Don't Eat This Book

Name: Don't Eat This Book
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Morgan Spurlock
ISBN: 9780786553488

Author: Morgan Spurlock

Narrator: Morgan Spurlock

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/19/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Health & Fitness, Children's Health, Business & Economics, Nutrition

Synopsis

For 30 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.Don’t eat this groundbreaking, hilarious book—but if you care about your country’s health, your children’s, and your own, you better read it.

About The Author

Morgan Spurlock is a writer, director, and producer, and in 2004 he was awarded the best director prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He is the author of Don’t Eat This Book and Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tommy on July 07, 2008

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......more

Goodreads review by David on November 03, 2014

A critical examination of our fast food culture 12 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 ev......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on November 22, 2007

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 who......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 24, 2014

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 fou......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on August 01, 2008

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......more

Quotes

“Breezy, humorous.” —The New York Times

“Fact-packed and funny.” —Publishers Weekly

“Spurlock expands on [Super Size Me’s] harrowing themes of American obesity and offers causes and cures, all while remaining—get this—entertaining. 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. 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. A powerful work of reporting and punditry.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)