Don't Eat This Book, by Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock, the documentarian who used himself as a test subject to prove that fast food is bad for you in the wildly successful Super Size Me, authored Don't Eat This Book to bring the same kind of awareness to the written page.

The end result is a wake up call for all of us to pay attention to what we put in our bodies, to cut back on heavily processed foods, and to be wary of the fast food industry’s relentless marketing messages whose only goal is to lure us into their joints over and over again.

I remember feeling jolted by the message of Super Size Me, and the same held true while listening to this book.  I wholeheartedly recommend reading it.  Actually, I would make it required reading for every student in America, a nation whose girth keeps ballooning out of proportions precisely because of the ill effects of fast food.

I really enjoyed the book, especially for the education I got out of it, but I do think that the constant barrage of raw numerical data takes its toll.  After a while you almost start to feel numb to it.  Otherwise the book is really interesting.

Grade: 8