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(Talon News) -- The Subway Restaurant chain recently launched an advertising campaign in Germany that asks, "Why are Americans so fat?" House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) finds the insulting promotion too much to swallow, saying that for some companies, "corporate patriotism is as flexible as Jared's waistline." Jared Fogle is a Subway spokesman who claims to have reduced his weight from 435 pounds to 245 pounds on a diet of Subway sandwiches. German customers are being served their sandwiches on a trayliner that promotes the movie "Super Size Me," the story of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's month-long splurge of eating...

Soso Whaley lost ten pounds while eating three meals a day for 30 days at McDonalds! She says she feels great. Her secret: she limited herself to 1,800 calories a day. Sometimes she ate the Big Mac, but for lots of meals she ate the Chicken Caesar Salad. Ms. Whaley is a moviemaker. She was inspired to film herself getting slimmer on fast food after learning about Morgan Spurlock's new documentary film, Super Size Me, the hit of the anti-corporate Sundance Film Festival. Spurlock did what he says the average McDonalds customer does: ordered the full Value Meals, "supersized" them...

LOS ANGELES, May 26 (Reuters) - Film documentary "Super Size Me," a critical look at the health impact of a fast-food only diet, has been downsized at cable network MTV which has refused to air advertisements for the film, its distributors said on Wednesday. Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films said in a statement the cable TV channel targeted to young audiences has told them the ads are "disparaging to fast food restaurants." The distributors said MTV sister network VH1 was planning to use clips from the movie in a program called "Best Week Ever," but the clips were pulled...

WASHINGTON -- While Morgan Spurlock, the man behind the brand new documentary Super Size Me, ordered Big Macs with a super-sized Coke and a side of large fries, Soso Whaley, filmmaker and adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was ordering Chicken Caesar Salads with a side of common sense. Spurlock and Whaley embarked on similar documentary projects. Both vowed to eat only at McDonald's for three meals a day for 30 days. Now the results are in: Spurlock, who went on his McDonald's diet last year, wound up 25 pounds heavier, depressed, and blotchy-faced, with high-cholesterol, memories of vomiting...