Super Size Me

America is the fattest country in the world with 100 million overweight people and 400,000 individuals dying each year from obesity related ailments. Now even children are eating too much and exercising too little.
In Super Size Me, along with using himself, Spurlock examines issues of food, obesity, and advertising. Spurlock interviews lawyers, nutritionists, people struggling with their weight, and fast food employees as well as other people associated with the topic. My favorite was a man who looked as though he had just stepped out from a Christmas shop. This man is hooked on Big Macs. He eats at least two every single day. He is so well known at his favorite McDonald’s that all he has to do is hold up his hand with the appropriate number of fingers raised, and the staff knows how many Big Macs he wants. Super Size Me reveals that this man’s cholesterol is about 140. Apparently, some people can eat a steady diet of Big Macs and still be healthy. But not Morgan Spurlock. And not, I suspect, most people.
It is hardly shocking to learn that a steady diet of fast food is not healthy, and that, long term, such a diet has an adverse effect on a person. But in one month’s time? And when that person was in very good health? I was certainly shocked, and so were Spurlock’s doctors. They never dreamed that his health would deteriorate so fast. The movie showed that McDonald’s, along with other types of fast food, can directly effect a person’s health. This repetitive eating of these foods can cause cholesterol issues, liver issues, chest pains, obesity, and seem to be acting as a drug. It definitely made me think twice every time I am walk by Macdonald...