Super Size Me: How Fast Food is Killing Us

A man named Morgan Superlock set out on a 30 day experiment. During this test Morgan was solely allowed to consume McDonald's products for all 30 days. This covered breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all of his liquid intake. Although this may additionally appear effortless to some, consuming fast food continuously for that lengthy of time has a massive impact on your body. Fast food is not only damaging your physical state but also your intellectual state.

The film Super Size Me is a health experiment featuring Morgan Spurlock. In the film, he documents the outcomes of a 30 day duration of time in which he ate only McDonald’s food. In the process of documenting the outcomes of his McDiet were astonishing. Spurlock is both amazed and disgusted as he discovers not only the detrimental consequences of the fast food products upon himself but additionally the considerable impact that the fast food enterprise has over the lives of its customers. Along with how it encourages negative nutrition for the sake of profit. Spurlock initiates this documentary as a response to the obesity around the country.

During the beginning of the movie, Spurlock was referred to many different doctors and nutritionist to check his health before starting the experiment. The doctors provide their inputs and unanimously agree that Spurlock is in above average structure fitness wise for a man measuring 6’2 weighing 185 lbs. They also predict that the diet might have some detrimental effects, such as significant weight gain, however nothing too dangerous.

The test would be operated out with the following rules. All three meals and all food to be eaten have to come from McDonald's. Every menu object at McDonald’s must be eaten at least once over the thirty days. He need to supersize meals when offered by employees and if he's offered an alternative he must always take it.

Spurlock was limited to 5,000 steps per day which is what the average U.S. citizen gets. In 5 days Spurlock managed to gain a total of 9.5 lbs. and begins to become sluggish and have extreme mood swings. By his final weigh in he was a total of 210 lbs. from his previous weight being 185 lbs, he had gained over 25 pounds within thirty days.

His girlfriend, who is a vegan chef, claimed that he had been extremely lethargic during times and had an extremely low sex drive and even started having health issue towards the end of the experiment. Spurlock successfully completed the thirty day experiment. The team of doctors and nutritionist were extremely shocked and how Spurlock's physical fitness drastically decreased.

Shortly after he began his detox cleanse it states that it took a whole of 14 months to lose 25 lbs. that he had gained in one month. At the end of the Film there is a brief moment it is mentioned how since the film has been released McDonald's has discontinued all supersized products. While trying to recover from this epidemic McDonald's introduced a happy healthier Ronald McDonald in hopes of creating an overall healthier safer place to eat. Even though these fast food companies are trying to offer healthier alternatives, the products are slowly killing us.