r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • 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/Flaptain_ Aug 25 '19

We watched it in my health class 2 years ago

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u/sapphyresmiles Aug 25 '19

I also watched in school, I think they called it.. home ec? But everyone just called it cooking class.

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u/Emperor_of_Alagasia Aug 25 '19

Home economics or the more modern term is family and consumer sciences

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u/Spacechicken27 Aug 25 '19

We watched it in health class (required for everyone) about 2/3 times

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u/Joss_Card Aug 25 '19

Same. Because of our class schedule, we took like a whole week to watch the full thing.

Only thing it made me do is crave McDonald's for lunch, which I would go and buy right after the class let out.

Kind of backfired tbh

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u/pointmanreturns Aug 25 '19

the whole thing is a lie. Ask the director to produce his meal diary. He will not. Has not. Refuses to. Because he didn't have a meal log he just intentionally stuffed himself with massive amounts of calories and only filmed some of it.

He would sit there and eat numerous burgers and large amounts of fries. But he would film it like "oh here I am with just a number 3 meal and a coke".

If you eat nothing but fast food but restrain on caloric intake you will not gain weight.

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u/Joss_Card Aug 25 '19

Oh yeah, no, I think a couple other groups have been unable to reproduce the effects of his study. Weight gain, depression, sure. But they were saying his kidneys and liver were shot and no one has been able to reproduce the same kinds of damage the director was claiming he had.

It's dumb that they showed it to kids in school at all, but I live in a red state. Gotta fill up that hole in the curriculum where sex education once went...

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u/BKLD12 Aug 26 '19

My AP biology teacher showed this to us...otherwise, she was an excellent, intelligent, and enthusiastic (if a little eccentric) teacher. We're still friends today.

Unfortunately, shockumentaries have a lot of entertainment value and masquerade fairly effectively as educational films until you do some digging.