Super Size Me is a documentary film which depicts an experiment conducted by Morgan Spurlock in which he ate nothing but McDonald's meals on a daily basis for 30 days. The idea was inspired from a lawsuit back in 90th when 2 teenage girls sued McDonald's for their obesity. Some critiques argued that all what Spurlock did was to restate what people already knew as a fact - "Fast food is bad for you". Personally, I think that if everyone would realize the negative
impacts of Fast Food on their well- beings, there would not be 1 out of 4
Americans who decide to eat at McDonald's on a daily basis. In the film, Spurlock tries to show the dangers of Fast Food through a real experiment rather than stating negative nutritional facts from a newspaper or a book about Fast Food which I think would not be very informative to a Fast Food consumer. Although, one of the doctors claims that the human body is extremely adaptable, Spurlock's well-being gets worse and worse throughout the experiment. Nonetheless, Spurlock was able to show that McDonald's do not really care about the unhealthy food they distribute which ultimately leads to diseases such as obesity, but they care mostly about the profit they make out of their products which some people believe are "physiologically addictive and physically harmful".f
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