The Wire

Morgan Spurlock’s film Super Size Me opens across Australia this week. It’s meant to put people right off eating too much Macca’s and fast food – Spurlock undergoes some quite alarming bodily changes when he eats nothing but McDonald’s. It’s a crowd-pleasing kind of movie likely to be seen by the same demographic that loves fast food. Dietician and Deakin University researcher Dr Cate Burns hopes it will go some way towards reducing the spiralling obesity rate in Australia