Super size me

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Saw the movie. One really needs a strong stomach for this. I was getting sick just watching him trying to digest all that McDonald food. Many years ago, while at school I would eat a Big Mac at least once a week but had not touched it for years. Wendy, Burger King - on occasions, but Big Mac just makes me sick.

In addition, the hand held camera made me nauseous, too, like being sea sick.

Still, an interesting movie. Few points, though:

Each one of us is different. Some swear by the Atkins diet while someone in Florida - I think - is suing because the diet made him sick. This is why there is no such thing as one diet fits all. One person in the movie eats several BM a day! and is slim with low cholesterol level.

The "guinea pig" of the movie - the narrator - went from a really healthy life style to eating only McDonald and I am sure this made a difference. Had he started with this "diet" gradually the results may not have been so striking.

The professor - don't remember his name - who was behind the successful lawsuits against the tobacco companies and is now behind suing the fast food industry said something of this vein: many are now overweight. We know that this is not the small neighborhood restaurants - we always had them; we know that this is not home cooking - we always had this. What's left, then? The fast food places.

But, hey, as the movie states in the beginning - we did not eat that much out the way we do now; we did not use that much processed food even in our home cooking and, most importantly, we did not live sedentary life, when kids now play virtual games on their computers instead of running outdoor.

The part of school lunch was really sobering. Wonder how many parents and school boards and PTA would demand action.

[Leprechan29]

1. I never eat at McDonalds anymore

The last four times I got sick/food poisoning

But I agree - each of us is different. Example:

My biology class recently did a survey of the foods that each of us ate during a single day. In my survey, I recorded 6116 Calories (recommended was 3000), 221 grams of protein (59), 1011 Carbohydrates (460), and the list goes on (I didn't have one category where I had less than twice the recommended amount). Regardless, I am a healthy weight and have no food-related diseases or the like.

My point is this: each of us has a different metabolism that we are basically stuck with unless we change exercize patterns, and that there is no one-size-fits-all way to eat.

An even more basic point: I agree with what you said in the original post.