Super Size Me; Fat Ass
I’m watching the documentary “Super Size Me”** where some guy eats McDonalds for thirty days straight and has a set pair of guidelines for his experiment.
1. has to have everything on the menu at least once
2. only super sizes if asked
3. can only eat from mcdonalds and anything the place sells, including water
4. no excersising at all, that includes not walking to mcdonalds or anywhere for that matter.
It is a biased film, the guy doing the film is only eating the worst of the worst. I in no way condone this kind of unhealthy eating but McDonald’s does sell salads, grilled chicken as oppose to fried, they offer different sizes for drinks and fries as well as substitutions for drinks and fries that are healthy then fried potatoes and soda. Through out the film the guy didn’t take any of this into consideration and portrayed the fast food companies in the worst possible light.
While I enjoy fast food every now and then I would not eat it three times a day everyday, that is suicide. We can not blame fast food companies for people’s poor judgment in making healthy food choices. We can not blame fast food companies for making people obese, people know what they are eating. We are educated (to an extent) in school to know what is good and healthy to eat. Even though it is a step in the right direction, fast food companies should not be required to supply customer with all the nutritional facts of their products, unless it contains peanuts or some other ingredient that people are highly allergic to. If anything blame the school system and/or parents for obesity. School do not have enough funding for successful health and nutrition programs nor sports and other recreational activities; including physical education classes.
Aside from all this is people know nothing of nutrition, people know their bodies. Eating fast food or junk food in large quantities makes a person feel slow, tired, sluggish, lethargic, bursts of energy followed by horrible crashes; there is also a shift in emotion and personal feelings like sadness, depression, sullenness. These are not good things to feel and obviously eating more junk is not going to make a person feel better.
This guy, Morgan, I get that he’s trying to prove a point but he is an IDIOT. What kind of moron would do that to their body? No one in their right mind eats McDonald’s 3 times day, and if they do its not straight up double quarter pounders with cheese and super sized fries and coke. Having gained 17 in just the first 12 days, having raised his blood pressure from somewhere around 120/80 to about 170/53, having increased his calorie intake approximately 200%, having raised his cholesterol and liver funtions to more than 200%, with his doctors (physician, gasterointerologist, and blood doctor [?])telling him to discontinue this ‘diet’ he still didn’t. He spent 30 days endangering his health and well being. This guy had a death wish.
What is great about this film is that it showed just how horrid American’s eating habits are. A French woman was asked if she ate fast food in America to which she replied “No, I don’t. The largest size in France is the smallest size here and i can’t even finish a small in France”. Wow, that has to strike a chord with the American public, surely? The fact that most people can not recite the pledge of allegiance but can sing “The Big Mac Song” has to urk a nerve? This film came out well over 3 years ago, and you know what? The fast food companies are still thriving and staying strong. Kids are still stuffing their faces with high sugar, high calorie, hydrogenated, preserved fried foods/drinks. America still ranks highest in the world for obesity. 1 out of ever 4 kids born in 2000 will experience diabetes in their life time. And the American sedentary life style is not helping with any of these things.
Morgan, its great that you almost killed yourself to prove a point no one really payed attention to. Congratulations, your body will probably never be the same.
Honestly, I want a big mac…and some chicken nuggets. Oh wait, my bad their called McNuggets.
**statistics stated in this post have been taken straight from the documentary.
**NOTICE** For all you morons who saw the film and had a coniption that fast food is bad for you, NO SHIT! For all you idiots who felt like you’ve had an eye opening experience and want to change your lives and live in communes where you grow your own food fertilized with your own shit, NO!! What this guy did to his body is not something normal people do on the regular and your eating habits are probably a lot better than this guy’s was in those 30 days. For all thepeople who do eat like Morgan did in those 30 day, seek help immediately and hope some one says a prayer for you.
