Posted: 11/18/2004 7:35:29 PM EDT
I just finished watching that. Pretty good documentary, but pretty damn sickening.  Anyone else seen it? What'd you think of it? |
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The movie Supersize Me and the book Fast Food Nation are both radical left works. We all know that eating at McD's every meal would not be wise but these pieces are part of a force pushing for regulation... do we really need regulations for this type of thing? Regulation has already squashed so much in this country. Perhaps the government should force you to exercise... send a trainer into your house... if you refuse, you go to jail. Same logic... you all aren't smart enough to make your own decisions. - BG |
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jim's steakout local fast food hot "steak" subs. just about every one of them is near a bar and they're really busy at 4am when the bars close
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If you enjoyed 'Super size me', you'l like this article. www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html Great reading on how we eat nowdays. |
If you eat fast food everyday 3 squares a day, what the hell do you expect to happen? Yes, you will turn into a blob. Hopefully, not many people need a movie to tell them that! 
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^^ IIRC, he ate like 4500 calories a day on his mcdonalds only diet. anyone eats 4500 calories of anything they are going togain massive weight. It's not complicated. It's not mcdonald's fault that people are gluttons. |
| Think about this.. He exercised regularly before he started the McDiet or whatever stupid name he called it, but when he started eating just McDonalds he stopped working out and just walking small distances. IMHO it invalidates the wieght gain results as they arn't going to be a true view of how much weight he should have gained. As he should have gained weight by just stopping his regular exercise. |
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In 1995, for the first three months on a new job I pretty much only ate fast food for my meals (McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King), twice a day. After three months not only did the same new clothes I bought right before I started that job still fit, but I was sick and tired of eating that stuff for the vast majority of my meals. The second best thing about moving into an apartment after those three months of staying in a room at a friends house, was to have full time kitchen access so I could easily make my own food. Fast Food is supposed to be an occasional thing. |
Wow, so you actually think his liberal bullshit is a pretty good documentary? How do you feel about michael moore then??? www.techcentralstation.com/supersizecon.html Wow. Just wow. |
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The work I do often puts me on the road, sometimes for extended periods. In the past I had jobs that were up to 100% travel. I have found that I tend to lose weight while I am on the road living in hotels and eating fast food. On a typical day on the road, I will eat steak and eggs at the Waffle house (or it's local equivalent), and lunch and dinner at whatever fast food joint strikes my fancy (or is convienient). I am in no way suggesting that eating fast food is a good way to lose weight, I am just stating that I cannot blame McDonalds in anyway for me being overweight. If it matters my typical order at a fast food joint is a large burger (Big Mac, Whopper etc...) meal, super-sized, with regular Coke. If I did nothing but sit around a hotel room and eat McDonalds three meals a day, I would probably be down to close to my ideal weight within six months, adding a good excercise routine to that and I would probably be at the same weight as the day I was discharged from the service. |
Just act like a liberal and bash conservatives, the military, or big businesses. Then the rabid left will begin throwing money at you left and right. And they'll call you a 'genius' to boot. |
Any bright ideas? I was wondering what eating all vegan or whatever it is would do to someone like me. No one at work will take me on the I can eat 20 mcdonalds hashbrowns bet. |
Incidently this is how they get those "before and after" pictures for over the counter diet pills etc. They find an athlete that leads a VERY active lifestyle who has suffered an injury preventing them from excecising. They give the athlete a fair chunk of money to gain weight which is easy for them since they already have high calorie diets and a metabolism that is used ot burning off huge quantities of energy a day. The end result is that they gain weight like mad for the "before" picture and then lose weight like crazy when they are better and able to return to their active lifestyle for their "after" picture. THe main point here is that this is CLEARLY a form of deceptive advertising on the part of the people who are merketing these diet pills etc. Why a "filmmaker" would use this same method in the making of a "documentary" is food for thought. |
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Never saw it, but I heard this guy's claims and suspect he's a lieing wack job. While I don't doubt that McDonald's will kill you in the long run, his claims of his liver about to fail etc from eting McDonald's for a month is a fabrication. NPR had an interview with a guy who's a personal trainer and he went on the same diet, though he also exercised during the same time period, and he did not have the same affects. The director's girlfriend is a vegan weirdo, this guy has an agenda to put forward, I wouldn't believe him if he told me it was Friday. |