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Super Size Me
Nov. 28th, 2004 11:23 amI finally managed to snag a copy last night. By the end, I was actually feeling rather ill. It's a great movie about what fast food can do to your body.
For those of you who don't know, the main idea in SuperSize Me is that the director, Morgan, decides to go on an all fast-food diet for 30 days. He wants to see what sort of damage eating a ton of fast food can do to your body (inspired by the lawsuits against McDonalds and their ilk). He had to a) SuperSize if asked, b)try everything on the McDonald's menu at least once, c) eat nothing except what comes from McDonalds, and d) eat three squares a day.
By the end of the 30 days, he gained 24.5 pounds (185.5 to 210), raised his cholestrol into the danger zone, doubled his risks of heart failure and heart disease, become ADDICTED to the food, to the point of getting headaches if he couldn't eat it, turned his liver into fat, and ruined his sex life.
-D: *eyes wide* Stop, you're scaring me.-
-M: *eyes even wider* Jesus!-
He even hurled on Day 2. DAY TWO. Granted, he'd gotten his first Supersize, but still. . . . They showed the poor guy throwing up 'cause he couldn't handle it. The movie also talked about how stuff like Chicken McNuggets are made from old chickens with big breasts, showed a gastric bypass surgery (that's when they take your stomach and reduce it to the size of an apple), and other fairly gross stuff. The movie does have some really funny moments, but if you have a weak stomach. . . .
-M: This is heavy. Oh man. . . .-
I think you and Doc and Jennifer should be okay. You didn't eat there constantly, did you?
-D: Not constantly, but -- ugh. I'll never look at a Whopper the same way again.-
Me either, and I haven't eaten McDonalds or the like in YEARS. (Although, I'll admit it -- I miss milkshakes.) That food looked pretty disgusting to me now. I like my Mom's stuff better.
For those of you who don't know, the main idea in SuperSize Me is that the director, Morgan, decides to go on an all fast-food diet for 30 days. He wants to see what sort of damage eating a ton of fast food can do to your body (inspired by the lawsuits against McDonalds and their ilk). He had to a) SuperSize if asked, b)try everything on the McDonald's menu at least once, c) eat nothing except what comes from McDonalds, and d) eat three squares a day.
By the end of the 30 days, he gained 24.5 pounds (185.5 to 210), raised his cholestrol into the danger zone, doubled his risks of heart failure and heart disease, become ADDICTED to the food, to the point of getting headaches if he couldn't eat it, turned his liver into fat, and ruined his sex life.
-D: *eyes wide* Stop, you're scaring me.-
-M: *eyes even wider* Jesus!-
He even hurled on Day 2. DAY TWO. Granted, he'd gotten his first Supersize, but still. . . . They showed the poor guy throwing up 'cause he couldn't handle it. The movie also talked about how stuff like Chicken McNuggets are made from old chickens with big breasts, showed a gastric bypass surgery (that's when they take your stomach and reduce it to the size of an apple), and other fairly gross stuff. The movie does have some really funny moments, but if you have a weak stomach. . . .
-M: This is heavy. Oh man. . . .-
I think you and Doc and Jennifer should be okay. You didn't eat there constantly, did you?
-D: Not constantly, but -- ugh. I'll never look at a Whopper the same way again.-
Me either, and I haven't eaten McDonalds or the like in YEARS. (Although, I'll admit it -- I miss milkshakes.) That food looked pretty disgusting to me now. I like my Mom's stuff better.
