I'm sure that many of you have heard about this film; it's getting lots of attention in the press. Some of the media coverage is using this film as a weapon against the corporate culture of the American food economy; others use the film as a jumping off point to talk about personal responsibility.
It was a pretty good documentary, in the Michael Moore "Choose a conclusion and pick evidence to fit it" sort of way. Very entertaining, though. It was amazing to watch this guy's reaction to thirty days of non-stop eating at McDonald's (with a few caveats: he was eating a more or less vegetarian diet both beforehand and afterwards, so changing to all meat and grease would be a shock to the system, and he pretty much ceased all exercise). I know as I was watching the film I started to feel badly about the soda I was drinking. And deciding to eat a salad with some water on the way home.
A good friend of mine came up with his own answer to the obescity problem, melting off about eighty pounds over the last year or so (congrats again, Mikey!). How did he do it? He ate less and exercised more.
Watch time 1:42.
-- Update --
And, in related news, some doctors want McDonald's to install thinner doors. Why, you might ask?
FAST food restaurants should fit narrow doors to stop fatties getting in to eat more junk, medics claim.
Chains like McDonald’s should have size limits just as theme parks have height restrictions on rides, the docs say.
Article comments
1 - RJ Elliott
Fast Food is nothing more than death in-a-bag.
It's great though, isn't it? ;-]
2 - ClubhouseCancer
RJ: No, it's not great.
My last McDonald's meal was two weeks ago, out of practical neccessity, and confirmed what I already knew.
The salty stuff is unbearably salty, the sweet stuff unbearably sweet, and all of the food has a soft, limp consistency. Terrible.
Decent cup of coffee.
3 - Eric Olsen
I would think much of the moral weight of this exercise is blunted by the fact that McDonald's and most other fast food do offer alternatives to the fat, grease, salt and sugar staples with salads and other actual foodstuffs. The guy could have lived on their salads for a month and been none the worse for wear.
4 - queenkv
dude, Eric - those salads could have almost as many calories as the BigMacs if you add the salad dressing.