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No Mcdonald's Diet In The Film, Supersize Me

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In the movie Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock goes on a 30-day diet strictly on McDonald's. He undergoes physical and mental tests to understand the results of the effects of McDonald’s. In the movie Supersize Me I watched the results of a man eating McDonald’s for 30 days. He had the purpose of going out and testing a theory to see how bad results of eating a strict fast-food diet had on the human body. The Movie gave me a new perception toward the way I look at fast-food. Yes, everyone knows that fast food is bad for you, but the average person didn’t know about all of the health hazards in which McDonald’s gives. Adapting an “ No McDonald’s Diet” is nearly impossible, but after seeing this will affect my choices seeing as there are only seven items that have no …show more content…

McDonald’s only had nutrition facts in less than half of their stores, Doesn't that ring a bell? What is there to hide? McDonald's says there isn’t anything, but there must be. Also According to Spurlock’s doctors he was starting to get severe liver failure. But somehow this is “ healthy”. Now after looking at food facts in class, and the majority of the food Spurlock ate, I have new insight on what food to order if by chance I do eat at a fast-food restaurant. In the movie it also showed it showed weight gains (and losses) on Spurlock. The effects on a weekly basis were atrocious, gaining ten pounds in one week is nearly impossible which only shows that McDonald’s and little exercise is severely dangerous to your health. Now when eating if you eat smart, and exercise it is possible that it will sit fine with you and there should not be any problems. Lastly the movie showed how little school systems are actually trying to prepare a healthy diet for schools. Most schools used packaged food from the USDA, and rarely make “home cooked meals”. Thus only proving that schools are just doing the standard, and not making an attempt toward a healthy lifestyle. Schools have

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