Supersize Me By Morgan Spurlock

For my nutrition research paper, I decided to watch the film, Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock. Morgan Spurlock actually doesn’t have a background in nutrition, but the movie he produced, proves how valuable proper nutrition is. It was a very fascinating movie, because at the very beginning, Morgan was above average. He had muscle, a proportionate BMI, low cholesterol, his intake was less than his outtake, and he had a great diet. Morgan was extremely healthy and decided he would go to three doctors for thirty days to help monitor his experiment. Morgan also had a nutritionist next to him for those thirty days because it could get very dangerous. His experiment was to eat McDonald’s for all meals of the day, for thirty days straight.

2in. and started at 185 pounds. By the end of the experiment, he gained about twenty-five pounds in thirty days! Besides all of the weight gain, he had many side effects that were starting because of his short-term diet. He was starting to have a hard time walking up to his apartment and was experiencing shortness of breath. It was also starting to affect his sex life because he was too tired to do any of the work. He also started to experience heart palpations or irregular heart-beats. Not only was this experiment affecting him physically, it was starting to affect him emotionally. He would feel pretty lousy throughout the day, when he started to eat, his mood would increase immensely. He started to experience mood swings more often and the only way he would start to feel better about himself, would be by eating food. He started to become addicted to it. By the end of the experiment, he gained twenty-five pounds, had high cholesterol, was addicted to food and the list goes on and on. He went from being super healthy to very unhealthy within thirty-days. My question I have is if he made himself this unhealthy within one month, how are people still functioning if they eat fast-food on a regular

I think the theme of Supersize Me, is even more applicable today than it was then. People are eating out all the time. My uncle used to eat out all the time. For almost all of his meals, he was eating fast-food. He wasn’t healthy at all. Then he met my aunt who is vegan and his health has increased so much. He did lose weight even though he wasn’t working out. It is just incredible how nutrition can affect your body and how you function. People are just getting more obese than they were before. I work in an ICU, and there are so many obese people that come in. Usually that’s why they come in, because their obesity is causing long-term, life-threatening