Morgan Spurock, star and director of the film project Super Size me, conducted an experiment to see if McDonald’s menu was dangerous to its customers. He was determined to eat McDonald’s three times a day for a 30 day period and see what effect it had on his body. Morgan gathered information and statistics on the food industries of America to shed some light on the reasons for the obesity epidemic. He gathered crucial information and concepts from his experiment to create a greatly needed educational film about America’s health. The first main point Morgan made in his film was that there is undoubtedly an obesity epidemic in our country and it’s quietly getting out of control. 66% of American’s today are overweight or obese. That’s 2 out of 3 people! Obesity contributes to diabetes, stroke, heart disease, hypertension and cancer just to name a few health complications. Spurlock found that not only fast food restaurants are to blame, but also schools. The boxed fatty foods that are served in public schools provide little nutrition and fatty calories and find their way onto the trays of kids who don’t know how to eat properly. Our future is with our kids and if they are making poor food choices, the obesity epidemic will continue to grow.
Morgan had physicals to see what his health status was before the McDonalds binge and everything seemed to be in order. The results from doctors after the binge were shocking. His liver was starting to fail from all the cholesterol he was ingesting and his blood pressure and cholesterol went up to high levels. It’s hard to believe obese people must live with these complications everyday eating that kind of food. If all that happened to him in just that short amount of time, it’s hard to imagine what tests would look like for overweight people who have been eating fattening foods for years.
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