Supersize Me. Anyone watch it?

Good morning, I've been meaning to watch this movie for some time. It was quite an eye opener. To me, it reinforced why I don't eat that garbage anymore. I know I'm opinionated so I'll keep my thoughts quiet (for now at least). I always like to hear what others have to say in case I haven't thought of things from other perspectives. Have any of you watched it? Any thoughts? Juli

yes. In fact, I heard Mr. Spurlock speak in Los Angeles at a conference I attended. He autograpghed a dvd for me! In general, what he did was very important. If he made one person stop and think about eating such high fat/sugar food, he provided a great public service. I told him that. It was quite shocking, actually. It is the downside, a big one, of free enterprise. Busineses get to offer us goods, and if we like those goods, we buy them. The number of McD's per square mile was shocking. But I go back to, those doors stay open for a reason - we go there and buy food. Nonetheless, being a critical thinker, here's what i asked him: 1. If you had done your experiment at a health food store and eaten 5000 calories daily of that food, what would the outcome have been? (the answer to this is - very close to the same results - eating that much of ANY type of food would have detrimental effects on your body: the rise in cholo, the rise in BP, the rise in weight, fatty liver) By the way, I did further research on the school district (for an unrelated reason) he featured in Supersize me, and they are a bit of a farce - it's not quite what was portrayed. Juli, I rarely eat that type of food anymore either - can't say never. 2x annually, perhaps? I've lost my taste for it, but when we travel, I eat it. I drink diet colas, few fries, one sandwich. This used to be a trigger food for me when I was a practicing binge/purger. I associate it with some insane memories!

this movie was disturbing. i never was big on the fast food anyway, but still. when i was young i loved chicken nuggets, so that part grossed me out a bit. but neecee is right - he ate excessive amounts and could have made better choices. i was surprised how quickly his health deteriorated though. i think after that movie came out, a woman did the same thing - ate at McD for 30 days but in a healthy way and lost weight. reinforces the idea that it all comes down to choices. did you see fast food nation? its a pseudo documentary based off a book that is about the beef industry and how there are so many different groups in the industry who depend on things staying a certain way, from the illigal immigrants who work in the plant to the executives. i don't eat beef, but it did gross me out a bit. i'm not sure my sister has eaten beef since we saw it... you do have to keep in mind that both were made to make certain statements and - bottom line - to sell tickets and get people to see them, so of course they are biased and edited to be more dramatic than otherwise (similar to the michael moore docs).

read the book. Yes, one cannot escape from the sensationalism that pervades thoughout. For every fact presented, there is another side not being presented. My dad was a meat cutter by trade and i can verify some of the points that have to do with how beef is gutted very sloppily in a factory setting. I am also a trained food safety administrator and know that safe cooking destoys nearly all of the bacteria caused by bad handling. Not many of us would eat ANYthing if we really knew things about how it was treated before you got it. Back to Supersize Me, I wish he had compared apples to apples: ate 2000 calories daily at McD's, exercised an hour daily and then had his blood work done after 30 days - THAT would have been the real experiment! I'm underwhelmed that he ate 5000 calories every day and had that bad health reaction. DUH? I would expect that or worse. One of the things that stuck with me was Morgan Spurlock said that after that 30 days and the weight gain was that to this day, when he overeats on a weekend (like Superbowl or something), his body will put on like 5# weight immediatly. It's like the fat cells swell up with water. He said his body never did that before. I don't remember if he said this during his lecture I heard or if it was part of the movie?

That last part wasn't in the movie unless it was in the bonus features, which I haven'****ched. That makes sense to me, though. I fell off the wagon at Christmas, as always, and gained several pounds of water weight. I took it off soon after but that happens anytime I allow myself to go overboard. Funny, my dad was a butcher, too. I grew up eating meat, meat & more meat. That's probably why I rarely eat it now. I know what you mean about the experiment & a 200 calorie diet. However, most people make excuses NOT to exercise. It's always about not having time. We know that you have to MAKE the time. I'd bet that the vast majority of people who eat fast food don't exercise at all.

I haven't seen Fast Food Nation but now that will be next on my list. I eat red meat about twice a year if I get a craving for tacos or a steak but that is about it. I have a feeling I'll be banning it after seeing this movie, too. He did state in the movie that what he was doing was extreme. Sadly, though, there are people who DO eat like that several times per week. They don't realize that they consume over a days worth of calories in one meal. It doesn't seem like a lot of food but the caloric content is crazy. And, as a former fast food junkie, I know exactly what he meant about the addicitve feelings you get.