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To: Future Snake Eater
I suppose you could argue the objectivity of "Super Size Me" depending on whether you exercise a lot. However, since most people are more like Spurlock than Sayer, I'd say Spurlock's interpretation is more apt to the environment than Sayer's.

But Spurlock sends the wrong message. Yeah, don't eat at Mickey D's. So the couch potatoes skip the drive-thru and eat their own home cooking instead. But don't get any more exercise. That won't change their waistline much.

Sayer says that it is more important to change your lifestyle - he goes on the diet that Spurlock is denigrating as unhealthy and still lose weight. So it ain't the diet. It's the lifestyle.

At the end of the day, Spurlock takes the liberal approach and Sayer takes the conservative approach. Spurlock says that Mickey D's is to blame. Sayer says that individuals who don't exercise are to blame. And Sayer, IMO, is right.

49 posted on 02/19/2005 12:38:43 PM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: dirtboy
At the end of the day, Spurlock takes the liberal approach and Sayer takes the conservative approach. Spurlock says that Mickey D's is to blame. Sayer says that individuals who don't exercise are to blame. And Sayer, IMO, is right.

On that we can definitely agree. I could care less about Spurlock's political agenda. Anyone trying to blame the food for existing rather than yourself for not making the necessary lifestyle changes deserves what he gets.

51 posted on 02/19/2005 12:46:24 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
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