Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America (usually shortened to Don't Eat This Book) is a book by Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Valentine Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter and journalist best known for the documentary film Super Size Me...

, a writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 and documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 filmmaker known for his work in Super Size Me

Super Size Me

Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he eats only McDonald's food...

. The book is a follow up to the film.

Plot

The book starts off with some statistics on American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 spending habits and why certain things are there (i.e. the warning label

Warning label

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) and it eventually concentrates on the American eating habits and some references to his movie. It also talks briefly about how McDonald's

McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

 started and how much trouble many of their CEOs attempt to carry on Ray Kroc

Ray Kroc

Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American fast food businessman who joined McDonald's in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime...

's legacy.

General information

• Spurlock MV (2005). Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America. New York: Putnam (ISBN 9780399152603).