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Food is supposed to taste good and - I'll confess with the
exception of some things on Macca's breakfast menu - there
is nothing that excites my taste buds.
In Super Size Me, film-maker Morgan Spurlock begins to make
a documentary on how fat Americans (and Westerners) are getting
and why experts blame it on the amount of takeaway fast foods
folk are wolfing down.
Spurlock decides to test the Macca's offerings by only eating
that stuff for a month. He has to try everything on the menu
at least once and, if offered super size meals, can take them.
Ominously his first super-size meal makes him throw up out
of his car window.
Before he began his ordeal, Spurlock had medical tests to
show he was in peak physical condition. Within two weeks his
body was showing signs of being dangerously overloaded with
fats and sugar and you can actually see his decline happening
before your eyes.
Super Size Me is a brilliant piece of documentary making
that should make everyone think twice before visiting a fast-food
joint.
It is a must-see for parents - as takeway foods are being
blamed for the explosion in fat children in Western nations
- and one would recommend that it be shown in schools around
the world.
If you doubt the thrust of this doco just have a look at
the shapes of those folk in fast-food places. I bet you don't
see one slim-line body.
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