SUPER SIZE ME

Based on the facts presented in this documentary are you convinced that fast food is the main cause of obesity in United States and around the world?

          Obesity is an epidemic in the United States and in other developed countries. More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight, including at least one in five children. Nearly one-third are obese. Obesity is on the rise in our society because food is abundant and most of us are employed in positions that require little to no physical activity. Based on the evidences in Super Size Me movie, I believe that fast food is not solely responsible for obesity because but rather it is caused by the laziness to involve in physical activities, the genetic, people demands, and also poor mentality and sedentary lifestyle of the people nowadays.  

          As we can see, televisions now outnumber human beings in American households. Thus, people on average are much more involved in sitting and playing video games instead of using their bodies to play outside. Besides, people use power tools like leaf blowers and machines such as riding mowers far more than rakes or push mowers and that women have taken on non-physically-oriented jobs in the workplace in record numbers. These examples are succinct enough to tell us what are the leading causes for obesity and heart disease epidemics. I believe that sedentary lifestyles and not fast food are the true biggest threat to health.

          In the Super Size Me movie, the documentary maker Morgan Spurlock himself chose to switch to unbalanced food and all Mc Donald’s diet for 30 days, but when did so, he stopped his former regular workout at the same time. Evidently, the biggest culprit behind his quick deterioration of health was his suddenly sedentary lifestyle not the fast food diet. If a person is physically active, he can eat whatever he feels like eating without worrying about becoming obese. Intense physical exercise causes the body to burn away stores of fat, leaving behind lean muscle that efficiently uses the food the body takes in to rebuild and sustain itself.