It wasn't even a good "experiment" because the dude was a severe alcoholic at the same time, which unsurprisingly was not mentioned at all. Attributing liver failure solely to the fast food and not the handle of liquor he was drinking a day
It's not really fast food that's terrible. It's making terrible choices with fast food.
It's literally in the name: "Super Size Me". Every time anyone at McDonald's asked him if he wanted a size increase, he said yes. If you force yourself to constantly only eat particularly bad fast food and the maximum ammount possible, no shit you get obese.
I ate fast food almost exclusively for a whole year, and I did gain some weight, but nothing fucking dangerous like he did. I tried to eat normally, and didn't make 50% of my diet sugary drinks.
I guess even that should be obvious. I used to walk 10 to 12 miles a day and still lost weight while eating poorly. But still it should be obvious that fast food isn’t good for you in excess. I remember when it came out some people attacked McDonalds as if they forced people to make bad choices
The thing that surprises me the most about fast food is how much more caloric it is by volume than homemade equivalents.
I've been tracking my meals on a phone app, and I had a breakfast burger thing at Hardee's the other day and it was almost 1,000 calories. The equivalent homemade English muffin breakfast sandwich is around 300-400 calories with egg, cheese, and meat. It wasn't a huge meal at Hardee's and I was hungry again at about the same time as usual- just with 600 more calories consumed.
Its because he framed it as n actual experiment to prove how they were slowly killing you, and it came out around the time of the "American Obesity" talking point getting big.
All his lies about it didn't come out immediately for most people, so it took a minute before it got buried.
Super Size me, along with all the brain-dead ''experts'' speaking as if fastfood has so magical property that will make you fat if you eat it often regardless of calories consumes, piss me off to no end.
This narrative that you have to eat virtuously what the ''experts'' tell you to lose weight and give up the ''sinful'' foods is what kept my mother obese to the point she developped insulin resistance.
She could never stick to eating the ''virtuous'' foods.
Eventually I couldn't shut up anymore and helped her eat the same shit but in reduced portions by counting calories.
The pounds fell off and the insulin resistance went away. Eating/drinking processed sugary crap.
Her friends don't believe her when she says what she eats, because her friends ''listen to the experts'' on TV who tell them sinful food make you fat, not excess calories from whatever kind of food.
The 2008 documentary Fat Head, which is a rebuttal to the documentary 2004 Super Size Me, talks about the US government funding fake food science.
It is worth a watch, and worth showing to those who have been fooled by fake food science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcNPfZlrZs
I remember being so confused why Super Size Me was s given so much praise. Eating lots of fast food is unhealthy. Shocker
It wasn't even a good "experiment" because the dude was a severe alcoholic at the same time, which unsurprisingly was not mentioned at all. Attributing liver failure solely to the fast food and not the handle of liquor he was drinking a day
How else are going to make something sensational?
It's not really fast food that's terrible. It's making terrible choices with fast food.
It's literally in the name: "Super Size Me". Every time anyone at McDonald's asked him if he wanted a size increase, he said yes. If you force yourself to constantly only eat particularly bad fast food and the maximum ammount possible, no shit you get obese.
I ate fast food almost exclusively for a whole year, and I did gain some weight, but nothing fucking dangerous like he did. I tried to eat normally, and didn't make 50% of my diet sugary drinks.
I guess even that should be obvious. I used to walk 10 to 12 miles a day and still lost weight while eating poorly. But still it should be obvious that fast food isn’t good for you in excess. I remember when it came out some people attacked McDonalds as if they forced people to make bad choices
Pretty much everything about Super Size Me was so poorly done that it felt like someone trying to get famous more than anything.
The thing that surprises me the most about fast food is how much more caloric it is by volume than homemade equivalents.
I've been tracking my meals on a phone app, and I had a breakfast burger thing at Hardee's the other day and it was almost 1,000 calories. The equivalent homemade English muffin breakfast sandwich is around 300-400 calories with egg, cheese, and meat. It wasn't a huge meal at Hardee's and I was hungry again at about the same time as usual- just with 600 more calories consumed.
Its because he framed it as n actual experiment to prove how they were slowly killing you, and it came out around the time of the "American Obesity" talking point getting big.
All his lies about it didn't come out immediately for most people, so it took a minute before it got buried.
Super Size me, along with all the brain-dead ''experts'' speaking as if fastfood has so magical property that will make you fat if you eat it often regardless of calories consumes, piss me off to no end.
This narrative that you have to eat virtuously what the ''experts'' tell you to lose weight and give up the ''sinful'' foods is what kept my mother obese to the point she developped insulin resistance.
She could never stick to eating the ''virtuous'' foods.
Eventually I couldn't shut up anymore and helped her eat the same shit but in reduced portions by counting calories.
The pounds fell off and the insulin resistance went away. Eating/drinking processed sugary crap.
Her friends don't believe her when she says what she eats, because her friends ''listen to the experts'' on TV who tell them sinful food make you fat, not excess calories from whatever kind of food.