They give you free mints with the shoes! We turn just about everything you can imagine into food. Girth of a Nation “We have sparked a global obesity crisis. Even on trips of under one mile, according to the Department of Transportation, we walked only 24 percent of the time in 2001 (and rode a bike under 2 percent). Not yet. I was 35 and weighed 195. For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. Then you obviously haven't consumed enough.Like this book, the epidemic of over consumption that's plaguing the nation begins with the things we put in our mouths. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2016, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2005. ” Slate by Sara Dickerman both authors discuss the high effort from marketers to get people to live a certain way. by. I had developed a taste for books that muckraked through the American way of life, particularly that part which centers on food, nutrition and physical fitness. Please try again. Spurlock, the man behind the hit documentary Super Size Me, again savages the fast-food industry. Later, I read "The Fat of the Land" by Michael Fumento. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Smokers knew the dangers of smoking, everyone said. At that point, I became interested in nutrition and fitness and started reading books along those lines. Paperback. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. I've read Fast Food Nation and seen the Super Size Me movie - this book is a great follow-up. Back when people were first suing the tobacco companies for giving them cancer, a lot of folks scoffed. No one spent billions and billions of dollars in marketing, advertising and promotions telling that guy those sneaker mints would make him cool, hip and sexy. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). Morgan Spurlock is a writer, director, and producer, and in 2004 he was awarded the Best Director prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Learn more about the program. Everyone smoked.The change began in 1964, when the first surgeon general's warning about smoking and cancer scared the bejesus out of everybody. Ignore everything you've ever been told about what NOT to do to books; Don’t Eat This Book is no ordinary book. KIRKUS REVIEW. Publisher. Don't eat this book. And that for several generations—again, until they got busted for it—the big tobacco companies aimed their marketing and advertising at kids and young people. Unable to add item to List. All despite that surgeon general's warning on every single pack.What is going on here? Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I've read Fast Food Nation and seen the Super Size Me movie - this book is a great follow-up. Later, I read "The Fat of the Land" by Michael Fumento. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. In his Academy Award-nominated documentary, Super Size Me , Spurlock gave us a firsthand look at the effects of a McDonald's diet, using himself as a guinea pig. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2016. He prescribed diet pills to curb my appetite. Nonetheless, Don't Eat This Book is monumentally depressing. Smoking made you look like a cowboy or a movie starlet.And it worked. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food, Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't. Tighter controls were placed on selling cigarettes to minors. 16.0In Stock. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive—and interviews experts 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. Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2005. Paul Pioneer Press, “Spurlock [writes] in his trademark take-no-prisoners style and with a humor that saves him from sounding pious or self-satisfied. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Don't eat this book. And if they did, that was their own fault.Take smoking. We've got drugs to counteract the disastrous health effects of all our overconsumption—diet drugs, heart drugs, liver drugs, drugs to make our hair grow back and our willies stiff. It worked. Splat it, soak it, rip it, wear it, tear it, bling it, camouflage it, glue it, break it, stick it, bury it, whack it... Do whatever you want to it – just don't eat it! In Los Angeles, you can get arrested for walking. Somewhere, sometime, some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said, "Ooooh, look. I watched Super Size Me in amazement, and have had the same sense of shock and disguist reading this book. If you're not in a car, you're a vagrant. Please try your request again later. I was 35 and weighed 195. Everyone didn't quit overnight, but overall rates of smoking began to decrease—from 42 percent of adults in 1965 to 23 percent in 2000, and from 36 percent of high school kids in 1997 to 29 percent in 2001. Tobacco sponsorship of sporting events decreased. Don't Eat This Book Fast Food and the Supersizing of America This edition was published in May 19, 2005 by Putnam Adult. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Can man live on fast food alone? Average Customer Ratings. But there’s more to the story, and in Don’t Eat This Book, Spurlock examines everything from school lunch programs and the marketing of fast food to the decline of physical education. ” in Don’t Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock and “Escalating Dining: Is Mall Food Becoming Class? Book Description Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2005. "—soon followed, no doubt, by the lawsuit charging the manufacturer with negligence, something along the lines of, "Well, it didn't say not to eat those things. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. As if people without a regular source of drinking water didn't have enough to worry about already. And curling irons bear tags that read for external use only.And that's why I warn you—please!—do not eat this book. Like most of you, I find many of these lawsuits pointless and frivolous. They threw billions and billions of more dollars into making smoking look cool, hip, sexy—and safe. Most damning is how evident the marketing of fast food is aimed at our children - and not just fast food We all buy into it to some degree, because none of us is as young as we'd like to be, or as thin, or as strong.Yet none of the stuff we consume—no matter how much bigger our SUV is than our neighbor's, no matter how many Whoppers we wolf down, no matter how many DVDs we own or how much Zoloft we take—makes us feel full, or satisfied or happy.So we consume some more.And the line between personal responsibility and corporate responsibility gets finer and more blurred. That's right, trillion. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. )Two hundred and forty-six billion dollars is a whole lot of frivolous, man.What these lawsuits drove home was the relationship between personal responsibility and corporate responsibility. Don't eat this book: fast food and the super sizing of America User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. Like a funnier Michael Moore.” —Maxim, “A sobering look at the country’s obesity crisis.” —People (Great Reads), “Just reading this book will give the average reader indigestion…a shocking indictment of the fast food industry.” —Tucson Citizen, “He has a story to tell, and it’s scary enough to keep you out of that drive-through line.” —Charleston Post and Courier, “Alternately hilarious and discouraging…provides further details about the health impact of the nation’s poor eating choices.” —Toledo Blade, “Detailed and nuanced…very amusing.” —Maclean’s, “With a combination of wit, sarcasm, anger, and hard-hitting research, Spurlock argues that groups such as the American Medical Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been corrupted by corporate interests.” —St. Walking, actually using the legs and feet God gave us, accounts for appallingly little of our day-to-day getting around. Over the last twenty-five years, the number of household vehicles in the United States has doubled. It's been a worthwhile education. Thank the genius who first decided to take a bath and blow-dry her hair at the same time. Although this is not a particularly quick read (and a bit dry), Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2005. (The other four states had already settled in individual cases. Of course, when I went off the pills and back to my normal lifestyle my weight went right back up. Something went wrong. Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2005. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. It's too easy to write off all billion-plus smokers as idiots with a death wish. Yeah, you've come a long way, baby—all the way from the kitchen to the cancer ward. Overview. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. 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