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[@guanyu8539]

You don't GET depressed by eating McD's for five days in a row. But, my god, depression can certainly lead to you eating McD's for five days in a row.

[@ecoonrad4753]

Yeah, didn't a doctor say he had the liver on an alcoholic but it turned out it wasn't because eating McDonald's for a month did that, man was actually just an alcoholic

[@WillHest]

Came here to say the same thing. He has since admitted the liver issues were due to his alcoholism

[@ferinzz]

One fact that has changed my view on so many documentaries is that - there is no requirement to be truthful, accurate or honest. Documentaries only require that you deliver an emotional impact.

[@creed8712]

I’m shocked it wasn’t mentioned that the dude who did this was also an alcoholic, seems like it would be very Important to the point of this that his health effects were not entirely due to the McDonald’s which really discredits everything except the basic point

[@bixcool3346]

I was waiting for this to come up but it is interesting to see that they can take apart his doc even without this huge problem

[@appropriate-channelname3049]

The whitest kids you know actually did a parody poking fun of the doc where the charcuterie just drinks whisky.

[@biz0unc3]

That's the answer to why he wasn't losing weight after the experiment - as well as other factors I'm sure.

[@Keichimaru]

I absolutely love this video. Every time I see someone hailing "SuperSize Me" as some great food documentary, I always point them towards Fat Head and the response that proves that Spurlock lied through his entire film. Thank you for doing this, and giving me a video I can directly reference for people.

[@SaberusTerras]

Yes, I found Fat Head to be much more credible... Namely he actually published his results, and was stonewalled by Spurlock when he asked the sensationalist to do the same.

[@Keichimaru]

@@SaberusTerras I also appreciated that, unlike Spurlock, Tom Naughton provided interviews with actual nutritionists who explained things in a way that is easy to digest (pun intended). Spurlock's so called "Documentary" was corrupted by his confirmation bias.

[@rashira9610]

To be fair, Supersize me IS a great documentary. Maybe not in the way Morgan intended, but it;s a great watch if you don't take it seriously.

[@Keichimaru]

@@rashira9610 It's not a documentary, and to call it such does a disservice to everyone who puts in the actual effort to make a real documentary. His film is a hit piece on McDonalds, plain and simple. Designed to slander the company and mislead viewers.

[@jaded9234]

Of all the things in this video, I think the "Why are you eating a salad, then?" comment has to be the most depressing comment in this whole video detailing a sham documentary. Like, you're on your high-horse about others' culinary habits yet, how can you be so repelled by vegetables that you can't process that someone simply enjoys the taste of salad with Ranch? Vegetables are more than just a simple objective. As to the other guy's following comment, Olive oil is a poor substitute for Ranch. I'm someone who avoids ranch and regularly has olive oil as part of their diet and even I can see the error in that comparison. These guys should try enjoying vegetables as more than a "requirement", rather than judging others. Say what you want about the fast-food enjoyers, but at least they actually enjoy what they eat. If I can work-out, eat healthy, and NOT judge others' decisions, I'm sure these gents can as well.

[@DangStank]

The one thing I remember from the documentary was them interviewing some guys on the street about McDonald’s. And this relatively slim guy is like “Yeah, I eat McDonald’s every day and look at me. Just gotta exercise” Or something like that. They played it for us in school btw

[@WlatPziupp]

Which is nonsense. It takes insane amounts of exercise, and time, to burn off a hamburger, and by the time you're done you're so desperate for sugar you'd have an orgasm just looking at a large soda. I have a terrible diet too, and I've had that same diet at 70kgs and 90kgs, the difference and almost always pretty much the only factor that matters is amount. Didn't lift anything heavier than a ton of beer that whole time, didn't walk any further than needed to get a ton of beer, just cut portions in about half and upped the frequency of food to 2-4 times per day. Regular people aren't prepared to do the sort of exercise you gotta do to counteract a chocolate bar. "Just exercise" is terrible terrible advice for attaining or maintaining a healthy weight

[@TrepidDestiny]

We all eagerly await his next smash hit documentary: "Hydrate Me", where he goes in deep to explain how water is wet.

