Morgan Spurlock thinks so.
In his documentary, Super Size Me (2004) Spurlock pays attention to Americans' obsession with anything super-sized, including items they buy from fast food restaurants, such as the ubiquitous McDonald's.
Here, Spurlock subjects himself to a 30-day diet of nothing but burgers, fries, and soda stamped with the Golden Arches symbol. His point? Your guess is as good as anyone else's.
Expectedly, Spurlock's so-called experiment resulted in a bulging tummy and an almost dangerous heart condition.
Granted, fast food indeed plays a super-sized role in the obesity epidemic, but this is already a given.
Almost two hours into the documentary, Spurlock concludes it by presenting a universally accepted truth, with hardly any new input to contextualize the epidemic.
In fact, Spurlock trivializes the problem by presenting it in the most superficial way possible, stopping short of branding obsession with fast food as a whimsical exercise, which is not.
The fact of the matter is, obesity has an economic component: Given that fast food is cheaper than what is considered healthy, people – especially those in the lower-income strata – tend to gravitate towards what their wallets could afford.
Of course Spurlock has to miss that part, and for a good reason: He must have been too busy chewing on fries.