Super Size Me

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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, rejected five times by the USC film school, won the best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for this alarmingly personal investigation into the health hazards wreaked by our fast food nation. Under extensive medical supervision, Spurlock subjects himself to a steady diet of McDonald's cuisine for 30 days just to see what happens. In less than a week, his ordinarily fit body and equilibrium undergo dark and ugly changes: Spurlock grows fat, his cholesterol rockets north, his organs take a beating, and he becomes subject to headaches, mood swings, symptoms of addiction, and lessened sexual energy. The gimmick is too obvious to sustain a feature documentary; Spurlock actually spends most of the film probing insidious ways that fast food companies worm their way into school lunchrooms and the hearts of young children who spend hours in McDonald's playrooms. French fries never looked more nauseating. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Good introduction to how they're making us dumber and dumber.......2007-09-15

Perfect gift for the fast-food addict friend o his birthday! Show him you really care.
The only reason we put up with endless, mindless war, and the criminals in DC taking 10 billion a month from generations to come for a war that's only for profit (as usual), is that we eat crap like this. It makes us stupid. There's a definite connection between what we eat and why we're so gullible.
Some of that connection can be found here, and with some laughs. If people only knew what's really going into their bodies...
You are what you eat.

Fast truth.......2007-09-14

If you eat fast food on a regular basis you better buy this DVD. IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE !

Not bad, but could be better.......2007-08-24

Pros:
It does expose negative side of fast food, and especially McDonald's.

Cons:
It may be exaggerated, or just based on one case, etc, etc.

Conclusion: More studies and cases should be presented. This is a good start, but more such documentaries are needed.

Useful Documentary.......2007-08-23

Fast Paced and just brutal to the junk food industry. This is news you can use and rally behind. If you heed the knowledge being imparted in this film you'll save yourself much grief and untold thousands of dollars in medical expenses. I've been bitten hard by this and lived to tell the tale. You can use this film to help you avoid those junk food cravings and to reaffirm why you've chosen to eat healthily. In that regard I view it as a 'must' purchase. If you still eat junk food you need this film even more to help you quit because you know not what damage you are doing to yourself. Fantastic buy !

An Informed Choice.......2007-08-21

Documentary meister, Morgan Spurlock, goes to extremes. `Super Size Me' captures what it's like to eat nothing but McDonald's food for thirty days. Sporting a set of stated rules, Spurlock`s "ridiculous diet," as his personal physician quips, jump starts a fault finding mission with the world's largest fast food retailer. Armed with testimonials, statistics, and nutritional information, Spurlock also provides counter contrasts to compare with his extreme situation. He does show that McDonald's food is appetizing, except for a couple of scenes that make us want to wretch, including one that's over the top. Nevertheless, he does try to capture a spokesperson from the franchise to talk to him, and he does admirably offer us a better bill of fare at a school cafeteria in Appleton, WI.

The variety of aspects he approaches his topic is skillful and informative fun. Spurlock and company deserve a lot of credit. 'Super Size Me' starts and ends framed by a famous lawsuit, and although the results are mostly known, I won't spoil the results, except to say that I enjoyed the outcome. For all of us, healthy and unhealthy living is sometimes a matter of choice. Fortunately, with Morgan Spurlock, it is an informed choice.

Super Size Me - An Educational Tool of Epic Portions: Grades 6-12

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Super Size Me - An Educational Tool of Epic Portions: Grades 6-12

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

24 Curriculum Lessons
Super Quiz Me Game!
Cafeteria Counter Activity!
Student Handout Materials
Instructor's Manual

ASIN: B000OMF16C

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In Super Size Me, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts and by subjecting himself to a "McDonald's only" diet for thirty days straight. His Sundance award-winning feature is as entertaining as it is horrifying, as it dives into corporate responsibility, nutritional education, school lunch programs, and how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death. This educationally enhanced version includes new, instructional content and games that help educate viewers on a host of subjects related to the film.

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