Super Size Me

A thought came to my mind during watching this movie. That is the different cultural back grounds between the U.S. and Japan affects on the difference of their dietary habits considerably. In spite of the fact that the 60% of U.S. citizens are obese, they don’t try to exercise and cut down the amount of fat, cholesterol, or sugar. Therefore the number of those who suffer from diabetes in the United States will definitely grow more and more because of the lack of will to get lose weight. On the other hand, Japanese, most of who don’t overweight, seem nervous about their posture and engage in reduce their weight by exercising at sports clubs or taking some medicines.

The way of thinking is related to food culture of both countries. Japanese people are generally so shy that they consider how they are thought. So they are always anxious about their appearance. Many young people in Japan desire to have a graceful figure and research how to get to be like models in magazines or TV shows. This is perfectly because they want to be regarded as a cool person by friends of them. Americans, on the other hand, are said not to care for how other people think of them. They insist their opinion or idea distinctly in front of a large number of people, which gives sounds like difficult for Japanese due to shyness. For that reason, the people in the U.S. don’t feel uneasy their figure very much though they have potbelly.

I have no idea which is good or which is bad. But in regard to the risk of life, the U.S. citizen has to take less amount of harmful substance such as sugar or grease, and take care of their precious body more. And Morgan argues through “Super Size Me” that the most effective way to do this is reducing the first food.