Supersize Me is a documentary about the dangers of eating fast food, specifically McDonald’s. In Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock sets out on a quest to eat nothing but McDonald’s for every meal for thirty days and see how it affects his health. Spurlock must only eat what only at McDonald’s, he must have everything on the menu at least once, and if workers ask him if he would like to supersize, he must. Spurlock had a thorough medical examination prior to beginning this experiment. Throughout the thirty days, he experienced different side-effects of eating McDonald’s. The obvious being gaining weight and becoming noticeably bigger throughout the duration of the experiment. Spurlock also faced mental challenges along the way. He began to feel …show more content…
I was carefree as to what I was eating. In my young mind, hamburger was meat, whether it was from the store, or from a fast food restaurant. I never took the time to consider what I was eating. If was hungry, then I ate. It did not matter whether it was something I prepared, or if I bought it from a fast food place. I must admit, however, I do not feel as if I ate terribly. I grew up with seven siblings, so the majority of our meals were home cooked because of how costly it was to eat out. I was never forced to put any consideration into my diet. My mother cooked dinner and I ate the dinner. Now that I am in college, that has changed. I am forced to make my own food choices. I often find myself eating meals similar to what my mother would have prepares. Often times I have some form of meat, a starch, and any type of vegetable. I never made myself aware of the dangers of eating fast food. I knew that fast food was not the best thing for you, but I had no idea exactly how bad it was prior to viewing the film. Supersize Me showed me that fast food is not something that should be put into the body on a consistent basis. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services blames poor eating habits and lack of exercise for 310,000 to 580,000 deaths a year (Therein). Being young and unaware, I assumed the food was exactly what was advertised. I was not aware of all the …show more content…
I will certainly be more cautious of what I am putting into my body. I plan to do this by attempting to avoid fast food at all cost, but I know that this is not realistic. I plan to eat at healthier fast food options such as Subway. The majority of sandwiches at Subway are under 400 calories, where the Big Mac at McDonald’s is 560 calories by itself (Subway.com). After learning the dangers of fast food, I want to make sure that I make the healthier choice. I need to choose the healthy choice, rather than the convenient choice. With fast food restaurants being cheap and located on almost every corner, making the choice to eat fast food is easier than preparing your own healthy food. Choosing fast food comes at a cost that is not money. One of those costs being the health dangers that come from eating fast food in excess. Fast food, which is high in fat and sodium, can lead to health risks such as high cholesterol, obesity, and heart disease (Van Horn). Along with these definite health risks, fast food restaurants add fillers to their food. The fillers help the fast food industry by lowering the cost and causing the food to look more appetizing. However, these fillers are not healthy for consumers and do not provide them with the nutrition that they believe they are receiving. Preparing my own food will take more time than just simply driving through the
While everyone generally knows that fast food is not good for their health, however people still eat it for various reasons. Most people that buy fast food have low incomes, are uneducated, and/or are people just trying to save a couple of bucks. Most people trying to save money are buying fast food and it is costing their health in the long run. This will eventually end up costing people even more money.
Morgan Spurlock decided to make this documentary to investigate the fast food companies, and the effects of certain fast food chains products, particularly McDonalds, on the health of society. This Documentary explores the United States growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes as well. Morgan decides to eat nothing but McDonald's food for thirty days. He must eat one of everything on the menu at least once, and when asked to super size his meal he must do so. Another stipulation of Morgan's experiment is that he can only take 5,000 steps a day to replicate the exercise that most average Americans get on a daily basis. He must also eat three meals a day, no exceptions and if McDonalds doesn't serve it
Fast food is unhealthy and does not provide the necessary nutrients needed for a daily diet, however Mcdonald's, a fast food empire claimed in a 2004 lawsuit against them that fast food can be a part of a healthy diet. The court ruled that the plaintiffs would have a serious claim if they could prove that eating fast food for every meal is dangerous for the person and their health. Morgan Spurlock, writer, director, producer, and star of 2004 documentary Supersize Me set out to prove that fast food is dangerous for a person's health. The documentary follows Morgan on his 30 day challenge of only eating fast food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Through Morgan's challenge his weight skyrockets, his health declines and feels terrible all the time. Many people believe that fast food companies are to blame for America's obesity but the individual must take responsibility for what they put into their bodies instead of blaming fast food companies for their unhealthy eating habits .The documentary explores the idea that people should avoid eating fast food because Fast food, although more convenient and easier is worse for you than making your own meals. Fast food leads to many health risks and is not a good substitution for traditional meals. People should avoid eating
An analysis of the film Super Size Me, which is a 2004 documentary over Morgan Spurlock who documents the obesity problem we have in this country and how McDonald’s and other fast food chains are the ones that mainly contribute to the increasing problem, and exploring the realist aesthetics of the film goes over the elements of direct address to the camera, handheld camera, on-camera interview and also real people (non actors). This documentary was made to study the influence that the fast food industry, such as McDonald’s, Wendy’s, KFC and others have over the obesity problem in America. Morgan Spurlock makes himself a guinea pig and explores the consequences to his body when only eating McDonald’s three times a day for one whole month and he can only super size it if the cashier asks him. Spurlock consults with a practitioner, cardiologist, gastroenterologist, nutritionist, and trainers to help and track the change in his body during the whole experiment.
