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Morgan, Spurlock. “Don’t Eat This Book.� Fast Food and the Supersizing of America. New York: Penguin Group, 2005. 308 pages.
“Americans are eating themselves to death�(7) states Morgan Spurlock in his book Don’t Eat This Book, supporting this statement with a list of facts throughout the book. Morgan Spurlock is the award-winning man who ate only McDonald’s for thirty days in his movie Super Size Me. Spurlock talks about the impact on our lives the fast food companies have such as advertisement, portion control, effects on children, and what‘s “really“ in our food.
The book is split up into sixteen informative chapters. Beginning with the facts of obesity in children and adults and ending with ways school can transform there “slop� lunches into healthy affordable meals. This book is filled with examples comparing the portion size of a meal to the actual nutrition facts. One study Spurlock quotes found “if you give someone a one-pound bag of M&Ms, the......

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