Essay on Valuation of Supersize me

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.

     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

In “Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” by Michael Moss is about the rising numbers of obesity in both adults and children throughout the United States. On the Evening of April 8, 1999, some of the biggest food industries CEO’s ad company presidents come together for a rare, private meeting. Discussing the emerging obesity epidemic and how they should deal with it. Big time companies food is lacking the nutrients that a person needs and is more concentrated on how to make it more desired. Keeping the customers coming for more. While the industries are gaining a profit, the customers are gaining a big belly.

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

In addition to what you see on the screen Spurlock also uses what you hear to evoke an emotionally response. One scene shows a Ronald McDonald cartoon while the song “Pusherman” by Curtis Mayfield, a song about weed, cocaine, and drug dealers, plays in the background. This is undoubtably trying to draw a comparisons between drug deals and McDonald's this would certainly draw in over weight American's as well as parents. The humor Spurlock displays in the film makes him a very likable person and helps us to relate to him. If this bond between him and his audience was not created and nurtured throughout the film we might find it to be too gross or too serious and become bored with it. Furthermore the bond helps us feel compassion for him therefore, when his doctors and family start to worry about him we care more than we would if we weren't so emotionally invested. Additionally he manipulates the audiences' emotions by depicting McDonald's as a greedy and untrustworthy antagonist. To effectively create this assumption he documents not being able to find nutritional information, calling the headquarters over a dozen times to get an interview to no avail, and showing that they market to children early to get them hooked.

Judging from the title of David Freedman’s “How Junk Food Can End Obesity” published in The Atlantic, Freeman's audience, the upper middle class of America, conjures up an image of a crazy Freedman throwing away every piece of scientific data that shows junk food is hazardous to your health. However, this is not the case. Freedman brings to light a more compromising approach to solving America’s obesity problem. His opinion is that by manufacturing healthier fast food we can solve America’s obesity issue and that his method would be able to be established nation-wide in a cheaper, fast and more effortless way than some other methods proposed. Not all, but the majority of The Atlantic’s audience cares about

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

Mr. Spurlock followed unhealthy guidelines for his experiment. He ate McDonalds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day. Every Time a McDonalds employee asked if he wanted to supersize his meals, he accepted their offers each time, forcing himself to eat the food and even within the first week, he threw up. Mr.

Spurlock subjected himself to eat a three time day McDonald’s meal for thirty days without exercising to prove why obesity is an epidemic in America. Throughout the

When it comes to the topic obesity, most of us readily agree that it is an extensive problem in America. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of the source of the cause. Tove Danovich, author of the book review, ‘Supersizing Urban America’: How U.S. Policies Encouraged Fast Food To Spend, writes about the perspective of Supersizing Urban America author, Chin Jou. Danovich is a graduate of NYU: Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where she gained expertise in journalism and health. Danovich’s credentials allow her to compose the book review about Chin Jou’s book. Author, Chin Jou, is a professor at the University of Sydney, where she teaches American history (Danovich). Although Jou is an

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

Obesity has become an epidemic in today’s society. Today around 50% of America is now considered to be over weight. Fast-food consumption has been a major contributor to the debate of the twenty-first century. Chapter thirteen, titled “Is Fast-Food the New Tobacco,” in the They Say I Say book, consists of authors discussing the debate of fast-food’s link to obesity. Authors debate the government’s effects on the fast-food industry, along with whether or not the fast-food industry is to blame for the rise in obesity throughout America. While some people blame the fast food industry for the rise in obesity, others believe it is a matter of personal responsibility to watch what someone eats and make sure they get the proper exercise.

The position the film maker presented the ‘epidemic’ of obesity specially focusing on the health risks that increases from only eating McDonalds the film maker interviewed health professionals and specialist to be reliable and credible. The health professionals use technical language ‘obesity will overtake smocking as the leading preventable death’. The film maker made the film to raise awareness about the growing number of people with obesity particularly in America. The film maker makes the target audience feel sock, fear, guilt and shame for example, the opening scene began with children singing about fast food. This is shocking because as a society we want children to be healthy and make good choices but sources of media is manipulating children into wanting fast food. A lot of the advertisement appeal to primary to