I haven't seen the movie, but I don't really see the point in it. Sure if you eat too much you will gain weight but I would be more likely to do that with better quality food than the crap they are serving at McDonald's. I work a block from a McDonald's, but I am not tempted by it at all because, IMHO, it isn't worth the calories for such poor quality food. The hamburgers from Billy's may cost three times as much but they taste ten times as good, so they are much more dangerous to me than McDonald's.

If I was forced to eat at McDonalds for a month I would probably lose several pounds.

I have to agree with JuneBug - I think the documentary more than made a point and had a lot of validity. I don't know how many people eat there specifically 2-3 times a day but we didn't all get to be 200-300 pounds by eating apples either. The overall point that if you take a healthy person and feed them crap (whether it be mcdonalds, or fried chicken and gravy at home) that they will have all these horrible health effects (beyond a larger jean size) is really motivating, to me at least. I also think, sure he ate it 3 times a day and had poor health after just a month, but isn't it the same thing if we eat poorly twice a week and have bad health after years of doing it? I heard an interview with him and he was syaing how he could have just as easily done the documentary with any fast food establishment - so I don't see it as a direct McD's slam. The message to me is that you can make poor choices at home or at any fast food place and face the same bad consequences....

Part of the reason he chose mcDonalds was because of the results of the court case where they said that a diet exclusively of Macs wasn't bad for your health.
But he could have chosen any other fast food place to prove his point.
I too worked for McD's for 6 months in high school and I remember the feel of the grease off the floor rotting the soles of my shoes.
Even if you eat McD's while you are working there you can't help but lose weight because of the fact that it is such a workout working there, you are on your feet constantly and moving heaps especially if you are on front counter or lobby.

As for those that filed lawsuits for obesity, they never won. The two girls who did file them wasted a lot of time. Even the press said they should be ashamed for blaming their obese state on McDOnalds.

As for advertisements, theyre meant to SELL to people. If one is dumb enough to buy, one deserves the fall. As for the kids, parents should educate them. Even as a 6 year old, I never ate MCDOnalds as much as I wanted to, I knew it was bad for me. Heck I wanted to eat healthy since I was 10 but I didnt make my food then.

And for the woman who won the lawsuit with the coffee, I think she disputed that the lid was loose? I'm not sure, but I do remember seeing on the side of the cups "HANDLE WITH CAUTION: EXTREMELY HOT".


It's just the public. There's material everywhere to self-educate on health (diet and exercise) and the government tries very hard to make them accessible. WHats funny is that the government actually though placing SURGEON GENERAL's warning on french fires would help. People buy--> demand for fast food--> McDOnalds delivers--> people buy again.

I still agree with Lydia and Misti, this movie is not worth a single thing except for shock value.

But do they literally take healthy people from the streets and spoon feed them while they take money out of their pockets? DO they force people?

I never fell for that crap. Apart of it is just KNOWING whats good for you. Should I sue McDOnalds because I have such weaknesses and I can't control myself? That I never bothered looking at the calories? Absolutely not. There's fine print in everything. This is what matters in court. People don;t read the fine print but they sign, they lose.

Its everyone's job to take responsibilities of their actions. Yes, they do advertise to kiddies and whatnot, but an advertisement can;t force you out the door and to the counter of a fast food joint.


I'm not saying that this movie didn't serve a point. Yes, it made a few people turn heads for its shock value. It couldve changed people's minds. But this is my take from it (mine and no one elses) : does it tell me anything about myself or does it even help me? No, because I was never like the guy in the film, and under no circumstances would I have ever done what he did unless I was completely forced. And was I? Nope. I don't see McDOnald's employees pointing guns to my head, so I guess I do have a choice to eat heathily.

Im annoyed that MD's relaunched their ad campaign saying they now use 100% chicken in there nuggests, less salt etc They are still fried!
I do like that they have put more options into an happy meal, like fruit, carrots, yogurt etc.
The docum did make me actually realise that there are many people who use MACDs as their daily dining room! Hopefully some of those people watched it and realised what this is doing to there weight and health.