While most people generally know that fast food is not good for their health, they still eat it for various reasons. Most people that buy fast food are low income, uneducated, and/or are people just trying to save a couple of bucks. However, the people trying to save money by buying fast food will eventually end up spending more money from the cost of doctor 's visits, medicine, etc.
Contrary to the popular belief of the time, Morgan Spurlock’s amateur documentary “Supersize Me” pushed reform in both fast food culture, and eating habits of citizens, being one of the first catalysts in a new movement in America. This 2004 film, being the first of his works to establish Spurlock as a filmmaker, focuses on Spurlock’s 30 day journey in which he vowed to eat solely McDonalds for three meals a day, and track his overall mental, physical, and social changes over this span of time. Throughout the film, Spurlock consults three doctors (a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist, and a general practitioner) as well as a nutritionist to monitor physical change and gather quantitative data supporting his claim. The film often exhibited
McDonald’s is killing Americans, at least that is what Morgan Spurlock believes. In his documentary Super Size Me he embarks on a quest to not only describe and use himself as an example of the growing obesity trend, but to offer the viewers with base-line nutritional knowledge that will allow them to draw their own informed conclusions. Spurlock's primary intention is to prove through self-experimentation that eating solely McDonald's food is dangerous. His secondary intention is to denounce the rising obesity rate in American by using statistics, his own research, and the opinions of experts. His broader message is for a general audience while he tailors select chapters towards more specific demographics such as parents or McDonald's
Media is so powerful that many people in business and politics have long realised that documentary filmmaking is a powerful way to influence or persuade the masses as to which side they should take on certain issues. Although the media claim their documentaries to be neutral, subjectivity is always an issue. Like any form of communication, including journalism, documentary filmmaking involves interpretation and choice-making on the part of the filmmaker, and is therefore unavoidably subjective. You might set up a camera to record a "day in the life of a Year 12 student” and end up with some interesting footage, but until it is shaped and given meaning by the filmmaker, and until
The United States of America has long been considered a “big nation”, whether is has the biggest cities, houses, and on a negative note, biggest people. In 2003, Morgan Spurlock, a healthy-bodied film director, set on a quest to show America the detrimental effects of the fast food industry and raise awareness on the controversial issue. He produced the documentary “Supersize Me”, where McDonald’s meals were consumed for every meal of the day for thirty days. His film was released to movie theatres so that people could understand the devastating effects of McDonald’s on his body in a very short time span. At the end of his experiment, Morgan gained twenty-five pounds, developed a thirteen percent
In the movie "Supersize Me,” by Morgan Spurlock whom was doing a dangerous experience for a month by just eating McDonald 's food and nothing else also show how they provide poor nutrition for their own profit and walk about 5,000 steps per day before he started he met five people gastroenterologist, cardiologists, general practitioner, registration dietitian and exercise physiologist to make sure everything is going good for a month by having a regular check up. Doctors told him the only changes he will see is his triglyceride levels and cholesterol levels go up, gaining weight, or if he has any heart disease in the family that may affect him also one doctor said the body is very adaptable, kidney can handle any extra salt. This movie is mostly about how fast food is very unhealthy when we choose to eat it we also pick the unhealthy path of being overweight or obese. Morgan also goes to a school an see what children prefer to eat and what the school actually serve in their cafeteria, which is unhealthy of course.
In the film, “Super Size me”, a man takes part in a 30 day journey of only eating McDonald’s. Required to only eat menu items and accept all offers to “Super Size” his meal (making his fries and drink more than double the regular size) , the man made it the entire way. What was the cause of this though? Extreme repercussions. The man contracted type two diabetes nearly two months later and frequently got sick during the experiment. One specific day the man was forced to super size his meal and eat a whopping half pound cheese burger causing him to instantly become sick. The reality of this though, as presented in the film, is that millions of americans eat a meal closely related to this, on a regular
During the documentary Supersize Me, Mr. Morgan Spurlock embarks on a month long experiment, to see how McDonalds would affect somebody’s body if that is all they ate over the course of a month.
Supersize Me is a documentary about a guy named Morgan who went on a 30 day high fat diet. He wanted to see the effects of fast food would have on a person’s health. But little did he or the doctors know the repercussions and the damage of this experiment would do to one’s body. 60% of all US adults are overweight or obsess. America is the fattest nation in the world could fast food be to cause of this, this is what Morgan set out to find out.
The movie Super-Size Me provided a lot of insight on how important it is to be fit, and eat healthy on a regular basis. Sixty percent of Americans are obese, and America has become the largest country in the world. Super-Size Me shows what eating out can do to your body in just one month, and even if it isn’t eaten every day, it will have the same effect but slower occurring.
In 2003 Morgan Spurlock launched on an experiment of sorts to fully understand the effects that fast food, in this case specifically McDonald’s food can have on one’s physiological and mental health by eating nothing but McDonald’s food for thirty days. Before embarking on this quest, Spurlock visited a general practitioner, a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, a dietician, and an exercise specialist. He began his McDonald’s journey with exceptional health, by the end of the thirty days he had suffered serious health consequences both physically and mentally. From an addiction to McDonald’s food to a major increase in cholesterol levels there is no doubt that Spurlock’s health greatly declined in the month long period. Spurlock documented his journey in a film entitled Supersize Me, which has served as a call to action for the years since its release.