The McDonalds Diet
A while back I heard about a film called “Super Size Me!” by Morgan Spurlock.
The website for the film says:
During the journey, Spurlock also put his own body on the line, living on nothing but McDonald’s for an entire month with three simple rules:
1) No options: he could only eat what was available over the counter (water included!)
2) No supersizing unless offered
3) No excuses: he had to eat every item on the menu at least once
It all adds up to a fat food bill, harrowing visits to the doctor, and compelling viewing for anyone who’s ever wondered if man could live on fast food alone.
I haven’t seen the film. It is billed as satirical, but it looks like it still tries to advance the thought that McDonalds/fast food companies are evil, etc.
If that is the case: that’s wrong. We’re all in charge of what we stuff our mouths with. We’re all in charge of what we eat. There is nothing wrong with some McDonalds french fries once or twice a month… eat them a few times a week and you are making a mistake. There is nothing wrong with McDonalds, either.
You can eat at McDonalds and have a healthy lifestyle - even lose weight - or that is what Soso Whaley set out to prove.
Calling her program “Debunk the Junk“, Whaley ate only at McDonalds for 30 days. Her site isn’t updated, though, so don’t bother. I had to do a little searching to find out how it ended up.
“I knew I could do it,” declared Whaley, an adjunct fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in a press release issued by the D.C.-based nonprofit, nonpartisan public-policy group. “I can’t believe all the attention over Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me film. All he did was eat like a pig to make his point.”
Whaley plans to release her documentary this summer.
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May 14th, 2004 at 4:18 pm
I live on a lot of fast food (in fact I had McD’s today) but I try to make my weekends full of good food.
I don’t think that the type of food is as bad as the amount of portion. In Houston, if you order BBQ you are likely to get about 4x as much food as you thought you would get.