Over the course of a month, Spurlock commited himself to a diet consisting purely of McDonalds menu items. After certain specifications and stipulations were put into place, Spurlock began his "McDiet" which soon proved to be a gruesome and nauseating experience. Almost instantly after the start of the documentary, it becomes apparent that Spurlock was subjecting himself for the sake of health revelations. In the humorous, insightful documentary Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock combines his unique style of participatory narration with strong appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in order to successfully educate the audience of the negative health impacts of fast food on the collective physique. Sporlock takes on the unique stle of participatory narration in order to create an intense level of engagement between the filmmaker and the viewers, thus making the film more personal and effective.
Blaming Fast Food Restaurants for Obesity Let’s face it; everyone loves a Whopper every now and then. Yet we are all aware that one too many can bring on dangerous and life-threatening results. Obesity is a growing problem in the United States and more and more children are being affected. But do uneducated families have the right to put the blame on fast food restaurants for their health issues they could have easily prevented? I believe that we are taking it too far by blaming fast food restaurants for obesity and that it is an individual’s responsibility to take the blame.
Writing Plan: Essay #__2______ Introduction: Approach to start (Hook or Attention-Grabber) | Why should the government control what we eat? They want to control what we eat because there’s so many kids obesity in America. | ThesisStatement | The government has some point to want to control what we eat. The obesity rate in America is very high. The government should have regulation on the fast food industry.
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.
Charlie Dajose 22 August, 2011 AP English Fast Food Nation In the book, Fast Food Nation, the author Eric Schossler brings up several issues with the fast food society. All of these issues revolve around the idea that fast food is detrimental not just for our health, but for the economy, consumers, and producers as well. Schossler shows clearly how kids as little as three-years-old are being pushed into thinking McDonald’s is a safe and healthy place to go through the media. Through stories and statistics, Schossler shows how children are nearly being brainwashed to buy fast food. He states how the young and under-paid workers are taken advantage of and are put in danger just by going to their jobs.
The Olympic Games Sponsorships During a time with worldwide health problems and an American population where more than 1/3 are categorized as obese and an estimated annual medical cost of $147 billions caused by obesity and 6/10 in UK are overweight or obese, is it not unethical that the Olympic Games main sponsors are McDonalds and Coca Cola? The question is especially relevant since IOC recently extended their contract with McDonald’s and Coca Cola until 2020 despite health campaigners who are urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban junk food and fizzy drink brands from future sporting sponsorship deals and other efforts to stop the sponsoring. The Olympic Games are the leading international sporting event with more than 200 nations partaking and in the winter and summer games which each happens every 4-year with sport idols like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Roger Federer and many more. With the latest 4-year revenue of up to £5.12billion and a £528 million surplus shouldn’t it be possible to find sponsors who doesn’t advertise unhealthy food and beverages? Even some of the athletes grasp the opportunity to work with McDonald’s.
Burgers, French fries, sodas, milkshakes, ice cream, etc are just an example of the wide menu McDonald’s has to offer the consumer making it easy for them to order a highly caloric meal. This can lead to serious health problems like Obesity, heart problems, diabetes and even different types of cancer in the long run. Obesity: According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, between 16 and 33 percent of teenagers in the United States are obese. Teenagers are considered obese when they are 20 percent or more above the normal weight for their age and height. Obesity is caused by eating more calories than the body burns.
In addition, this movie shows the ways schools are affecting obesity in their students. Vending machines are one of the main reasons. Some schools have banned soda vending machines and even prohibited students from bringing soda. Furthermore, Super-Size Me gives awareness about the consumption of fast food. Forty percent of American meals are eaten out of the house.
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.
Critical Analysis Essay “Food Cops on the Prowl” Obesity is one of the most serious problems of the childhood in the present. There are a lot of reasons to lead the obesity in young people. The article “Food Cops on the Prowl” pointed out the marketing of food companies is one of the important causes of childhood obesity. According to Pierce Hollingsworth (2004), there was so many causes lead to childhood obesity, not only the food marketing. He showed some causes of childhood obesity, and he thought that people should care more about the other causes.