Supersized meals lead to supersized weight gain for filmmaker

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 05/20/04 | Elizabeth Lee

[BulletBobCo]

I saw FOX News talk a little on this and found this article at AJC.com. I thought it was an interesting read.

[Chi-townChief]

So what's Michael Moore's excuse?

[counterpunch]

Supersized meals lead to supersized weight gain for filmmaker
I was expecting this to be another article on Michael Moore.

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[RepubMommy]

A: They need to accept some responsibility, especially the corporations. If you're McDonald's and you serve 46 million people a day, and you tell me you have no obligation to educate your consumers and help them make the right choices. . . . That's absolute malarkey. This is a two-way street.

This is ridiculous. It's not a big secret that if you are going to indulge in this food several times a week, you are going to pay for it in your waistline. Good grief.

[Onelifetogive]

In the movie we showed kids pictures of Jesus and Ronald McDonald...

This must be the archaeological find of the millennium!!!!!

I have stepped up eating at McDonalds in an attempt to LOSE weight! Sandwich (no bread), side salad and an unsweet tea - <$4 and exceedingly convenient!!! I have lost 30 pounds in less than 6 months and a recent fitness checkup reported much improved health by all measures. Thanks McD's!!!!!

[fawn796]

Well I am not a rocket scientist by any means, but seems to me if you ate 5000 calories ANYWHERE (even at home) and did not exercise, you would gain weight.

Is the public that stupid that they don't know this?

[woofie]

I want to know why you can gain 24 lbs in 30 days but it takes 14 months to loose it

[Izzy Dunne]

If you're McDonald's and you serve 46 million people a day, and you tell me you have no obligation to educate your consumers and help them make the right choices. . . . That's absolute malarkey.

What does the 46 million have to do with it?
If my restaurant serves 46 people a day, do I have the same "obligation" ?

[Izzy Dunne]

Sorry, RM.
My comment was directed at the speaker in the article, not you.

[discostu]

I'm having a hard time believing it took him 14 months to lose 24 pounds. I'm all into slow reasonable weight loss, but half a pound of a month is beyond slow.

The problem with this whole thing is everybody is using it to blame McD, it's fastfood people, it' not supposed to be good for you. Cheap, filling, and if you're lucky tasty, that's the market niche of fastfood. Living on that for 30 days is like living on snackfood for 30 days, not a good idea. And I wonder what would have happened if he'd kept his excercise regimen going.

[discostu]

Oops bad math, carried my 1 the wrong way. 2 pounds a month, still beyond slow.

[Vesuvian]

What the article fails to mention is that he would order 5,000 calories worth of food and then eat all of it, even if he was full. Eating like that no wonder he gained all that weight. It seems to be a common thing in movies now- make stuff up.

[GSlob]

As a compensation, the reverse applies to the stock market: the gains are slow, the losses are not.

[ServesURight]

This guy's liver almost gave out.

[BunnySlippers]

This is ridiculous. It's not a big secret that if you are going to indulge in this food several times a week, you are going to pay for it in your waistline. Good grief.

Nobody warns me about gaining weight when I go to buy Hagen Daaz ice cream ... or potato chips for that matter. What if I buy a pizza and eat the whole thing ... nobody said not to.

These "activists" think they know what's best for me. They don't.

[Spiff]

"Super-size Me" is not a documentary. It is a stupid and prolonged "Jackass" stunt pretending to be a documentary.

[BunnySlippers]

A: The apple slices, what a joke that is. You could have carrots or apples, period. You don't need caramel dipping sauce. It's low-fat, yes, but it's loaded with sugar. For every step forward, there's three steps back.

So McDonald's can't have anything remotely sweet or fattening on the menu. They will not be happy until McD is serving tofu and only tofu.

[captaindude2]

wait eating nothing but fast food ISN'T good for you?!?!?! this is most shocking news since the aids scare in the porn industry

[NJ_gent]

" This is ridiculous. It's not a big secret that if you are going to indulge in this food several times a week, you are going to pay for it in your waistline. Good grief."

I actually went to see this because it looked so ridiculous. While weight gain is an obvious effect of eating this junk food, what isn't so obvious is the liver damage and other problems that came with it. The diet was extreme, but if they're selling products whose effects resemble those of alcohol, we should probably know about it. A few weeks into it, one of his doctors was absolutely flabbergasted at the test results. The only comparison he could draw was when an alcoholic goes on a binge. He was told that if the diet continued, he'd likely end up with Kidney stones and cirrhosis of the liver, among other major health problems.

That was certainly surprising. I expected high cholesterol, a big weight gain, and plenty of gastointestinal problems (as he's not someone who ate much fast food before this experiment), but not liver and kidney damage. Go take a look, it's actually a pretty funny flick.

[NJ_gent]

"These "activists" think they know what's best for me. They don't."

I give him credit for bugging McDonald's and making a film, rather than lobbying the government to force fast food companies to comply with his wishes. If he succeeds in changing McDonalds' attitidues towards their menu items, more power to him. I don't agree with a lot of what he said in the movie, but at least he's not trying to force me to agree with him via Congress.