Supersize America

"I can only supersize if they offer it to me," filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explains at the beginning of the newly-released independent film Supersize Me. Then he starts the long and treacherous journey of eating only McDonald's fast food for an entire month, complete with weight gain and dangerous illness (Supersize Me, 2004). While this is an extreme case of the American obsession with size, it delves into the deeper issue of an obesity trend in our society, and possible causes of this trend. This paper will examine America's growing trend of obesity, and the contradictions of the stigma that lies therein.

The website for Spurlock's film explains that "37% of American children and adolescents are carrying too much fat and 2 out of every 3 adults are overweight or obese

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