What is obesity? Dctionary.com states that “Obesity is a medical condition in which a person has excess body fat or is overweight; corpulence" therefore an obese person exposes himself to the risk of serious health problems." The film Super-Size Me directed and written by Morgan Spurlock sheds light on the fast food market and the obesity crisis in the United States. His compelling experiment brings to light the physical and emotional impact of eating three square meals a day at McDonald's for thirty days. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the McDonald's restaurant for knowingly selling very unhealthy food. To prove the claim, evidence was needed to demonstrate that eating McDonald's every day can be dangerous and affect the human body. For example, there are more McDonald's in Manhattan than in Manhattan. anywhere else in the world. The city of Manhattan is only thirteen miles long and two miles wide, and there are eighty-three fast food restaurants, or nearly four stores per square mile. Also there are more McDonald's than Kentucky Fry Chicken, Popeye's, Taco Bell and Wendy's combined in Manhattan Another thing that struck me in the documentary is that McDonald's spent over $1.4 billion on advertising and Pepsi spent $1 billion dollars in direct advertising, Hersey candy spent 200 million dollars and five a day. fruit and vegetable campaign spent 2 million dollars on advertising. The fast food industry impacts Americans because we spend a lot of money and most of the food is very unhealthy. In the film it is stated that 45% of families will eat fast food instead of cooking at home. If customers started eating at home and saving money, large companies would reduce product prices. They will also increase their marketing strategies and advertising to entice someone to start buying again. Certainly the onus is not to be swayed by their cost-cutting strategies into thinking it's a great deal for our money. The important factor is that of one