Issues In Supersize Me

The amount of fast food restaurants have increased over the years. With fast food being cheap and close by, it attracts everyone. Morgan Spurlock took it upon himself to reveal the harm of consuming so much fast food in the movie Super Size Me. Everyone knows the damages of fast food and how unhealthy it is but yet there has been an increase in obesity. Morgan Spurlock shows how damaging it is for your health and how overweight and obesity have become a crisis. Morgan Spurlock starts off his journey by visiting three doctors to check his health and compare it to the end result, of after eating thirty days of McDonald’s for each of his three meals. He was also to supersize the meals if they asked him. On his second day while eating his supersized meal he threw up. The reason why he threw up is simple, the amount of food there is in a supersized meal is …show more content…
In the film Super Size Me they say that obesity is the second cause of death in America. They even say that “ since 1980 the total number of overweight and obese americans has doubled.” It will continue to increase the more fast food become accessible, cheap, and the more people eat it. Obesity comes with several health issues which are mentioned in the film like asthma, respiratory problems, hypertension and a lot more and even death. Just like the more Morgan continued his diet, the more he increased the chances of health issues. It seems as though the bigger the sizes became available the bigger people have become. After only thirty days of this he went from one hundred and eighty five pounds and a half to two hundred and ten pounds. He also had mood, energy, and health issues. There are people who eat fast food everyday and do not think about what it is doing to them. There has not been an issue until now, where fast food does pose a risk in human health which Morgan Spurlock showed in the