Super Size You
		By Jesse <slicer69@hotmail.com>
		http://slicer69.tripod.com/


	One thing that seems to have caught a lot of media attention of late is the
amateur video, Super Size Me. The video features some guy, who decided to eat nothing
but McDonald's fast food for a month. Three times a day, thirty days. The point this
film makes, is that McDonald's fast food is bad for you. The guy gains about twenty pounds,
loses feeling in his fingers, has some organ problems. You get the idea.

	Those who are against greasy fast food are using this moron as their poster child.
Just look at the terrible effect that McDonald's food has on people. Shame on them for
making us fat and unhealthy.

	Okay, now for my little wake up call. HELLO! eating any type of food exclusively,
three meals a day for thirty days would be bad for you. Imagine what would have happened
to this idiot if he consumed nothing but yogurt or cheese or Pepsi or lettuce for that month.
He probably would have died. It is a testimony to the McDonald's menu that this guy survived
the month. They have yogurt, they have salads, they have milk and juice. You can't tell me
(and expect me to believe) that film's main character ate mostly those. He claims he ate everything
on the menu once, but didn't mention which foods he favoured. Judging by his comments and those
of the anti-McD sign wavers, I'm guessing buggers and fried were his main intake.

	Eating at McDonald's does not make people fat. I eat at McDonald's and I'm underweight.
The MD people are not responsible for our society's poor health. We are. No one should eat the same
thing every day. That's foolish, unhealthy and just asking for trouble. Eating a burger and some
fries every so often (maybe even several times a week) isn't going to send you to an early grave. No
more than a lack of exercise will or drinking four litres of Coke-Cola.

	The over-hyped film, Super Size Me, is just that. Hype. It's a narrow minded, overly focused
look at what McDonald's food can do to a person if they are obsessive, have terrible eating habits
and do not exercise properly. The dumb bugger would have achieved similar results from eating at
a Chinese restaurant, eating dozens of hotdogs or eating nothing but potatoes daily.

	To all those people who are pointing at McDonald's and shaming them for the over-weight, unhealthy
lives that we lead, knock it off. You are responsible for your food intake, not MD corp. You decide if
something is healthy for you, or if you should exercise more or less. If you can't do that, then you
deserve to be an unhealthy, angry slob. But don't blame the people offering you the service. It's your
choice to eat there or not. I, for one, like McDonald's food. I'm healthy, I'm fit and I want the right
to eat there.

	The star of Super Size Me mentions that he has a girlfriend who happens to be a vegan chief. Now, do you
expect me to believe that her dishes are any better? Cutting meat and milk out of a diet can't be any better
for a person than filling up on grease and salt. Our bodies need balance; food from each of the food groups.
My guess is that Mr. Super Size Me took on this challenge just to avoid his girlfriend's cooking...