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Krystin
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Posted: 19 July 2005 12:08 am |
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| I rented this movie about 8 months ago and have not eaten at a fast food restaurant since. The movie, if you aren't familiar, is the story of a man who eats nothing but McDonald's for 30 days in an attempt to prove that fast food is making us fat. Prior to this unhealthy diet he was perfectly healthy (as evidenced by several evaluations with various doctors) and had wonderfully healthy meals easily accessible, as his girlfriend is a vegan chef. Over the coarse of the movie he gains over 20 lbs and suffers multiple health problems, not to mention his overall lack of energy, mood swings, and low libido. The documentary also lists various facts based on science to explain this transformation. It is highly interesting and entertaining! Check it out, I'm sure it will have a positive effect on your current eating habits.
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mdbull73
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Posted: 19 July 2005 01:14 am |
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I watched the movie too! I also haven't eaten at Mickie D's since.
However, I think the movie is somewhat misleading. Everything Spurlock does goes BEYOND excess. Some people may even eat McDonald's 3-4 times a week, but not 3x every single day. That's like drinking a bottle of vodka every night for 30 days to prove that alcohol is dangerous. Of course it would be...
I definitely appreciated his insight into school lunches. The stuff the kids are eating today is worse than even my childhood (80s baby here).
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Benjee
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Posted: 20 July 2005 06:49 pm |
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There is another movie coming out soon where a person eats nothing but McDonalds for a month. They lose weight, Lower all their bad toxins, and become more healthy overall. How is this? The person only ate a 2000 calorie a day diet.
I could eat nothing but bagels all day every day for a month and gain the same weight as overeating McDonalds for a month.
I eat at Mcdonalds every now and then. In fact when i am really starving and i need a nice Mcfix I will get four regular cheeseburgers. (I am 6 ft 200 lbs now and going down... i started at 238) I still lose weight despite this though. How?
1. I dont eat fast food more than once a week
2. I dont drink any soda
3. I dont eat french fries
4. I keep track of how many calories are in what I eat.
5. I know McDonalds isnt health food
6. I know I could gain weight and even become unhealthy from some "health food"
7. Giving up fast food would be better for all of us but if you do it too abruptly you are setting yourself up for failure!
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celeste-ran
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Posted: 12 August 2005 09:35 pm |
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| This is great "common sense" diet advice! Thanks, Celeste-ran
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Krystin
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Posted: 13 August 2005 05:34 pm |
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Benjee: I think that its great that some people are able to make the fast food lifestyle fit within their total caloric intake goals. However, the nutrition content of the food is highly questionable, the fat content is outrageous, and the fiber intake is minimal if exsitent at all. I'd also like to note that if people are only eating fast food 1 -3 times per week there would be no way for thousands of these restaurants to stay profitable and stay open, much less expand and grow the way they currently are. I am a personal aquantance of at least 15 people that eat fast food a minimum of 5 days per week, and sometimes several times per day. Perhaps that is above the norm, but in my experience that is the norm. Out of curiosity, do you know who funded this second movie? I wouldn't be suprised to learn that it was funded in part by McDonald's itself.
When I was on Weight Watchers I was allotted 25 points per day. A regular sized kids meal was considered 10 points (for a cheeseburger and fries, drink not included). That means 2/5 of my daily intake was spent on the smallest meal McDonald's offers. And I can testify that it was not filling and satisfying to eat a kid sized meal without condiments. I suppose the point is that for long term health and palatability one well planned fast food meal per week would be ok, but I am convinced that is not what is happening across this country.
On a lighter note, has anyone seen his new TV series on FX: 30 Days? It documents different people living significantly different lifestyles than the ones they are used to for 30 days at a time. One episode discusses life on minimum wage, another enviornmental issues, one is focused on homosexuality, and another on underage and binge drinkiing.
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Benjee
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Posted: 22 August 2005 01:26 am |
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First of all... I love the 30 days show hosted by Morgan Spurlock (i think i spelled his name right)
Second of all I am not saying it is good to eat mcdonalds; I am saying that all or nothing thinking in any way sets people up for failure.
High fat - no fiber - high in every other thing thats bad for you! that is McDonalds and I wasnt trying to argue that fact. I'm just saying the person who is 30, 40, 50 pounds overweight is not going to respond well if they try to cut out all fast food forever. They will fail. They will quit!
Maybe a better Idea would be not to eat it as much! or when you do get fast food dont get a bucket of sugerwater and a truckload of fries.
I love to eat lots of fresh produce and it makes up about 60 to 70 percent of my diet. I still allow myself anything that I want every now and then. I view it as a slight speed bump but not a wall that a crash into.
