Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an independent American filmmaker. The Spurlock film follows a 30-day period from 1 February to 2 March 2003, where he only eats McDonald's food. The film documents the drastic lifestyle effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological health, and explores the influence of fast food industry companies, including how to encourage poor nutrition to their own advantage.
Spurlock eats at a McDonald's restaurant three times per day, eating every item on the chain menu at least once. Spurlock consumes an average of 20.9 megajoules or 5,000 kcal (equivalent to 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment. An intake of about 2,500 kcal in a healthy balanced diet is more commonly recommended for a man to maintain his weight. As a result, the 32-year-old Spurlock grew 11.1 kilograms (24 pounds), increased body mass by 13 percent, increased his cholesterol to 230 mg/dL, and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his book. heart. It took fourteen months for Spurlock to lose all the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet overseen by his girlfriend, a chef specializing in gourmet vegan dishes.
The reason for Spurlock's investigation was the increasing spread of obesity across US society, to which the Surgeon General had declared an "epidemic", and related claims were brought against McDonald's on behalf of two overweight girls, who, presumably, became obese as a result of eating McDonald's food (Pelman v. McDonald's Corp., 237 F. Supp. 2d 512). Spurlock argues that although lawsuits against McDonald's fail (and then many state legislatures have laws against product responsibility actions against producers and distributors of "fast food") and the McLibel case, much of the same criticism is directed against tobacco companies applies to fast food franchises whose products are physically addictive and physiologically harmful.
Documentary films are nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. A comic book related to the film has been made with Dark Horse Comics as a publisher containing stories based on many cases of fast food health fears.
Spurlock released the sequel, Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! , in 2017.
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Sinopsis
When the movie starts, Spurlock is physically above average according to his personal trainer. He was seen by three doctors (a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, and a general practitioner), as well as a nutritionist and a personal trainer. All health experts predict that "McDiet" will have an unwanted effect on its body, but no one expects anything too drastic, calling the human body "highly adaptable". Before the experiment, Spurlock ate a varied meal but always had a vegan dinner to appease his girlfriend, Alexandra, a vegan chef. At the beginning of the experiment, Spurlock, which is 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall, weighs 185 pounds (84 kg).
Experiments
Spurlock follows specific rules governing his eating habits:
- He has to eat three McDonald's meals per day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- He has to consume every item on the McDonald's menu at least once for 30 days (he set it up in nine days).
- She just has to swallow the items offered on the McDonald's menu, including bottled water. All outside food consumption is prohibited.
- She should only be Super Size of food when offered; she may not ask for Super Size item.
- He will try to walk as many as a United States citizen, based on the recommended 5,000 standard step distance per day, but he does not obey him as he goes further in New York than in Houston.
On February 1, Spurlock began a month with breakfast near his home in Manhattan, where there were an average of four McDonald's locations (and 66,950 inhabitants, with twice as many commuters) per square mile (2.6 km²). He aims to keep the running distance according to the 5,000 steps (about two miles) running per day by the average American.
Day 2 brings the first Spurlock (of nine) Super Size meals, at McDonald's on 34th Street and Tenth Avenue, which happens to be a meal made from Pounder Double Quarter with Cheese, Super Size French fries and 42-ounce Coke, which takes 22 minutes to eat. She experienced increased abdominal discomfort during the process, and then vomited in the McDonald's parking lot.
After five days, Spurlock has gained 9.5 pounds (4.3 kg) (from 185.5 to 195 pounds). Not long before she found herself depressed, and she claimed that the attacks of depression, lethargy, and headaches can be reduced by eating McDonald's food. Practitioners generally describe him as "addicted". At his second weighing, he got an extra 8 pounds (3.6 kg), putting his weight at 203.5 pounds (92.3 kg). At the end of the month it weighs about 210 pounds (95 kg), an increase of about 24.5 pounds (about 11 kg). Since he could only eat McDonald's food for a month, Spurlock refused to take any medicine at all. On one weigh, Morgan lost 1 pound of the weight before, and a nutritionist hypothesized that he had lost muscle mass, which weighed more than one identical fat volume. On the other hand, a nutritionist says that he earned 17 pounds (7.7 kg) in 12 days.
Spurlock's girlfriend, Alexandra Jamieson, attests to the fact that Spurlock lost much of his energy and sexual drive during his experiments. It is unclear at what time Spurlock will be able to complete the full moon from a high-fat, high carbohydrate diet, and family and friends begin to express concerns.
On Day 21, Spurlock has heart palpitations. Her internist, Dr. Daryl Isaacs, advised him to stop what he did immediately to avoid serious health problems. He compared Spurlock with the protagonist played by Nicolas Cage in the movie Leaving Las Vegas, who deliberately drank himself to death in a matter of weeks. Despite this warning, Spurlock decided to continue the experiment.
On March 2, Spurlock made it to the 30th day and reached its destination. In thirty days, he has "captured" his food nine times along the way (five of whom are in Texas, four in New York City). His doctor was shocked at the level of damage in Spurlock's health. He notes that he has eaten as much as McDonald's food as most nutritionists say ordinary people should eat in 8 years (he ate 90 times, which is close to the amount of food consumed once a month in a period of 8 years).
