In this documentary, Super High Me directed by Michael Blieden gives an interesting argument on how marijuana affects a person. In this film, he shows that in two months, when using marijuana, it can change and affect an individual. For this documentary, he chooses Doug Benson to prove his point, who does stand-up comedian and uses marijuana on a regular bases. What this experiment is for the first 30 days, he cannot smoking marijuana, and then the next 30 days, he gets to smoke. Throughout the days
the topic but two of the best genres that reach an audience and give them useful information is an internet article written by Dr. Sanjay Gupta titled "Why I Changed my Mind on Weed" and a video documentary made by comedian Doug Benson titled "Super High Me.” Dr. Gupta wrote the article for CNN.com admitting that he was wrong about cannabis in the past and now finds it a helpful and useful drug. Doug Benson filmed this documentary
"McDonalds operates approx. 30,000 restaurants on 6 continents, and feeds about 46 million people in a single day! In the U.S. alone, McDonalds accounts for 43% of the fast food market." Manhattan alone contains 82 restaurants packed into the island (Super Size Me). McDonalds has been criticized by the media and other people for offering too many unhealthy choices on their menu, therefore leading to obesity in America. Eating too much McDonalds, or any other fatty food, will give you many long term health
The film, Super Size Me, focuses on high-marketing fast food as the cause for American health decline and the increase of obesity. Morgan Spurlock, renowned writer and director, challenges himself to a one-month fast food, high-fat diet; evaluating the dangers of fast food and the potential health risks in society (“About Morgan” 1). Throughout his journey, Spurlock concentrates on informing American audiences about the difficulty of such eating habits and the toll the diet has on his body. He chooses
and lack of exercise. Eating Fast food is very unhealthy and will effect someone’s long term health. In his film Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock’s job is to go on a 30 day McDonalds’ binge to show the effects of eating large amounts of fast food. During the film, Spurlock stresses three main factors of the obesity epidemic. The three main factors of obesity stressed in the film Super Size Me are the health problems associated with eating large amounts of fast food, food being served in schools, and
Super Size Me Summary Super Size Me is an American documentary film released in 2004; starred and directed by Morgan Spurlock. This film is about Spurlock conducting a 30 - day dietary experiment; where he consumed nothing but McDonald’s food items for 30 days straight. The main purpose of this film was to find out whether fast foods really have an impact on people getting fatter and obese. Spurlock undertook this project mainly because of two reasons - the growing obesity rate of American people
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
Super Size Me, a 2004 documentary film starring and directed by independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock 's film document the effects of an all fast food diet on the human body, more specifically Spurlock 's body. Not only does this film show the drastic adverse physical effects of this diet, it also presents evidence how fast food companies target advertising at our youth and also the influence fast food corporations have on government policies. For thirty days Spurlock ate exclusively at
starring Morgan Spurlock, who is married to a vegan chef and a healthy man for his age, Super-Size Me is a film that followed Spurlock for 31 days as he follows certain rules set by a series of physicians. He was only allowed to meals off the McDonalds menu including water. Also, he couldn’t exercise but had to walk the same amount of steps as the average American. Filmed all over the United States, Super-Size Me was made to inform the public on the manufactured foods they consume daily. The film also
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How is fast food causing an increase in obesity in the United Sates? Obesity can be caused by a combination of fast food and the environment people live in today. Fast food contains foods that are high in fats, sugars, and starches. These ingredients have rarely any nutritional value to the human body. Most of the foods available at fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Burger King, and KFC contain concentrated salt and preservatives to enhance the flavor in them. Obesity has become the defining
Super Size Me is a 2004 documentary film when Morgan Spurlock engages a social health experiment to see the mass effect on a person who eats McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for one month. In the process, his weight, energy level plummets and experiences all sorts of unexpected and terrifying side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of young people and its contribution to America's obesity epidemic. The
Sometimes that means protecting the brand. McDonalds is a company that has experienced challenges after attempting to change their very popular menu items in the past. After the public viewing of the documentary Super Size Me, a documentary that highlighted a correlation between fast food and obesity, McDonalds had to change its image from a company selling life threatening foods for profits, to one that provided healthy portion controlled options for its customers
Super-Size Me is a 2004 film by Indie filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. It was inspired by a court case in which two girls sued McDonald's for causing them health problems. McDonald’s argued that the girls could not prove that their health problems were directly related to their food. This intrigued Spurlock, and he decided to conduct an experiment to test this claim, as an attempt to expose the Fast Food industry as being a major cause of the obesity epidemic. In his experiment, Spurlock ate nothing
Supersize Me: The Rhetoric of French Fries 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
“We live in a toxic environment where we are almost guaranteed to get sick.” Morgan Spurlock states in the documentary Super Size Me. One possible cause of our sickness is in part due to what we consume. Americans have become adapted to a fast paced lifestyle that effected was the way we eat. Which eventually led to Americans becoming accustomed to eating unhealthy fast food. Corporations saw this growing culture and took advantage of this in order to make a profit. Eventually they began to completely
Everyday, one in four Americans visits a fast food restaurant. Spurlock however, manages to eat enough food for three out of four those people in a month. He films the documentary of his binge, and names it Super Size Me. He makes a plan to eat only McDonald’s for a month to see how it will affect his health. Spurlock’s thirty-day binge to prove that McDonald’s is the source of America’s bad health is invalid, because he isn’t an average America. In 2004, Spurlock films a documentary about the
Rosaline Nilles Kahlich AP English 3-A4 29 January 2014 Super Size Me Rhetorical Analysis 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
As Steven Spielberg once said, "documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation" (Azevedo, 2013). In Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me, audiences are informed and shown the dangers of consuming fast food everyday. Spurlock has a camera follow him for one month as he consumes McDonalds for each meal thus exposing one to the unhealthy affects of the lifestyle. Relying on images, interviews, and statistics the viewers are informed of how processed fast foods begin to affect
McDonald’s is killing Americans, at least that is what Morgan Spurlock believes. In his documentary Super Size Me he embarks on a quest to not only describe and use himself as an example of the growing obesity trend, but to offer the viewers with base-line nutritional knowledge that will allow them to draw their own informed conclusions. Spurlock's primary intention is to prove through self-experimentation that eating solely McDonald's food is dangerous. His secondary intention is to denounce the