The movie "Supersize Me" portrayed some astonishing results on the individual performing his "experiment." It gave some definite ideas as to why the United States is currently the "fattest" country in the world. However‚ when one takes into account this mans dietary habits and exercise habits before beginning the experiment‚ and realizes that all this fattening food and lack of exercise was completely out of character for him‚ it seems obvious that he would gain an astonishing amount of weight.
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Supersize Me The golden arches‚ the taco bell dog‚ the Wendy’s girl‚ and many other symbols have become well known in our society. Everywhere you turn there is a fast food restaurant waiting to take your order. With Americas growing obesity rate you would think peoples willingness to eat fast food would die down‚ but it has not. I chose the documentary‚ Supersize Me because it shows what fast food does to our bodies and I think that Americans need to see those horrible effects. The film‚ Supersize
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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
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Summary Response: “Supersize Me: It ’s Time to Stop Blaming Fat People for Their Size” November 18‚ 2013 Being Obese Is a Choice That Has Very Few Exceptions Alison Motluk believes that people who are obese shouldn ’t be to blame for their obesity. (562). Motluk claims that “In 1992 about 13 percent of Americans were clinically obese...ten years later that figure skyrocketed to 22 percent...” (562). Many other countries such as the UK‚ Australia‚ and many other Western countries are following
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his girlfriend. A reason why Americans consume junk food constantly is due to economic reasons: it is cheap and fast and there isn’t a big price difference between the large and supersize meals. You pay a little bit more for a bigger proportion. This definitely leads to obesity. Still nowadays they stopped offering supersize portions. In addition‚ Spurlock stresses on how Macdonald’s has a great impact on the children; targeting them with ads before they realize how harmful the food is‚ and attracting
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Not to mention obesity lawsuits that claims fast food is not nutritious and has contributed to America’s weight problem. McDonald’s was also the target of the 2004 documentary "Super Size Me‚" which focused on the health decline of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock during an all-McDonald’s diet. The movie‚ "Supersize Me" is about a man’s mission to eat every meal at McDonalds for thirty days. Keep in mind that the average customer would take over six years to eat the same amount of food. Filmmaker Morgan
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us. They contain chemicals that we can’t even pronounce‚ and they can lead to many problems. The unhealthy dietary habits that are very common today can heavily effect our bodies in a negative way. Many of us can recall the documentary Super-Size Me‚ in which Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days. By the end of his “diet” his cholesterol levels shot up‚ he doubled his risk for coronary heart disease‚ and almost caused permanent damage to his liver. He had to stop on day 21 because
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SOUTH ASIAN WRITING HOME ASSIGNMENT: Diaspora In South Asian Literature- As seen in Meera Syal’s “Anita and Me” Submitted by : 08/EL/47 Urmimala Bhattacharjee The mention of ‘home’ and ‘outside’ is not a specification of India at all‚ but rather
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Marley & Me – Book Review Marley has got to be the most disobedient and destructive Labrador retriever on the planet. The book is called “Marley & Me” it is John Gorgan’s autobiographical book. Even if your not a dog person this book will have you intrigued‚ and page after page you will be sitting at the edge of your chair desperately what Marley the naughty dog is going to do next. Jen and John Grogan are a recently married couple‚ who decide on getting a dog as an insight to parenthood
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Moore 1 Moore Mr.--------- English 1101 20 June 2013 The Obvious Effects of Fast Food Morgan Spurlock felt a need to raise awareness on obesity and the effects of fast food. In his film Supersize Me‚ he ate only food from McDonald ’s three times a day every day for a month. He consumed nearly twice the recommended amount of calories per day. Throughout the experiment‚ he experienced transient depression‚ sexual dysfunction‚ and in one instance a series of heart palpitations. At the end of
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