Super Size Me
SUPER-SIZE ME
In the documentary Super-Size Me, Morgan Spurlock sets out to prove how harmful and dangerous fast food, in particularly McDonalds, can be to a person’s health and wellbeing. After hearing the McDonalds Corporations defence against the lawsuit filed by two obese teenagers, who claimed that their overweight conditions were the cause of eating at the fast food establishment, filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock came up with the idea to start a similar experiment on himself, by eating McDonalds for 30 days for all three meals of the day. The idea of this was to prove just how bad eating at fast food restaurants for a person’s health, and to show the corporation that eating fast food consistently can drastically affect someone’s body functions. I’m going to be going over 5 important chapters in the film, and will discuss each one in depth.
The first chapter is chapter 4: First Medical Exam. This chapter dealt with Morgan heading off to 3 medical experts, a cardiologist, gastroenterologist, and a general practitioner all check him out at the beginning of the experiment. Spurlock’s overall health and body is over the average of an American, and is a perfect start for this kind of experiment. The reactions of the experts once knowing what Spurlock was doing was rather strange, none of them seemed all that shocked as to what he was doing, and none of them were asking him not to do it. Although, the three doctors say that after the experiment, Morgan’s health probably won’t change all that much, and considering that by the end of the film he had almost completely ruined his health, I would say that they were exactly 100% right about that.
The second chapter I will be discussing is chapter 8; Day two, Mcstomach Ache.
This chapter would probably be one of the most memorable for most people from the film, and one of the most impacting. During this chapter, Morgan purchases his first ever super-sized meal in the documentary, as well as ordering it with
In the documentary Super-Size Me, Morgan Spurlock sets out to prove how harmful and dangerous fast food, in particularly McDonalds, can be to a person’s health and wellbeing. After hearing the McDonalds Corporations defence against the lawsuit filed by two obese teenagers, who claimed that their overweight conditions were the cause of eating at the fast food establishment, filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock came up with the idea to start a similar experiment on himself, by eating McDonalds for 30 days for all three meals of the day. The idea of this was to prove just how bad eating at fast food restaurants for a person’s health, and to show the corporation that eating fast food consistently can drastically affect someone’s body functions. I’m going to be going over 5 important chapters in the film, and will discuss each one in depth.
The first chapter is chapter 4: First Medical Exam. This chapter dealt with Morgan heading off to 3 medical experts, a cardiologist, gastroenterologist, and a general practitioner all check him out at the beginning of the experiment. Spurlock’s overall health and body is over the average of an American, and is a perfect start for this kind of experiment. The reactions of the experts once knowing what Spurlock was doing was rather strange, none of them seemed all that shocked as to what he was doing, and none of them were asking him not to do it. Although, the three doctors say that after the experiment, Morgan’s health probably won’t change all that much, and considering that by the end of the film he had almost completely ruined his health, I would say that they were exactly 100% right about that.
The second chapter I will be discussing is chapter 8; Day two, Mcstomach Ache.
This chapter would probably be one of the most memorable for most people from the film, and one of the most impacting. During this chapter, Morgan purchases his first ever super-sized meal in the documentary, as well as ordering it with