[@Mylifeintechnicolor]

I saw it at my youth education class on social science. When the film was over literally almost 80% of my class went out and ordered a burger and fries from a lokal burger place, cause we got hungry seeing the film. Our teacher was baffled on how we could mis understand the meaning of the movie, which we almost all gave the explanation that "yes, Mac D's is not healthy to eat every day, but we don't do that and the fast food here in denmark is not as bad as those in the US." All in all what did she expect when her class is part of the youth program for technical and science orientation classes (HTX), we live and breath computer and math. :) PS. This happen in Denmark and the youth program is called HTX.

[@SecretSexSkeleton]

Houston, Texas says "give us our acronym back"

[@RossLeeson]

Same thing happened at Uni with Jamie Oliver’s anti-chx doc. Me and my mates went out and got chx and chips straight after. Haha although in the long run I do now choose whole cuts at home.

[@g_y.rtz420]

Everytime i rewatch it while stoned i do crave bigmacs. Especially because A GUY WHO EATS BIG MACS DAILY FEATURED ON THE DOCUMENTARY CONTRADICTS HIS ENTIRE ENDEAVOUR. Still great fun to rewatch for nostalgia and unintentionally funny moments. And i bet everyone who went out and saw this in theaters back then (if it was shown in cinemas) went out for McDonald's immediately after. Theres just so much McDonald's branding shown at you that its practically free advertising.

[@carbumb4229]

You should cover Super Size Me 2 "Holy Chicken." That one he opens a full disclosure restaurant telling people all the fluff that is used to make food sound more appealing such as saying crispy instead of fried and free ranged chickens. That one is also undercut by his short sightedness because he raised one batch of chicken and closed when those were sold out. Never been so mad over something so stupid.

[@calvinmusquez9162]

I love that you mentioned Fat Head in the video. If anyone hasn’t seen it, I really recommend it. The premise is that he repeats the experiment of eating nothing but fast food for a month, but loses weight and improves his overall health by just being smart about it. In addition to the experiment and the throwing shade at Spurlock he goes really in depth on the data and the history of public health education in the U.S. and it’s just a really entertaining watch.

[@rashira9610]

Could have sworn at one point I saw I video on here pointing out why Fat Heads was a crock of shit just as much as Supersize me...and that there is a reasonable suspicion the guy was working WITH McDonalds to push that narrative of unhealthy foods equaling weight loss

[@directorscarlett1932]

There's a brilliant line in Doctor Who, of a little girl going inside the Tardis for the first time. The Doctor: "A can of coke is about this big 🫸🫷. But the amount of sugar in it is this big 🫸 🫷" Little girl: " Why are you telling me this?" The Doctor: "Well, it's a bit like my Tardis. It's bigger on the inside!"

[@lazypaladin]

Arnold: "What do you expect to find in my fridge?" _Aright, gimme your best answers. I expect _*_another fridge._*

[@JMDarkly1]

...I was forced to watch this for health class in high school. Our teacher was so proud of herself for making us takes notes on it. This was like 20 years ago before we had easy internet access.

[@hightde13]

My favorite 'per serving' ever was a box of these cheese cake 'bites' They were squares of cheesecake covered in chocolate, 12 to a box. On a whim I checked the little health box and at first I was like "what, 1200 calories per serving!?" but then I looked at the serving size, 6 squares. 1 serving was half the entire box. Most truthful serving size I've seen on a product. That was written by a group of blokes sitting around going 'Hmm, we need a serving size, how many do you eat in a sitting? When I'm feeling good or sad? Ummm, its a box of chocolate covered cheesecake, so lets go with sad. Oh, half the box easy. Right! Half the box it is."

[@hhiippiittyy]

How about when you're feeling good? Ummm... Also half the box.

[@---l---]

And Mr Rogers was a vegetarian. As we learned before, "I could never eat anything that had a mother."

