Supersize Me

[Ducati]

Am I missing something? Was this a stupid pointless experiment or was there a reason for it?

I mean you don't need to be nutritionist or a dietician to know that if you eat McDonalds three times a day you are going to put on weight and your health is going to suffer.

I'm obviously being thick, but can somebody please explain the point please. Or was it simply to make money? If this is the case, then fair enough.

Also, the two fat girls suing McDonald's for making them fat - purlease: thankfully the suit failed, but what a scary precedent if it hadn't (and the cynic in me wonders whether the fat girls were still chowing down on McD's during the suit).

The fact of the matter is one or two McD's a week will not hurt you.

 

So, please enlighten me.

 

Ta

[Ducati]

OK, am answering my own question now........we've just been discussing this in the office, and there is a school of thought that some people are really too thick to realise that eating this on a daily basis is not good for you.

 

If this is the case, I'm absolutely flabbergasted!

[natalie_1982]

On the estate I live on the staple diet for most of the kids in McDonalds, takeaway chips, deep fried spare ribs or KFC, and I don't just mean once or twice a week I mean as soon as their old enough to eat solids and probably about 4 times a week.  I believe that some people don't recognise the health risks from eating such crap.

I found the documentary/ film entertaining but I think anyone that tries to look after their, and their children's, health should know this already.  I don't think it will reach the people who don't know any better.

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[natalie_1982]

I was going to say......!

I also completely agree with you re the two girls suing McD's - only in America eh?!

[5029]

At the beginning of the film it explained  his reasons for doing it. 

 

The lawyers for McDs against the 2 girls trying to sue them were told that unless they could prove that  McDs were solely responsible for the detrimental effect to their health, the case would be thrown out.  So Morgan decided to prove it

[ems27]

i was absolutely baffled by it. After 2 tedious hours of being patronised, i learnt that eating fast food too often can damage my health and Mcdonalds is a large corporation that makes millions of dollars all over the world.Hardly a revelation. If anything  this pointles film has made me like mcdonalds more.  

[milly143]

ooohh think i might have mcdonalds for dinner tonight now I have it in my head.

No such things as bad publicity hey!

[trionam]

i enjoyed watching it but it certainly didnt teach me anything I didnt already know i think things are going to far when people try to sue a company for knowingly putting what is labled as junk food into their own bodies.

[GucciGal]

I agree with trionam, I didn't learn anything but found the film pretty interesting. The best bit was when they showed how chicken nuggets were made .... NOT!

[Mattk]

mcdonalds had argued something along the lines of that you could eat their food for 30 days solid with no adverse effects.

it is astonishing to think that people thought they could succesfully sue mcd's for their own greediness.

typical yanks - all they know is sueing and eating ! 

[QmunkE]

McDonalds had tried to claim that the two girls suing them could only proceed if they could prove that McDonalds was the source of their "injuries" (since when is being overweight by eating to much being injured? Bloody lawyers). The point of the film was to illustrate that by eating McDonalds excessively, you could seriously damage your health. Obvious, perhaps, but a powerful message.

And, no matter what the official statement from McDonalds is, I think it's fairly likely that they removed their "SuperSize" options as a result of this film.

[samz90]

Im suprised that the suit failed. Afterall you can sue for anything in America. I think I once heard that a lady sued a furniture store because she tripped over her own son. She said that there should have been signs warning parnets to control their children. Funny thing is, she won!!

[stevie21]

I thought it was a great film. No-one set out to try to prove the obvious point that McDonalds isn't health food but the fact remains that McDonalds had paid nutritionists to say that it could be eaten x times a week as part of a healthy diet.
They fail to mention the additives which are arguably there to make their food more "addictive".
They also sued someone for saying that there's more nutrition in the packaging than in the burgers so were obviously trying to distance themselves from the fatty unhealthy fast food image and position their food as an acceptable part of your diet. In addition they sell salads which (in the film) were shown to be just as fatty as a Big Mac if I remember correctly.

Ultimately, a number of doctors completely underestimated the damaging effects that this experiment would have so if people with medical expertise can do this, the general population can easily assume that McDonalds isn't as bad for you as it actually is. That alone justifies it.

[flaming]

I haven't seen the film but I am surprised that it did not show what was in the burgers. However, no-one  has mentioned that in the replies.  I have learnt from elsewhere that various makes of burgers, sausages and pies are made from mechnically recovered meat, with a high proportion of water added.  Condiments and spices mask the lack of  flavour.  I can afford to feel smug as I am a vegetarian except that I am probably eating a high proportion of pesticides.  I eat Soil Association accredited organic veg. whenever possible.

[flaming]

I haven't seen the film but I am surprised that it did not show what was in the burgers. However, no-one  has mentioned that in the replies.  I have learnt from elsewhere that various makes of burgers, sausages and pies are made from mechnically recovered meat, with a high proportion of water added.  Condiments and spices mask the lack of  flavour.  I can afford to feel smug as I am a vegetarian except that I am probably eating a high proportion of pesticides.  I eat Soil Association accredited organic veg. whenever possible.