Obesity Movie Reviews Samples For Students

One of the most widespread epidemics in the United States is childhood obesity. More and more kids are turning to fast food chains for their lunches and dinners because of ease and taste. One documentary went out to prove that going this route is not only unhealthy for you, but it is also detrimental to the society as a whole. Morgan Spurlock states “40 percent of Americans eat out” (Spurlock 2004) which adds to the ever growing epidemic. People are choosing to eat out rather than cook a meal at home. Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me set out to prove ...

The Weight of the Nation feature film presents pertinent issues regarding health and wellness. Whereas ‘The Weight of the Nation-consequences’ documents the extent and epidemic nature of obesity, ‘The Weight of the Nation-Choices’ film provides a presentation on why no effective for obesity is existent hitherto. From both films therefore, insightful thoughts can be borrowed and applied personally to avert adverse health outcomes.
‘The Weight of the Nation-consequences’ presents the case of Cindy, a mother of two adult sons and also a grandmother. Based on the HBO account, Cindy has struggled with obesity since being married at 99 pounds. ...

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In the documentary film, “Fed Up,” there is a frightening look inside America’s health crisis involving obesity. The lack of real food in American diets is to blame. The entities behind creating this problem are the big corporations in America that manufacture these foods. These “foods” are processed foods, with high sugar content that can lead to numerous health problems including heart disease and diabetes. Advertisers are marketing processed foods made of high sugar content to young children and putting sugar into the formulas to get them while they’re young. They have people hooked on sugar, ...

The most common question nowadays is “Why?”, why has obesity become so world-spread? According to the statistics, announced in the movie, 2/3 of the USA people are suffering from obesity, which that is approximately 60 million. There are a lot of answers: the material security does not allow us to eat healthy food; the invention of different gadgets that we are enjoying and which are killing our time without any use for the body. Moreover, while hanging around with our friends what do we see around us? An incredible amount of cafes, fast food restaurants and billboards that are ...

Introduction

Super Size Me, the 2004 documentary directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, explored Spurlock’s own experimentation with going on a McDonald’s-only diet for a consecutive thirty days. Being a vegetarian and generally active person, this transformation became incredibly dramatic, with dramatic changes in weight, mood, chemical makeup, sex drive and more. The documentary poses the question of how culpable McDonald’s customers are in their own health habits, or whether or not McDonald’s themselves are responsible for the increasing obesity and health problems found in America. Looking at these questions, and the documentary itself, through the ethical perspectives of ...

In the past years, movies marked as “based on real events” appear more often. Moreover, some of the researchers, as well as ordinary viewers claim that almost every movie is based on real events. The point is that sometimes directors as well as screen play writers tend to exaggerate the importance and cruelty of some events. In the most cases, it happens in horror movies or some documentaries. The point is that the main idea of every documentary is to convince people in something. This essay is devoted to the issue of veracity of the events in three movies: ...

The movie is in a town set up whereby the characters are discussing something in the living room. The group is made up of women most of them with identical eating disorder and almost the same physical characteristics except for some few women who are trying to advise them on what they did to have a better shape. The sitting room has much furniture that enabled the women to sit in a conference like manner and have a mutual talk. At the background of the living room, there are various hangings and photos as well as paintings on the wall. Since this is a ...

The kids TV analysis is based on the cartoon programme “adventure time” which was aired on April 16th 2016. The code title for this episode thirty of season seven is “Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension”. The episode is set on T.V finding a hidden box which draws attention from Rainicorn. The episode is set in a green environment, showing the importance of conserving the nature. Children are made to realize the beauty that is created by the green environment. The plot is continuous and changes as the episode progresses. As the episode proceeds it is evident that the ...

Culture is very important to people, especially to families who have strong bonds or ties. Culture is also critical in knowing and attending to the needs of a person. This can affect the actions of a person when unexpected circumstances arise.
The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding is about a woman who falls in love with a person who does not fit the requirements and preferences of her father in terms of the ideal man that he wants his daughter to marry and have a family with. He wants his daughter to marry a Greek man just like them because of their Greek family’ ...

A Place at the Table is a movie in which three different individuals from entirely different parts of the United States search for adequate nutrition, (“A Place at the Table,” 2013). This is a fascinating study of nutrition and culture within the United States because we do not have healthy food and we have one of the highest obesity rates in the world. The reason for this is our portions. Within the United States, the average plate is double the size of what you find in foreign countries. What happens as a result is that the average American ends ...