Spurlock, Morgan

Presents a comprehensive study on the effects of fast food on American health, and examines school lunch programs, marketing strategies by fast food restaurants, the decline in physical education, and the rise in obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, especially in children.

A collection of stories in graphic novel format about the less-than-healthy aspects of America's fast-food industry. Includes an account of author Morgan Spurlock's experiment to see how eating only from a fast-food burger chain's menu, complete with "super-sizing" his orders, for thirty straight days would affect his health.

Presents a comprehensive study on the effects of fast food on American health, and examines school lunch programs, marketing strategies by fast food restaurants, the decline in physical education, and the rise in obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, especially in children.