Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me

Are fast food productions hold responsible for America being categorized as the fattest nation? In the documentary Supersize me, Morgan Spurlock, director, and author of this film challenges himself on a McJourney for thirty days. Spurlock could only eat fast food that came from McDonalds. He went onto this journey to analyze the effect McDonald’s has on the human body. The film Supersize Me uses ethos, logos and pathos to effectively convincingly argue how people should be more aware of the foods they eat, and the possible repercussions they are risking.

The United States of America has long been considered a “big nation”, whether is has the biggest cities, houses, and on a negative note, biggest people. In 2003, Morgan Spurlock, a healthy-bodied film director, set on a quest to show America the detrimental effects of the fast food industry and raise awareness on the controversial issue. He produced the documentary “Supersize Me”, where McDonald’s meals were consumed for every meal of the day for thirty days. His film was released to movie theatres so that people could understand the devastating effects of McDonald’s on his body in a very short time span. At the end of his experiment, Morgan gained twenty-five pounds, developed a thirteen percent

Over the years, as obesity has become a growing concern society, role of fast food as a cause for obesity has been questioned. Morgan Spurlock’s concern for obesity motivates him to test an experiment on whether McDonald’s food poses a threat on one’s health. Under the close supervision of doctors Spurlock eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner at McDonalds for the next month the danger of McDonald’s food by eating it three times a day for the next month. As the director and main character in the documentary, Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock demonstrates his purpose by successfully developing and winning his argument along with using rhetorical appeals such as ethos, logos, and pathos.

In Super size me Morgan goes into a 30 day diet of eating Mcdonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Before Morgan began this diet he was a healthy men with no medical problems. When he started the process he was feeling sick and at the end he had many health problem. According to Supersize video “ Morgan blood levels are excellent and perfect, he weighed 185. This mean that he lived a healthy life before he started. After he began he was bad “ 10 minutes after his first super size meal he had tummy ache and he was sweating. This evidence show that the food was making him sick. Another evidence is that he after day 5 he was getting 5000 calories and gain 10 pounds. This mean that he was getting more calories per day then he needs per day.

In the documentary, Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock takes a big risk and sets out on what he calls “every eight-year-old’s dream.” He undergoes a month long, three-meal-a-day binge at McDonald’s to expose the tragic health effects. In one month he eats the same amount of McDonald’s food that nutritionists recommend eating over the course of eight years and gains nearly twenty-five pounds in the process, along with numerous health problems. I was shocked to see how quickly his health began to decline a week into the experiment, not only physically but emotionally as well. The more he ate the fast food, the more his body craved it. I think Morgan took a big risk jeopardizing his own health, but I think he really proved a point of the negative impact

Documentaries are used to entertain and to educate, and in order for a documentary to be successful, it has to inform the audience whilst entertaining them. Supersize Me is a documentary based around the negative effects of the fast food industry, constructed by Morgan Spurlock in 2004, it entertains the viewer and also provides information about various issues. In particular, the documentary explores the growing obesity epidemic in America and how this could be linked to fast food, the negative effects fast food has on an individuals physical and mental health and the publicity of the fast food industry. Spurlock uses a wide range of documentary techniques to make the audience believe in his ideas and opinions, for example he uses archival

Fast foods are one of the biggest contributors. The documentary, “Super-Size Me”, shows a very detailed journey that Morgan Spurlock takes to investigate the real effects of consumption of McDonalds. Morgan Spurlocks deal is to eat McDonald’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for thirty days. During this time his health would be tracked by a gastroenterologist, cardiologist, and a general practitioner in order to receive accurate medical attention and tracking. Within Mr. Spurlocks first two to four days he had vomited and started his days just not feeling well for no clear reason.

As Steven Spielberg once said, "documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation" (Azevedo, 2013). In Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me, audiences are informed and shown the dangers of consuming fast food everyday. Spurlock has a camera follow him for one month as he consumes McDonalds for each meal thus exposing one to the unhealthy affects of the lifestyle. Relying on images, interviews, and statistics the viewers are informed of how processed fast foods begin to affect people starting from a young age. This documentary style film shapes the perception of the spectator through the use of visual and narrative techniques.

McDonald’s is killing Americans, at least that is what Morgan Spurlock believes. In his documentary Super Size Me he embarks on a quest to not only describe and use himself as an example of the growing obesity trend, but to offer the viewers with base-line nutritional knowledge that will allow them to draw their own informed conclusions. Spurlock's primary intention is to prove through self-experimentation that eating solely McDonald's food is dangerous. His secondary intention is to denounce the rising obesity rate in American by using statistics, his own research, and the opinions of experts. His broader message is for a general audience while he tailors select chapters towards more specific demographics such as parents or McDonald's

In a society that is facing numerous problems, such as economic devastation, one major problem is often disregarded, growing obesity. As the American society keeps growing, so does growth of the fast food industry and the epidemic of obesity. In order to further investigate the main cause of obesity, Morgan Spurlock, the film director and main character, decides to criticize the fast food industry for its connection with obesity in America. In his documentary Spurlock performs a radical experiment that drives him to eat only from McDonald's and order a super-sized meal whenever he is asked. By including visual and textual techniques, rhetorical appeals, and argumentative evidences, Morgan Spurlock was able

Contrary to the popular belief of the 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 consults three doctors (a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist, and a general practitioner) as well as a nutritionist to monitor physical change and gather quantitative data supporting his claim. The film often exhibited

Morgan Spurlock’s motivation to create his documentary emerged from a certain court case, in which two teenage girls sued McDonald's for selling them products that resulted in them being obese for their age group (Spurlock). McDonald’s testimony stated that the girls could not fully prove that it was the McDonald’s product that were making them overweight and that eating their products for every meal would be seemingly dangerous (Spurlock). Spurlock to this statement into his owns hands and a decided to conduct a month long experiment, in which he would go on a thirty-day long binge of McDonald’s food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to prove if and how fast food can make a person obese (Spurlock). It is well known within the general public that fast food in not a healthy option for a meal but for many, fast food is the only

In 2003 Morgan Spurlock launched on an experiment of sorts to fully understand the effects that fast food, in this case specifically McDonald’s food can have on one’s physiological and mental health by eating nothing but McDonald’s food for thirty days. Before embarking on this quest, Spurlock visited a general practitioner, a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, a dietician, and an exercise specialist. He began his McDonald’s journey with exceptional health, by the end of the thirty days he had suffered serious health consequences both physically and mentally. From an addiction to McDonald’s food to a major increase in cholesterol levels there is no doubt that Spurlock’s health greatly declined in the month long period. Spurlock documented his journey in a film entitled Supersize Me, which has served as a call to action for the years since its release.

Paragraph 1 Supersize Me, was created to warn people about the effect that you may get if you eat to many fast food, for example McDonald’s. this movie is created to show that fast food has become a trademark in the U.S. McDonald’s has also affected many country around the globe. The movie showed that eating too many fast food is not only affecting your weight but also your health. Pargraph 2 Morgan Spurlock started this experiment because of the increasing rate of obesity throughout the U.S. he thinks that McDonald and other fast food industry is the one to blame, because they sell food with poor nutrition for their own profit.

Obesity is probably the most significant issue facing the McDonald’s Company today. The corporation has been severally blamed for the menace due to its wide range of junk foods. As the world’s largest fast food company, it has become a target of most health related films such as Super Size Me. This is because the public blames the company for failing to give nutritional information concerning the items on its menu (Baron, 2010).