Supersize Me
I highly recommend this movie.
It's a documentary about an experiment performed by a man named Morgan -- who ate three meals per day at McDonalds to see what sort of damage it would do to his body. Everytime a cashier asked Morgan, "Do you want to Supersize the meal?" He must answer "Yes."
The upbeat and funny Morgan seems to be in his early 30s and in decent shape, maybe a little on the thin side -- only 11 percent body fat. (I got excited when he gained about 10 pounds and grew a gut, he looked hot! But by 20 pounds, when the "man titties" kicked in, it was out of hand).
Morgan's girlfriend is a vegan chef. Since she cooks the meals, it's safe to assume that Morgan ate pretty well before this experiment.
Before the experiment he goes to three doctors/nutritionists. He's in tip-top shape. Morgan also decides to limit his exercise. The New Yorker starts taking cabs and ordering food in since there is a McDonalds on every corner. Even when he goes to other cities, McDonald's are easy to find, they're everywhere!
The first McDonald's meal, Big Mac, fries, Coke (all super-sized) Morgan throws up. This is when the viewer realizes he's not used to eating this stuff and must have been a bit of a health freak. Yet, he's enjoying the food while he eats it and even saying, "Yum!!" Or unless that is just tongue-in-cheek, I never figured it out.
The negative effects McDonald's has on Morgan's body is almost immediate. Twitching in his arm, chest pains, decrease in sex drive, headaches, tired -- and this is just after the first week. What is even more frightening, in the middle of the month when Morgan said he felt like shit until he ate McDonald's, then it made him happy. JUNK FOOD ADDICTION!!
During the month, Morgan gets weighed, blood tests, and check-ups from doctors.
Throughout the documentary, statistics are tossed in:
- Detroit, Michigan is the fattest city in the United States. And one out of four Texans is obese.
- The standard size fries at McDonalds in the 1970s is now called "children's size."
- Some Americans don't know all the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, but do know the McDonald's Big Mac jingle (two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun).
- In an experiment, Morgan showed children pictures of prominent men in history such as George Washington and Jesus and asked the children if they knew who they were and what they did. Most didn't know. But when Morgan showed the children a picture of Ronald McDonald, they all knew who he was and what he did.
- In school cafeterias, most of the cooks don't cook. Most food served is boxed and frozen, then served to children: pizza, Little Debbie cupcakes, chips, milk, doughnuts, chicken fingers.
Not to spoil the rest of the film for those who want to see it, I'll stop here.
It really is scary. I walk past my old high school and teenage girls don't have the bodies they did when I was young. Even the thin ones have these love handles creeping over their jeans. I never saw bodies like this before. In the 1970s fat girls had bodies that were evenly portioned. What exactly is in this food that puts all the fat in one specific area? If and when you see this film, and you see what Chicken McNuggets are made of, I promise you, you will never eat one again!
When I saw my ex-boyfriend Nick Friday night, he told me I was "too skinny." He said, "What are you doing too yourself?"
I am not "too skinny." People just don't know what a normal-sized woman looks like anymore because mostly everyone is overweight. At 5'3" - 110 pounds - size 6, 34-24-33, pretty close to the measurements of Yasmine Bleath from "Baywatch" -- I'd be considered "fat" in the 1970s or 1980s.
When I got to the theatre in Chelsea, I saw a street fair going on. People were lined up to buy crap like strawberries dipped in chocolate, fries, cotton candy -- while delicious food like Hatian mangos, cherimoyas, horned melon and Turkish figs were being sold at "Garden of Eatin'" only a block away.
In all fairness, I admit I used to like French Fries and I do miss them sometimes. But to eat them three times a day?
As a person who ate whole wheat bagels with low-fat vegetable cream cheese every morning and spinach pasta at least three times a week, for YEARS, thinking that was healthy, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND, and I do have sympathy for people who have a problem with food.
But our government isn't making it any easier. McDonald's is cheap. Organic or exotic fruit is expensive.
Before I was a raw foodist and just a vegetarian, I'll never forget this fabulous tofu dish I had at a restaurant in Manhattan. I gave my leftovers to a homeless person begging for food.
"What is this?" she said, in a snapping tone. Taken back, I just said, "It's good food."
Even a homeless person didn't want a healthy meal. The majority of us are just not programmed to eat good stuff.
Meanwhile, we're all dying from problems caused by eating junk food and abusing alcohol. And nothing will ever be done about this -- junk food is BIG BUSINESS.
Go see "Supersize Me" -- it will open your eyes.
