"blame. 34% of children and adolescents consume fast food on any given day, while 80% of children claim that McDonald's is their favorite place to eat at. The number of children and adolescents as well as adults eating out everyday is only seen to progress and rise. Research concludes that children and adolescents ranging from twelve to nineteen years old consume twice as many calories from fast food restaurants than children ranging from two to eleven years old. The FDA found that trans fats raises the amount of cholesterol in blood, which raises the chance of developing heart disease which"
"Morgan Spurlock Morgan Valentine Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, and playwright. Spurlock's films include ""Super Size Me"" (2004), ""Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?"" (2008), """" (2011), """" (2011), and """" (2013). He was the executive producer and star of the reality television series ""30 Days"" (2005-2008). In June 2013, Spurlock became host and producer of the CNN show ""Morgan Spurlock Inside Man"" (2013–2016). He is also the co-founder of short-film content marketing company Cinelan, which produced the Focus Forward campaign for GE."" Morgan Valentine Spurlock was born on"
"with twice as many commuters) per square mile (2.6 km²). He aims to keep the distances he walks in line with the 5,000 steps (approximately two miles) walked per day by the average American. Day 2 brings Spurlock's first (of nine) Super Size meal, at the McDonald's on 34th Street and Tenth Avenue, which happens to be a meal made of a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Super Size French fries, and a 42-ounce Coke, which takes 22 minutes to eat. He experiences steadily increasing stomach discomfort during the process, and then vomits in the McDonald's parking lot. After five"
"Warrior Poets, a company he had founded in 2004, after publishing his blog post. Morgan Spurlock Morgan Valentine Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, and playwright. Spurlock's films include ""Super Size Me"" (2004), ""Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?"" (2008), """" (2011), """" (2011), and """" (2013). He was the executive producer and star of the reality television series ""30 Days"" (2005-2008). In June 2013, Spurlock became host and producer of the CNN show ""Morgan Spurlock Inside Man"" (2013–2016). He is also the co-founder of short-film content marketing company Cinelan,"
"Supersize Me (Beavis and Butt-Head) ""Supersize Me"" is the fifth episode of season 8 and 205th episode overall of the American animated television series ""Beavis and Butt-Head"". It aired on MTV on November 17, 2011, along with ""Bathroom Break"". Beavis and Butt-Head are watching an award show on TV and see Morgan Spurlock of ""Super Size Me"" fame on the red carpet with a woman in tow. Butt-Head explains to Beavis that Spurlock is famous because he ate nothing but fast food for a whole month. The boys then decide to do the same thing thinking it will result in"
"poster. Supersize Me (Beavis and Butt-Head) ""Supersize Me"" is the fifth episode of season 8 and 205th episode overall of the American animated television series ""Beavis and Butt-Head"". It aired on MTV on November 17, 2011, along with ""Bathroom Break"". Beavis and Butt-Head are watching an award show on TV and see Morgan Spurlock of ""Super Size Me"" fame on the red carpet with a woman in tow. Butt-Head explains to Beavis that Spurlock is famous because he ate nothing but fast food for a whole month. The boys then decide to do the same thing thinking it will result"
"Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Morgan Spurlock. A sequel to the 2004 film ""Super Size Me"", it explores the ways in which the fast food industry has rebranded itself as healthier since his original film through the process of Spurlock working to open his own fast food restaurant, thus exposing some of the ways in which that rebranding is more perception than reality. At the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, where it premiered on September 8, 2017, the film was second runner-up for the ."
