What? You mean it isn't? Then how can I eat there at least 4 times a week and still be thin?
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Just to make people jealous
"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI
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| Author: | tritonal [ 26 Jan 2004, 03:04 ] |
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but I still eat it: <i>Film records effects of eating only McDonald's for a month 25.01.2004 12.00pm - By DAVID USBORNE NEW YORK - Normally sane actors have been known to gain or lose huge amounts of weight for their art. Think of Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones's Diary. Directors, of course, never have to undergo such torture. Or so it used to be, until Morgan Spurlock had a bright idea for a film project. The first clue to his particular misery comes in the title of his documentary, which has become the darling of this year's Sundance Film Festival. It is called Super Size Me: A Film of Epic Portions and it is a sometimes comic but serious look at America's addiction to fast food. Spurlock, a tall New Yorker of usually cast-iron constitution, made himself the guinea pig in this dogged investigation into the effects of fast food on the body. He ate only at McDonald's for a month - three meals, every day - and took a camera crew along to record it. If a server offered to super-size his order, he was obliged to accept - and to ingest everything, gherkins and all. Neither Spurlock, 33, nor the three doctors who agreed to monitor his health during the experiment were prepared for the degree of ruin it would wreak on his body. Within days, he was vomiting up his burgers and battling with headaches and depression. And his sex drive vanished. When Spurlock had finished, his liver, overwhelmed by saturated fats, had virtually turned to pate. "The liver test was the most shocking thing," said Dr Daryl Isaacs, who joined the team to watch over him. "It became very, very abnormal." Spurlock put on nearly 12kg over the period and his cholesterol level leapt from a respectable 165 to 230. He told the New York Post: "I got desperately ill. My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I've never had in my life ... It was amazing - and really frightening." And his girlfriend, a vegan chef? "She was completely disgusted by me," he said. Making the film over several months last year, Spurlock travelled through 20 states, interviewing everyone from fast-food junkies to the US Surgeon General and a lobbyist for the industry. McDonald's, for whom the film can only be a public relations catastrophe, ignored his repeated entreaties for comment. Spurlock had the idea for the film on Thanksgiving Day 2002, slumped on his mother's couch after eating far too much. He saw a news item about two teenage girls in New York suing McDonald's for making them obese. The company responded by saying their food was nutritious and good for people. Is that so, he wondered? To find out, he committed himself to his 30 days of Big Mac bingeing. The film does not yet have a distributor and, given the advertising clout of McDonald's, that may prove problematic. But the critics at Sundance seem to have been captivated. Certainly, the film is blessed by good timing. Obesity has in recent months captured headlines as America's new health scourge. The humour of the approach - and Spurlock's own suffering - obviously helps. At the festival in Park City, Utah, he has had teams handing out "Unhappy Meal" bags on the streets with a few "Fat Fun Facts". For instance, one in four Americans visits a fast-food restaurant every day. And did you know that McDonald's feeds more people around the world every day than the population of Spain? The makers have self-rated the film "F" - for "fat audiences". McDonald's has finally been forced to comment. "Consumers can achieve balance in their daily dining decisions by choosing from our array of quality offerings and range of portion sizes to meet their taste and nutrition goals," it said in a statement last week. Spurlock claims that the goal was not to attack McDonald's as such. Among the issues he highlights is the willingness of schools to feed students nothing but burgers and pizza. "If there's one thing we could accomplish with the film, it is that we make people think about what they put in their mouth," he said. "So the next time you do go into a fast-food restaurant and they say, 'Would you like to upsize that?' you think about it and say, 'Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll stick with the medium this time.'" </i> |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 26 Jan 2004, 08:55 ] |
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Oh boy, a Michael Moore wannabe. No shit McDonalds is no good to eat 3x a day everyday. I figured that out for myself when i was about oh, 8yo... Apparently this guy needed a medical team to figure out the same thing. <img src="http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/sigs/snipersig.jpg " border=0> |
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| Author: | bigross86 [ 26 Jan 2004, 09:49 ] |
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What? You mean it isn't? Then how can I eat there at least 4 times a week and still be thin? ^ ^ Just to make people jealous
"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI |
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| Author: | boomer [ 26 Jan 2004, 12:11 ] |
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dang, I thought this was gonna be a heavy metal thread <img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle> Sonic and Slipknot RULE!! "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel ! <img src="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/atengun2X.GIF" border=0> |
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| Author: | tritonal [ 26 Jan 2004, 12:38 ] |
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Sorry man, next time. That sounds like a good thread to start. |
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| Author: | MrMudd [ 26 Jan 2004, 14:18 ] |
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Shit i better switch to burger king... "The power to Destroy the planet, is insignifigant to the power of the Air Force----Mudd Vader |
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| Author: | tritonal [ 26 Jan 2004, 14:44 ] |
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The tastiest combo. that I would do is have fries from McD's and the burgers/chicken sandwiches from BK. Wendy's does both of those things really well. Edited by - tritonal on Jan 26 2004 1:45 PM |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 26 Jan 2004, 15:01 ] |
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I like the Checkers spicy fries. They kick serious ass. <img src="http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/sigs/snipersig.jpg " border=0> |
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| Author: | Lunatock [ 26 Jan 2004, 16:00 ] |
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> What? You mean it isn't? Then how can I eat there at least 4 times a week and still be thin? ^ ^ Just to make people jealous
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> If you can honestly say that at twenty five & beyond we'll be impressed. "The day we can't insult French people I fail to see what hope there is for the world." W.A.B. Moderator. http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/ |
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| Author: | Fast Attack Tough [ 27 Jan 2004, 09:23 ] |
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I've eaten boat food for months at a time. How bad can McDonald's be. At least nothing on their menus is nicknamed baboon ass. He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others. --Samuel Johnson, LL.D |
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| Author: | boomer [ 27 Jan 2004, 11:06 ] |
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"baboon ass" lol wtf is THAT, besides I thought the Navy only dispensed steak and ice cream (maybee thats just the CVs) <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel ! <img src="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/atengun2X.GIF" border=0> |
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| Author: | tritonal [ 27 Jan 2004, 14:37 ] |
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Sniper, had he spent a month shoving his face with cheese steaks from <i>Jim's</i> he would of been 10x's healthier. |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 27 Jan 2004, 19:05 ] |
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My fave cheese steaks are from "Steves Prince of Steaks" You have not had a cheesesteak until you've had one of those. They're that good. <img src="http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/sigs/snipersig.jpg " border=0> |
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