Supersize Me: 30 Day High Fat Diet

Supersize Me is a movie where Morgan who goes on a diet for 30 days with McDonald's only. His health deteriorates throughout the 30 days of eating McDonalds only. His doctors was wrong with the outcomes of Morgan’s health. His health decrease dramatically after his diet. Not only his health decrease dramatically, his relationship with people decrease too. His emotions vary sometimes throughout the month.

In America almost two thirds of the nation is overweight. That is about 79.6 million people who are obese. Fast food is without a doubt the problem why these statistics are so high. According to Shannon Brownlee, a journalist for the Sacramento Bee “ It’s Portion Distortion That Makes America Fat” she mentions how fast food corporations are luring buyers into their offers . In another article by David Weintraub “The Battle Against Fast Food Begins in the Home” he focus more on self responsibility rather than fast food restaurants being convenient everywhere you go. In America, the obesity epidemic is caused by the lack of parent not taking full responsibility for their childrens health, as well as fast food industries distorting portion sizes in order to make more

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.

There has been a strong concern, however, that unhealthy fast-food has been served and advertised at cafeteria in public schools nationwide and legislation against serving and promoting these foods may be necessary to solve the problem. Schlosser revealed in his book ten years ago that “nation’s food chains are marketing their products in public schools” (Schlosser 52) and points out that “about 30 percent of the public high schools in the United States offer branded fast food” (Schlosser 56). In Super Size Me, the director and performer Morgan Spurlock also shows that many public schools serve innutritious fast food at cafeteria (Super Size Me). In 2005, the Institute of Medicine recommends

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

Consuming fast food is also associated with poor health outcomes, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.5

There are people that go and eat fast food 5 out of 7 days a week because they either can’t afford to eat at home, don’t have time to eat at home, or are just too lazy to make dinner from healthier choices. These fast foods are cheaper and faster to make than traditional foods you can get from the grocery store, yet their fat and sodium and sugar content is extremely high compared to those traditional foods. These foods are processed and lose a lot of the nutrients that our bodies need to be healthy and have increases in the nutrients that we are getting too much of such as being “loaded with added sugar… or its evil twin, High Fructose Corn Syrup..” These people consuming these fatty foods even know of what they are doing to their bodies but continue to consume these foods. Although this might not be completely their fault, with these foods being cheaper and more cost

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

Fat Head and Supersize Me are documentaries that highlight the adverse epidemic of obesity, heart disease, and other health problems that is running rampant throughout the United States. Supersize Me depicts Morgan Spurlock and his experiment to show the impact of eating McDonalds by recording his diet and comparing his health before and after the fast food challenge. Fat Head portrays Tom Naughton refuting the legitimacy of the results of Supersize Me and the Lipid Hypothesis.

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.

Morgan Spurlock's argument in Super Size Me is that eating McDonald's everyday is bad and hazardous for people and their health. However, even though Spurlock specifically focuses on McDonald's because he is eating his daily meals from there, he points out not just that fast-food chain, but other fast-food chains and even the meals served in school cafeterias. A more broad thesis that is not entirely stated outward in the film would be that eating a lot of food that is unhealthy for people everyday contributes to obesity, but specifically, Spurlock is focusing on the fast-food chains.

These people did this so they can have a lawsuit against these companies for making human bodies especially kid’s bodies become larger. People got to “exposed experiments like "Supersize Me" and "Fast Food Nation" as well as reports in the popular press to blame for why now children not only adults, but children are becoming heavy in the United States and maybe other countries”. This shows that humans do care about children becoming overweight because it is not right for at a young age. Also, according to the text, “children who eat fast food regularly are less likely to meet their nutrient needs and fall particularly short on vitamins A and C”. This points out that children are liking fast food since it is on the go, rather than a home cooked meal that has a lot of nutrients.