Findings
The final text of the documentary states that it takes Spurlock 5 months to lose 20.1 pounds (9.1 kg) and 9 more months to lose the last 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg). Her current boyfriend Alex, now his ex-wife, began overseeing her recovery with a "detox diet", which became the basis of her book, The Great American Detox Diet.
The movie ends with a rhetorical question, "Who do you want to see first, you or them?" It is accompanied by a cartoon headstone, which reads "Ronald McDonald (1954-2012)", which originally appeared in The Economist in an article discussing marketing ethics for children.
A short epilogue is added to the movie. This suggests that salads can contain more calories than burgers if customers add more cheese and sauces before consumption. Also, it describes McDonald's termination of the Super Size option six weeks after the film premiere, as well as the recent emphasis on healthier menu items such as salads, and the release of new adult Happy Meal. McDonald denied that this change had anything to do with the film.
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Reception
The Super Size Me premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where Morgan Spurlock won the Grand Jury Prize for directing the movie. The film opened in the US on May 7, 2004, and earned a total of $ 11,536,423 worldwide, making it the 22nd best-selling documentary of all time. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Film but lost to the movie Born in a Brothel. Super Size Me received two thumbs up in On Movies with Ebert and Roeper . The film received overall positive reviews from critics, as well as movie goers, and holds a 93% "Certified Fresh" rating on movie review reviewers Rotten Tomatoes .
Caroline Westbrook for the BBC News stated that the hype for the documentary was worth "to some extent", because of its serious message, and that, overall, the "high comedy and overly familiarity" of the subject matter made it less powerful from other new documentaries - but still make for fun, thoughts. "A reviewer said" he told us something that everyone already knows: Fast food is bad for you. "
Robert Davis of Paste says the film has several goals and addresses important topics, but at the same time it is more like a publicity stunt than a documentary. He especially criticized the dramatic and unscientific approach of Super Size Me, saying Spurlock does not need to eat more than he should and ignores his nutritionist's advice. Davis explains he would be more interested if the documentary film about trying to eat healthy at McDonalds: "You can choose a low-fat option, but it is impossible to get enough vegetables and fiber, and low-fat foods will be very bland, products from systems that have worked for optimizing food delivery and consistency and, in so doing, have found a very tasteless meal so they need dressings, oils, beef fat and goopy coatings to make it more than just textured blobs The industry has worked hard to convince consumers that this weird and sweet taste not only good but also unique, recognizable parts of the brand Spurlock does not attempt to convey this message, perhaps because it affects too little vegetables and too little fiber is not as dramatic as weight gain and cholesterol. fast. "
McDonald's UK responds that the authors deliberately consume an average of 5,000 calories per day and do not exercise, and the results will be the same regardless of the source of overeating.
Claim-reply
In his documentary reply Fat Fat, Tom Naughton shows that the number of calories and fat Spurlock does not increase, and notes Spurlock's refusal to publish food logs Super Size Me . The Houston Chronicle reported: "Unlike Spurlock, Naughton has a page on his Web site that lists every item (including nutrition information) he ate during the fasting month." About 1/3 of Spurlock calories come from sugar. The nutritionist, Bridget Bennett, warns him about the excess intake of sugar from "milkshakes and Coke". It is revealed towards the end of the film that during the diet, it consumes "more than 30 pounds (14 kg) of sugar, and more than 12 pounds (5.4 kg) of fat from their food". About 2,000 calories in a pound of sugar, nearly 5000 calories consumed per day, accounted for just under 36% percent of the caloric intake.
After eating exclusively at McDonald's for a month, Soso Whaley said, "The first time I went on a diet in April 2004, I lost 10 pounds (from 175-165) and lowered my cholesterol from 237 to 197, a drop of 40 points. a special note is that he exercises regularly and does not insist on consuming more food than he should. Although he only eats at McDonald's every day, he maintains a calorie intake of about 2,000 per day.
After John Cisna, a high school science teacher, lost 60 pounds while eating exclusively at McDonald's for 180 days, he said, "I'm not pushing McDonald's, I'm not pushing fast food, I encourage taking accountability and making the right choice for you individually... As a science teacher, I will never show Super Size Me because when I watch it, I never see the value of education in that... I mean, a man eats the amount of food uncontrolled, quit exercising, and the rest of the world was surprised he was gaining weight? What I'm not proud of is probably 70 to 80 percent of my co-workers across the United States are still showing Super Size Me in their health class or their biology class I do not understand. "
Impact
Six weeks after the film debut, McDonald's dropped its share of supersinya. In Britain, McDonald's publishes the website www.supersizeme-thedebate.co.uk, which includes responses and criticisms of the film. In theaters in England, the company places a short ad in a movie trailer, pointing to a URL and declaring "See what we do not approve. See what we approve".
Internationally, Super Size Me was a great success at the Australian box office. Thus, McDonald's in Australia took the documentary very seriously, and tried to respond. They create an advertising campaign that includes three elements: two ads for TV and one produced for display in theaters.
The film is an inspiration for the BBC TV series The Supersizers... where the presenters eat on historic food and take medical tests to ascertain its impact on their health.
See also
- Criticism of fast food
- National Weight Loss Control List
- New York State Restaurant Association v. New York City Health Council
- John F. Banzhaf III # Obesity
- The Supersizers... , BBC TV series
References
External links
- Super Size Me on IMDb
- Super Size Me in AllMovie
- Super Size Me at Rotten Tomatoes
- Super Size Me in Box Office Mojo
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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