That's quite true. I worked in a Walmart McDonald's, so there were only 3-6 people working at any given time. Everybody did everything (just about). Normally I'd do stocking, cleaning (both the lobby and the work area), cashiering, cooking, you name it. But I still ate a lot of their food, drank a lot of their soda (3-5 large sodas in an 8-hour shift) without gaining weight. But the work wasn't hard (as in physically challenging) most of the time. Not really a big deal standing there taking orders. Probably an hour out of 8 was spent actually doing physical work. Working 3-6 days a week, that's about as much exercise as I'm getting now. My diet was even worse at home, but I still lost weight. It's odd.

I wont make this a long drawn out post. But.. In my opinion.. Fast Food = Crap food. Also, I think his point was to show that it IS addictive.

All I know is.. the only thing I will pull from a drive thru window ever.. will be a milk shake and I havent even had one of those in almost a year.

You may be able to lose weight off eatting somethings at McDonalds or ANY FAST FOOD JOINT, but you wont be as healthy as you COULD be on the inside. Again.. just my opinion.

Yes, it is crap- though it did have some eye opening information on what schools are feeding America's kids, and how small the "healthy eating" adds' budgets are compared to fast food joints and chip bags .

I stopped buying school lunch after watching Super Size Me[ I'm in highschool]. Two weeks later my pimples were gone and I lost five pounds without even exercising. The scary thing is that I'm not joking.

I have heard many people ask "yeah, but who eats fast food all the time? 3 meals a day?" My fiancee. He has for years. He's 28 years old and doesn't even own dishes. He eats at different fast food restaurants for each meal, but he does it 3 meals a day every day. I've tried talking to him about it, and explaining that he's harming himself, but for him, it's a convenience thing. He would rather eat fast meals and not have to go through the bother of cooking for himself. What can ya do?

And I agree with hotnewspirits, that this film was more about the rising levels of obesity than anything else. He focused on meals in school cafeterias, and the availability of pop and junk food to kids, as well as the marketing to kids of all fast food chains (not just McD's). I agree that McD's did take the brunt of looking bad after this film came out, but it was an experiment, and one restaurant or another had to be the "bad guy".

I found it a disgusting film, and it did pack a lot of shock value. But there were a few good points made, I thought. Just my 0.02.

one other thing...

It's possible to lose weight and get less healthy, don't forget. There are olympic athletes who are medically "obese"... they're in excellent shape (as in normal BP, normal cholesterol, etc.), but they're technically overweight. This goes the other way too. You may be able to lose weight eating fast food, but you're almost certainly doing damage to your health. I could eat 4 snickers bars a day and nothing else... I'd lose weight, but I'd also be doing myself damage health-wise, right?

I agree, aerotigergirl... I hear so many people say that all you need to do to lose weight is eat less and count calories. While technically that may be true... it WILL make you lose weight... but it certainly will not make you healthy, which is my goal! Besides... you GET a lot more for your calories if you are eating "good stuff" rather than junk! It's really a good deal all around!!

What I liked about this movie was its effect on people I knew who hadn't thought too much about their diet. Most of us here are trying to eat healthy, so we think about the implications of fast food. But a lot of people don't. The movie helped people I know rethink their eating habits.

For those of you who liked Supersize Me, you might like the book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser.

I have to echo aerotigergirl.. there are "light" people who are fat. If that makes any sense. Meaning their body fat percentage is too high. Its scientifically possible, and happens alot that people who diet actually end up fatter than when they started, yet they are lighter. Doesnt sound right.. but scientifically it makes sense. What you weigh is not what is important at the end of the day. Its your stats.. as far as BMI and BF %

I did especially like the segment on the school lunch problem. My daughter's school serves pure junk to the kids. She takes her lunch most of the time because at 13 she is now very conscious of her weight and health. (she's my little walking partner). They get away with serving these poor lunches because they have a salad bar and say the kids can always choose that. Not many kids I know of could stand salad Everyday.