I've never been "blue pilled". I was raised in a very traditional household, I sort of had a 1950s upbringing which I'm eternally grateful for.
So seeing the nuclear family and having a non feminist, stay at home mother, and a strong father, made it where I naturally despised feminism and these chip on their shoulder liberal female teachers as soon as I encountered them from early age.
But there was a moment I want to highlight as utterly retarded that made me realize that a large chunk of adults and people in general are profoundly stupid and it happened in 9th grade.
It was gym class and Supersize me had come out about 3 years prior, and the gym teacher, a man btw, has our gym class for that day be to watch that documentary.
I could not believe that anyone would be so dumb as to think that documentary was some sort of eye-opening revelation.
The second I knew the concept of it, the only thought was "duh".
Don't eat Mcdonalds every day, it's not good to do that. Where can I contact the Pulitzer prize people, because the brain trust behind that mind-blowing exposé needs to receive it retroactively.
I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone that a grown man would think that this documentary would be an exercise in anything but 1 hour of stating the obvious.
The fact that the documentary itself was incredibly pretentious didn't help either.
And then the dawning realization that it's not just a gym teacher showing this, and students watching it, but some studio actually paid money to get this made.
It really made me question the intelligence of mankind as a whole. Something everyone knows gets made into a documentary. (And yes I know the documentary was full of lies and fudging, but even without those lies, if you need a film to tell you not to eat Mcdonalds too frequently, then you're not long for this world).
Anyways, I just was baffled such a thing existed, and that teachers thought it would be eye-opening to students. I looked around thinking "is everyone morons"?
It would be years of further red-pilling until I finally got my answer...yes. The answer is yes.
And the most hilarious part is that the documentary was complete bullshit. The health problems he was dealing with had almost nothing to do with him eating McDonald's every day, and almost everything to do with him being a raging alcoholic and getting completely shitfaced every second he wasn't on camera.
It wasn't even that, he made up a rule that if they offered to "supersize" his meal then he had to do it. He was eating like 4000+ calories a day which is what his health problems came from (at that time).
The movie even shows a guy who was eating just a Quarter Pounder a day for decades and was healthy.
Moral of the movie is don't eat waaay too many calories every day for months on end.
Why would he not just you know, put some of that in the fridge and eat it another day? It's total nonsense.
I got shown that in school along with other stuff like Bowling for Columbine. I was glad I didn't have to do schoolwork in class for those days, but did not care for the movies.
TBF, the shelflife of McD's in terms of edibility is about 15 mins.
There's not much on their menu that would still be presentable after a night in the fridge.
And yet you can leave the food out for months and it won't rot
because then he wouldn't get fat, and no one would care about the results because "i ate 30 days of mcdonalds and nothing happened" isn't newsworthy.
One of the big parts of the film was that his liver was suffering damage. It was statistically unlikely to be a result of unchecked McD consumption as opposed to the alcoholic intake he was doing at the time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uOyjzE1vcD4
it was a combination. multiple people have gone on to do 30+ day mcdonalds only challenges and lost weight.
alcohol drastically reduces your ability to burn calories on anything other than processing the alcohol because your body views it as a poison.
add on 4k+ calories a day, and you'll absolutely get fucking fat.
reduce alcohol, have a caloric deficit, you'll lose plenty of weight, even eating shitty mcdonalds food.
What a nice piece of esoteric BS.
You can get fat drinking alchool because alchool is calories that your body is able to use as energy too.
It dosen't ''reduce your ability to burn calories''. It is extra calories and you are storing the excess calories as fat.
Of course it is also ''mildly'' toxic. But that part has nothing to do with weight gain.
nope. because the human body can't store alcohol calories but can store other calories, the body goes straight to storing the other stuff while processing the alcohol. your body doesn't do this with many other caloric sources. and alcohol calories are different in that they're a relatively high loss rate (lost as heat rather than glycogen synthesis). this drastically increases the likelihood of weight gain and retention.
Fat Head was a fantastic counter movie. Punched holes in almost everything Spurlock claimed.
Look up fat head for a good rebuttal.