The movie Super Size Me

The movie Super Size Me, is an in your face way of making people realize how the immediate pabulum industry is negatively affecting our nation. The surgeon general has declared the increasing rates of obesity an epidemic. In this documentary movie, Morgan Spurlock conducts an experiment, to investigate if indeed, fast regimen is the correlation to our nations obesity epidemic. The movie has sever completelyy bonus features such as an interview with Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation, and an interview with Phil Lawler about the PE 4 life program. As well as, The Smoking Fry, an interesting experiment looking at the decomposition of feed. The movie Super Size Me, and all of its bonus features, revolves around ii main components, the importance of nutrition and tangible activity.I. Fast Food NationThe interview between Morgan Spurlock and Eric Schlosser discusses how fast food is processed and flavored, the un water-loving agricultural poses, obesity trends and how both(prenominal) the government and the people need to tally a change for the better. I was appalled by the information provided in the interview, I had a canonic idea of all the concepts but did not realize how extream they were. I can easily say that after(prenominal) knowing how fast food is do I get no interest at all in take it. The fact that while in feed lots, cattle are pilled in faecal matter which can make it into the hamburgers that we eat, and that is why there is a higher increase in poisoning and disease from eating fast food. I weigh that is absolutely disgusting and it should not be allowed. I definitely will read the book Fast Food Nation, if this short interview opened my look this much I am very interested to see how the book will make me feel.II. PE4LIFEPhil Lawler pointed out that, Illinois is the only state that enforces mandatory physical preparation k-12. During his interview talked about the PE4Life program, how it refocuses testing based on a h ealthy zone, that physical activity is the fertilizer for the brain, and the importance of creating a pattern and habit of exercising. PE4Life departs from the traditional approach to physical statement by not focusing on traditional sports, but rather physical activities that assures every child is active. Testing in the PE4Life program assesses results on whether the students does it well enough that he/she is considered healthy. While the traditional program assesses testing based on what percentile the student falls into compared to their peers.If the postulate of Michigan were to adopt a serious daily approach to physical education, such as the PE4Life program the outcome would be extremely beneficial to the students overall heath. We discussed in affiliate how students in Michigan do not meet the set goal of exercising five times a week for xxx minutes at a time. Also, how forty percent of children in MI are currently over weight. The end of the Super Size Me video made i t a point to state that Detroit is now the fattest city in the United States. Obviously something needs to be done to change these trends, implementing mandatory physical education k-12 using a PE4Life philosophy may be exactly what Michigan students need.III. The Smoking FryThe Smoking Fry was an experiment conducted by Morgan Spurlock to examine how unlike McDonalds food items and less artificially enhanced flood items would decompose after periods of time. I thought that all of the different food items would start to mold after about a week, and they all would get worse as more time went by. I just assumed that food that wasnt frozen or at least refrigerated started to mold after a period of time. My reaction to the results was disgust it made me wonder what kind of crazy chemicals are in those fries that they do not show any signs of molding after ten weeks.I think that as our bodies decompose food we ingest from fast food chains it is exposed to the many chemicals preservatives put in the food, and does not receive the proper nutrients. I would also assume that the same logic would hold up from the experiment, to our bodies, meaning that it is more difficult for the body to decompose fast food as opposed to more natural foods. My mother eats mostly all organic food whenever possible, so when my birthday came she was handout to make a cake from scratch like usual. I told he that I would rather have a funfetti box cake instead begrudgingly she made the cake for me.Not without going on and on about how bad it is for you, and how many chemicals, and ingredients you cant scour pronounce and in it and that not even like eating a real cake. What was interesting and supports the results from the Smoking Fry is that, she pointed out to me that after a calendar month of sitting in the tupperware not a speck of mold was on it. Processed foods contain so many preservatives that they may never mold, for instance a Twinkie has no expiration date, I think that is abs olutely crazy. The fact that processed foods are filled with so many chemicals to they have a long-term shelf life should be a good indication as to how bad they are for your body.IV. Movie Super Size MeThe movie Super Size Me is a documentary by Morgan Spurlock. In this movie Spurlock undertakes eating nothing but McDonalds for thirty days, to determine if fast food is the fast track to becoming fat and if its unreasonably dangerous. Spurlock had a set of rules for the month can only super size when asked, can only eat food from McDonalds water included, has to eat everything on the menu at least once, and he must eat three meals a day, lastly limit the amount of steps per day.Before the experiment Spurlock consulted with a cardiologist, gastrologist, and a general practitioner, all three doctors concluded that he was currently physically healthy. The doctors said that increased cholesterol and triglyceride levels, weight gain, and an increased risk for fondness disease were ex pected outcomes of this experiment. The actual end results of the experiment where much more serous than expected.Spurlock gained twenty four and a half pounds, the liver had basically turn to fat, cholesterol shot up sixty five points, body fat percentage increased seven percent, he doubled his risk for heart disease and failure, felt exhausted and depressed, experience rapid mood sings, had a non existent sex life, and developed an addiction, he craved more and more and had headaches when he did not eat the food. There was a point where he considered stopping short of the thirty days because his health being seriously affected.The movie addressed the pretermit of regards to the state of our nations physical education programs. Again it was stated that Illinois is the only state that makes physical education mandatory k-12. Brain Philips a physical education instructor stated that students in his elementary school only receive physical education one day a week for forty-five min utes. According to the surgeon general, a person needs to be physical active thirty minutes a day, every day to maintain your weight and a healthy well-being.The Nations schools are not close to implementing these standards, and its only getting worse. In 2001 while President Bush was in office he created the No Child left hand Behind reform. Due to this reform schools cut recess time, heath, nutrition, and physical education classes back to allow for more time to prepare for the more academic classes. Naperville, Illinois setting the standards for the model program of physical education because they are creating an awareness in the community about the importance of physical activity, and in turn receiving the support to make the PE4Life program possible.In my opinion other states are not pushing to adopt this model due to the No Child Left Behind reform, deficiency of effort, fear of change, and the financial expenses. Physical education should be of the utmost importance for ind ividuals making decisions about education in Michigan. Detroit is heaviest city in the United States. From class lecture we no that in Michigan forty percent of children are over weight compared to thirteen to fourteen percent Nationally. It can no longer be ignored it must be addressed by the school systems, to stop this growing epidemic of obesity.This movie mad an impact on how I view fast food. I do not consume fast food on a regular bases, but occasionally when I am starving and I do not have time, or am not around to cook something, I will eat it. That is definitely going to change, after watching this how could you eat fast food, its disgusting. When I have children of my own, I will not allow them to eat fast food, except on very rare occasions. I grew up with a mother that always cooks dinner, buys organic food, and has always been very couscous on the making sure I eat a balanced diet. I plan to use the same nutritional approach with my own children.V. ConclusionsAfter vie wing Supper Size Me, my position of consuming fast food still stands, as it not being a healthy choice. Proper nutrition directly related to a persons heath, and with a sufficient amount of physical activity a person is at their optimal level of overall health. After watching Super Size Me, and its bonus features, it opened my eyes wider to both the importance of nutrition and physical activity, and how the Nation is in a fight against obesity epidemic. I do now think that eating fast food is truly the fast track to obesity. I now will make a more conscious decision about the things I am eating. My semimonthly fast food visits will be eliminated, and I will try to stay away from all process foods, anything with artificial flavoring, and definitely increase my eating of organic foods.