"inference from ""Super Size Me"" that consumers are unaware that fast food is high in calories, and argues that no one is forced to eat fast food, as fast food restaurants merely cater to consumer demand, and that if fast food restaurants did not exist, people would satisfy that demand by eating the same food at other restaurants or at home. Naughton also questions Spurlock's claim that his 30-day diet resulted in signs of addiction, in light of the fact that Spurlock apparently had no difficulty in ceasing eating fast food at the end of his experiment. Naughton addresses Spurlock's"
"30 Days (TV series) 30 Days was an American reality television show on the FX cable network in the United States, created and hosted by Morgan Spurlock. In each episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, spend 30 days immersing themselves in a particular lifestyle with which they are unfamiliar (e.g. working for minimum wage, being in prison, a Christian living as a Muslim etc.), while discussing related social issues. As in Spurlock's film, ""Super Size Me"", there are a number of rules unique to each situation which must be followed during each such experiment. At least"
"His internist, Dr. Daryl Isaacs, advises him to stop what he is doing immediately to avoid any serious health problems. He compares Spurlock with the protagonist played by Nicolas Cage in the movie ""Leaving Las Vegas"", who intentionally drinks himself to death in a matter of weeks. Despite this warning, Spurlock decides to continue the experiment. On March 2, Spurlock makes it to day 30 and achieves his goal. In thirty days, he has ""Supersized"" his meals nine times along the way (five of which were in Texas, four in New York City). His physicians are surprised at the degree"
"written that such contracts have increased soft-drink consumption and thereby contributed to the epidemic of childhood obesity. In his advocacy against childhood obesity, Banzhaf has criticized McDonald's. In 2002, he filed a lawsuit claiming product liability against McDonald's, claiming that false advertising by McDonald's contributes to childhood obesity. Obesity and McDonald's were discussed in the 2004 film ""Super Size Me"" by Morgan Spurlock, in which Banzhaf is repeatedly interviewed. In one scene, Spurlock and Banzhaf have a discussion while eating at McDonald's. In his 2005 book, Spurlock quoted Banzhaf explanation of why litigious campaigns have had more success than legislative"
"and Buddhist, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting its French fries as vegetarian, when they contained beef broth. Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary film ""Super Size Me"" claimed that McDonald's food was contributing to the increase of obesity in society and that the company was failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. Six weeks after the film premiered, McDonald's announced that it was eliminating the super size option, and was creating the adult Happy Meal. In 2006, an unsanctioned ""McDonald's Video Game"" by Italian group Molleindustria was released online. It is parody of the business practices of the"
"with which the weight loss can happen. However, these claims are not always founded in scientific research. The 2004 documentary film, ""Super Size Me"", directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock focuses on the ways in which the fast food industry in America is influencing how people and especially young children, view nutrition. Nutrition psychology Nutrition psychology (NP) is the psychological study of how cognitive choices, such as meal decisions, influence nutrition, psychological health, and overall health. Nutrition psychology seeks to understand the relationship between nutritional behavior and mental health/well-being. NP is a sub-field of psychology and more specifically of health"
"American film ""Super Size Me"" where the author consumes McDonald's daily for a month. Over the course of an eight-week period, O’Porter challenged herself to go on a crash diet in order to drop from the nation’s average, UK Size 12, to the mysterious, yet idolised, US Size 0. This aspired image has been formed by alarmingly skinny celebrities over the past decade, who are influencing the attitudes that predominately teenage girls have about their bodies. The images of skinny celebrities in the media also convey the message that being thin is a form of acceptance. However, it was also"
"Schlosser's book ""Fast Food Nation"" (2002) and Morgan Spurlock's film ""Super Size Me"" (2004) reflected these concerns. Since 2003, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has protested KFC's choice of poultry suppliers worldwide with the Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign. PETA have held thousands of demonstrations, sometimes in the home towns of KFC executives, and CEO David Novak was soaked in fake blood by a protester. KFC President Gregg Dedrick said PETA mischaracterized KFC as a poultry producer rather than a purchaser of chickens. In 2008, Yum! stated: ""[As] a major purchaser of food products, [Yum!] has the opportunity"
"restaurant in Amarillo, Texas by eating a meal of 72-ounce ribeye steak, salad, baked potato, shrimp cocktail, and roll in just 8 minutes 52 seconds. Shortly after, on his show on KKLA, Frank Pastore, the previous record holder, congratulated Chestnut. (The overall human record is 4 minutes 18 seconds, done by Molly Schuyler on 19 April 2015, on her first of three meals. She subsequently had two more meals, and completed them all after 20 minutes elapsed.) On 21 June 2008, Chestnut lost to Takeru Kobayashi in a Pizza Hut P'Zone competition at Sony Studios in Culver City, California. The"
"in the first five days. MTV later bought and aired the show, which Spurlock hosted. The list of documentary films that inspired Spurlock includes ""Brother's Keeper"", ""Hoop Dreams"", ""The Thin Blue Line"", ""Roger and Me"", ""Harlan County USA"", and ""The Last Waltz"". He considers ""Brother's Keeper"" the greatest documentary of all time. Spurlock's docudrama ""Super Size Me"" was released in the U.S. on May 7, 2004. This production was later nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. He conceived the idea for the film when he was at his parents' house for Thanksgiving, and while watching TV saw"
"weigh-in Morgan lost 1 lb. from the previous weigh-in, and a nutritionist hypothesized that he had lost muscle mass, which weighs more than an identical volume of fat. At another weigh-in, a nutritionist said that he gained in 12 days. Spurlock's girlfriend, Alexandra Jamieson, attests to the fact that Spurlock lost much of his energy and sex drive during his experiment. It was not clear at the time whether or not Spurlock would be able to complete the full month of the high-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, and family and friends began to express concern. On Day 21, Spurlock has heart palpitations."
