Morgan Supersize Me

Super Size Me; Found on Netflix

Argument found in Super Size Me: Fast food is extremely unhealthy, one of the major causes of obesity, and should be consumed very little if at all.

Agree: An extremely healthy man who rarely consumed fast food, conducted a month-long experiment of eating nothing but Mc. Donalds. Morgan made sure to have a steady goal of only walking 5,000 feet a day. He also made sure to only eat what Mc. Donalds offered, everything off the menu, and supersized the meals only when asked but the worker. In only 17 days Morgan ended up with a fatty liver and gained approximately 17 pounds. On the terms of heath, a person should only gain and lose one to two pounds a week. Rapid weight gain is extremely unhealthy, especially if it's from fast food.
Morgan lived in Illinois, one of the most obese populations.
In that state there was about 83 Mc. Donalds at that time. Also, barely any of the Mc. Donalds had little to any nutritional information about their food. (Meanwhile today nutritional facts are on the menu and available to the public, due to health regulations.) Morgan also entered depression throughout this experiment due to his addiction to the food that also developed. He claimed to only feel happy when he was eating Mc. Donalds. Morgan's sexual performance also depleted when he became more tired and not as much was going on in his genitalia. (As he and his girlfriend have both stated in the documentary.) During this experiment, Morgan also encountered heart palpitations, possibly because of the high amounts of sugar he had been consuming. Nearly everything served at Mc. Donalds contains sugar except for the potato-based products. Even the salads contain sugar. In the end of his experiment he had continued massive weight gain, only lost one pound throughout this whole experiment. Morgan had gained about 25 pounds throughout this experiment. It took him five months to lose twenty of those pounds and only had about four and a half pounds left. It took six weeks on a strict
diet to get his organs back to normal. Doctors in general have recommended never to eat fast food. Some have recommended to eat it as little as possible, once or twice a month is okay.

Disagree: Although it is unhealthy to consume fast food, it is also self-choice as to whether or not one gains weight or becomes obese. In Morgan's experiment, he did not use is regular exercise routine, instead he limited himself to 5,000 steps a day. Morgan also stopped taking the vitamins he had been taking. The main reason why he did this was to make sure the experiment had no flaws. However, nobody has Mc. Donalds for every meal either. The typical person eats Mc. Donalds or fast food either once or twice a week or once or twice a month. Occasionally there is the outlier that consume fast food nearly every day or just more than the average person would. However it is still up to the person as to how often he/she consumes fast food and how he/she deals with his/her weight. The person could have a regular exercise routine and make sure to consume more healthy foods than fast foods, therefore avoiding obesity. If that person does not burn of the extra calories or make sure to have a steady diet, then it is the person's fault for becoming obese, not the fast food corporations. The advertisements do lure in many customers, however, it is still not the fast food corporations' fault for the addictions and how often the consumers come in and eat the food they serve. Although in the past Mc. Donalds did not show the nutrition facts, in the present the Mc. Donalds corporations have made sure to show the calorie count of the menu and are able to give the nutrition facts.