Don't eat this book : fast food and the supersizing of America / Morgan Spurlock

Object Details

Author

Spurlock, Morgan 1970-

Contents

Do you want lies with that? -- Girth of a nation -- Light at the end of the taco -- Really great bad idea -- It's a mad, mad, mad, mad McWorld -- McD-Day -- Is it chemical soup yet? -- Physical miseducation -- Sex, fries and videotape -- Ronald & me -- Lunchroom named Desire -- Lord of the ring dings -- Health care or sick care? -- McFree at last -- Golden halos -- Vote with your fork -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Improving your child's school lunch program -- Appendix 2: McDonald's food testing results -- Appendix 3: You are what you ....smoke?

Summary

Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary film, Super Size Me, won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by his experiment, during which he gained twenty-five pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared. But this story goes far beyond his own "Mc-Sickness": he traveled across the country, into schools, hospitals, and people's homes, to investigate school lunch programs, the marketing of fast food, and the declining emphasis on health and physical education. He interviewed experts in medicine, nutrition, law, and marketing. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive, and what Americans can do to turn the rising tide of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes that have accompanied its ever-growing popularity.

2005

Type

Humor

Physical description

308 p. ; 24 cm

Place

United States

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Junk food

Fast food restaurants

Record ID

siris_sil_949197

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