30lb!
It's got to the Coldplay section of Live 8 (leave your name at www.live8live.com), which for me is dullness personified, so it's time to comment on the movie we watched last night.
"Supersize Me!" is a documentary feature looking at the effects of the fast food industry on America in general, and specifically, one person's health. Morgan Spurlock, director, takes it upon himself to eat nothing but McDonald's food for a month (morning, noon and night) and check the effects on his body. Alongside this, he looks at various aspects of the fast food industry, for example the way they advertise, appeal to kids and worm their way into schools. In fact, one of the most amazing sections was when he showed pictures of several well-known faces to a group of 5-year-olds. They could all identify Ronald McDonald, but only one could say which picture was George Washington. (Most bizarrely, one picture was held up - not in view of the camera - and the child guessed 'George W Bush?'. It was then revealed to be a picture of Jesus)
The director's girlfriend is a vegan chef, and can barely stand to watch him do his experiment. At the start, he is in perfect shape. By the end, his doctors find that he has pickled his liver, just like an alcoholic would. He gets sick straight after his first supersize meal, then depressed as the month goes on and finally addicted to the food he is eating. Not really wishing to reveal the end, but he does survive his ordeal; however, it took him 14 months afterwards to lose the weight he had gained. In total, he put 30lb of sugar into his body over the month - 1lb per day! Think about that next time you tuck into a Big Mac (I'm sure it won't stop me, by the way, but I certainly feel better informed).
Apparently a few weeks after the film premiered in the US, McD's took the supersize option off their menus. They said it was nothing to do with the movie at all.
Highly recommended.
"Supersize Me!" is a documentary feature looking at the effects of the fast food industry on America in general, and specifically, one person's health. Morgan Spurlock, director, takes it upon himself to eat nothing but McDonald's food for a month (morning, noon and night) and check the effects on his body. Alongside this, he looks at various aspects of the fast food industry, for example the way they advertise, appeal to kids and worm their way into schools. In fact, one of the most amazing sections was when he showed pictures of several well-known faces to a group of 5-year-olds. They could all identify Ronald McDonald, but only one could say which picture was George Washington. (Most bizarrely, one picture was held up - not in view of the camera - and the child guessed 'George W Bush?'. It was then revealed to be a picture of Jesus)
The director's girlfriend is a vegan chef, and can barely stand to watch him do his experiment. At the start, he is in perfect shape. By the end, his doctors find that he has pickled his liver, just like an alcoholic would. He gets sick straight after his first supersize meal, then depressed as the month goes on and finally addicted to the food he is eating. Not really wishing to reveal the end, but he does survive his ordeal; however, it took him 14 months afterwards to lose the weight he had gained. In total, he put 30lb of sugar into his body over the month - 1lb per day! Think about that next time you tuck into a Big Mac (I'm sure it won't stop me, by the way, but I certainly feel better informed).
Apparently a few weeks after the film premiered in the US, McD's took the supersize option off their menus. They said it was nothing to do with the movie at all.
Highly recommended.
posted by Mr Thomas @ 2:32 pm
3 Comments:
At 3:07 pm ,
The inimitable Mrs T. said...
Kind of spoilt it for anyone who might have wanted to watch it for themselves, didn't you?!
At 7:22 pm ,
Sarah said...
well, we saw it at the cinema in London last Sept. Pretty gross on the big screen! p.s. did you realise Ben Hur is on telly tonight, you could have saved yourself the rental!
At 7:50 pm ,
Mr Thomas said...
The thing is, we have the DVD rental scheme precisely because we can never see/video things when they're on TV - something goes wrong, or we forget. So we build up a huge list on lovefilm and work our way through it. That said, we've just cancelled the account because we need to save money!
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