Super Size Me

[GregD]

I had to turn away from the puke scene, and the surgical procedure. Both were just disgusting. :( However, this is really worth seeing and sharing with others.

http://supersizeme.com/

It makes a powerful point abount the contribution of the fast food industry to the obesity crisis in the US.

[Lefty48197]

1. I haven't seen the film, but...

my understanding is that is the guy eats nothing but MacDonalds food and puts on a ton of weight in only about one month.
Some of the food these fast-food joints pedal is absolute crap. Not to pick on MacDonalds exclusively, but a very common mean might include a big mac, fried, and a coke. "Supersize" it, and that meal might run about 1500 calories. That's about enough calories for an entire day for a 120 lb person. 1/2 a day for a 240 lb person.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Saw this twice

Once in a theater just because the filmmaker is from West Virginia, and once at home because my BF didn't realize I'd watched it already.

One of the most important sections, IMHO, dealt with school lunches. I suffered through the federal school lunch program, including Ronnie Raygun's "ketchup is a vegetable" phase. (At the time, a good friend's mother was the head cook at our high school. Chris would tell us about how her yelling about how goddamn stupid is this man during all this.) In an era where accountability and student performance is everything, the example of the school for "troubled" students provides some serious lessons that we need to be shouting from the mountaintop. Would the medication of students (especially boys) be so prevalent if children were not fed crap at school twice a day, and instead received healthy, organic, and tasteful meals? Especially low-income children whose only chance for a healthy hot meal comes at school.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. We've ate there a million times,not three times since we've seen the

movie,a year ago.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Have not seen the movie

but read "Fast Food Nation". Since then I only stop at McDonalds or similar fast food places only in dire need when taking longer road trips and have to keep going with only a brief stop.

[ramapo]

5. Watch it

It makes a much stronger impact than Fast Food Nation.

The documented physical effect on the subject's body is amazing. So is the artful dodging of the McDonalds' PR hack.