{Super Size Me!}

I will never see fast food in the same light after watching “Super Size Me.” I cannot believe that it is legal to allow restaurants to feed us food that could have that many damaging effects to our body. Morgan Spurlock ate only fast food from McDonald’s for 30 days for every meal, and by the end of his experiment, the changes in his blood chemistry and the stress on his organs approximated the liver failure seen in advanced alcoholics, his cholesterol had risen to dangerous levels, and he had gained 24.5 lbs.  It was also really scary that eating fast food can be addicting, just like using drugs.

We can blame the American people for not making good choices about their food, but the food industry itself has a lot to blame for this happening. The fast food industry spends three billion dollars a year promoting its products. Young children are attracted with special meals, toys, clowns, birthday parties, and playgrounds.  Why would these industries target innocent kids with such dangerous food? To make money. It really upsets me that the government does not step in and monitor the food industry better, and that the food we are giving children is left in the hands of greedy food industry moguls. The obesity epidemic should be at the top of our problems to solve here in America, but how can we solve it when the food industry is only trying to make millions at our expense.