Don't Eat This Book

Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

by Morgan Spurlock

Putnam Publishing Group , May 200, Hardcover, 304 pages, $21.95, Unabridged CD, Penguin Audiobooks, $29.95

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In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, "benevolent muckraker" Morgan Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children, and ourselves.

Praise for Don't Eat This Book

"Fact-packed and funny, this offshoot of Spurlock's Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me serves both as a substitute for and addition to the movie. Spurlock spent a month not exercising and eating nothing but food from McDonald's, filming his declining health and ballooning size. It was a terrific premise for a movie; the book provides even more of its backstory and outtakes. . . . The statistics, while grim, aren't as compelling as Spurlock's often humorous descriptions of his own gradual disintegration into exhaustion, mood swings, liver deterioration and high blood pressure as his month progresses. Spurlock's wisecracks make the statistic-laden information easily digestible and possibly useful as a classroom text. He includes inspiring examples of schools that provide healthy, local (even student-grown) food in their cafeterias, and offers lists of resources for parents and educators wanting to make changes in their own communities. Spurlock is surprisingly optimistic about the future, and his book is a powerful tool in his rip-roaring campaign to turn around America's love-hate relationship with fast food." — Elyse Cheney Literary Agency, Publishers Weekly. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Comments | Catalog

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, HarperCollins, 2002, Paperback, 400 pages, $13.95