Morgan Spurlock

A Critique of “Supersize Me” The documentary, “Supersize Me,” written and directed by Morgan Spurlock, takes a look at the effect of fast food on the human body. Spurlock uses himself as the subject of this experiment, which consists of eating three meals a day for thirty days exclusively at a McDonald’s Restaurant. With Spurlock seeking expert advice from a Gastroenterologist, Herpetologist, General Practitioner, and a Nutritionist, it is indicated that he is in very good physical condition…

to this, an ordinary man, Morgan Spurlock, decides to experiment with the effects of eating too much fast food from as an experiment.Supersize Me, Spurlock decides to eat only food from McDonald’s for thirty days to see how it would affect his health. Spurlock starts out healthier than an average man for his age and size. Throughout the film, his health gradually degenerates and eventually reaches critical levels, even before the thirty days are over. While Spurlock is experimenting with his…

In the documentary “Supersize Me”, written and directed by Morgan Spurlock in 2004, due to the rising issue of obesity, Morgan goes on a 30 day challenge, traveling across the United States, to demonstrate the effects that eating nothing but fast food has on a person’s body and health. His diet for this 30 day challenge consist of nothing but McDonald’s food for three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. As he takes us on this journey with him, we learn that their are more cons then…

Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock brings the issue of health and fast food from the back of American’s minds to the front. In this program, he uses a variety of methods to illustrate the point that fast food is harmful in more ways than just one. Spurlock uses gross-out methods, the voices of experts, and the effects on children to demonstrate his point…

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…

Living from Paycheck to Paycheck: An American Reality In the documentary short, 30 Days: On Minimum Wage, Morgan Spurlock and his fiancé explore the possibility of being able to survive for 30 days working only at jobs that pay minimum wage He and his fiancé relocate to Columbus, Ohio with each of them having only one week’s pay on minimum wage. Upon arriving in Ohio, they have to find a place to live and obtain employment. Their experiences take a deeper look into the lives of the working…

In the documentary, Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock claims multiple times that fast food, such as McDonalds is the cause for America’s overweight predicament. Multiple doctors and even an advertisement agent for some of the best known brands, agrees with Spurlock. On the contrary, director of Fathead, Tom Naughtin, believes that Spurlock could not have consumed 5000 calories from eating “3 square meals”, he proceeded to back up this claim by looking at Mcdonald’s nutrition facts. After examining…

Nutrition Perspectives, SUPERSIZE ME I chose to watch the documentary Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock because fast food is a vast part of society. He had a diet of nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days. He gained weight, it affected his liver, was getting depressed, lost his sex drive, his cholesterol went up and he had many other issues, proving the adverse impact that eating too much fast food can have on one’s body. When we cook at home we can control what ingredients we cook with. When we go…

time, Morgan Spurlock’s amateur documentary “Supersize Me” pushed reform in both fast food culture, and eating habits of citizens, being one of the first catalysts in a new movement in America. This 2004 film, being the first of his works to establish Spurlock as a filmmaker, focuses on Spurlock’s 30 day journey in which he vowed to eat solely McDonalds for three meals a day, and track his overall mental, physical, and social changes over this span of time. Throughout the film, Spurlock…

Supersize Me is a narrative film by Morgan Spurlock which underscores the message of the threats of fast food and their impacts on our wellbeing. He got the possibility of this motion picture from an instance of two young ladies who were suing McDonald's for their weight. The judge decided that there is no confirmation that their corpulence and weakness is a consequence of eating from McDonald's. As an analysis, Spurlock chose to eat just McDonald's sustenance for a thirty day time span and…