Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I've watched the movie a few months before and it was the greatest documentary I've ever seen!! About Don’t Eat This Book. Or, if you've read, This is the best thing I have read lately on the subject of food and what it does to your body. You’d be surprised by how much is out there, and sometimes I stumble upon some really interesting titles. This not my usual genre of book, so my evaluation of it may be a bit low because of that. "What we're eating now makes Soylent Green look like cordon bleu" (107). Spurlock also writes about some of the corporate backlash he received from McD's after Supersize me was released. Don't Eat this Book gives support to the issues that Spurlock initiated with the documentary film. Morgan Spurlock is famous for the film. Don't Eat This Book gives the full background story to the experiment that so captivated audiences around the world in the documentary Super Size Me, and explores in further depth the connections between the rise of fast food and obesity. "Don't Eat this Book" is a follow up to the film, as Morgan Spurlock takes us through some of the backlash he experienced from the film (lobbyists, Fox News, restaurateurs), as well as more details he gleaned during his research for the film. For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. Splat it, soak it, rip it, wear it, tear it, bling it, camouflage it, glue it, break it, stick it, bury it, whack it . Way to go, America. I finished reading this book. As he describes this disturbing deterioration, he also assures us that after the experiment, his girlfriend, a health-conscious vegan, helped him gradually get his diet and his health back on track. Maybe it is the Libertarian in me that shies away from calling for more government regulations, maybe it is my strong opinion that every individual is responsible for his or her actions rather than blaming major corporations for our health problems, or maybe I am a decade late in reading this book and the data just seems obvious, but for whatever reason I didn't enjoy this book as much as I expected to. What is the exact content of McNuggets? . ” in Don’t Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock and “Escalating Dining: Is Mall Food Becoming Class? The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide. I had to read this for a collage class. If you've seen Supersize Me, then you've read this book. Just a few years ago, Morgan Suprlock decided to embark on a gristly and risky experiment. . We turn just about everything you can imagine into food. I'm using it as a text, along with Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meat(s) and Thorstein Veblein's The Theory Of the Leisure Class, for a university course on Media and Culture, focusing on American media/corporations and hyperconsumption. flag. McDonald's units in France are also fattening up a slender populous (although Asterix has replaced Ronald as the mascot). Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America (usually shortened to Don't Eat This Book) is a 2005 book by Morgan Spurlock. Spurlock concludes with a plea for greater control of unhealthy food in this country, perhaps a tax in schools; maybe "penny for a calorie" so that a candy bar would cost "$3.60, and a fast-food sandwhich, $12.00" (188). For 30 days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. Refresh and try again. This is an absolutely fantastic book to use when teaching! You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. To see what your friends thought of this book. share. [1] Morgan Valentine Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, and playwright. Just a few years ago, Morgan Suprlock decided to embark on a gristly and risky experiment. Don't eat this book: fast food and the super sizing of America User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. . Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide. July 5th 2012 Supersize Me is one of my favorite documentaries, and I watch it every so often as a reminder to veer away from those dangerous yet alluring drive-thrus. Don't eat this book. In the articles “Do You Want Lies with That? This edition was published in 2006 by Berkley Books in New York. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published In his Academy Award-nominated documentary, Super Size Me , Spurlock gave us a firsthand look at the effects of a McDonald's diet, using himself as a guinea pig. In addition, his liver became inflamed from the excessive fat consumption, he suffered headaches from hypoglycemia, mood swings, lethargy, loss of libido, acne, chest pressure, and a "weird, crackhead high." What listeners say about Don't Eat This Book. At the end of the month, he had gained 24 and a half pounds (nearly a pound a day), his blood pressure and his triglycerides had soared, and his cholesterol count had gone from a sensible 165 to a scary 230. Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock is probably best thought of as the companion book to the author's award-winning documentary, Super Size Me. I read this as a follow-up to watching the Super Size Me documentary. We’d love your help. In case you were still uncertain about the nefarious ways corporations infiltrate our lives and how we are but cows to be milked dry by the hands of capitalism. The slight difference is that while the movie spent most of its time following Spurlock's McDiet, the book branches off a bit. We turn just about everything you can imagine into food. And although there are a lot of facts, numbers, and stastics in this book, sometimes I think he taints his credibility a bit when he presents some of his facts with his own sarcastic, denigrative opinion. Content []. Be the first to ask a question about Don't Eat This Book. 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