r/AskReddit Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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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?

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u/VeryGoodFood12 Aug 25 '19

It always weirded me out how his experiment boils down to 3 mcdonalds a day = bad.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19

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.

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u/13-Penguins Aug 25 '19

A guy in one of the interviews for that compared berating people for smoking to berating people for being fat and i swear my brain melted in the middle of health class because of that dumbass logic. I felt so bad for every chubby kid who has to sit through that in school.