Supersized meals lead to supersized weight gain for filmmaker

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

[ahayes]

Remember the lady who thought this guy was silly and was planning on eating at McDonald's for a month and showing it was possible to do so and not gain weight?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109330/posts

Here is what she said later--she lost 10 pounds.

http://www.courier-journal.com/features/2004/06/12/ruthless.html

[JudgemAll]

I take super sized meals and I am not fat nor gaining any weight. It's just more efficient to eat that way.

Obesity is less of a problem than constant hypoglycemia in kids in the rest of the world.

This is the stupidest thing ever, a promotion for starvation.

[E Rocc]

Supersized meals lead to supersized weight gain for filmmaker

I was expecting this to be another article on Michael Moore.

Naw, he doesn't make movies with that much reality in them.

-Eric

[f zero]

[NYCVirago]

A: In the movie we showed kids pictures of Jesus and Ronald McDonald. None of them knew who Jesus was. All of them knew who Ronald McDonald was. I don't see how parents don't look at this and say, 'What's going on here?'

Of course, the author won't blame his fellow libs for doing their best to remove Jesus from American life, will he?

[mlmr]

I honestly thought that this thread was about Michael Moore

[NYCVirago]

The moviemaker says: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.

But he also said this:Less than 1 percent of the people who go to McDonald's buy a salad. We don't go there to buy a salad. We go there for the good stuff, the fries, the burger, the Cokes, that make us feel good, with all the fat and sugar.

So, it's not enough that McDonald's offers healthy choices on their menu, since, according to the filmmaker, "less than 1 percent of the people who go to McDonald's buy a salad." What, exactly, is he suggesting that McDonald's do to "educate your consumers and help them make the right choices" -- threaten customers with the Hamburglar if they don't buy a salad?

[TX Bluebonnet]

Exactly. Pick any restaurant and make the worst possible choices for 1 month and you'd get the same result. This doesn't prove anything! More Junk Science.

[EVO X]

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

The post movie production party circuit.

[kstewskis]

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

That could describe accurately yet another Michael Moore production.

[fawn796]

Your liver and kidneys process the food so your body can use them. The liver stores the extra vitamins and nutrients that you do not use right away. Your blood and lymph systems carry away the nutrients and vitamins to be used. What do you think happens when you overload them quickly?

No surprise here at all. This is EXACTLY what you should expect.

[NJ_gent]

"No surprise here at all. This is EXACTLY what you should expect."

Of course; and all the doctors in the film (which I'm sure you saw) are quacks. I see tons of people bashing a film they've yet to see. As I said, I don't agree with a lot of what was said in the film, but I did at least see it before disagreeing. Aside from that, I was surprised at the damage done to his body in such a short period of time, and I continue to be surprised. Eating 5000 calories of fruits and veggies isn't going to cause severe liver and kidney problems. Ergo, it's not just an 'overload', but an overload of toxins. The findings in this film deserve further investigation. No one honestly believes that fast food is healthy, but if it's causing severe and irreversable damage to our internal organs, then I think we ought to know about it so we can make an educated decision about what we eat.

[New Perspective]

So what's Michael Moore's excuse?

When I go to McDonalds, I just ask them to "Michael Moore" it, and BAM, it is super sized.