Supersize Me is one of my favorite documentaries, and I watch it every so often as a reminder to veer away from those dangerous yet alluring drive-thrus. "Don't Eat this Book" is a follow up to the film, as Morgan Spurlock takes us through some of the backlash he experienced from the film (lobbyists, Fox News, restaurateurs), as well as more details he gleaned during his research for the film.Most damning is how evident the marketing of fast food is aimed at our children - and not just fast food...

From a blog post I wrote in 2005:Morgan Spurlock wrote this after his documentary Super Size Me came out to much accord. He covers a lot of the same material as the movie but adds some behind the scenes anecdotes and a lot more research results.Spurlock continues his attack on McDonald's and the whole fast food industry with a lot more data. One thing I found interesting is he had an independent lab test some of McDonald's items for their food values (calories, fat, etc.). Turns out the figures

A critical examination of our fast food culture12 March 2012 There has been a lot written about the obesity epidemic that the United States (and to a lesser extent Australia) is facing and in many cases the finger is pointed directly at fast food franchises. Many people have probably heard of and even watched Spurlock's documentary where he sets himself a task (to the horror of his vegetarian girlfriend) of eating only McDonalds for a period of 30 days. Personally, there are a couple of flaws in...

Whenever I go somewhere that sells books, I am always on the lookout for anything related to health. You’d be surprised by how much is out there, and sometimes I stumble upon some really interesting titles. So it happened to be that I was looking through a library book sale a few weeks ago and I found this book called, Don’t Eat this Book. I couldn’t resist.Many people have heard of Super Size Me, the 2004 hit documentary that followed Morgan Spurlock through a 30-day diet consisting of nothing

Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock is probably best thought of as the companion book to the author's award-winning documentary, Super Size Me. They both cover a lot of the same ground: fast food is EXTREMELY unhealthy for you, fast food corporations are predatory in their marketing practices, schools are negligent in their duties to facilitate good nutrition and physical education, and beneath its thin veneer the "big food" industry is more unwholeso...

I read this book so long ago and it's the reason I don't eat beef. Very interesting and ultimately upsetting

Jacob D. BrunsBryan NeuschwanderEnglish II1 October 2012 Don’t Eat This Book sounds simple enough. Written by Morgan Spurlock, it chronicles his fight against “Big Food,” and the making of the indie-documentary, “Super-Size Me.” I would first recommend that you see the movie before reading the book.Spurlock makes a wonderful narrator, for he is witty and driven by his cause. “The cattle industry buys millions of dead dogs and cats from shelters... feeds them to the cattle. Remember how sad you w...

Don't Eat This Book is the follow up to Morgan Spurlock's award-nominated documentary, Super Size Me. I'd seen Super Size Me a few years ago, and enjoyed it. It was one of those enlightening moments in life where you think "Holy crap! What have I been doing to myself?!" I made a decision after seeing the film to reduce the amount of fast-food that I ate. I didn't really stick to it, though. It's so convenient, and easy to go grab a burger, or a taco, or whatever. This book gives a little bit

I finished reading this book. So the reason is the America's favorite fast-food joint McDonald's is so-well representative that it has those references from the movie "Super-Size Me". I've watched the movie a few months before and it was the greatest documentary I've ever seen!! Now that I rented the book from the library (same as the movie), Why did I had a chance to love this book too? It was published by him who was the Academy Award nominator of the movie.It's all Fact-packed and funny, this...

A companion piece of sorts to Spurlock’s documentary, Super Size Me. In addition to sketching a few of the more memorable scenes and lessons of the movie, Spurlock crams the book with all manner of terrifying statistics, from obesity rates to Big Food’s symbiotic relationship with the government to the quality of school lunches.Because I’m interested, I didn’t find the book just a mass of scary numbers, however. Spurlock writes with passion — it’s clear he cares a lot about the state of America’...

If you've seen Supersize Me, then you've read this book. Or, if you've read Fast Food Nation then you've read this book. I'm not saying it's a bad book. It's just a rehashing of stuff I've already read or seen. I don't think there was anything new in this book, though Spurlock's voice is entertaining enough to keep me reading. True, this was a book for a public health class. I would have had to read it regardless of the author's witty pacing. For me, it's two stars for content and one extra star...

