Super Size Me @ McDonalds
The buzz at Sundance Film Festival is about a documentary by Morgan Spurlock called Super Size Me.
Spurlock, 6'2" and 185 lbs. decided to eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health.
The short story is he gained 25 pounds after scarfing down scores of cheeseburgers, hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate shakes--in the name of SCIENCE! mind you, and ART!
But the long story is that within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated.
His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.
Be interesting to see MacDonald's reaction to this. I mean this is the company that tried to ban a man in Scotland, whose last name was MacDonald, from using his name on his company window!
I guess this is also proof that grazing cattle on the poor soil of rainforest land creates non-nutritional food? Or that potatoes have never been prone to growing well when irrigated with oil?
Posted by: butuki | January 23, 2004 at 08:43 PM