I am Jude Michael G. De Peralta. I am 17 years old male and I study in Brent International School Manila where different culture can study in one school. I like playing sports like basketball and volleyball. Health is a big role in life because health is the one who sustain our body to be fit and immune to sickness. Being healthy is keeping our body in shape and it help us to live longer because it strengthens our bones and other parts of our body. Diet and nutrition is important to me because I play sports to perform better. So I need to have proper diet and proper nutrition but now I don't feel that I'm healthy because I always eat what I want. I know to my self that I am not a healthy person because I eat more that three times a day and I always drink soda which can make me gain weight and the bad thing is I have very slow metabolism, which means that my digestive system works super slow. Here is my blogs and article that shows different things that I've learned.

                  The title of the documentary that we watched is “Supersize me” the director of the documentary is Morgan Spurlock. He is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter and political activist. “Supersize me” is one of his best documentary and his intended audience in the documentary are the people who eat fast food. The purpose of his documentary is to show the effects of eating fast food in daily basis and his message to the audience is to stop eating fast food and it is bad for our health.

                  Morgan Spurlock did in the documentary in different McDonalds in United States and he challenged himself by eating fast food for 30 days and he wants to see the effect of eating fast food in daily basis. He did this documentary because in his country (United States) people are being fat and obese because of fast food and because there was 2 girls that went to the law and blame fast food (McDonalds) for being sick and the law did not approve it because there is no evidence to show. That is why Spurlock wants to the documentary to show the effects if it is true. During the introduction I laughed because the narrator says that “US has big cars, big houses and big people”. The issue in this documentary is the obesity in his country and the fast food are targeting the children. I think the dramatic part in the documentary is before he does the documentary his wife is sad and upset about his plan because she is scared about his health. They only eat organic food or vegetable. He tested his health by going to 3 different doctors and the results are good that he is in a healthy man. During doing the 30 days of eating fast food he starts to feel different and the shocking part is he is gaining 5 to 10 pounds every week. The doctor is telling him to stop because his health will be in danger. After doing the 30 days challenge he gain 20 pounds and had a lot of sickness like headache. He proves to the court that eating fast food is bad for our health.

                  The sound effects in the documentary are scary every time they show a picture of McDonalds. I think that the images are sharp because the images show that McDonalds are bad for us. The Interviews were shocking because there is this one interview that he asked the people to recite their national pledge and most of them doesn’t know and couldn’t finish the pledge and when he asked the slogan in Big Mac all of them say it at the same time.

                  In the documentary I learned that eating fast food can lead to obesity, addiction and sickness like Cholesterol is increasing every time people eat fast food and can cause major problem in heart, liver and blood. Fast food marketing is using the characters in Disney to get the attraction of child to buy food from them. If people eat fast food they start to crave more but when they stop eating they will have massive headache. There are also some drawbacks in this documentary is when he said that fast food can cause obesity but when he interviewed a guy who ate 19000 Big Macs, he still look thin and health.
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                  I would recommend this documentary to people especially for my friends who eats in fast food a lot because this documentary shows that eating Fast food is bad for our health. Maybe after they watch this documentary they will stop eating fast food because it shows in the end of the documentary the causes of eating fast food. They might be scared after seeing this documentary. This documentary is effective because it shaped my thoughts because I learned some new things in this documentary like eating fast food is terrible for our health and 

Jude Michael G. De Peralta
September 28, 2015
Dear Mr. Spurlock,

                  Good Morning Mr. Spurlock, My Name is Jude Michael G. De Peralta and I am studying in Brent International School Manila. Our teacher asks us to make a letter about your documentary “Supersize Me” and share amy opnion about your article. I was shocked when your results came out after doing the experiment, which is eating McDonald’s for a month, because I did not expect that it will lead to bad health.

                  In your documentary, it talks about eating fast food. After watching your documentary, I agree that eating fast food (McDonalds) can lead to bad health because you had three doctors that helps you to monitor changes in your body happening when you are eating fast food. By doing your experiment, I saw some different changes to your health because you are gaining weight five to ten pounds per week and you gain a lot of calories. There is another problem that occurs in your documentary: McDonalds are targeting children because McDonald’s stores have play ground in the restaurant and McDonalds are using Disney characters to put in their happy meal so that children will encourage their parents to buy the happy meal. I can see that you are saying in your documentary that McDonald's has bad marketing strategy because they are targeting children even though their foods can lead to bad health. The most shocking part that in your documentary is when McDonalds or fast foods are spending the most money just to advertise their products while vegetables advertisement is the lowest. These points are the things that I agree about your documentary because there is evidence that proves your statement that fast food (McDonalds) can lead us to bad health.

