"gman99" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:
Suze said:Quoting dwacon:
Quoted message said:My TIVO recorded this movie for me -- it was interesting to watch.
I swore
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:off Mickey Dee's a long time ago...
Can you believe it took over 12 weeks of austerity and working out
to undo
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:the damage from one month of eating McDo's ???
I don't find it surprising at all. Spurlock basically doubled his
caloric intake from ~2500 cal to ~5000 cal/day (oink, oink), avoided
exercise, and ate every single meal there.
Spurlock certainly could have continued to walk instead of taking
cabs.
Quoted message said:He also could have continued to eat ~2500 cal/day instead of stuffing
Quoted message said:his face to prove a point.
But then, there would be no sensationalist story for people to lap
up.
His reduction in exercise was the MORE likely culprit of many of his
woes than his WOE. The guy was wlaking upwards of ten miles a day then
he stopped cold turkey and started cabbing it...seems very few people
pick up on this.
That too was part of the design of his experiment. Most Americans walk less
than 5000 steps per day, so he wore a pedometer and restricted his walking
to that much.
He wanted to see, and document, the health effects of eating "typical" meals
at McD's, and exercising no more than the average couch potato. The fact
that it had such a huge impact on his health, in such a short period of
time, was pretty interesting.
Was it a documentary with a distinct point of view? Sure, most
documentaries are. But, it was also very well done, and made it's point.
And, McD's ended their "Super Size" offers even before the movie came out,
so it achieved some good too.
GG