[@keiththorpe9571]

I recall watching this when it first released, and even as I watched it, I maintained (and have since read health articles about this very thing that support this) that all of his symptoms were psychosomatic. He was expecting to feel and experience these symptoms, so he did. He was under stress, he was documenting everything he did which was far less prevalent than it is today, so his body was going haywire. The time it takes for a poor diet to begin to have a measurable effect on your health, it takes years, not weeks, not days. You have to eat like that for years.

[@yoyo51010]

I live in Mexico here the government implemented a black seal policy if a package item has too much sodium, fat, or other stuff of that might be considered unhealthy those item must show a black seal in the front telling people this is bad for you, a lot "healthy" diet food got flag since they were advertised as healthy but according to the government they were not, of course many people ignore those seals but hey now we know

[@RhapsosProductions]

The intellectual dishonesty really stands out to me now I'm doing a scientific degree. No scientific paper worth anything, and even some less upstanding ones, would touch this for all of the reasons mentioned. However, it did help get McD's to put healthier options out, and cancel the supersize, so it wasn't all bad!

[@TheAlanRaptor]

The heart palpation thing was the point that any non-hypochondriac adult called BS. As a child, when i watched Super Size Me, I believed it and was scared away from McDonalds. But as an adult, you're telling me that in one month, you went from the heart of a healthy man who exercises and eats health food to the heart of a man who has been 50 pounds overweight for years. 😆😆😆 Yeah, right Spurlock......

[@themrme4031]

My favorite rumor when working in a Canadian McDonald's was that we got our meat from India. Just sheer absurdity.

[@gruglife375]

I believe him about the 5k calories. From what I remember of the movie he never ordered one "meal" at a time. Meal in this sense being the numbered meals on the menu. He'd get like, a number 1, a number 5, and a number 6 all at the same time and eat all of it - fries, drinks, everything - by himself. Doing that, three times a day... yeah, 5k easily. I always thought it was weird that he'd order a family's worth of food and then complain about side effects.

[@actuallywaffles5267]

That still seems unrealistic though. What person can eat 2 or 3 McDonald's meals several times a day every day? Your body physically just can't unless he's either not finishing most of the food or he's throwing up half of it within the hour.

[@gruglife375]

I'm pretty sure there's a clip of him puking in a parking lot in there somewhere. I think I'm going to have to rewatch Supersize Me. Even if just to make sure I'm giving accurate info about it.

[@Gantros]

I remember when I was in high school during the late 90s/early 2000s, McDonald’s sold Bucket Size Fries, which was basically a 48 ounce cup of fries. There were variations from restaurant to restaurant, apparently, with some locations offering the cup being filled with fries, nuggets, or soda.

[@StMargorach]

Nuggetssss Man, in the behelsde macdonals had this yellow sauce with some small green bits in it. It's awesome and I miss it... I now live in Thailand and they don't have that sauce XD

[@eduardocruz4341]

YEAH...SUPERSIZE BABY😂😂😂😂 You get a 44 oz soda with a second same sized cup filled fries and your burger ahhhh the good old days😂😂😂😂

[@XCloud123]

If you guys want something to look into, look at the Charged lemonade that Panera Bread makes. Its got like (or used to) have ~390 milligrams of caffeine in the large. At the time before the death of someone they didnt even tell you up front that it HAD caffeine or was a energy drink, and people were getting multiple refills. The problem with this is that you cant really taste Caffeine like you can suger, so someone who mite have a bad reaction wouldnt know they were drinking that much.

[@ipionable]

They Mentioned Caffeine in their marketing, but thye sold it as "Naturally sourced caffeine" and still didn't list how much. pair that with just how much sugar was in the drink and heart attacks were inevitable. I don't know who comes up with this crap, but its all soulless corporate crap aimed to ink profit, whether it kills us or not.

