After watching the documentary Super-size Me, I disagree with the point that the documentary tries to make. Is America obese? Yes. Is that the fault of fast food restaurants? In a way. Fast food is not good for you, and eating it everyday like the guy in the documentary does will cause you to become overweight and unhealthy. But, the reason America is obese is not just because of fast food. We do not exercise, we eat way too much, and the food that we do eat is not healthy. Now, I am not talking about fast food here, but all kinds of food that we eat. Most of our food is loaded with preservatives and unnatural ingredients that until the last 40 or 50 years were never there. Americans do not exercise. If we have to go somewhere, we take the car. Both of these explanations have much to do with why America is obese. While fast food definitely does not help the situation, it is hardly the cause and reason for our obesity.
Also, what really irritates me the most about this documentary is where the blame is placed for America’s obesity. The documentary likes to place the sole blame on the fast food company’s and the way in which they target children in order to create life-long customers. While I will agree to the fact that the fast food companies need to show a little more responsibility, such as placing the nutritional facts of their food where people can see them, the real blame for America’s obesity falls on the individual themselves. It is a little thing called personal responsibility, something that is fast disappearing in America. It is so easy to blame the other guy instead of looking at our own faults and changing them. The fast food companiesdo not force the people to walk into their restaurants. People do that because of their own free will. Is the food unhealthy for you? Yes. Do the people know that? Yes. It is like the saying goes, “fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.” Well guess what, fast food has fooled you more than once, shame on you. Time to take a little personal responsibility and stop eating fast food if you are so worried about what it will do to you. And as for the companies targeting children in their advertisement, I just ask one question “Where are the parents?” If they are so worried about what is happening to their children, then why let them go? All you have to do is say no!