"of fat in one month. He also claims to drink almost nothing but Coca-Cola and, according to ""Super Size Me"", he rarely eats the fries. At first, Don kept all the boxes of Big Macs he ate in the back of his car. He met and proposed to his wife, Mary, at a McDonald's in 1975. In addition, he has a statue of Ronald McDonald in his yard. Gorske also states that he has only eaten one Burger King Whopper sandwich in his life in 1984 and will never eat one again. Gorske claimed that he first tried a Whopper"
"Eating Too Fast Eating Too Fast is a 1966 Andy Warhol film made at The Factory. It was originally titled Blow Job #2 and features art critic and writer Gregory Battcock (1937–1980). The film is 67 minutes long and is, in effect, a black and white sound film remake of Warhol's ""Blow Job"" (1964). Battcock had previously appeared in Warhol's films ""Batman Dracula"" (1964) and ""Horse"" (1965). The British Film Institute catalogue says that the first half of the film is a still shot, showing Battcock eating an apple and taking a phone call, while apparently receiving fellatio. The second"
"Jackie O Show"" on May 20, 2011 and ""Lopez Tonight"" on May 23, 2011. Don Gorske Donald A. Gorske (born November 28, 1953) is an American world record holder and known as the ""Big Mac enthusiast"". He is best known for having eaten 30,000 Big Mac hamburgers from the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's in his lifetime and winning a place in the Guinness Book of Records. He claims the Big Mac constitutes 90-95% of his total solid food intake. He is featured in the documentaries ""Super Size Me"" (2004) and ""Don Gorske: Mac Daddy"" (2005). He is the author"
"broadcast on More4 and Channel 4. In Australia, the program is broadcast on Network Ten and Lifestyle Channel. It currently airs in Canada on Independent Film Channel and Canal Vie. It also airs on FX in Latin America. In Norway it airs on TV 2. In Sweden it airs on TV4 and Kanal 9. 30 Days (TV series) 30 Days was an American reality television show on the FX cable network in the United States, created and hosted by Morgan Spurlock. In each episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, spend 30 days immersing themselves in a"
"10 years in the making. Schlosser appeared in an interview for the DVD of Morgan Spurlock's ""Super Size Me"", having a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker about the fast-food industry. He did not appear in the film itself. He was interviewed by Franny Armstrong in 2005 and is a feature interviewee in her film ""McLibel"". He co-produced ""Food, Inc."" (2008), with Robert Kenner. Schlosser also served as co-executive producer on the 2007 film ""There Will Be Blood"". In 2014, he was an executive producer of the farmworker documentary ""Food Chains,"" a credit he shared with Eva Longoria. They both won"
"food franchises whose product is both physiologically addictive and physically harmful. The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A comic book related to the movie has been made with Dark Horse Comics as the publisher containing stories based on numerous cases of fast food health scares. Spurlock released a sequel, """", in 2017. As the film begins, Spurlock is in physically above average shape according to his personal trainer. He is seen by three physicians (a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist, and a general practitioner), as well as a nutritionist and a personal trainer. All of the"
"life as an inmate. He did not complete the entire 30 days in jail because the majority of inmates in the state of Virginia serve 85% of the sentence, so once Spurlock reached that benchmark, he was released from the prison. The third season of ""30 Days"" premiered on June 3, 2008. The first episode of the third season, titled ""Working in a Coal Mine,"" was filmed in Bolt, West Virginia which is located roughly 18 miles from the city of Beckley, West Virginia, where Spurlock was raised before leaving for New York. In late 2008, FX announced it would"
"Scott in the NBC sitcom, allegedly told reporters he would personally fly to Scranton to ""cut the ribbon"" if Farley's were to place a ""Michael Scott Burger"" on their menu. The burger was later added. Actor Jason Miller died of a heart attack in the restaurant on May 13, 2001. Farley's Eatery and Pub Farley's Eatery & Pub was a restaurant in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, and was considered a staple of Scrantonian culinary culture. Farley's promoted itself as having ""the best steak and seafood in downtown Scranton."" Farley's Eatery & Pub closed in 2012 after 30 years of"
