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
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