In today’s society, obesity is a huge uprising problem. Children are less active than their parents were when they were their age, and parents seem to be aging a lot faster due to the lack of energy they have. Whatever happened to the days of fathers and sons playing football in the backyard or mothers and daughters taking long walks? There is not just one answer to this question. Fast-food, videogames, and computers along with many other forms of technology are all reasons why people are becoming fatter and fatter.
Exercise and eating healthy has never been something that I have done very well. I try to make sure that I do not eat a lot of unhealthy foods. I let my girlfriend be the one who obsesses about calories and exercise. However, after watching the documentary Super Size Me, my outlook on health and fitness has changed immensely. I never considered myself as a health nut and when asked, I would more than likely say I am more unhealthy than healthy, but after watching this movie, I feel a lot better about my own health.
The thing that shocked me the most while watching the documentary was the amount of Americans who eat fast-food everyday! I can only imagine how clogged their arteries are after consuming Big Macs everyday for the past several years.
Something that I also was not aware of was how the amount of fat and sugar intake a person consumes affects major organs such as the liver. Before watching the movie Super Size Me, I considered someone healthy or unhealthy by how much he or she weighted. Now I know that just because someone is at an average weight or even skinny does not make him or her healthy.
The overall experiment displayed throughout the movie was a tad bit extreme. Though he did prove his point that many Americans consume fast-food way too often, he took his experiment way too far. I felt like by eating McDonalds everyday and supersizing many of those times, his demonstration wasn’t practical. Very few Americans eat the way he did. I was more astounded by the statistics he gave periodically throughout the film. For example, the most a person should eat fast-food is eight times a year. This statistic freaked me out because there have been MULTIPLE times where I have eaten well over eight times a WEEK at a fast-food restaurant. That’s ridiculous!
Since I do eat fast food often, I have been trying to order in smaller doses after watching the film. Instead of ordering a quarter pounder with a large fry, I now order a plain chicken sandwich with a medium or small fry. Though I am still eating fast food, I am trying to make an unhealthy decision (like eating at McDonalds) a little bit better. Who knows, maybe someday I could wean myself off of fast-food all together….maybe.
Overall, I enjoyed the film. I found it to be very interesting and was amazed by the results of his experiment. Hopefully it made the Americans who watched this movie who are overweight realize how poor decisions have consequences.