                  But there are some parts of your documentary that I disagree. When you did your experiment, you always eat a lot and of course you will gain weight because you eat a lot of food. Every people will gain weight if they eat a lot of any kinds of food. I disagree when most of your pictures in the documentary are fat people and it show bias in the documentary because you only film those who are fat people. I also disagree when you said that eating fast food can lead us to obesity but there is this one guy name Don Gorske that you interviewed about eating 19000 big macs and he looks fit and healthy. You are over reacting when you are climbing the stairs because you can’t be tired by climbing in second floor in your apartment. In your documentary there is too much criticism. It shows when you are trying to show that eating McDonalds food is bad by eating too much burger even though you are full and don’t want to eat anymore but you are still forcing yourself to throw up and to show that it is really bad. When you interview people about the meaning of calorie, you are trying to find the people who don’t know what calorie is. I bet that there are many people that can define calorie but you only choose the people who don’t know its meaning. You are criticising McDonalds when you are looking for their nutrition fact. You are trying to look for McDonalds that doesn’t show it because as you said that there is McDonalds in every corner of Manhattan. It shows that you are completely bias about showing that McDonalds is really bad for society.

                  In your documentary there is some confusion that occurs and I would like to ask some questions. My first question is why did you include the surgery? How does it connect to your documentary? I find it confusing putting a surgery in a documentary that talks about obesity. My next question would be “have you eaten fast food before you do the experiment?” Because it shows that you are vegetarian because of your wife but did you eat fast food before? It is hard for our body to switch from vegetarian to become carnivore right away. Eating most of the menu in McDonalds, why do you still make it as a worst situation? I can see in the documentary that you are forcing yourself to eat more even though your body tells you to stop and even the doctor says that you have to stop doing the experiment but you still want to do it because you really want McDonalds to look bad. Those are the questions that I would like to ask because it is confusing in my perspective.

                  In your documentary there some parts that I highly agree and disagree. Obesity is being one of our problems for today but we are still trying to figure out to lessen it. You Sir, figured out on how to lessen the people being fat is by lessening the selling of product of fast food because in your documentary shows that the supersize me coke is half a gallon and no one will drink that much. It is dangerous for our health. Thank you for having some time to read my letter.

From,
Jude De Peralta

Jude Michael G. De Peralta
September 28, 2015
 
Dear John Cisna,

                  Good Morning Mr. John, My Name is Jude Michael G. De Peralta and I am studying in Brent International School Manila. Our teacher asks us to make a letter about your article name “Forget Supersize Me” and talk about my opinion. I was shocked when I saw the results of your experiment when you ate Mcdonald’s for 3 months, it is amazing that you have a wonderful outcome after the experiment. I will talk about the things that I agree and disagree and ask questions about your documentary.

                  In your article I agree with you stated that “It is our choice that makes us fat, not McDonald’s” in your statement I agree with you because you did your experiment with proper diet. You did your experiment for three months and you have the menu of the food that you are going to eat not like in Supersize Me. Mr. Spurlock ate the food that is in the menu and he order a lot of food just for a meal. But you have a responsibility by eating food that has two thousand calories per day because if you limit that fast food intake you will not gain weight. Fast food is not the reason why people get fat but it is our choice to get fat.

                  I disagree in some of parts in you documentary because we don’t know if McDonalds sponsored you to do this experiment? Or maybe you are trying to make them look good so that people will think that eating fast food can lead to bad health. It is unfair to Spurlock because you have a diet or a meal of what you have to eat but Spurlock does not have a plan of that food that he eats. Mr. Spurlock just eats anything in the menu. Lastly during experiment you have an exercise program which is to walk forty five minutes a day. While Mr. Spurlock doesn’t have any exercise in his experiment. The points that I said is the one that I disagree in the articles.

                  People have their different perspective , questions that they want to ask. But for you is it three months? Why not one month like Mr. Spurlock did. Maybe you will lose weight by walking forty five minutes every day. Why did you not hire some health professional? Even though you are a science teacher, you still need some health professional to monitor your health during your experiment. And lastly, what kind of food do you eat in McDonalds? Is it healthy food? Or the food that does not affect in your body?
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                  In his article “Forget Supersize Me”, there are some parts that I agree and parts that I disagree but there are some parts of the article that I’m still confuse. People have the right to choose what is good for them. Eating a lot of any food can lead to gain weight. We are not to blame McDonald’s for obesity because we are the one who chose to buy fast food, even though we already know that the products that they sell is bad for us but why do we still buy them? Maybe this will come for our responsibilities by having discipline in our body. Thank you so much for your time to read my letter.

