Man eats McD's for a month and is healthier afterwards

[Specop 007]

GO figure. Supersize Me was all hype and spin. No suprise to me really, you cant take in that many calories and sit on your fat ass and not have health problems.

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[Ika]

All this is going to do is condone eating six BK Stackers in a week, while sitting on their asses, posting on ATOT.

 

[MustangSVT]

first, you can taste its not healthy.

second, i dont give a crap if it IS actually health, it tastes like crap!.

 

[xSauronx]

yeah but theres still no good reason to eat that filth that much

wendys spicy chicken ftw you bastards!

 

[echow87]

I know some ppl that eats like 3-4 burgers each time they hit up mcd's haha

Yes, nothing beats the wendys spicy chicken sandwich, best thing there is!

 

[Baked]

I wonder how much money McD paid him and how much food he hurled out after eating them.

 

[Stunt]

Quizno's is the best fast food ever.

For burgers; Harvey's.

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

lol. somehow I seem to feel super size me and this site both exaggerate a bit on opposite sides.

 

[jagec]

Not a very well-organized site...there's no summary of exactly what he did.

Still, he was starting pretty heavy, with so-so vital stats...was he exercising regularly at the time? Or did he only start when he was on the diet?

 

[lizardboy]

There's a woman who did something similar last year. There's no doubt that Spurlock took it too far to make a point, but this new guy's study isn't all that scientific either.

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: jagec
Not a very well-organized site...there's no summary of exactly what he did.

Still, he was starting pretty heavy, with so-so vital stats...was he exercising regularly at the time? Or did he only start when he was on the diet?

Yeah. It seems like he was more concerned in makign the site look pretty than making it user friendly. He does list his daily intake and his exercise routine on there -- somewhere.

Originally posted by: lizardboy
There's a woman who did something similar last year. There's no doubt that Spurlock took it too far to make a point, but this new guy's study isn't all that scientific either.

I've noticed people do that a lot with various things. Some people seem to think calling something a study makes it somehow hugely meaningful

 

[lizardboy]

Originally posted by: lizardboy
There's a woman who did something similar last year. There's no doubt that Spurlock took it too far to make a point, but this new guy's study isn't all that scientific either.

Found it:
Mother ate at restaurant chain for 90 days ? and claims she lost 37 pounds

Edit - according to the article Spurlock was eating 5000 calories a day, which is simply absurd. 5000 calories of almost anything per day over 30 days will seriously fvck up your health.

 

[AbAbber2k]

McD's isn't healthy (compared to more natural food sources), and this guy isn't doing this to prove otherwise, he's doing this to prove that a highly active lifestyle can often overcome various detrimental factors (like diet).

"I want people to see that if you were to engage in regular physical activity, you can enjoy a greater variety of food choices."

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: lizardboy

Originally posted by: lizardboy
There's a woman who did something similar last year. There's no doubt that Spurlock took it too far to make a point, but this new guy's study isn't all that scientific either.

Found it:
Mother ate at restaurant chain for 90 days ? and claims she lost 37 pounds

Edit - according to the article Spurlock was eating 5000 calories a day, which is simply absurd. 5000 calories of almost anything per day over 30 days will seriously fvck up your health.

I just checked Wiki and Spurlock had a few important caveats. He had to order everything on the menu at least once. If he was asked to super size it, he had to say yes. He had to eat three meals a day.

What it comes down to is that he was eating as much crap as possible, the other two were not.

 

[Eeezee]

All this does is confirm what I already knew to be true; each person's body requires specific things for that individual and these requirements do not necessarily reflect the requirements that other people have. See the Food Pyramid and how fvcked up it was to tell all kids throughout America that they had to eat exactly this way or they would not be healthy. Turns out eating as the food pyramid advised was a quick path to obesity

Frankly I spent my first year in college eating nothing but fast food (jack in the box tacos mostly, some McDonalds and Panda Express sometimes) and lost a good 20 pounds with no real exercise (walking to class should not count). I dropped fast food and ate nothing but home-made stuff because I just can't afford that kind of lifestyle anymore. I've picked up 30 pounds since then, with exercise I don't believe this is due to the effects of fast food, I believe this is due to the effects of the particular types of food I was eating. I suck at making tacos, but apparently eating tacos all the time is my way to lose weight.

Ultimately a good diet and exercise is the guaranteed way to be thin and healthy.

