this is some serious overkill but interesting.

[minx]

has someone else already posted this? i'm having a deja vu moment. (and no i don't mean wearing a g-string on stage)super size it January 22, 2004 -- LAST February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig.

His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health.

 

Scores of cheeseburgers, hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate shakes later, the formerly strapping 6-foot-2 New Yorker - who started out at a healthy 185 pounds - had packed on 25 pounds.

 

But his supersized shape was the least of his problems.

 

Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated.

 

"It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart over the course of 30 days," Spurlock told The Post.

 

His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.

[catbirdseat]

This is the most shocking expose ever. Who would have thought that eating at MacDonalds was unhealthy.

[klenke]

I just want to say that I had McDonald's twice yesterday (once in the mornin and once coming home), and I feel grrrreeaaaat today.

 

Interestingly, the morning egg McMuffin smelled the same coming out as going in...much to the chagrin of some of my climbing partners.

[Dru]

dude isnt that the atkins diet?

[iain]

you have to lose that unhealthy bun.

 

and if you buy the apple pie, you have to carefully extract the filling and only eat the deep-fried crust.

[iain]

come to think of it? Who the f- do they think they are calling that thing an apple pie?

[Dru]

"fritter" sounds kinda foreign and un-American.

 

has any body sued them yet for a scalded tongue from the overheated filling

[Dru]

It would be interesting to see a Briton repeat the same experiment cause you can get beer at McD's in britain... FAST BEER!!! = +

[iain]

I think they would have a pretty sturdy case. It's like a tokamak inside those pies.

[iain]

[Dru]

They would have a pretty sturdy case. It's like a tokamak inside those pies.

 

can you please post a link to this in the "post like catbirdseat" thread

[iain]

It would only be a catbirdseat response if it involved some bitching about apple pie filling not behaving as a true plasma, etc, etc. and then some random chemical formula used to triple word score in last night's boggle match.

[catbirdseat]

Iain is still trying to win the Post like Catbirdseat contest.

[Dru]

Too bad the link to the arsole ring molecule is unassailable bwahaha

[rbw1966]

You can get beer at mcdonalds all over europe--not just britain.

[iain]

you're damn right e=mc^2

[minx]

you're damn right e=mc^2

 

very good einstein but you forgot to show your work.

[lummox]

not interesting. homeboy overeats every day for a month. he gets less healthy. no shit. mcdonalds aint responsible for someone eating too much. they aint ever said they sell health food. waste of film and time is that movie.

[Dru]

You can get beer at mcdonalds all over europe--not just britain.

 

yeah but if some frog made the film they'd have to dub or subtitle it.

 

"un grande royale avec fromage"

[iain]

very good einstein but you forgot to show your work.

uhh

MC = Master of Ceremonies

MC^2 = Master of Ceremonies x 1 more ceremony

uh, E = , er...

QED this mofos

[Blake]

there are no triple words scores in boggle.. that's scrabble fool.

[chelle]

If you read the article the spokesperson from McD's said they sell nutritious food. I think he/she was implying they believe it is healthy, because making a statement like that about McD's menu is a pretty big stretch of the definition for nutritious.

 

Sorta related. Back in Dec. ABC (Peter Jennings) did a special on the American diet and how the government subsidies to agriculture have set up a food system that encourages obesity. We grow so much corn we have to use it somehow...corn syrup in just about everything, corn fed to beef to fatten them up. Fast food is cheap; healthy food expensive. Anybody see it?

[klenke]

I done saw sumpin' on da noos lately sayin that young'ns take to drinkin' sugar water (carbonated bevs) too much instead of milk at der dinner table and dis has cozzed a decline in boan dencity due to lacka calcium in da diet. Doctoors are seein' a marked increes in visits for brok'n boans 'n spranes 'n da like. Now I'm no exprt but I did stai at a Holiday Inn last night. It sownds plossible to me.

[lummox]

Fast food is cheap; healthy food expensive. Anybody see it?

you are very wrong there. fast food is expensive. you pay for convenience and for timmy fillin your drink cup while juana gets you some fries (and the other 12 people working the joint).

an apple is healthy food. it just dont have so many people to serve it to you so it doesnt cost much. aint brain surgery knowin what is good for you and what aint.

[iain]

there are no triple words scores in boggle.. that's scrabble fool.

 

Look at the big boggle brain on Blake. Or should I say "corpus callosum"? Would that be a triple word score? Or is that in chutes and ladders?