"lyrics. Big Kahuna Burger Big Kahuna Burger is a fictional chain of Hawaiian-themed fast food restaurants that has appeared in films by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, including ""Death Proof"", ""Four Rooms"", ""Pulp Fiction"", ""From Dusk Till Dawn"" and ""Reservoir Dogs"". The packaging was created by Tarantino's old friend Jerry Martinez. The restaurant features most prominently in Tarantino's ""Pulp Fiction"", in which Samuel L. Jackson's character Jules eats a Big Kahuna Burger and remarks, ""This ""is"" a tasty burger!"" There is a restaurant in Imperial Beach (San Diego), CA that claims to be the original ‘Big Kahuna Burger’ restaurant. In"
"5,000 kcal (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment. An intake of around 2,500 kcal within a healthy balanced diet is more generally recommended for a man to maintain his weight. As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained , a 13% body mass increase, increased his cholesterol to 230 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L), and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose all the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his then-girlfriend, a chef who specializes in gourmet vegan dishes. The reason"
"Don Gorske Donald A. Gorske (born November 28, 1953) is an American world record holder and known as the ""Big Mac enthusiast"". He is best known for having eaten 30,000 Big Mac hamburgers from the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's in his lifetime and winning a place in the Guinness Book of Records. He claims the Big Mac constitutes 90-95% of his total solid food intake. He is featured in the documentaries ""Super Size Me"" (2004) and ""Don Gorske: Mac Daddy"" (2005). He is the author of ""22,477 Big Macs"" (2008), and resides in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Gorske claims"
"not renew the ""30 Days"" series, making the third season the last. Spurlock has two sons. The older, Laken James Spurlock, was born on December 9, 2006. His birth is depicted in Spurlock's documentary ""Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?"", which Spurlock dedicated to Laken. The younger, Kallen Marcus Spurlock, was born on May 22, 2016. Although he was raised Methodist, Spurlock stated in an interview with TV Guide in 2014 that he is now agnostic. In December 2017, Spurlock wrote a blog post admitting to a history of sexual misconduct. He stepped down from his position with"
"of Pediatrics"". Klish played a role in the popular documentary ""Super Size Me"" created by Morgan Spurlock. Klish monitored Spurlock's health as he binged on fast food. William J. Klish William J. Klish is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Baylor College of Medicine. Klish was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Klish is a past president of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. He currently directs the obesity center at the Texas Children's Hospital that he developed. Klish is credited with having helped develop pediatric gastroenterology"
"began her business as a vegan chef, and was introduced as such in ""Super Size Me"", she announced on her website in February 2013 that she was no longer following a vegan diet. Jamieson admitted she had been craving and eating animal products for several years, but had kept it secret because of confusion and guilt. She maintains her holistic health counseling business and says she is ""passionately devoted to helping as many people reach their ultimate health as I can."" In addition to being featured in ""Super Size Me"", Jamieson appeared in the first episode of Spurlock's television program"
"one episode each season has featured Spurlock as the person spending the month in the particular lifestyle. Season one premiered on June 15, 2005, and its respective DVD set was released July 11, 2006. The second season premiered on July 26, 2006. Season 3 of ""30 Days"" premiered on June 3, 2008. Later that same year, FX said that it would not be renewing the series for a fourth season, effectively canceling the show. The show has recently been picked up for re-air by Destination America, though no new episodes have been ordered. In the United Kingdom, the program is"