As part of the Freshmen Connections program, Ball State featured a showing of "Super Size Me" Monday night.
The movie, which was in theaters around the country just months ago, is an account of a filmmaker's trek across the country while he consumed only food available at burger giant McDonald's.
Despite proving the point that fast food is really not an everyday meal for normal, healthy human beings, "Super Size Me" shows that a sedentary, health-unconscious lifestyle can be detrimental to one's health.
Yet, we already knew that.
This paper has run numerous articles and opinion pieces on the benefits and reasons to stay in shape, as well as how to do it. Working out, eating right and staying active are three of the biggest pushes behind "healthy living" these days.
There is nothing new there.
Any person should know that a diet consisting of only McDonald's menu items is not the healthiest thing in the world. Besides, who would really WANT to eat any sort of fast food every day, let alone for every meal that day.
This is not to say the movie does not prove a point about what fast food can do to our bodies. However, does it really prove anything new to us?
We are not attempting to doubt the movie, but rather consumer knowledge. The potential for fast food to reek havoc with our health and figure is news from long ago. What should be more concerning is that some people have not yet realized this.
Such is the case with many documentaries these days. In the end, all they end up providing us with is a rehash of common sense and a side order of new information.
You want fries with that?
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