I saw "Supersize Me!" yesterday, ask me anything

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While Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is the one many of us are waiting for (indeed, the trailer alone received applause from the audience), there's another documentary out there that you can catch in the meantime. It's called "Supersize Me", and it chronicles the not-so-gradual decline of the filmmaker who eats only McDonald's food for a month.

Anyone religiously devoted to The Daily Show knows this much just from the interview with Spurlock. But what you need to see is that this movie isn't just about one man's flirtation with fatty liver. It's our whole society dissing the very idea of health. Instances of adult onset diabetes are waaaay up, nationwide. Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in our population -- nearly 25% in some states.

And the ones getting the worst of it are the kids. From the fast food joints pushing their wares on kids to the mess in public schools, it's obvious our children are in serious trouble. Spurlock films some school lunches and it's just DAMNING: between direct franchising to cola companies, 2nd-rate meal programs which don't do anything to ensure a balanced diet, and cutbacks in PE classes and recesses from the no-child-left-behind insanity, it becomes quite clear that children are getting hit real hard by our lax nutrition standards. To make matters worse, once they reach adolescence they're faced with a glut of propaganda about how they should look and dress, and for many of them that's just an impossibility -- thanks to the shit they've been putting into their bodies for eight years already.

Oh, you want to see this film. Don't let it pass you by.

more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390521/