Don't Eat This Book Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

by Spurlock, Morgan

• ISBN13: 9780425210239
• ISBN10: 0425210235
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-02
• Publisher: Berkley Trade

Summary

The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long McDonald's diet became the subject of an Oscar-nominated, box-office-bonanza documentary. Here Morgan Spurlock examines everything from school lunch programs and the marketing of fast food to the decline of physical education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive-and interviews everyone from surgeons general and kids to marketing gurus and lawmakers, who share their research and opinions on what we can do to offset a health crisis of supersized proportions.

Author Biography

Morgan Spurlock is an award-winning writer, producer, and director. Spurlock won the Best Director prize at the Sundance and Edinburgh film festivals for Super Size Me. The film was a National Board of Review and Critic's Choice Best Documentary nominee, and the New York Film Critics Online Best Documentary of 2004.

Table of Contents

Do You Want Lies with That?	p. 1
Girth of a Nation	p. 9
The Light at the End of the Taco	p. 27
A Really Great Bad Idea	p. 37
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad McWorld	p. 59
McD-Day	p. 75
Is It Chemical Soup Yet?	p. 101
Physical Miseducation	p. 119
Sex, Fries and Videotape	p. 131
Ronald & Me	p. 147
A Lunchroom Named Desire	p. 171
Lord of the Ring Dings	p. 185
Health Care or Sick Care?	p. 199
McFree At Last	p. 225
The Golden Halos	p. 245
Vote with Your Fork	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Improving Your Child's School Lunch Program	p. 271
McDonald's Food Testing Results	p. 275
You Are What You ... Smoke?	p. 279
Notes	p. 285
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