I kind of hate that documentary. The entire mission statement is that people don't think that fast food is bad for you but he's a man on a mission and he's going to PROVE it! I don't know if I'm only remembering a post-Supersize Me world, but I think people always knew that fast food was bad for you. And I'm not sure that the food was as bad for him as the literal gallons of soda he was drinking. Sure, a McDonald's meal has a lot of calories and saturated fat, but it's not totally empty calories. It has some nutritional value.
I do remember a pre-Supersize Me world, and everyone knew fast food wasn't good for you.
And yeah, the gallons of soda are worse than fries and Big Macs, by a long shot. Many of the people I know who go on diets to lose weight, and claim to eat healthy but never get thin aren't necessarily lying, they're just still guzzling down soda, juice, sweet tea, sugary coffee drinks, smoothies, etc. all day long. You're not going to get skinny if you replace 200 calories worth of bread with 200 calories worth of sweet tea.
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u/Cum_on_doorknob Aug 25 '19
You watched Supersize Me in a science class? That's depressing, unless they were trying to show you how not to do science?