As for Morgan Spurlock... I would like to state that I am one of the most progressive liberal Democrats you will ever talk to. If you dont think that Morgan Spurlock has an agenda you are crazy! Did you really think he and his wife both had to go get medical care over that one month? They were trying to make a point. It is kind of interesting because I live about three blocks from the apartment they lived at in Columbus and I didnt even know it. No it is not as ghetto as they made it seem. There are plenty of jobs here! tons and tons of jobs! The only people who are unemployed in this city are drunks, crazy people, and the people who dont really want to work. #%@&! you can get paid 13 bucks an hour here to work at some fast food places starting pay. Cleveland, Cinncinatti, Toledo, Youngstown, and Akron are where all the jobs in this state have been lost. It was very misleading... but it was still cool to see they lived so close by to me and i didnt even know it.
As much as I like the guy I cant really say it is too groundbreaking to discover that eating a 6000 calorie a day diet will cause you to gain weight and be unhealthy. 
It is one of those things you wonder (what would I look like if I .... fill in the blank) Drove with my feet for a month!
Didnt shower for a year!
eat nothing but salsa for a month!
Kind of interesting but not much more than that.
BTW --- Im sure mcdonalds funded that movie. That isnt really the point. Who funded Supersize me? Somebody with the other point of view.
bottom line
I hardly think that eating at mcdonalds a few times a month could be called "the fast food lifestyle" as you said i was a member of such a group --- give me a break!
I guess this would make me a member of the "take the trash out to the side of the road" lifestyle or the "Lawn mowing" lifestyle.
Morgan Spurlock is a funny and interesting person but you have to take his work with a grain of salt:D (not more than a grain if you are watching your sodium intake)
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champagne
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Posted: 24 August 2005 04:57 pm |
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Hmm.. my hubby and I sat eating McD's WHILE watching Supersize Me.. yes, we're bad, bad, bad.. I know *giggle*
The movie was good, and yes, the man made his point. We were eating out 3 or 4 times a week like the average person. That's all changing right now. Not because of the movie, but because common sense knows eating all that #%@&! isn't healthy and isn't helping me lose weight in the slightest. I don't know anyone who could afford to eat at McD's 3 meals a day, every single day - ouch on the wallet! I am however, not going to deny myself something if I truly feel that I must have it. Again, it's common sense - choose a cheeseburger over a big mac. Yes, there's a lot of calories even in the little cheeseburger. Yes, it's still very bad for me. However, if it's enough to satisfy that craving and ward off a binge that's going to make me spiral downwards, it's not such a bad thing.
The key with fast food is just like all things. Use your head and order what is reasonable. If you really must have it, then have a happy meal instead of the supersize meal, skip the soda and have a water. A once in a while indulgence isn't the end all of any way of eating. Considering portion size in our American restaurants is rediculous, it doesn't really matter where you go when eating out. Anywhere you go you're going to consume lots of fat and lots of carbs. Even our salads are loaded with fat and junk. Be smart, choose wisely, and indulge in the lesser evil on any menu when you absolutely must.
Just my 2 cents :)
Champagne
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Benjee
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Posted: 25 August 2005 03:20 am |
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| back in the old days the happy meal WAS the adult meal!!! and an 8oz soda was a normal adult size! If you go over to Europe you will see smaller sizes. Last edited on 25 August 2005 03:53 am by Benjee
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daveherman
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Posted: 29 August 2005 03:36 am |
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i saw the movie too i stop eating the fast food for a 2 mouth and i was weighted about 287 now i lost 4.5 lbs in 7 days and i sick and tried watching people eat the sick food and i stop eating at the restant too. i tought that i will lost 4 to 5 lbs in 7 days now i trying to lost 50 lbsbefore x-mas and my friend want to see that and he will lost too if i did it so i will in form u and few days about my losting the weight and e-mail me and get in toch with me i will tell u about my life and what im doing to lost 4 to 5 lbs in 7 days let me know please thank u to all to let me tell u about me 
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daveherman
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Posted: 30 August 2005 03:45 am |
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sorry about that so what up ;) 
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emily
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Posted: 13 October 2005 01:44 am |
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i watched that movie a couple of days ago and i really liked it. i have never been a fan of mcdonalds or any other fast food, actually i've been to mcdonalds only 4 times in my life. i live in france (although i'm not french). i think people love more slow food here... but the government is still trying to do something to make people eat more healthily - the kids have actimel yoghurt or fresh fruit salad or fruti juice with their happy meal here instead of soda and i think it's great.
i agree, that the fast food binge in this movie was over the top, but i can say it myself, being quite healthy, that if i eat any kind of fast food or too much processed food, i feel sick sometimes - stomachache, headache etc. and i really agree with the makers of the movie though, that people need to know, that too much fast food is bad for you. and anyway, home cooked organic food tastes a lot better - and you know exactly what you have put in it!!!!;)
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drumforengland
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Posted: 19 February 2006 10:55 pm |
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| I'm probably quite biased on this one, as i work in a subway. however, it is so much more healthy than any other fast food restaurant although you have to be careful what to eat there for example a chicken and bacon or meatball sandwich isn't particularly. every day i work i have one of the 6'' sandwiches with less that 6 grams of fat and fewer than 400 calories. the one i normally have is 210 calories and fills me up for ages afterwards because i put so much salad in it. i would advice subway because people have lost weight encorporating it into their diet, i'm one of them!!!! i havn't been into a macdonalds or burger king since i started working there, they do not even compare!!
