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[bucheon bum]

A lady in NC was upset at the movie, "Supersize Me" so she decided to do the same thing, except be smarter with her food choices. In 90 days, she lost 37 lbs.

Mickey D's Diet

[Hank Scorpio]

[chipotle]

I actually know Soso by association. I've dog-sat for her a few times for her huge deerhound "Falstaff" (whom she recently gave back to the breeder because of his health, guess McDonalds didn't work for him, but I think she still has 2 deerhounds). Kind of cool what she did, though- Supersize me was just way too narrow-minded, and this is coming from a girl who detests McDonalds! She's definitely got some interesting views, but she is kind of loony.

[jlb]

I used to work at McDonalds in high school and in general:

The obese people would be in there everytime I worked, ordering a Big Mac meal or double quarter pounder meal supersized with regular coke.

The slim people would not be regulars and they'd maybe order a small cheeseburger, small fries, a salad and a water.

People are stupid....it's not Mickey D's that's to blame for obesity, it's poor food choices.

[Qinella]

That lady missed the whole point of the Supersize Me. Spurlock made it very clear that he was ordering every single item off the menu at least once, and that every time someone offered a supersize, he'd take it. It was to show that McDonald's makes it very easy to go for the unhealthier option.

That said, I think a lot of his weight gain was due to the shock on his body. Going from a healthy vegan diet to straight McDonald's grease is gonna wreck your body, of course. For people with not so healthy diets, but good metabolism or a good exercise regime, it woudn't have the same effect.

It was entertaining, though. I'm skeptical about Morgan's video's entertainment value.

[Hank Scorpio]

[RachaelRoo]

[JongnoGuru]

From the article:

Morgan, from Raleigh, thought the documentary had unfairly targeted the world's largest restaurant company, implying that the obese were victims of a careless corporate giant.

I know careless can mean indifferent, but I would have used "uncaring" there for clarity's sake. To me, careless is when I misplace my keys, or when I park too close to the car beside me and I can't open my door.

[flakfizer]

Yeah. I never had any desire to watch this "documentary" for several reasons. One, I prefer to learn something by watching a documentary. Didn't we all pretty much know that eating three meals of fast food every day is not good for you? Perhaps if this had been done 20 years ago it would have meant something. Also, as mentioned by others, it depends a great deal on what the individual orders. Finally, I'm sick of people picking on McDonald's. It's not just fast food, it's restaurant food. If you ate three meals a day at a typical family restaurant, ate everything on the menu at least once, and ordered a dessert everytime the waitress suggested the idea, I bet you would gain just as much weight. I've always felt that McDonald's has done a pretty good job of listening to their customers throughout the years whether that meant offering salads, wraps, McLean Delux (remember?) changing to vegetable shortening, getting rid of the styrofoam and using more recyclable and recycled materials and so on. They are picked on mostly because they're the biggest (good thing that only happens to businesses and not countries) and are seen as a symbol of big business, Americanization, and globalization.

[Gopher]

[bucheon bum]

[Hank Scorpio]

[joe_doufu]

[SarcasmKills]

Anyone want to guess how long before it's revealed that McDonald's someone covertly sponsored this ordeal in some way?

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