Supersize Me
Posted: Sep 13th 2004, 6:02 am
I saw this film on Saturday. For pre-discussion of this, see this thread. for discussion on obesity, see here
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the film and felt it informative too. I went in expecting an hour-and-a-half diatribe against mcdonalds, but actually, I found it reasonably considered, and had a wider focus on the causes of obesity (cutting classes on health, physical education in schools, advertising aimed at kids etc) than just focussing on the idea that 'McDonalds is evil'. There were some shocking demonstrations of ignorance from the people who were interviewed, and some truly awful film footage of obese people and the lengths they will go to in order to lose weight. I'm not going to go into all of it, in case anyone else wants to see it.
However, I do think that as a 'scientific experiment', the idea of eating mcdonalds all day every day for 30 days is flawed because he altered so many other aspects of his lifestyle. All he shows is what it will do to you if you do that. It is undoubtedly possible to be healthy and have the occasional mcdonalds. What I did find interesting is that even their salads contain something in the region of 51g fat if you have the dressing. bleugh.
Further, in the ultimate irony, my local independent cinema who were showing the film is situation across the road from the UK McDonalds headquarters. I should take a photo...
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the film and felt it informative too. I went in expecting an hour-and-a-half diatribe against mcdonalds, but actually, I found it reasonably considered, and had a wider focus on the causes of obesity (cutting classes on health, physical education in schools, advertising aimed at kids etc) than just focussing on the idea that 'McDonalds is evil'. There were some shocking demonstrations of ignorance from the people who were interviewed, and some truly awful film footage of obese people and the lengths they will go to in order to lose weight. I'm not going to go into all of it, in case anyone else wants to see it.
However, I do think that as a 'scientific experiment', the idea of eating mcdonalds all day every day for 30 days is flawed because he altered so many other aspects of his lifestyle. All he shows is what it will do to you if you do that. It is undoubtedly possible to be healthy and have the occasional mcdonalds. What I did find interesting is that even their salads contain something in the region of 51g fat if you have the dressing. bleugh.
Further, in the ultimate irony, my local independent cinema who were showing the film is situation across the road from the UK McDonalds headquarters. I should take a photo...