Analysis Of The Movie Super Size Me

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What is obesity? Dctionary.com states that “Obesity is a medical condition in which a person has excess body fat or being overweight; corpulence" therefore an obese person puts them self at risk for major health problems.” The movie Super-Size Me directed and written by Morgan Spurlock sheds light on the fast food market and the obesity crisis in the United States. His compelling experiment brings to light the physical and emotional impact of consuming three square meals per day at McDonalds for thirty days. Several lawsuits were filed against McDonald’s restaurant for knowingly selling food that is very unhealthy. To substantiate the claim proof was required to show that eating McDonald’s everyday can be dangerous and affects the human body.
For instance, there are more McDonalds in Manhattan than anywhere else in the world. The city of Manhattan is only thirteen miles long, by two miles wide, and there are eighty three fast food locations which is nearly four stores per square mile. Also there is more McDonald’s location than Kentucky Fry Chicken, Popeye’s, Taco Bell and Wendy’s combined in Manhattan. Another thing that stood out to me in the documentary is that McDonald’s spent over 1.4 billion dollars on advertisements and Pepsi spent 1 billion dollars on direct advertising, Hersey candy spent 200 million dollars and the five a day fruit and vegetable campaign spent 2 million dollars on advertisements. The fast food industry impacts Americans because we spend a lot of money on it which most of the food is very unhealthy. In the movie, its states that 45 percent of families will go out to eat fast food instead of cooking at home. If customers start to eat at home and save their money, the big companies will reduce their prices on products. They will also increase their marketing strategies and advertisements to lure one to start purchasing again. Certainly the onus is not to be swayed by their strategies of lowering cost thinking it is a great deal for our money. The important factor is one 's

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