At the start of this past winter, I worked an office job. Every day, I would bring a lunch into work. Usually a salad or a homemade rice dish.  The rest of the office usually head out to eat. One day a particularly overweight female co-worker returned with her daily lunch of fries, burger and large soda. She looked at me and said, "I wish I could be as skinny as you." I looked at what I was eating and what she was eating and wanted to scream, "will you look at what you are eating!" Of course I didn't because the rules of polite society held me back. In theaters now, Morgan Spurlock is giving voice to that emotion.

Super Size Me is Spurlock's nauseating look at the legal, financial and physical costs of America's hunger for fast food. The film is a documentary of Spurlock interviewing people ranging from Surgeon Generals, gym teachers, cooks to kids, lawmakers and consumers. During this fact-finding mission, Spurlock also acted as a guinea pig by consuming nothing but what comprises a McDonald menu for an entire month.

For Spurlock's personal side of the documentary, he visits three separate doctors as well as dietary experts to track the effects of the diet on his body. At the start they are amused as they measure an above average healthy male prior to the experiment. As his weight balloons to an added twenty-five pounds, his cholesterol skyrockets and liver is damaged, they begin to plead with him to give up before he irreparably harms himself.

For my part, I ate a rare fast food meal prior to going to the theater. I kind of rationalized that it may be my last considering what I had heard about the film. Like Edgar Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart, my stomach seriously felt the pings of pain the deeper I engrossed myself into the film. I don't know if it was the physical reaction or the knowledge I gained by watching Super Size Me, but the idea of eating any processed food will not sound to appetizing for a very long time.

Well, maybe not knowledge gained as knowledge graphically displayed.  Watching this film was like watching a horror movie. You know people are going to die for their actions, but seeing it displayed on film is grotesque and entertaining.