[@StMargorach]

You can taste caffeine though, it's why it's always in super sweetened beverages (to mask it)

[@XCloud123]

@@StMargorach i did not know that. I dont consume caffeine products (i get tired if i do). That does reinforce the idea that companys need to be up front with the ingredients that are in their products even more then, since the taste is being masked

[@StMargorach]

@@XCloud123 yeah. (ow and cafeïne tastes bitter by itself)

[@anthonyamurri9278]

They made us watch this in high school

[@BadgerOff32]

I haven't watched them for a while (and I'm sure they've also been heavily criticized), but I always found the Micheal Moore documentaries like Sicko and Bowling for Columbine quite eye opening. I remember one scene in Bowling where he goes to open up a bank account because they advertise that if you open up an account with them, they will give you a gun as a 'welcome gift'. Cut to him just standing there, in a bank, holding a gun, that THEY have just handed to him, and he's just like...."don't you think this is a bad idea???" Yes. Yes I do Micheal. It's a _very bad_ idea indeed!! And in Sicko, that was where I first found just out how FUCKED UP the American healthcare system actually is! It's actually quite a hard watch. There was one woman who was paying _thousands_ a month for drugs that she needed to stay alive, and Moore takes her across the border to Mexico, about a 2 hour drive, and she's able to get the same medication for about 20 bucks, She just breaks down in tears realizing how badly she's getting screwed by the American system.

[@NemesisOgreKing]

Moore's just as bad if not worse than Spurlock. Getting the gun for making a bank account still took a month to get and had to go through the normal checks anyway.

[@douglasgrant5264]

And they didn't give him any ammo. He also tried to associate the NRA with the KKK by them being formed in the same year. NRA was started because of the terrible accuracy of union troops in the civil war. The goal was to get civilians shooting so they'd make better soldiers.

[@heath6802]

This film didn’t have the effect it intended on me as a little kid because I don’t like hamburgers and thus, I can count on my one hand how many times I’ve been to a fast food joint. You didn’t have to tell me “Ohhh it’ll kill you!!!” “So gross!!” “Don’t give your MONEY!” It was already my personal choice not to? And why do I care if other people go there to eat?

[@namecomingsoon9517]

My mom showed me this when it came out cause i was a fat kid (over 200 lbs and that was quiet a lot for the age i was) and i didnt think anything of it. I did get in better shape and am healthier than i was then. But even before mow i thought when i first saw it “yeah that doesnt seem healthy to eat that stuff everyday. Good thing i don’t do that” i was fat. I wasnt stupid. And there was even a guy a few years ago whos a personal trainer who did a similar test. He ate only jack in the box for a full month to prove it doesnt matter what you eat as long as you are active and the dude stayed in shape and ripped the whole time literally making short videos of himself doing push ups with donuts coming down a treadmill for him to eat

[@Keichimaru]

Fat Head was a much better documentary, made by Tom Naughton. He made it as a direct response to Spurlock's "film" to disprove all of the bullshit claim that Spurlock was making. He ate McDonalds for a month, but ate like a rational human being would. He didn't cheat by using nothing but salads, but rather ordered only the amount of food he was actually hungry for. He didn't force himself to eat food that he didn't have the appetite for, or needlessly supersize the meals just because they asked him to (which was a stupid rule to start with.) He actually LOST weight eating nothing but McDonalds for a month and his doctor was just floored by that. After watching it, I followed the advice of the nutritionists that Naughton interviewed, and over the course of a year I dropped 40lbs. Spurlock's film was total bullshit, but Naughton's rebuttal was well thought out and very much worth watching.

[@nujevad28]

@@Keichimaru Changing variables isn't very accurate. You can't claim to do the same experiment when you deliberately don't follow things to the letter.

[@Keichimaru]

@@nujevad28 He didn't claim to be doing the EXACT same experiment, he claimed to prove that you could eat McDonalds for 30 days and lose weight... Which he did. You should really watch it before criticizing, as trying to defend Spurlock's lies is a very bad look. if he were to "follow it to the letter" as you suggested, then he would have had to lie through the whole thing, just like Spurlock did. You can't re-create Spurlock's "experiment" without including the falsehoods or the entire thing falls apart.. Kind of like they proved it would during Fat Head and every other expose of it since.

[@tobiasmills9647]

Personally, I can't afford to eat 10 fist sized portions of anything a day, let alone fresh fruit.