From,
Jude Michael G. De Peralta

Supersize Me is a documentary that was made by Morgan Spurlock. His documentary was an experiment by eating fast food in one month. Before doing the experiment he went to three different doctors to check his health. The result shows that he is a healthy person because he only eats organic food. Organic produce and other ingredients are grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms, or ionizing radiation. During his experiment he ate heavy meals like supersize burger, fries and coke. After doing his experiment he gain 10 pounds and having a bad result in his health like having a high calories. Calories is a storage of energy. It scares me when I found out the result of Morgan Spurlock after doing his experiment and after watching this documentary it helps me to avoid eating in fast food because of his result.

With more than 36,000 restaurants around the globe, chances are you have eaten at McDonald's at one point or another, and many of you ordered a popular offering which is Big Mac. A new infographic claims to show exactly what Big Mac does to our body within an hour. 

A Big Mac contains 540 calories and 25 grams of fat. Calories is measure of energy take we intake. Consuming this sandwich alone - without the fries and soda that often accompany it - makes up more than 25% of an adult's daily recommended calorie intake and over 40% of the recommended daily fat intake.

In 10 minutes of eating Big Mac the high calorie that we gain will begin to increase blood sugar level. After 20 minutes, addictive ingredients such as corn syrup and sodium will set in will make us crave more. In 30 minutes our body will be dehydrated. Dehydrated is a cause of a person to lose a large amount of water. Big Mac will digest slow. It will take more than an hour to digest.

This article connects to the movie that we watched which is Supersize me because the subject of the film, Morgan Spurlock, eats a lot of Big Mac for a month and after doing that he gain so much weight and he has a bad results in his test. After reading this article eating Big Mac is bad for our health but we can still eat Big Mac but only if it is occasionally.

​Energy drink is any of various types of beverage that are considered a source of energy, especially a soft drink containing a high percentage of sugar and/or caffeine or other stimulant. Energy drinks are marketed as beverages to boost our mental and physical performance. By this article it describe how energy drink affect our body within 24 hours.

This data was created by using information from sources including the UK's National Health Service (NHS), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and energy drink manufacturer Red Bull. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the amount of caffeine in a can or bottle of energy drink can range from 80 mg to over 500 mg.They use infographic to collect data. 

According to the infographic within 10 minutes after you drink energy drink our heart rate and our blood pressure will rise. Within 15-45 minute caffeine levels in the bloodstream will increase. As a result, an individual will feel more alert and it improves their concentration. All of the caffein absorbed within 30-50 minutes and the liver responds to this by soaking up more sugar into the bloodstream. Within an hour the effect of the caffeine will begin to subside and sugar crash may occur. In 5-6 hours our body reduces of the amount of caffeine in the bloodstream for 50%. Within 12-24 hours after consumption the individual will feel headache and constipation.

Energy drink can be helpful for a person who play sports because it can help them improve their performance but after drinking it causes headache. Energy drink can help me because I play sports and can help me to improve my performance. This article relates to our topic nutrition because energy drink affects our body and if our body is affected also our health will be affected.

Many people may take drinking water for granted, but keeping hydrated can have a huge impact on health overall.

70% of our body contains water, 71% of the planet's surface is covered by water. Water can give us oxygen. One part of the body that relies on adequate water intake is the kidneys. We need water in our everyday life because our cells and organs need water in order to function properly. Water can also protect our spinal cord and can control our temperature. We should drink water everyday and we should drink how much we sweat. Water can help our kidney by dissolving the nutrients and cleaning the bacteria.This article relates to our topic nutrition because drinking water can help us being healthy and by reading this article it encourage me to drink more water to help me become healthy and in order to help my body function properly.

Just 20 minutes of brisk walking a day may be all it takes to lessen a sedentary person's risk of early death, says a new study. The researchers also found the risk of early death due to lack of exercise are double that posed by obesity and does not necessarily depend on being obese or overweight. When they analyzed the data, the researchers found that compared with the number of deaths linked to obesity, twice as many were linked to lack of physical activity - and, moreover - just a modest increase in physical activity could make a difference, especially among inactive people. The analysis found that doing exercise that burned just 90-110 calories a day - the equivalent of a daily 20-minute brisk walk - was enough to move an individual from the inactive to the moderately inactive group and reduce their risk of early death by 16-30%. Before reading this article I thought that obesity is dangerous than not doing physical activity because I watched a documentary that talks about obesity which is "Supersize Me" that's why I thought that obesity is dangerous than not having exercise. After reading this article it influence me to do more sport and involve in activity because the studies shows that not doing activity has more risk of dying than obesity.