Thursday, January 7, 2010

Surprising Parts in "Super Size Me"

Super Size Me was quite a disturbing video to me... but then again I learned a lot of things and it was quite interesting. A lot of the parts were shocking and surprising because I didn't know most of the things. First of all, most of the video is talking about fast food restaurants and how unhealthy they can be. The man Mr.Sperlock, he had to eat McDonalds for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. All the meals, and that would be for 30 days straight. If the cashier offers him a Super Size, he has to accept it and eat it all.

The first thing I found most shocking was what they do to the chickens when making chicken nuggets. They had to get chickens with enlarged breasts... and they would kill it, slice it... I can't even go on... it's really gross for me to think about because I used to eat chicken nuggets a lot and now that I know what they do to make then is just... disturbing... Although they made this video before McDonalds made the new chicken nuggets with white meat, I can't really imagine what difference it would make on how they made it.

There is some sort of addiction when it comes to eating McDonalds. Let's take an example from that guy who ate like... 700 big macs in a month? I'm not sure of the exact amount but he eats like 8 or 9 big macs a day, which is insane. On one of the McDonalds restaurants, outside on their ad, it even said, "Congratulations (name of the guy.. I forgot) .. for your 19000th big mac" 19000! That guy is awesome to have eaten that much :P ... 90% of the food he consumes are big macs. One thing that I found both funny and surprising was that he had his wedding in McDonalds. I bet for the reception they had big macs! (sorry I took your joke Martyna...muahahaha)

One thing that also shocked me is that so many people in America are obese. The #1 place in America where most people are obese is in Houston, Texas. Many people are obese and some don't know how harmful it can be to your body. If people keep up eating all these junk from fast food restaurants, obesity could pass smoking as the #1 cause of death. I think people should be looking out for their own health and actually caring about it.

Super Size Me, again, was a gross video but you will learn a lot out of it. At some parts I thought they were exaggerating a bit... I mean fast food is fine as long as you don't have too much of it, and the way they talked about it was as if it was extremely dangerous food. Anyways, this video of course talks a lot about McDonalds and people who have too much of it. If you don't know too much about that topic, you should watch Super Size Me.

.... make sure you have something to cover your eyes with though.


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