[@SirWenzlington]

While watching this the first time, i just got really hungry and immediately got McDonald's. I already knew everything. It just seemed appetizing.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

It’s important to remember that, in the USA anyway, the govt was telling us in the 80s and 90s that sugar was harmless and carbs were essential; low fat everything and protein was for body builders. I had a wrestling coach in high school say to eat carbs for recovery and to drop weight! Politics is always slow to catch up with real science and so now the govt is trying to unlearn and relearn two or three generations that are addicted to sugary fried food

[@thomasmason3122]

This is probably the 3rd or 4th time I’ve watched this, this week

[@hershtheonly4799]

All of the "you should be eating" in a day, I've seen as a whole are far too much food/ too expensive. Even the amount of variety is unreasonable. Half a shopping cart and $80 of fruits and vegetables. Every week.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

You dont need to eat $80 of veg in a week mate. You really truly dont.

[@MsMoonDragoon]

I still to this day don't see the point in the entire thing. "I stopped excercising and ate 5000 calories of only mcdonalds and I got unhealthy!" yeah, no shit.

[@Akaritomi]

While in highschool id go to BK about 1 time a week and get the usual whopper, med fries and 8 piece nugs. A litter coke to go with it. Never noticed any changes to my overall health.

[@docmass100]

Ironically the copy of super-size me I watched was lent to me by a regional McDonald's manager

[@hdervish2497]

Every time i eat McDonald's i get horrendous gas pain and my fingers swell. The real issue is that it has little nutritional value beyond salt and protein

[@lindlekindle]

To answer you final question. I am an absolute sucker for a double quarter pounder with cheese

[@dadenwenzl573]

As a former worker at McDonald's during high school who was provided a free lunch and unlimited access to the soda machine, i constantly had a headache from the shuger in the soda. i can never be willing to eat them, not just the food but the poor treatment from staff and customers and the pay.

[@wuraolaolagunju]

"I knew that Super-Size Me guy was full of it!!" - Lily Aldrin

[@matthewinrealtime]

In addition to all of the salt probably dehydrating him, as you mentioned, any headaches he had may have been made worse by high caffeine consumption. Caffeine can lower the pain of headaches so if he walks into the restaurant dehydrated and drinks a coca cola, he'll feel a lot better after. But once the sugar and caffeine spike drops he'll feel lousy again. What he should have done when he had a headache is get the bottled water instead. In fact get two bottles, since they have no calories. That being said my favourite thing to get at McD's is chicken nuggets and fries, and dipping them both in barbecue and mcchicken sauce.

[@justinhockstead3551]

Trust me. There's Americans that agree with the portion sizes in America being too big

[@srendalgaardjensen3423]

Always love the content, and loved the Shawstrength vid XD!

[@erb2323]

My only gripe with vegan food is the fact that so many vegan alternatives are nut based. It's not a viable diet if you've got those kinds of food allergies, and I know too many people who hate to tell you what they put in their meals to risk it.

[@TSKyanite]

Definitely. I don't eat vegan(more pescatarian with chicken occasionally), but I hate nut burgers. I had one that was a mushroom based, and it was just much better

[@Arkios64]

Also, that there's only ever one option. I absolutely adored the Veggie Burger at McD's, the flavor profile was great, unlike anything they serve there. Then they found a supplier for "vegan patties", so now my favorite option has been discontinued in favor of a bland and dry imitation of meat.

[@Nostripe361]

I will admit it probably won’t change my diet but I support harsher rules on food displaying nutrition facts. So that people can make better decisions

[@javis88h]

"Do you know how much sugar is in a coke a cola?" Yes, I've done that thing in primary school where you fill up a coke bottle with sugar

[@asarogers4742]

We watched this in my middle school health class

[@jeffwells641]

There was another guy who did a sort of counter- documentary where he ate nothing but McDonald's for a month and lost like 20lbs. He did it exactly the way you'd expect: ate small portions, didn't eat the large fries, got tea or water or diet soda, etc.

