Obesity is a concern for many people that eat out a lot. The United States is known to be the fattest country in the world. Actually, that is true…Well, specifically, Mississippi is the fattest state in America where 1/4 people are obese. People have tried to come up with a way to stop fast-food restaurants from expanding by explaining to people that it’s dangerous for your health. Obviously that is true, but to prove that it’s dangerous to your life is another story. Morgan Spurlock decided to take matter into his own hands. For one month, Morgan’s goal is to eat McDonalds for every meal and see how his health develops.
The first 2 days seemed good for Morgan. He enjoyed eating the food as everyone does and he had no problems. The 3rd day, however, while he was eating his meal in his car, he felt queasy and threw up out his window. Hs exact words the next day were, “Once you get through the 3rd day, you’re good.” Every time he checked up at the doctors, they came to a conclusion that if he didn’t change his diet, that he would be at risk for health problems.
There are 3 rules to this concept:
1) He can only eat foods that are sold in McDonalds as well as drinks.
2) He has to eat at least 1 of every product within the month.
3) If the cashier asks to supersize, he has to say yes.
He also tried to level the circumstances by becoming as close as a regular American as possible. How he does this is that he has to limit himself to at most 5000 steps per day. If he feels he’s going to go over, he has to take a cab or stay in and order McDonalds for delivery. In the end, it was clear that an all-diet McDonalds was unhealthy and the statistics showed and proved that. Morgan went back to his normal diet as well as back to his normal health.
This documentary is, in my opinion, one of the most educational videos I’ve seen. I enjoyed watching it because it had a direct effect on me since I do eat a lot of fast-food. The visuals were well shot as well as the narration. I found that the clips where he talks about related topics (such as schools using junk food instead of healthy food) were very effective as well as it tied in to what Morgan was talking about before. A lot of things they mention put a different perspective in your mind. One part they showed how much sugar consumers digest from just soda in a week and it was a full glass bottle. And although I do have a new perspective with fast-food, I still tend to buy McDonalds even with this new knowledge, but now I don’t eat as much as before.
I strongly recommend everyone watching this, teenagers and adults because it really educates you about this serious issue and really makes you think differently about fast-food restaurants.
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