"Super-Size Me"- Summary

MORGAN PURLOCK want to explores the consequences on the body and mind of fat food by himself, so he decide to eat McDonald’s meals three times per day for a moth and changes his healthy habits for a sedentary life. He also wants to demonstrate that fast food industry is one of the first consequence of American’s obesity epidemic.

United States of America is first country with the highest percentage of obese people in the world. In the state of Alabama approximately a 30.1% of adults and a 16.7% of children and adolescents are obese.

According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition fast food as hamburgers, French fries, bacon and all processed food are a contributing factor for obesity in the United States because they content large amounts of carbohydrates, added sugar, unhealthy fats and salt. This type of food is also high in calories and frequently replaces nutritious food in diet. With the time this type of food could cause diabetes, respiratory problems, depression and addiction.

Obesity is big problem and government don’t care it because meals in public schools are the primary example of developing of nutritional choices as the foods offered are not as healthy as they are claimed to be. Some school system provide children with these popular foods that are high in fats and calories but they are cheaper.

Spurlock wanted to show the true about this type of food so he decided to do an experiment that consisted of eating three McDonald’s meals per day for a moth, he only consumed only items offered on McDonald’s menu and ate only super-sized meals. In the end of the experiment he gained 24 lb. Increased his cholesterol, experienced sexual dysfunction and many heal problems. 

Conclusion

1.    Have healthy eating habits is better than eat junk.

2.    Junk food only gives us many problems with our health.

3.    United States is a country with a high obesity rate.

4.    We don´t need a diet, if we eat healthy.

5.    If we eat healthy we will have a better life.

Personal Opinion

We think that have good eating habits is very important because it improves our health and avoid many illness.
We also think that eat junk food is not a bad thing, but we don´t have to eat it in excess, because it could causes many problems in our health. 
So "we don´t need a diet, if we eat healthy".

Analysis

This documentary evidences the effect that junk food produces in our organisms, since eat too much this kind of food increases the level of triglycerides and produces many illnesses. So the objective of this film is to make aware people about their eating habits and encourage them to improve them.

The documentary shows us the wrong eating habits that Americans have, because they eat junk food more than three times a week, reason why United States is a nation with very high levels of obesity. The protagonist of this documentary is an American with good eating habits, who will change his healthy eating habits to junk food during a month, to prove the effects that produces this kind food in our organism. On this month he going to eat junk food in breakfast, lunch and dinner like all the Americans, so he will develop some problems in his health.