Ethical Issues In Supersize Me

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In 2004, cardiovascular specialist and nutritionist, Morgan Spurlock was in a documentary film called Supersize Me. He was also the producer and director of the film. In the film, he attempted to do a thirty day experiment eating McDonald’s three times a week to see how his body would react to fast food after resisting it his whole life. He also did this to see how unhealthy McDonald’s and fast food is for the human body. “This Sundance Film Festival Award winner examines not only what fast food did to Spurlock but also what it is doing to our school lunch programs, our nutritional education, and our corporate culture.” (Hagloch) During the course of the challenge, he has faced side effects from this experiment. And all of those …show more content…
think the ten-thirty day challenge or daily junk food diet including the Chicken McNuggets addiction should be restricted at all times. This diet shouldn't even be used as a any type of experiment. If one dares to do those experiment, there would never benefit or succeed from those diets. All they're doing is damaging their body by losing muscle mass, gaining body fat leading to becoming overweight or obese, motion sickness, and serious health complications. Lab scientists shouldn't even challenge other people including their children to do those experiments. I think it's a threat and child abuse to children including their own because they're only using them so that they can watch them get sick and get out of shape. Many people don't like being overweight or obese and nobody wants to have health complications especially for those being forced to eat a poor diet and those who dares to do such foolish challenges and diets. No doctor or nutritionist recommended them to do no McDonald's fast food experiment or to let their children do those diets. None of them even recommended to eat a diet of nothing but McNuggets meals. People who even think about attempting those diets should think twice about their appearances and health before being foolish enough to realize that there's nothing but negative impacts from those diets. In my opinion, I think it's ever a good idea for anyone to dare try those diets unless it's either a person is obese and cares less about their health or

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