My hypothesis on this guy was he probably has a naturally high metabolism and pigged out on super-fatty foods for awhile before making this website. When he lost weight, he said "Look, see, I lost some weight and all I ate was mcdonalds!" I know a handful of people who can eat as much as they want of whatever they want and they will be thin forever. I envy these people so much that I want to just sucker punch them, for there is nothing that most of us can do to have that kind of great metabolism.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: Strk

Originally posted by: lizardboy

Originally posted by: lizardboy
There's a woman who did something similar last year. There's no doubt that Spurlock took it too far to make a point, but this new guy's study isn't all that scientific either.

Found it:
Mother ate at restaurant chain for 90 days ? and claims she lost 37 pounds

Edit - according to the article Spurlock was eating 5000 calories a day, which is simply absurd. 5000 calories of almost anything per day over 30 days will seriously fvck up your health.

I just checked Wiki and Spurlock had a few important caveats. He had to order everything on the menu at least once. If he was asked to super size it, he had to say yes. He had to eat three meals a day.

What it comes down to is that he was eating as much crap as possible, the other two were not.

That is a VERY good point

 

[TheShiz]

spurlock may have eaten too much, but you go in a busy mc'deez during lunch and you will probably see some people who get pretty close to what he was eating. what is more interesting about the film is the breakdown of typical mc'deez customers. they have a term for the people that eat there 3 or more times a week, "heavy users" or something, I thought it was fitting, and that was like 22% of the business. so 1 in 5 people who you see there eat way too much fast food, and that is only mc donalds, they probably eat other fast food also.

the point it fast food is garbage food, that is Spurlocks ultimate point and I don't think anyone can prove otherwise.

 

[Dunbar]

All this proves is that it's calories are what count the most towards health. Spurlock ate a lot of calories, the dissenters ate a more reasonable figure. I do believe it is possible to eat fast food regularly and be perfectly healthy. Spurlock's diet was nothing more than a gimmick to get people to watch the movie. Once he gets you in the door it's actually a fairly interesting look at the obesity epidemic in this country and the role fast food plays in it.

 

[Miramonti]

It just shows that if you bust your @ss in the gym you can delay the onset of death by mcdonalds. However people that workout often aren't generally stupid enough to waste their hard work on Mcfat.

 

[thoro86]

yeah right..... so true....

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: TheShiz
spurlock may have eaten too much, but you go in a busy mc'deez during lunch and you will probably see some people who get pretty close to what he was eating. what is more interesting about the film is the breakdown of typical mc'deez customers. they have a term for the people that eat there 3 or more times a week, "heavy users" or something, I thought it was fitting, and that was like 22% of the business. so 1 in 5 people who you see there eat way too much fast food, and that is only mc donalds, they probably eat other fast food also.

the point it fast food is garbage food, that is Spurlocks ultimate point and I don't think anyone can prove otherwise.

"Super heavy users", IIRC.

 

[ForumMaster]

two things:

1. MacDonalds has disgusting food

2. Spurlock didn't exercize because most americans don't excerize like this guy did.

and last, i don't care if it is healthy, i would never do it.

 

[BudAshes2]

Originally posted by: Specop 007
GO figure. Supersize Me was all hype and spin. No suprise to me really, you cant take in that many calories and sit on your fat ass and not have health problems.

Click

It was all hype and spin? Lol, what, do you work for McDonalds?

 

[Playmaker]

Originally posted by: BudAshes

Originally posted by: Specop 007
GO figure. Supersize Me was all hype and spin. No suprise to me really, you cant take in that many calories and sit on your fat ass and not have health problems.

Click

It was all hype and spin? Lol, what, do you work for McDonalds?

How is eating 5,000 cals a day for a movie, McD's or anything else, not hype and spin?

Not a bad way to goad the ignorant and naive into watching and launching his entertainment career, though, because that's what his "documentary" was, entertainment.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
two things:

1. MacDonalds has disgusting food

2. Spurlock didn't exercize because most americans don't excerize like this guy did.

and last, i don't care if it is healthy, i would never do it.

The guy in the OP's link was about that. Not about McD's.
The point is people don't exercise, and that's why they're fat, not because of McD's.
He's saying you don't need to diet and eat 10 portions of vegetables a day to get/stay/be thin, you need to exercise, and if you exercise you will have more freedom in what you eat. Which is true.
And he demonstrates this by eating food which people would generally consider very bad for you, McD's.