[@jojotheswede8444]

" extremities such as the wang" amazing line, im gonna steal that

[@jplayzow]

"McDonalds isn't healthy" *surprised pikachu face*

[@WaltonSauce]

We watched this in Citizenship in school, even then it seemed a bit obvious that eating shit tonnes of food makes you gain weight.

[@Greenlion_420]

It always made me want to walk to McDonald’s and get a cheap meal back in the day. But I never ate it every day XD

[@tonys6620]

the sweet irony of getting a Burger King commercial before the video plays

[@mechakraken]

That animated intro is very nice

[@thexbigxgreen]

2:32 "Murlock" is actually a pretty sick name for an MMORPG character lol

[@mistertestsubject]

I went on a study tour in LA in 2015 and we all made a point to experience as much US fast food as we could, because it is definitely different to back home. The supersize was discontinued at that point but none of us knew that, so we all got a large. I cannot fathom the size of the supersize, because me at 17 with a metabolism fast enough to see corn I ate 8 hours ago struggled with the large.

[@MoonflowerX30]

I had it showed to me when I was in school for a science class. Even then I was a bit skeptical of it. When I found out how things didn't add up I was surprised just how right I was. But so many people cited it as a reason to people needed to stop eating McDonalds. I kept on going for my once a week meal. Even with how much I sued to eat at that time I couldn't have reached the calories Spurlock said he ate. Also my favourite thing from McDonalds is the nuggets.

[@itscoldinhere]

Apparently the liver gods age came about from his massive consumption of alcohol during the documentary.

[@eduardocruz4341]

I heard that he stopped drinking alcohol during the 30 days so was going through withdrawal since he was an alcoholic

[@Pierrue]

I was forced to watch this in class as a kid and always thought it was a weird fever dream I had 😂

[@Kitsune-Chaos]

This was a great episode if not simply for a good solid discussion on nutrition.

[@MartialArtsFilmFreak]

I’ve never had a serious Vegan mean until I made my own Tofu stir fry. It was delicious.

[@Mandrake_root]

As someone who eats fast food pretty much every single day for lunch and/or dinner, it doesn't affect you the way it does in this documentary. I don't put that much effort into my diet at all honestly. But I stay hydrated and take my vitamin supplements. I spend time with people that I love and have a job that I like, and i am motivated by my hobbies. I'm also on HRT so my hormones are more balanced than they have been my entire life. There are so many factors that go into physical and mental wellbeing, not just diet.

[@spnsman1]

I work at a Starbucks, and most of us that know two particular regulars are somewhat worried about them. One always gets two small coffees with ten sugar packets at least, and drinks them within an hour. Another regular that comes through often gets a large latte with twelve sugar packets, and made breve (using half and half cream), which is less than he’s gotten in the past from what I’ve heard. He’ll also get at least two of those in a day, though not always at the same time

[@itscoldinhere]

There is the guy who has eaten only two Big Macs a day for decades, he is slim and runs marathons. Apparently he is in great health.

[@Humbl3d]

I watched Supersize Me in high school, and it was definitely an interesting doc. However, this movie also spurred at least 2 more docs where men ate nothing but fast food for 30 days while following calorie defecet weight loss guidelines (while not drinking much sugar beverage and continuing regular excersize).They lost weight, lowered cholesterol, and dropped blood pressure.

[@barronvonnoodle]

A thing that always struck me as odd was that Spurlock interviewed don gorske who was eating a big mac every day and that dude disproved his entire documentary by just existing

[@kurukblackflame]

Every vegan person I've ever met has looked unhealthy and malnourished (and the ones I've know have been prone to illness). We definitely eat too much meat these days, but none at all can be just as bad. Using celebs as an example of how great it is seems a bit unfair. These are people that spend 90% of their time looking after their own health and being looked after with the best of everything. Most people just don't have the time or resources to live like that.

[@SamGentry-sm8jt]

Citing historical English diets seems kinda weak them boys were malnourished and ready to die for black pepper and cloves. I don’t think they had the peak human diet

[@darrens3]

Are you talking about the 1950s, 1850s, 1750s, or 1650s? As the English diet for children is wildly different across that time some better some worse.

