In my Nutrition class, the professor decided to show a movie called Supersize Me. The movie centered on the idea of eating fast food every day and how it can contribute to overall health. In this specific movie, the man named Morgan has decided to go on a fast food experience for 30 days eating McDonald for 3 meals per day. McDonald is the only food that he can eat while on this experience. At the same time, he must have everything on the menu at least once before attempting to eat the ones he already had. This movie explores what can go wrong with just relying on one area for the source of your nutrients. This movie is just too shocking too watch, if you cannot imagine what is going to happen in it. There are some scenes that may be offensive and possibly disgusting. The only part worth watching would be him being examined for his health. When looking at his overall health, it shows how we should carefully think about the foods that we eat because it is dangerous, especially if you are overeating foods that should not be. The movie tries to make sure no one is …show more content…
Why would anyone go for 30 days of just eating McDonald? This would just make you sick and make your mood just depressing. At the same time, when I watch this movie, I just get hungry. I would not get sick or feel disgusted by the movie because I am not eating it and I am not ruining my health. This movie relates to how society is today. Although, there is an increased in obesity as many still rely on fast food. Compared to when the movie was made, much of the statistics has increased more and individuals are just ruining their overall health. In addition to more fast food, there is less physical activity that is occurring. This also contribute to a poor overall health. This was shown in the movie as well as he rarely exercised and he continued to just gain calories. Without the exercise, an individual cannot lose the calories that was
Fast food, while a quick alternative to cooking, has always been known to be less healthy than traditional preparations, but the extent of its health benefits or detriments was not known until a lawsuit came out which inspired documentarian Morgan Spurlock to engage in a 30 day experiment. The resultant documentary specifically targeted McDonald’s, the largest fast food chain in the world, which also happens to be a major recipient of lawsuits linking obesity and their food. Spurlock endeavored to spend a thirty day period eating nothing but food that came from the golden arches, with the rules that he would supersize only when asked, and every time he was asked, and that he would have everything from the menu at least once. In the 2004 film Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock explores the concept that McDonald’s contributes to the nation’s obesity problem through the utilization of statistics and scientific evidence as a logical appeal, comedy and repulsive qualities as an emotional appeal, and s...
Super Size Me begins with Director and actor Morgan Spurlock being 32 years of age at the time of filming in 2003. Spurlock is recorded as being physically above average, which is attested to by several doctors as well as a nutritionist and a personal trainer. He asks these professional to track his health and wellness during the “McDiet”. Spurlock’s McDiet is a test where he will eat only food from McDonald’s for thirty days to see how it would affect his health. Throughout the filming of Super Size Me, Spurlock’s health g steadily degenerates until it eventually reaches a state of critical danger for himself, even before the experimental thirty days have concluded. While Spurlock is testing his McDiet, he also investigates further into particular
Throughout the United States many American’s go through and eat at fast food places such as, McDonalds, Burger King, and Jack ‘n the Box. Mainly unaware of the amount of weight one can gain if consuming it on a daily bases or even two times week, can cause health issues, diabetes and possibly obesity. This was the main premise for writer Dave Zinczenko essay Don’t Blame the Eater, who makes an argument that many people are becoming obese and diabetic because of the fast food they eat. He asks a regarding his concern; Shouldn 't we know better than to eat two meals a day in fast-food restaurants?, As a way to engage the general public, like parents and teenagers, he expresses his argument through his own experience when he was a teenager eating at fast food places and information on the fast food industry in regards to how many calories are in the food.
The film gives its viewer the opportunity to see how obese individuals are treated and viewed in today’s society. Bonnie is a very obese woman who rarely moves from the couch. She hasn’t made it to her bed upstairs in years, the children have to set a dinner table up next to her to eat a family meal, and she hasn’t left the house in seven years. She is so embarrassed of herself and refuses to have anyone but family around her. The film shows children sneaking to the window making fun of her and taking pictures of her on the couch. Gilbert even refers to her as a “beached wale.” One day Arnie gets into a little trouble and ends up in the police station. Bonnie is beyond disbelief and demands to be taken to the station. With great bravery and strength she walks her way into the station to save her beloved son. A crowd gathered at the station as they whisper to one another and took pictures during one of Bonnies most courage’s moments. At this point Gilbert started to have faith in his mother, seeing the true strength and love she has for her family.
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 themselves.
