For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide.
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. 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.
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Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock is an award-winning writer, producer, and director. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Spurlock directed and starred in Super Size Me, one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. That movie earned him an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category, Best Director at the Sundance and Edinburgh film festivals, Best Documentary from the New York Film Critics Circle Online, and Best Documentary nominations from the National Board of Review and The Broadcast Film Critics Association. Spurlock also produced documentary films such as What Would Jesus Buy? and the acclaimed FX television show 30 Days. He is the author of Don’t Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? Morgan Spurlock died in 2024.
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