It's a documentary about an experiment performed by a man named Morgan -- who ate three meals per day at McDonalds to see what sort of damage it would do to his body. Everytime a cashier asked Morgan, "Do you want to Supersize the meal?" He must answer "Yes."
The upbeat and funny Morgan seems to be in his early 30s and in decent shape, maybe a little on the thin side -- only 11 percent body fat. (I got excited when he gained about 10 pounds and grew a gut, he looked hot! But by 20 pounds, when the "man titties" kicked in, it was out of hand).
Morgan's girlfriend is a vegan chef. Since she cooks the meals, it's safe to assume that Morgan ate pretty well before this experiment.
Before the experiment he goes to three doctors/nutritionists. He's in tip-top shape. Morgan also decides to limit his exercise. The New Yorker starts taking cabs and ordering food in since there is a McDonalds on every corner. Even when he goes to other cities, McDonald's are easy to find, they're everywhere!
The first McDonald's meal, Big Mac, fries, Coke (all super-sized) Morgan throws up. This is when the viewer realizes he's not used to eating this stuff and must have been a bit of a health freak. Yet, he's enjoying the food while he eats it and even saying, "Yum!!" Or unless that is just tongue-in-cheek, I never figured it out.
The negative effects McDonald's has on Morgan's body is almost immediate. Twitching in his arm, chest pains, decrease in sex drive, headaches, tired -- and this is just after the first week. What is even more frightening, in the middle of the month when Morgan said he felt like shit until he ate McDonald's, then it made him happy. JUNK FOOD ADDICTION!!
During the month, Morgan gets weighed, blood tests, and check-ups from doctors.
Throughout the documentary, statistics are tossed in:
- Detroit, Michigan is the fattest city in the United States. And one out of four Texans is obese.
- The standard size fries at McDonalds in the 1970s is now called "children's size."
- Some Americans don't know all the words to the Pledge of Allegiance, but do know the McDonald's Big Mac jingle (two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun).
- In an experiment, Morgan showed children pictures of prominent men in history such as George Washington and Jesus and asked the children if they knew who they were and what they did. Most didn't know. But when Morgan showed the children a picture of Ronald McDonald, they all knew who he was and what he did.
- In school cafeterias, most of the cooks don't cook. Most food served is boxed and frozen, then served to children: pizza, Little Debbie cupcakes, chips, milk, doughnuts, chicken fingers.
Not to spoil the rest of the film for those who want to see it, I'll stop here.
It really is scary. I walk past my old high school and teenage girls don't have the bodies they did when I was young. Even the thin ones have these love handles creeping over their jeans. I never saw bodies like this before. In the 1970s fat girls had bodies that were evenly portioned. What exactly is in this food that puts all the fat in one specific area? If and when you see this film, and you see what Chicken McNuggets are made of, I promise you, you will never eat one again!
When I saw my ex-boyfriend Nick Friday night, he told me I was "too skinny." He said, "What are you doing too yourself?"
I am not "too skinny." People just don't know what a normal-sized woman looks like anymore because mostly everyone is overweight. At 5'3" - 110 pounds - size 6, 34-24-33, pretty close to the measurements of Yasmine Bleath from "Baywatch" -- I'd be considered "fat" in the 1970s or 1980s.
When I got to the theatre in Chelsea, I saw a street fair going on. People were lined up to buy crap like strawberries dipped in chocolate, fries, cotton candy -- while delicious food like Hatian mangos, cherimoyas, horned melon and Turkish figs were being sold at "Garden of Eatin'" only a block away.
In all fairness, I admit I used to like French Fries and I do miss them sometimes. But to eat them three times a day?
As a person who ate whole wheat bagels with low-fat vegetable cream cheese every morning and spinach pasta at least three times a week, for YEARS, thinking that was healthy, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND, and I do have sympathy for people who have a problem with food.
But our government isn't making it any easier. McDonald's is cheap. Organic or exotic fruit is expensive.
Before I was a raw foodist and just a vegetarian, I'll never forget this fabulous tofu dish I had at a restaurant in Manhattan. I gave my leftovers to a homeless person begging for food.
"What is this?" she said, in a snapping tone. Taken back, I just said, "It's good food."
Even a homeless person didn't want a healthy meal. The majority of us are just not programmed to eat good stuff.
Meanwhile, we're all dying from problems caused by eating junk food and abusing alcohol. And nothing will ever be done about this -- junk food is BIG BUSINESS.
Go see "Supersize Me" -- it will open your eyes.