Film Summary And Film Analysis: Super Size Me

Super-Size Me Super-Size Me is a 2004 documentary by Morgan Spurlock. He is an American independent filmmaker. This documentary explores the fast food industry’s influence on our nation. America has become the fattest nation in the world. Mississippi is the fattest state in the nation. Obesity is a national epidemic. Almost over a million Americans are either overweight or obese. About 60% of them are adults. Since 1980, the total number of children that are obese has doubled. Obesity is now second to smoking as a major cause of preventable death in America. There are over 400,000 preventable illnesses related to obesity every year. Weight gain and being overweight or obese causes a numerous number of health problems. Hypertension, coronary

He attempts a month long diet consisting of just McDonald’s menu items. This will show the effects of fast food on a person’s health. In a thirty- day period he must eat 3 full and complete meals each day. He must eat at least one available item on the menu at least once during the experiment and supersize that meal if cashier recommends it. In order for the experiment to work he limits his physical activity to no more than 5000 steps per day. This helps to closely approximate the activity of a regular American. During his experiment he met up with a few doctors. A cardiologist, gastroenterologist, and a general practitioner. He also met up with a nutritionist and a personal trainer. Throughout the experiment he experienced weight gain, depression, lethargy, and a decreased sex drive. 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

I’m actually glad that I watched this video because I recently just stopped eating McDonald’s a little over a year ago. With me creating a fitness plan and wanting to stay healthy and toned, McDonald’s will not help me accomplish that goal. My BMI is currently in category 3 which is acceptable. Morgan Spurlock ate McDonald’s for thirty days and he was a french-fry away from having contrary heart disease. America spends billions of dollars trying to prevent obesity and McDonald’s spends billions of dollars on advertising their unhealthy foods. Even though they are trying to advertise healthy foods such as salads, their premium salads have 51 grams of fat and more calories than a Big Mac. Detroit is now one of the fattest cities in America. I think to decrease the rate of obesity and overweight people in America it starts at home and a person willing and wanting to keep their selves