Originally posted by: ForumMaster
for everybody that said McDonald's, i beg you: see the movie Super Size Me if you haven't already. did you know that the McGriddle has 22 grams of fat? fast food sucks imo. i don't eat it and i'm fine. true it's cheap, but your health ain't worth it.
Supersizeme.com it worth seeing the movies just to understand the scope of the problem.
There IS no problem.
Morgan Spurlock, a avowed anti-capitalist and vegetarian, set out to slam McDonald's. The way he did it is a complete farce.
First and foremost, he ate past the point of being full and literally force fed himself. The supposed health problems he suffered are caused by force feeding. Farmers do this to geese to enlarge their livers to make foie gras (goose liver pate).
Spurlock FORCED himself to eat 6000+ calories a day. Get that? He had to FORCE it down. Gorging yourself creates EXACTLY the type of symptoms he claimed to have. Simply eating McDonalds food does not.
His symptoms could have been caused by ANY type of food. The geese used to make foie gras are force fed grains. You could do this with your mother's cooking if you literally ate until PAST the point of feeling ill three times or more a day.
Hell, Spurlock would have had the same symptoms if he force fed himself 6000 calories a day at your local health/whole foods store.
McDonalds food is no different than the burgers, eggs and what not you make at home. The implication that it is somehow worse for you is absurd.