Alexander Sanchez
05/03/10

Super Size Me

Super Size Me was a very interesting movie that would inspire anyone to stop eating fast food. Super Size Me gave very detail facts on illness people could receive when eating fast food. Super Size Me was about this man, Morgan Spurlock who personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month. Spurlock eat at McDonald's restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the menu. He was trying to prove the low quality food McDonalds makes and the health risk people could receive when eating McDonalds in a normal basis. The main reason for Spurlock's investigation was because of the lawsuit brought against McDonald's on behalf of two overweight girls, who tried to sue McDonalds. They blamed McDonalds for their overweight, because they claimed that’s all they saw on advertisements in their childhood. The lawsuit against McDonald's failed because due to the poor amount of evidence to accuse McDonalds for their overweight. In the end of the movie Super Size Me, Spurlock gained 24½ lbs., a 13% body mass increase, experienced mood swings, and fat accumulation to his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained from his experiment. Six weeks after the movie premiered, McDonalds toke out the Super Size option from their entire restaurant’s menu. This was a great movie, and is glad that they show this movie in all public schools. This movie can really educate student to make better eating decisions. They should make more of these types of movies more often and maybe make one for children’s.