This is the best thing I have read lately on the subject of food and what it does to your body. Morgan Spurlock is famous for the film Super Size Me, in which he eats a diet of McDonald’s fast food for one month, gaining 20+ pounds and a host of incipient health problems in the process. More than anything else, this book tapped into my common sense about diet and weight loss. Common sense is something that is easy to forget in this climate of diets that purport to give you the freedom to “eat wh...

A good supplement for the Super Size Me documentary. Reading this was a great reminder of why I want to stay away from fast food! And although there are a lot of facts, numbers, and stastics in this book, sometimes I think he taints his credibility a bit when he presents some of his facts with his own sarcastic, denigrative opinion. But the main points of his book ring true enough that I would recommend others to read it. Sometimes a little bit of knowledge of where your food comes from goes a l...

Rating - 7.5A poor person's Fast Food Nation (seems to borrow from Schlosser) that is intended to capitalize on the success of Supersize Me - should actually resonate better w the average reader more than FFNCarries enough facts to warrant the read & hopefully will scare some readers (including myself) into a better way of living but I won't pick up another Spurlock book (topic is better than the author)

Pretty disappointing. Basically just reiterated everything that was said in the documentary (Supersize Me), although not nearly as successfully. I was hoping for something more substantial (weightier, perhaps? No pun intended...), but it was just skin-and-bones (argh). See the movie instead!Prime example of that rare, "the movie is better than the book" experience.

a lot of silliness, but the message is clear - we are a SICK nation that needs to stop eating crap and get some exercise. Spurlock also writes about some of the corporate backlash he received from McD's after Supersize me was released. good information on lobbyists and so called independent studies on the affects of fast food.

This book talks about fast food and a bit about the author's journey and what he learned during his McMonth. It was amazing. I like how he made the book educational yet funny. I enjoyed every second of reading this book, and after doing so, I will never, ever, eat at McDonalds or any fast food place again. Or for a long time.

the movie put into words.

I read this as a follow-up to watching the Super Size Me documentary. The book mentions his month-long experiment and its surprising results(well, maybe not surprising...I knew it would be bad...but didn't realize HOW bad, until I heard about how many pounds gained, how high his cholesterol got, etc. after only a month), but it also covers a broader range of topics, like the rise of fast food in America, marketing to children for fast food, successful changes that some communities have made in t...

Don't eat this book.Lot of lectures by the creator of Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock. I was expecting it to be all about the documentary but that was only a small portion, maybe a third. Those parts were really interesting--how he threw up on the first (or was it second?) day; how sluggish he felt, almost from the beginning; how he got to where he hated the food even while he craved the sugar-fat rush he got from it; how his metabolic indicators plummeted so badly that his doctors were alarmed an...

Maybe it is the Libertarian in me that shies away from calling for more government regulations, maybe it is my strong opinion that every individual is responsible for his or her actions rather than blaming major corporations for our health problems, or maybe I am a decade late in reading this book and the data just seems obvious, but for whatever reason I didn't enjoy this book as much as I expected to. The final nail in the coffin was the chapter in which Spurlock went after Ronald McDonald Cha...

In case you were still uncertain about the nefarious ways corporations infiltrate our lives and how we are but cows to be milked dry by the hands of capitalism. Yes, the book is about the fast food industry, one of the most obvious and yet destructive choices, but I urge you to look beyond that. This stuff is happening everywhere, and it has to do with the way we live as a whole.

Mixed feelings. Spurlock combines actual rational arguments and thoughts about the American fast food industry and obesogene habitat with emotional nonsense (one burger patty can be made out of a thousand different cows! So what?). All in all an enjoyable read but also very preachy.

I'm challenging myself to quit McDonald's for a month!

I had to read this for a collage class. This not my usual genre of book, so my evaluation of it may be a bit low because of that. It was informative and entertaining, it just didn't resonate with me.

Real shame about the crazy fatphobia and the man himself

A good supplement to the movie, but definitely dated at this point. Picked up this audiobook as an impulse borrow from the library.

Did not finish.

It wasn't what I thought it would be, just bombarded with facts and figures, it got a bit tedious.

Another 'INFORMATIVE' book, if the notes below interest you, you should read the book.According to the Dept. of Transporation, there are now, more cars than drivers in America. We drive everywhere now. Walking declined by half in the 2 decades between 1980 and 2000.We are the biggest consuming culture on the planet. We buy almost twice as much crap as our nearest competitor, Japan.What does all the consumption do for us? Does it make us happy? If we are all so happy, would we be on so many drugs...