Super Size Me (2004)

[The Lawspeaker]

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Super Size Me


Super Size Me is an Academy Award-nominated 2004 documentary film, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. It follows a 30-day time period (February 2003) during which Spurlock subsists exclusively on McDonald's fast food and stops exercising regularly. The film documents this lifestyle's drastic effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological well-being and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. During the filming, Spurlock dined at McDonald's restaurants three times per day, sampling every item on the chain's menu at least once. He consumed an average of 5,000 calories (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment. In February 2005, Super Size Me Educationally Enhanced DVD edition was released. It is an edited version of the film designed to be integrated into a high school health curriculum. MSNBC has also broadcast an hour long version of the film, in addition to the regular version

[Austin]

Watched it before and was good, yet I wonder what kind of mental position the man is in at the end of the day.... who willingly ruins their health for profit to prove a point? I mean he probably took a few years off his life by doing this.

[The Lawspeaker]

Watched it before and was good, yet I wonder what kind of mental position the man is in at the end of the day.... who willingly ruins their health for profit to prove a point? I mean he probably took a few years off his life by doing this.
I agree but in this case I am very grateful that he sacrificed his health for all of us here as to make a point that people will actually understand. I just hope that he has made a full recovery in the years that followed.

[Grumpy Cat]

I actually lost weight eating McDonalds everyday for a month (not by choice, I was really busy at work and McDs was across the street).

No ill health either (I just really hate fast food now).

I actually went to the doctor over the weight loss because I thought I would have gained eating all that junk, so I thought maybe the dose of my thyroid medication needed to be adjusted... but no, doc said I was fine.

[Debaser11]

The movie is okay. It has a very big "duh" factor to it. I mean, good health is personal responsibility.

[Austin]

Much of America's obesity can be traced to its non-white minorities such as blacks/Mexicans, something that is left out in most European media coverage. Not all of that old racist blacks-are-fat propaganda was inaccurate, much of it was based on realities that were all too clear even then.

FYI the average black in the U.S. is not agile or built but is fat going-on super fat, especially in respect to their women.
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
Obesity by Race/Ethnicity 2006-2008
New Obesity Data Shows Blacks Have the Highest Rates of Obesity

Blacks had 51 percent higher prevalence of obesity, and Hispanics had 21 percent higher obesity prevalence compared with whites.

White Non-Hispanic
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Black
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[Aramis]

The movie is okay. It has a very big "duh" factor to it. I mean, good health is personal responsibility.

Agreed. Never understood why he exposed his body to such a terrible treatment to his body plainly to prove a fairly obvious point.

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