[@ranwolf7650]

Favorite McD item: Bacon Triple Would you guys consider doing a series about BS documentaries like this one?

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Somewhat related anecdote: I went full "juicer" for about 4 months due to a gf who was a dietician. Best i have EVER felt in my entire life. Energy for days! Granted, I would also have the occasional steak. Thing is.... its work. Legit work to maintain a fridge and cupboard of greens and fruits. And expensive as fuck

[@imjustviewer4915]

Got hungry watching that documentary and went to a Mcdonalds afterward. It was a great meal.

[@darrens3]

And I guarantee you felt hungry afterwards.

[@alanhersch4617]

One of the dumb things about making up the 5000 calorie stat, is by over exaggerating he lessened his point. If he had all those issues with only 3000 calories, that would have been a stronger point (he faked the medical stuff anyways too but yeah)

[@rachelamber3505]

thanks for making these videos i love hearing you all when i work recently i have been concerned with my weight and you all have given me some insight to what foods and things i should try and avoid soda has been a thing I've been trying to avoid and it very hard at times. thanks for being a highlight of my day!!

[@lukelyon1781]

I remember watching this film in health class in school. See there's a little context missing surrounding its existence. The catalyst for this movie's creation was two girls who were trying to sue McDonald's for their food making them fat and the McDonald's legal team made the claim that their food neither was unhealthy and nor did it cause obesity and that it was safe to eat for every meal(it was something analogous to that, I haven't watched or thought about this film in years but I remember a good chunk of it). It's basically the same argument that candy and soda companies make about sugar(that sugar doesn't cause obesity even though we know for a fact it does it keeps being argued in court). And so this guy documented himself eating McDonald's for every meal for a month in order to prove that McDonald's is both unhealthy and does indeed cause obesity to help the two girls win their lawsuit. He also made it a point that their portions(with notable attention to the Supersize Me meal upgrade which McDonald's presumably got rid of because of this film) were extremely unhealthy. Keep in mind this is back in a time where fast food was very relatively unstudied and there were conflicting opinions from scientists on how often a person should eat fast food in general(some arguing that it should be eaten as much as three times per week). The movie also documents McDonald's efforts to market cigarettes to kids by including a mascot(it was a camel) that smoked and was used in promotional material and including candy cigarettes in their happy meals. Then there are the bonus features which compared how long it took McDonald's food to decompose and rot compared to other fast food. McDonald's burgers lasted a little longer than other burgers and their fries were the thing that lasted the longest, well over a month and still showing no signs of rot or decomposition. The difference now is that thanks to science and nutritional studies were relatively more educated on what is and isn't healthy compared to then. But this is like us looking back at the time that people still thought giving children whiskey as cough syrup and having a cigarette with lunch everyday was good for them and being look "well no duh it was bad for you, why are you surprised?" Corporations have a vested interest in selling their products regardless of the human cost my bro. It's the main reason WHY we have so many conflicting medical and scientific opinions when it comes to this sort of thing. At least here in the U.S.

[@adanufgail]

I'm curious to see if his follow-up documentary also features the same issues with disclosing things.

[@stephaniec9539]

Nothing beats a roasted potato.. throw some garlic other root vegs is almost a meal on its own

[@Amialythis]

This showed up in my feed randomly so I just wanted to say fact fiend was my dad's favorite youtube channel

[@nthnglsn]

This documentary is to show how unhealthy it is but the way he does it, everything can be unhealthy. Drink only water and eat only carrots will be bad if that's you're only diet. I like the whitest kids u know parody where he drinks whiskey for a month straight.

[@InfernalBanana]

The thing is, this was required material to watch in health class to, more or less, fear-monger you away from fast food, and the whole thing is pseudoscience! He had pre-existing conditions that were aggravated and accelerated doing this, but he never disclosed that in the film.

[@Dragonaut72]

I remember watching supersize me in highschool

[@edgydoggo8647]

The mccrispy will always have a special place in my arteries. Could swear they're the exact same chicken sandwiches my dad and I would pick up after getting groceries at our NEX complex in my early teens

[@Grimmance]

15:00 canada implemented comon sense labeling for nutritional content, a small bag of chips is no longer considered 2 servings for purposes of deflating calorie counts, same with energy drinks and soft drinks, anything under 500ml is consodered a single serving, and most energy drinks are counted as the contents of the can.

