MCDONALD'S DIET TO REPLACE PLASTIC SURGERY
I recently watched Super Size Me, and unless you've been living in a cave, you know the movie follows Morgan Spurlock in his own personal experiment to see what would happen to him if he ate nothing but McDonald's for 3 meals a day for 30 days. If he was asked to Super Size, he would have to SuperSize his meal.
Well, I think we can all see where this is going. I thought I could anyway. I had the same attitude as Spurlock's doctors. I thought he would gain weight, have higher cholesterol and higher blood pressure by the time it was through. I was shocked at the amount of weight he had gained and the degree of physical pain and stress he was feeling. Really though, eating fast food of any kind is like childbirth, it makes you feel like crap, but you forget how bad it hurt and do it again.
At the end of the 30 days, he'd gained (if I recall correctly) about 5 pounds a week and consumed 30 pounds of sugar. Spurlock said that the only food item at McDonald's that doesn't contain sugar is the french fries.
This is a particularly interesting factoid because in the movie, Spurlock interviews a man, Dan Gorske I believe (Man Eats His 18,000th Big Mac), that eats a Big Mac every day. He's thin as a rail and doesn't have high cholesterol, but at the end of the movie, Spurlock notes that Gorske rarely eats the fries.
In the special features on the DVD, Spurlock also runs an experiment to see what would happen to the food if it was left to rot. He took several McDonald's sandwiches and an order of fries and placed them in glass jars. He also purchased a standard home-made type hamburger and placed that in a jar as well. Well, the standard hamburger was the first to develop mold and "aroma". That was followed by the chicken sandwich. Eventually, everything began to decompose except for the french fries. I forget how long he ran the experiment, but in the end, the french fries never decomposed.
I unintentionally ran this experiment myself. We moved to a new house in July. During that move, we ordered a lot of fast food. Some of the french fries, from Jack-In-The-Box fell in the back of the car. This is a picture of them taken yesterday.
This illustrates 2 points.
Critics have also complained that Spurlock ate like a pig when ordering his 3 squares from the Golden Arches. I think the point was to eat McDonald's in the same quantities people normally eat at McDonald's. Really. Who goes to McDonald's to eat salads?!
When our boys go to McDonald's they order the Double QPC (or Big Mac) meal, SuperSized and cookies or pies for dessert, which is why we don't eat there very often, but that was pretty much how Spurlock ate, a hefty meal and dessert, or something sweet.
So, who eats McDonald's, or fast food, 3 times a day. I don't know anyone that eats fast food 3 times a day, but I know people that eat fast food twice a day, since they skip breakfast, most days of the week. One person, in particular, is suffering from adult on-set diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma and a slew of respiratory problems. I don't doubt that others are probably in the same situation.
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Well, I think we can all see where this is going. I thought I could anyway. I had the same attitude as Spurlock's doctors. I thought he would gain weight, have higher cholesterol and higher blood pressure by the time it was through. I was shocked at the amount of weight he had gained and the degree of physical pain and stress he was feeling. Really though, eating fast food of any kind is like childbirth, it makes you feel like crap, but you forget how bad it hurt and do it again.
At the end of the 30 days, he'd gained (if I recall correctly) about 5 pounds a week and consumed 30 pounds of sugar. Spurlock said that the only food item at McDonald's that doesn't contain sugar is the french fries.
This is a particularly interesting factoid because in the movie, Spurlock interviews a man, Dan Gorske I believe (Man Eats His 18,000th Big Mac), that eats a Big Mac every day. He's thin as a rail and doesn't have high cholesterol, but at the end of the movie, Spurlock notes that Gorske rarely eats the fries.
In the special features on the DVD, Spurlock also runs an experiment to see what would happen to the food if it was left to rot. He took several McDonald's sandwiches and an order of fries and placed them in glass jars. He also purchased a standard home-made type hamburger and placed that in a jar as well. Well, the standard hamburger was the first to develop mold and "aroma". That was followed by the chicken sandwich. Eventually, everything began to decompose except for the french fries. I forget how long he ran the experiment, but in the end, the french fries never decomposed.
I unintentionally ran this experiment myself. We moved to a new house in July. During that move, we ordered a lot of fast food. Some of the french fries, from Jack-In-The-Box fell in the back of the car. This is a picture of them taken yesterday.
This illustrates 2 points.
- I am a slob.
- These things will be around with the cockroaches, and I hate cockroaches.
Critics have also complained that Spurlock ate like a pig when ordering his 3 squares from the Golden Arches. I think the point was to eat McDonald's in the same quantities people normally eat at McDonald's. Really. Who goes to McDonald's to eat salads?!
When our boys go to McDonald's they order the Double QPC (or Big Mac) meal, SuperSized and cookies or pies for dessert, which is why we don't eat there very often, but that was pretty much how Spurlock ate, a hefty meal and dessert, or something sweet.
So, who eats McDonald's, or fast food, 3 times a day. I don't know anyone that eats fast food 3 times a day, but I know people that eat fast food twice a day, since they skip breakfast, most days of the week. One person, in particular, is suffering from adult on-set diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma and a slew of respiratory problems. I don't doubt that others are probably in the same situation.
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