I admit it, I’m guilty Of eating fast food often . Why do I eat it if I know it's bad for me though? I don't work out and I'm out still considered average with my health and size. Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" documentary’s purpose has made such a great point that still isn't taken into consideration. He states his facts reminding us that America is obese and has many health problems. The opening of the movie shows kids singing a song together as if they were singing “ring around the rosy” but isn’t they were singing a song that states: “ I like food, you like food McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut” this is so disturbing in so many ways I get him point that kid’s don’t even see the harm in the food and are brainwashed to …show more content…
But when they did it was definitely a surprise. He then states that now everyone else is different and always goes out to eat and going out to eat isn't a surprise anymore. Spurlock already is going to have a negative look on this food industry showing his history. He starts his project because he sees that two American girls were suing McDonald's because of their obesity. But McDonald's told him that they have no evidence that McDonald's was the cause of their obesity and would have to prove it. He takes on the challenge of eating McDonald's three times a day for a month to physically and hopefully mentally prove his point. This is then were Spurlock comes in for his experiment. I disagree with the girls suing McDonald's first off because as in the last story I read "Don't Blame the Eater” David Zinczenko makes a good point stating "isn't that like middle aged men suing Porsche for making them get speeding tickets? Spurlock will consume no less than three meals a day and must consent to super-size it when anybody inquires as to whether he needs to. He won't work out. The normal American makes just a couple of thousand strides a day. With this being said Spurlock gets involved with many specialist to track his health including a doctor and nutritionists. Although this is ridiculous Spurlock begins to prepare for his …show more content…
Although he grew up eating healthy with his mother as a child his former girlfriend is a vegan chef who almost cooks for him every night as well. If a normal human being who consumes junk food all the time can get these effects then Spurlock is definitely going to get hit harder with the overall effects of the challenge. Again on his McDiet, he was consuming twice as much as he ordinarily consumes — a normal of 5,000 calories consistently — so no big surprise he felt wiped out. As the weeks passed, his wellbeing exacerbated. In the film he portrays his condition, saying he experienced difficulty breathing, got to be hot and felt like he was having heart problems. His specialists agonized over him. One is cited in the film advising the chief to, "Quit doing what you're doing. You're pickling your liver." But Spurlock was so determined he just wouldn’t stop! An alternate specialist proposes he was dependent on the sustenance, on the grounds that his inclination enhanced each time he consumed. Spurlock said he would get cerebral pains that went away the moment he began to consume the nourishment. Following 30 days of the test, he says he increased 24½ pounds, his liver turned to fat and his cholesterol shot up 65 points. This evidence in my opinion is just
Kingsolver asserts that this lack of a food culture is the cause of America’s obesity epidemic, supporting her assertion with statistics that state that we produce twice as many calories as we need. Kingsolver also describes the process by which almost all of the produce, such as corn and soy, are turned into oils or fed to livestock in factory farms. Those high calorie oils make their way into all of our foods, especially into junk foods. Junk food ads specifically target children, and yet when the children become obese, it is portrayed as a “failure of personal resolve”, leaving the companies producing the
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...
Even though on his own he may have been able to get his point across of how fast food can destroy a body, he still consults with all types of doctors and specialist. Spurlock even goes out to schools and the streets to interview random people to help his believability on the subject matter.
First comparison and contrast, was that “the food was very additive“, so much that a reasonable person would not be able to make smart choices for themselves, also the fast food employees “would make you go inside the establishment, had you to order and eat their food no questions asked.” So He stood outside and waited for them to come get him, but no one came, or made him in go inside. Spurlock said “that when he wasn’t eating the food that he felt depressed and fel...
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 Morgan can't eat it.
This documentary takes a look at how our school’s lunch programs and government play a role in the spread of obesity across the nation. The film really attempts to drive home the idea that our children are being immorally brainwashed into wanting unhealthy foods. At some points of the film, it appears that the director uses big companies and school lunches as a scapegoat for our nations crisis. It is a valid point that our nation’s children are being
The first step that Spurlock utilizes is documenting his daily life through this modified “McDiet. He include visual aspects in his documentary, like personal footage, to help support his claim. Throughout this documentary, Spurlock includes records of him eating out of only McDonald's every day for a month. He documents his every meal and the experiences he has after eating. He would record how he is feeling and his health condition at many points in the film. From day one to day thirty, he shows how much he had eaten and his final analysis of his experiment. The immoderate McDonald's diet that Spurlock consumed helps show the health risks, consequences, and dangers of fast food. By performing this experiment, Spurlock was able to prove that fast food is a major factor in rising health and obesity problems. Another analytical track that Spurlock incorporated is the uses of text to he...
