Mcdonalds And Morgan's Experiments

In 2004, Morgan Spurlock subjected himself to a 30-day diet based solely on eating McDonald’s for 3 times a day and no working out. He wants to show and prove what the mental and physical effects are of consuming fast food for every meal. He set a few rules. He had to do it for 30 days, he can only eat or drink what is provided on McDonald’s menu, has to try everything on the menu at least once and if asked to supersize his meal, he must do so. He started his journey under the care of three physicians, one cardiologist, a gastroenterologist and a general practitioner. The unanimous decision was that Spurlock was in excellent health. They monitor him over the next 30 days to make sure he is not exposing himself to damage that cannot

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

Morgan Spurlock’s motivation to create his documentary emerged from a certain court case, in which two teenage girls sued McDonald's for selling them products that resulted in them being obese for their age group (Spurlock). McDonald’s testimony stated that the girls could not fully prove that it was the McDonald’s product that were making them overweight and that eating their products for every meal would be seemingly dangerous (Spurlock). Spurlock to this statement into his owns hands and a decided to conduct a month long experiment, in which he would go on a thirty-day long binge of McDonald’s food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to prove if and how fast food can make a person obese (Spurlock). It is well known within the general public that fast food in not a healthy option for a meal but for many, fast food is the only

The purpose of Mr. Spurlock’s experiment was to see how eating McDonald's each day affected the daily lives of the American people and see how eating fast food contributed to the obesity. He travelled and investigated nutritionists to see what they recommended on how much fast food a person should eat and he used himself as a test subject. He went and asked people’s opinions of fast food and he saw that many eat it as convenience.

Fast foods are one of the biggest contributors. The documentary, “Super-Size Me”, shows a very detailed journey that Morgan Spurlock takes to investigate the real effects of consumption of McDonalds. Morgan Spurlocks deal is to eat McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for thirty days. During this time his health would be tracked by a gastroenterologist, cardiologist, and a general practitioner in order to receive accurate medical attention and tracking. Within Mr. Spurlocks first two to four days he had vomited and started his days just not feeling well for no clear reason.

The luminosity of billboards and glowing signs gripping our every thought brings on an overwhelming and intense sense of: what do we eat first. Thinking about what our food is made of should be something that is higher on our priority list. Ever imagine that eating fast food could cause chronic issues that are directly linked to a decline in health? These are the pictures that Morgan Spurlock paints for us in his film. Spurlock uses ethos, logos, and pathos; to really drive home and emphasize how passionate he truly is about our ease of access to our obesity epidemic. Also there are a lot of displays in numerous different ways that the attraction, allure, and ambiance engulf us. Spurlock's film leads us to conclude that: fast food is extremely horrible for our

Over the years, as obesity has become a growing concern society, role of fast food as a cause for obesity has been questioned. Morgan Spurlock’s concern for obesity motivates him to test an experiment on whether McDonald’s food poses a threat on one’s health. Under the close supervision of doctors Spurlock eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner at McDonalds for the next month the danger of McDonald’s food by eating it three times a day for the next month. As the director and main character in the documentary, Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock demonstrates his purpose by successfully developing and winning his argument along with using rhetorical appeals such as ethos, logos, and pathos.

Morgan Spurlock, a filmmaker, created a documentary film called Supersize Me which accentuates the message of what dangers of fast food and consequently their effects on our health. This belief was inspired from a lawsuit case of two girls who, at the time were suing McDonalds for their health issues, such as obesity. However, the girls lost to the lawsuit, the judge ruled that was no evidence of their sufficient health obesity was the cause of eating from McDonalds. Due to this lawsuit, he conducted an experiment only to eat McDonalds for a maximum of 30 days and investigate the impact of fast food on his health. During this documentary film, the following viewers went on the journey with Spurlock to witness the extravagant changes McDonalds

In Super size me Morgan goes into a 30 day diet of eating Mcdonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Before Morgan began this diet he was a healthy men with no medical problems. When he started the process he was feeling sick and at the end he had many health problem. According to Supersize video “ Morgan blood levels are excellent and perfect, he weighed 185. This mean that he lived a healthy life before he started. After he began he was bad “ 10 minutes after his first super size meal he had tummy ache and he was sweating. This evidence show that the food was making him sick. Another evidence is that he after day 5 he was getting 5000 calories and gain 10 pounds. This mean that he was getting more calories per day then he needs per day.

With Several legal suits have been brought against McDonald's Restaurants that they are knowingly selling food that is unhealthy. Some of the court decisions have stated that the plaintiffs would have a claim if they could prove that eating the food every day for every meal is dangerous. Taking a social experiment in fast-food Morgan Spurlock sees himself in attempting to endure uniquely foods from the fast food chain known as McDonald’s. In the process he has to eat three meals a day from McDonald’s (breakfast, lunch and dinner) for thirty days. Thought the process Spurlock health starts to react to the terrifying side effects. In Super-Size Me film maker and producer Morgan Spurlock wants to reach young people and its contribution to America`s

In a society that is facing numerous problems, such as economic devastation, one major problem is often disregarded, growing obesity. As the American society keeps growing, so does growth of the fast food industry and the epidemic of obesity. In order to further investigate the main cause of obesity, Morgan Spurlock, the film director and main character, decides to criticize the fast food industry for its connection with obesity in America. In his documentary Spurlock performs a radical experiment that drives him to eat only from McDonald's and order a super-sized meal whenever he is asked. By including visual and textual techniques, rhetorical appeals, and argumentative evidences, Morgan Spurlock was able

Are fast-food companies to blame for America’s heavily declining health, and if so, where does personal responsibility end and corporate responsibility begin in a country that’s covered top to cellulite-plastered bottom in advertising lethally unhealthy food? Spurlock’s purpose in conducting this experiment was to tackle this question head-on. Eating nothing but McDonald’s food for a whole month, three times a day, to get the “full experience” in order to study the diet’s effect on the human body.

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.

Before I knew about all this information, I never thought about the food that I was consuming because my mother or my father cooks everyday. I first learned about this and the food industry when I was in the sixth grade. My sixth grade math teacher Ms. Troy showed us a movie about the dangers of eating McDonald 's called “Super Size Me” The

Obesity is probably the most significant issue facing the McDonald’s Company today. The corporation has been severally blamed for the menace due to its wide range of junk foods. As the world’s largest fast food company, it has become a target of most health related films such as Super Size Me. This is because the public blames the company for failing to give nutritional information concerning the items on its menu (Baron, 2010).