The film starts with what the government and many food companies say: that people become obese because do not exercise as much as they eat, and that obesity is caused by lack of effort. As the film suggest, exercise can moderate
The film presents this set of facts, “Eighty percent of American high schools have contracts with soft drink companies, with fifty percent of school cafeterias serving fast food” Fed Up (Soechtig, 2014). The Center for Consumer Freedom criticizes Fed Up, warning that people should equate calories in with calories out and the media helps by promoting the lack of exercise and over-eating as the cause of obesity. The film counteracts this to a degree with Maggie Valentine. She is the twelve-year-old in the film who weighs 212 pounds. She swims four days a week, runs, walks her dogs, and at the end is seen learning how to kayak. Her mother attempts to feed her a good diet at home, of low fat products, and Maggie tries to make good choices at school, but is hindered by what is offered in the cafeteria. She exercises, eats what the food companies tell her is good and still fails, so who then is to blame? The movie hypothesis it is the food companies, advertising and lack of government regulations concerning children and how they are exposed to junk food brainwashing everywhere they
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
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 body mass increase, cholesterol skyrocketed immensely, and fat accumulation in his liver rose to. He became depressed and he only felt happy and in no pain when he was eating the fast food. By using ethos, logos, and pathos, “Supersize Me” became one of the most watched documentaries in the United States. Without these appeals, this documentary would not have developed the effect that it did.
This film though is very important, especially in the United States of America where the obesity level is rising. America tend to promote unhealthy stuff to their consumer. It is rare that one come across a commercial that is promoting healthy living in the United states. Thanks to Leslie for bringing awareness to such issues. Promoting good health is essential to fight against
The emotional feel or atmosphere created by the documentary was just trying to help. You could tell that they want to help people and make sure they are all healthy and can live the right lifestyle. While watching this film I encountered many things I found questionable. I found three claims to be bias/ controversial in this documentary: it uses correlation as causation, they claim someone having health issues can be solved by cutting meat out of their diet, and lastly they only use one study to prove their method, and it is the one that one of the main people in the movie made.
He gained 4.2 pounds, his liver turned to fat, his cholesterol shot up 65 points, and he almost doubled his risk of contrary heart disease. The film concludes that after the films first and original release, McDonald’s discounted the Super-Size menu and began to advertise healthier items such as
Documentary Critique: Super Size Me The indie film Super Size Me, directed by Morgan Spurlock, is a documentary in which Spurlock examines the visible and invisible changes that take place in his body while maintaining a diet of food strictly from the McDonald’s fast-food restaurant. This documentary was relatively easy to find, as I only had to search for it on my Netflix account and found it right away. In making this film, Spurlock appeared to have a clear agenda of finding out what exactly happens to a person’s body when they only consume food distributed by the fast-food giant, McDonald’s, three times a day, for one month.
America has always been about being the biggest nation: the biggest houses, the biggest cars, biggest cities and unfortunately the biggest bodies. There is no doubt that fast food is causing major health problems for many Americans today. In his documentary, Super Size Me, released in 2004 Morgan Spurlock decides to eat only food from McDonald’s for thirty days to see how it would affect his health. Spurlock starts out healthier than the average man for his age. Throughout the film, we can see that his health gradually degenerates and reaches a critical point, before his thirty days are over. Super Size Me is very persuasive in showing the negative effect in fast food restaurants by using logos, pathos, and ethos.
McDonald’s, one of America’s fastest growing fast food restaurants, has made more than its share of money within the last twenty years serving more than 46 million people daily. They have twice as many restaurants as Burger King and more restaurants than KFC, Wendy’s, and Taco Bell Combined. Often children have the dream of eating fast food for every meal of every day. Well, Morgan Spurlock took the challenge to see how dangerous it would be to eat McDonalds for every meal. He also took the challenge in response to a lawsuit against McDonalds by a family whose children became obese by the contents of its meals. Directed and starring Morgan Spurlock, who is married to a vegan chef and a healthy man for his age, Super-Size Me is a film that followed Spurlock for 31 days as he follows certain rules set by a series of physicians. He was only allowed to meals off the McDonalds menu including water. Also, he couldn’t exercise but had to walk the same amount of steps as the average American. Filmed all over the United States, Super-Size Me was made to inform the public on the manufactured foods they consume daily. The film also raises awareness on the dangers of what manufactured foods do to the body. Super-Size Me showed how one of the most popular fast food restaurants around today may be leading future generations to severe health problems.