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Peter
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Posted: 20 February 2006 12:04 am |
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And "Jared did it!"
It is a true story.
Peter
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realitytv4545
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Posted: 20 February 2006 03:32 am |
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| I could just see his arteries clogging throughout this movie. I actually got a little nauesa myself seeing him eat all of that. Think about though many many people eats fast food three times a day. Oh believe you me I use to love Taco Bell and would eat quite often but after keeping a food diary and see how many grams of fat/carbs and calories it's not for me now.!!
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Rosie Real
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Posted: 24 February 2006 07:55 pm |
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If you liked the Super Size Me movie, you would love the book Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock. He goes into more detail and his humor is hilarious!
One thing people don't realize is the "extra stuff" put into the McDs food (and others). If you've never heard of High Fructose Corn Syrup, do a search on the web as you would be surprised how the body reacts to it.
Here is a comment a friend gave about the book:
"I would estimate that over my lifetime I have probably drank over 20,000 soft drinks (I wish I was kidding) and that comes out to probably somewhere around over 3 MILLION CALORIES (from sodas alone)!!! The entire time I knew that I was drinking sugar and water but it wasn't until I read this book that I learned about the hideous difference between the regular Domino sugar packets that people put in their coffee and the evil that is High Fructose Corn Syrup. As I continued reading this book, I learned about the Frankenstein nature of HFCS and how it's not just sugar, but more like sugar on super steroids. I became sickened as I truly understood the parallels that these food/soft drink companies have with cigarette manufacturers, and I was/am very angry. After thousands upon thousands of Mountain Dews, it was like a light bulb turned on in my head and I felt used. My first trip to the supermarket saw me look at label after label as I began to find the label for "High Fructose Corn Syrup" in things I would have never expected, even things like Wheat Thins. Why in the world does HFCS belong in a cracker?!?!?!? " :?
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Posted: 8 March 2006 05:30 am |
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SERIOUSLY you have to watch this movie!!!!! I haven't eaten at Mc Donald's since! And I do not trust any meat from any fast food place ever!!!!! If I am craving a fatty snack - I will eat fries or Burger King's Onion Rings or something. But hey you can't "fake" a potato or an onion!!
Eww I am getting sick to my stomach just thinking about that movie and the "meat" they use for their sandwiches!! BLAH! The chicken nuggest aren't even meat - it's a paste of grinded up parts of a chicken. That's why you ALWAYS get that one nugget in your pack that just doesn't break down like the other pieces. that one chunk just doesn't wanna get chewed. Why?? CAUSE IT'S DISGUSTING WHO KNOWS WHAT FROM A CHICKEN!!!! YUCK!!!!!! Also their "all white breast meat chicken nuggets" really aren't white meat. They're whatever "meat" they are just bleached to a point that is non toxic to humans. PUKEEE (sorry haha you seriously all have to watch this movie)
And the poor guy started getting depressed from eating just the food alone. It was seriously an enormous eye opener for me to see someone who was naturally thin - gain all that weight and whose body "spoke" to him and was seriously like angry at him for putting that food into his body. It's like whatever you eat changes your energy levels in your body.
I know when I eat bad - I feel like #%@&! for at least an hour/few hours after which depresses me into yet another eating binge the next day. But when I eat a salad my energy level is up - I am in a great mood - I feel awesome. So really - please - WATCH "SUPERSIZE ME"!!!!!!!! 
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Rosie Real
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Posted: 9 March 2006 07:16 pm |
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"Don't Eat This Book" was an eye opener as he talked about how long McDonald's food will last if left out in the open to rot like regular organic matter should. It wasn't hours or days or even weeks here, try YEARS! :?
If anyone reads this book or watches the movie and still eats fast food, I'd say they were crazy. Well, you know how some people would justify it by saying they just don't believe that what is being said is true. Therefore they continue to eat those 1,200 calorie meals which makes them pretty hopeless when it comes to weight loss! Of course, they wonder why they are still obese, whine and blame it on their genes!
If you don't believe this is "fake" food full of chemicals, then try your own experiment.
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LosingIt
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Posted: 7 April 2006 06:05 am |
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| Put an order of McD's fries on a picnic table in the middle of summer. No bugs. That ought to tell us something.
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