Outline For Supersize Me

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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. In the movie Supersize Me, the main character Morgan Spurlock has five guidelines during his experiment that he needed to follow. The first guideline was Morgan could only limit himself to five-thousand steps a day. The second guideline was Morgan can only Super Size his food when they ask. The third guideline is that he can only eat food from McDonalds, no where else. The fourth guideline is that Morgan has to eat everything on the menu at least once. The fifth and final guideline was he must eat McDonald's food three meals a day everyday, for thirty days. …show more content…

Some examples of physical effects was that he had episodes of headaches and chest pain. Morgan increased his cholesterol by sixty five points. He developed a fatty liver and doubled his risk of heart failure. Morgan was often exhausted and had heart palpitations. After his thirty day experiment, Morgan gained twenty five pounds off of McDonald’s food. Also during his experiment, Morgan experienced emotional problems. Examples was that he was depressed, and had massive mood swings. In addition to that, Morgan started to crave McDonald’s food and after eating was very

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