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 2005-04-05 9:15 AM in reply to: #135636 |
Veteran  152   Central Connecticut |  Subject: RE: SUPERsize Me!I saw the movie as well. It made me feel ill just watching it. While the approach this guy took was a bit extreme, people actually eat this crap multiple times per week (even in a day!). I think it proved its point that America is one of the fattest countries arround, mainly because we eat so much processed crap. |
| 2005-04-05 9:55 AM in reply to: #136137 |
Extreme Veteran 391 Oregon | Subject: RE: SUPERsize Me! tmwelshy - 2005-03-31 7:01 AM It was a decent movie, and I agree with it's premise that fast food is bad for you and that it's bad by design (fat tastes good), but I did have a bit of a problem with the maker and some of the things he didn't say, like before going on the McDonnalds diet, the man was a vegan and didn't eat meat. Of course he would gain weight and get sick. Meat in those quantities, introduced into an incredibly low fat vegan diet, would of corse have the effect it had, from McDonnalds or prepared at home in a more healthy way, his body would of course rejected the food, as he knew it would. The other problem I have is the movie places almost all the blame on the fast food chains, acting like these places are some type of ultimate evil, but in my opinion parents hold most of the blame here. My daughter, to my knowledge, has never had a soda. While she has had fast food, I'd say not more than twice a month. I look at her lunch menu and decide, with her input, what meals she will buy at school and when she will take her lunch. These habbits will and others, I hope, will carry over into adulthood. If your allowing fast food chains to dictate your nutritional intake, and then blaming the fast food companies because of thier content, your avoiding responsibility. The guy in the movie was not a Vegan; his girlfriend was. He stated in the movie that he liked meat to much to be a vegan. At the end of the movie he went on a vegan diet for weeks to clean up his insides, but then gave it up. At the end of the movie it said that McDonalds gave up the Supersize Menu. I think the Fast Food Restaurants are guilty of aiming their advertisements at kids. What kids do with their families and what adults do are not the restaurants fault. Many children do not have enough adult supervision and are often callled to make daily choice by themselves. I am going to try a avoid this Junk Food from now on! It made an impact on me. Randy |
| 2005-04-05 10:09 AM in reply to: #138144 |
| 335 | Subject: RE: SUPERsize Me! The only problem I had with that movie, was that the docs kept emphasizing a "high fat" diet, and how that was the main reason for the guy's weight gain, and problems. If one eats a burger, with no bun...at home...you're not going to feel the ill effects that a Big Mac will have on you, for example. We won't even go into the fries. haha Those are just BAD BAD BAD any way you slice 'em. But, potatoes are more of the culprit, than frying them, actually. (depending on the oil one uses to prepare them) Sweet potatoes, for example, are great for you. High in fiber, and protein, and in good fats, too. White potatoes are the bad ones--even if you boil, bake, or roast them. Doesn't matter. They just are too high on the glycemic index charts, no matter how they are prepared. But, high fat diets, if they are "good fats," do not make us ill and fat. Otherwise, farmers would be feeding cows Big Macs if that were the case, to fatten them up. Actually, many farmers feed their cattle more grains (carbs), and that's what "fattens them up." So, high fat foods are not the culprit, in and of themselves. It's the combo of carbs, and bad fats that fast food joints cook with... Just another reason I stick to a low carb/good fats/high protein diet!! |
| 2005-04-05 10:25 AM in reply to: #136137 |
Wife, Mother, Friend. 2457 South | Subject: RE: SUPERsize Me! I thought the guy's girlfriend was the vegan, not him. I don't remember him saying he was even a vegetairan. He ate the girlfriend's cooking. My kids are in private school, so get no USDA money, and their choices are limited. I liked the movie. My younger son has given up McD's for Subway. He's thinned out some. The older one, onthe other hand, is thin and eats all sorts of junk there is. We don't buy cokes for home, but they are allowed one or two when we are out. Interesting point: While on vacation and deviating from our normal routine (no cokes at home, no garbage at home), my family kept scolding my kids: "No more cokes, don't eat that, no candy, etc, etc." We had already told the boys it's a free for all since it was vacation. when I overruled my parents, they got pissed! I just told the kids, hey, it's your tummy, don't get full before dinner. All the while the adults were drinking beer or coke, eating peanuts, chips, salsa, before dinner too. I didn't think that was fair. And ya'll know all my family is obese. |
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