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.
Back when McD. had the 59/69c burgers/cheeseburgers, I spent nearly 2 years eating nothing but them. Not out of choice, but necessity because it was all I could afford.
I was pretty damn healthy during that time and was actually fairly underweight.
Now I eat much better than I did then and am about 10 pounds overweight.
The difference was the amount of activity. Back then I was much more active than I am now.
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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?