast food like once a week, but like the video says I make sure my portion size is not out of control. I never like the feeling of being overstuffed. Many of times portion size is everything. When your stomach expands it gets out of control and you just feel like garbage. I am now trying to teach my son portion control.
Our breakfasts, lunches and dinners are all on the healthy side. My father had a heart attack when he was 42 years old. The doctor said that it was because he was overweight, had a desk job, did not exercise, smoked cigarettes, and ate too much. My mother only put on his plate, servings of meat, vegetables, and potatoes, noodles, or spaghetti that was apportioned to the size of his hand. Dad being Dad then would go to the kitchen counter and put another dinner plate full of whatever entree my mother was serving for dinner.
November 30, 2011 Supersize Me People are often drawn by curiosity to experiment with various activities in their lives. In the movie Supersize Me Morgan Spurlock decides to experiment with his own health. He got the idea for the documentary after watching the news about two teenage girls who were suing McDonald’s for making them obese. To discover the true harms of the fast food industry, Spurlock goes on a 30 day long McDonald’s binge. He allows himself to eat nothing but the unhealthy food from this restaurant for a whole month abiding by certain regulations.
He obtained a calorie counter book from a newsstand and uses it to determine the amounts of carbohydrate, fat and protein he eats. He has discovered that he takes in 10 percent or less of his total calories from fat. Ryan is eating 150 g of protein per day. He understands that the best protein is egg, so his 150 g of protein includes four raw eggs per day. In addition, he eats 3 g of protein powder before working out, 3 g after working out, 3 g in the morning, and 3 g in the evening.
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.
95% of high schoolers have said that their lunches are absolutely delicious. While middle schoolers complain about having crust , cold meat and frozen milk. Betty Croplin of Gary Middle School, states that her lunch constantly has mold on it and it is never up to date. Even though high schoolers say that their lunch is better, it's actually true. In high school, lunch is more expensive, and well known fast food companies sell their products at local high schools.