[@directorscarlett1932]

I lose 30 pounds every time I go to the gym... I think they change too much

[@trolleymouse]

Been a long time since I saw Smallwood on my front page. Almost didn't recognise him without the undersized greenscreen.

[@artifexarts2944]

supersize me feels like a kids youtube video just trying to scare preteens into eating healthy. when I got showed it at 12 in health class, I genuinely did not care about it because I knew it wasnt healthy, I ate mcdonalds a lot but I balanced it, and no one in that class ate mcdonalds more then once a week. so useless

[@animeluchia5405]

So, due to purely taste reasons, I’m more likely to eat fish than anything else given the choice… I like salmon in particular, but any fish tastes good, just not shrimp or crab (those things upset my stomach and make me feel sick if I eat too much of it), and I stick to that for the most part. Chicken is hit or miss for me. I do still eat beef, I’m Hispanic after all, but watching this, I’m going to try to cut back on that… tofu is good too provided it’s paired well with the right things… and cooked properly.

[@Bonavire]

I had to watch this in my health class in 2016 😂

[@da3va]

im american and at 22 ive never once heard or seen the super size thing in person so its a little wild to me to hear about this despite living here my whole life

[@infinite-sadness]

Well you were 3 when they started to stop so that makes sense. I'm 25 and i only remember it vaguely from when i was about 5.

[@namecomingsoon9517]

Love the shirt Karl

[@whitbydragon9619]

All I could think during this was have you never watched Mike Jeavons week ons?

[@Lrbearclaw]

11:30 - Not gonna lie, made me smile to see the clip used was from the local news for where I grew up. (South of Detroit.) that said, great video about a terrible movie/"documentary".

[@aminimoose3971]

17:30 Me over here putting about 8 tbsp in a travel cup

[@EVILSCOTSMAN2k11]

I remember watching this in 2nd year Biology class in Secondary School. Makes me wonder if the guy was discovered to be fudging his numbers after or before it was shown in our School. Because my Biology Teacher seemed to believe it as genuine scientific study.

[@isakrynell8771]

Well we see him ask for a milkshake and we see him eating a dessert and if you have a McDonald’s shake and Sunday with your meal 3 times a day it 7200 calories. So it’s not inconceivable that he would average about 5000 calories.

[@ScottCalvinsClause]

I was forced to watch this in "Health" class. That period was right before lunch period. I was so hungry when I got out of that class and so where most of my classmates.

[@Anton-de5vu]

They showed this to my health class when I was in elementary. I kinda figured “yeah eating McDonald’s every day for a month wouldn’t be very good for you. It’s not supposed to be a proper meal that checks all the boxes in terms of a humans dietary needs. It’s just fuel to fill your gut when you’ve got a craving or no other options.

[@chivebutter8794]

There's a reason why oatmeal has historically been a staple breakfast in Scotland (I can't speak for elsewhere). Has enough protein to be filling for longer, but is certainly healthier than bacon, eggs, sausages, black pudding all fried in oil/butter

[@hightde13]

Super Size was the perfect size for Ice Tea. I miss XL Drinks heh.

[@Grimmance]

29:30 i eat somewhere between 3-4.5k calories a day, and its a chore that makes me hate food, but anrequirement for endurance cycling.

[@CaptianDerp69]

Not mentioned buy spurlock was a heavy drinker during super size me

[@TheGodOfAllThatWas]

I legit lost weight eating at mcdonalds. They used to have a "Side salad" on the dollar menu. Order 3 of those and a McChicken, toss the bread, possibly don't eat all the chicken, make sure to get the Balsamic vinaigrette as the dressing. Not even really a challenge back then. The side salad slowly rose up in price to $3 and then all the salads left the menu.... I got tired of eating healthy, I should really harder to get my weight back down.... Wish they still had those $1 side salads...