Do you want to Super Size?

I had never heard of the documentary "Super Size Me" until the reading we did before Thanksgiving break. How could I have missed out on this wonderfully, intriguing, disgusting, funny documentary. Apparently this is a thing they show in schools to educate children about good health ethics and EVERYONE has seen it. Being homeschooled I had never been exposed to such a thing, but never mind about that.

Anyway, I looked up the video and watched this hour or so long video about eating healthy. Just reading about Morgan Spurlock's decision to eat only McDonalds for a month piqued my interest and made me want to watch the documentary. I already consider McDonald's food to be very greasy and unappealing, so the idea of eating that kind of fattening food for an entire month was kind of disgusting.

It was interesting to me that he both performed the experiment upon his own body and directed the documentary. It was interesting that Spurlock directed the documentary, came up with the idea himself, and put himself in the film which gave it a personal touch as you would imagine. To be willing to go through with something like that, putting so much strain on your own body when you know what you have to do to stop your body from hurting, is either very noble or very stupid. (Probably just stupid)

Towards the end of the month of eating only McDonalds his body was fighting against him because of all the fat and sugars he had consumed. I admired him for sticking to his goal of one month but I also thought him stupid because from what the doctors were telling him he could have lost the use of his liver if he continued to eat unhealthily.
It was well filmed, although the video quality looked old, it was filmed in such a way that captured your attention and kept the audience interested.

This video inspired me to eat healthier and to question a little more in depth what it is that I am shoving down my gullet.