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.
After a certain period of time Morgan found himself short on energy, hungrier more often, loss of sex drive, and sometimes he would experience sickness. After one of his super size meals he threw up in the parking lot. 2. The film Super Size proved to many Americans that what we eat doesn’t just affect our weight, but almost every part of us. By Morgan consuming over five thousand calories a day for thirty days he gained over twenty four pounds and increased his body mass by thirteen percent.
Supersize Me had many effects in Morgan Spurlock’s life. After thirty days, he gained 24.5 pounds, and increase of 13% of his body mass. After five days, he found himself with an inexplicable feeling of depression. But after having a McDonald’s meal, he gets relieved from the depression, and headaches. One doctor describes him as "addicted."
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.
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.
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.
I walk every day for 30 minutes and do sit ups, pushups, and side bends for 10 minutes five times a week. I have more energy than I did and I am now at the weight I want to be at. Don’t get me wrong I eat badly to. I figure if you take it out of your diet completely then you binge eat. 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.
Critical Analysis of Super Size Me McDonald’s feeds more people each day than the entire population of Spain. It is facts such as these that inspired independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to investigate deeply into the full effects of America's favorite fast food joint. However, Spurlock chose not to take the typical approach. Instead, he chose to launch a thirty day trial diet called the "McDiet." Over the course of a month, Spurlock commited himself to a diet consisting purely of McDonalds menu items.
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.