His first appeal, logos, is found from the opening credits to the blackout signaling the end of the film. He incorporates shocking and eye-opening statistics in order to backup his claims about the detriments of fast food. One of the first mentioned statistics in the film was that nearly 100 million people are overweight or obese, which equals more than sixty percent of all adults; related to that statistic, every day, one in four Americans, twenty-five percent of our nation, visits a fast food restaurant. At this rate, Spurlock points out that pretty quickly obesity is going to pass smoking as the leading preventable cause of death. Every year, 300,000 people die of obesity—only a mere 180,000 behind smoking. He stresses that 300,000 people die every year from a preventable cause. Hopefully that number reduced after the release of this
The purpose of Morgan Spurlock’s experiment was to see if eating McDonald’s food could affect your health. He got the idea to do this experiment from two girls who sued McDonald’s because of their obesity. One girl, nineteen years old weighing almost three-hundred pounds, and the other girl, fourteen years old almost weighing close to two-hundred pounds. There was no proof that McDonald's food was the reason of the girls poor health and obesity. This resulted in Morgan doing a thirty day experiment by only eating McDonald’s food. He wanted to see if fast food influenced his health. Throughout the movie you can see the drastic changes it did to his body.
Children know the logo, even before they can talk and they consume it just as much as the adults, which starts the obesity epidemic early. In the movie, they offered Spurlock a total of nine super-sized meals. The conditions of the experiment are that he must order from the McDonald's menu, all three main meals and all food to be eaten must come from McDonald’s, every menu item at McDonald’s must be eaten at least once over the course of 30 days. Lastly, he must super size meals only when offered by McDonald’s staff. He must not engage in any exercise beyond that which the typical US citizen engages in, which is approximately 5,000 standardized distance steps per day. The supersized meals contained the choice of any McDonald’s sandwich, a 42-ounce soft drink, and a 7-ounce supersized french fries. In the film, Spurlock buys most of his food from Texas, where most of the supersized meals came from. The large or the supersized option was one of the contributors to the problem obesity because of how many calories that is being offered to the buyers. One drink and one supersize fries contain at least 1,000
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.
In the documentary “Supersize Me” by Morgan Spurlock, America’s obesity issue was exposed and pinpointed at one of the giant contributor and fast food marketer “McDonald's”. Throughout the documentary, many rhetorical devices were utilized to provide reasons as to how America’s obesity issue is dangerous and how Mcdonald's and major food companies contribute to this disaster in the American society. Drastic continuance of unhealthy eating habits on top of an increasingly growing population calls for an alarm to everyone. He then stresses the dangers of obesity and addresses the issue’s cause. Morgan creates a strong visual and effective argument that eating fast food is the key reason to America’s obesity issue.
While the film Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock replicates the eating habits of what he believes are “average” americans, Fat Head by Tom Naughton on the other hand dives in deeper into the physiology behind the ingestion of food and replicates a more believable eating habit of an average American. Both films try to teach people about nutrition and change issues about either the government or companies such as McDonald’s, however one film proves to be more accurate and honest out of the both films. Fat Head not only disproves Morgan Spurlock’s film, but also shows how the government has been lying to all the American consumers the whole time by showing what professionals know about nutrition and showing facts to support his claims.
David Zinczenko states numbers and facts that open the eyes of his reader along with state his position of how fast food states no warnings that it could make someone obese or develop type 2 diabetes. His first statement is telling his readers a little background about how fast food affected his life and how he was once obese because he consumed such meals. Zinczenko explains how the increase in diabetes (specially type 2) were linked to the high consumption of fast food meals. He then goes on to address how much money is being spent to help take care of the mass amount of children with type 2 diabetes, showing how the price has gone up substantially over the past couple decades. The author then claims how the restaurants don’t give any healthy alternative and how its easier to find a McDonalds in American than an healthy alternative such as fruit. To wrap up the article he shares how he feels that obese kids who sue these fast food restaurants have good ground to do so since these places don’t put warnings on their foods; From Zinczenko himself “I say, let the deep fried chips fa...
Super-Size Me showed how one of the most popular fast food restaurants around today may be leading future generations to severe health problems. First, my personal reaction to this documentary is an eye opener. I knew McDonalds was more harmful than other fast food places, but I never knew about the lawsuit between McDonalds and its consumers. I never saw McDonalds as having a big impact on my life; this is probably because the McDonald’s in my hometown never had a super-size option. In the video, Spurlock conducted interviews to gain multiple perspectives on what kind of people eat McDonald’s food.... ...