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At a time when 60% of Americans are overweight or obese, this looks an interesting experiment. This guy was 6 ft 2 & 185 pounds and soon put on 25 pounds and was vomiting out the window of his car...

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"On the news was a report about two girls in New York who were suing McDonald’s because, they claimed, the food made them overweight and sick. At one point in the report, recalls Spurlock, a representative for the fast-food chain claimed its food was, in fact, nutritious. It was at that precise moment that Spurlock, who runs his own production company, says “the bells went off.” He decided to make a documentary—his first feature-length film—in which he would, in an attempt to explore why Americans are so fat, eat at McDonald’s three times a day for 30 solid days."

"My body just basically falls apart over the course of this diet. I start to get tired; I start to get headaches; my liver basically starts to fill up with fat because there’s so much fat and sugar in this food. My blood sugar skyrockets, my cholesterol goes up off the charts, my blood pressure becomes completely unmanageable. "

I heard about this a week or so ago. I also heard this evening that McDonalds are going to stop offering "Super size" portions. I wonder if there is a connection.

About time. I hadn't heard about this at all but it is about time that America did something about its fast food chains. I know McDonald's are the worst of the bunch but the others have their bad points too.

Like Kentgirl I heard the same thing about the supersize portions.I wonder if the other fast food places will follow suit.

The people that are suing McDonalds are a bit off the wall. The staff at McDonalds didn't exactly force their mouths open and shove in the food, now did they?

My sentiments exactly.

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Why? No-one's forced to eat fast food and there are smaller portions available, and you can leave some..... I've never bought a super-sized portion, I don't always eat all my fries and I'm a right greedy bugger with an addictive personality. I don't need protecting from myself or advertising in a fat food restaurant and neither should anybody else. Restaurants in Romania were state controlled when I was there. Meat, cabbage and mash every restaurant, every night. :o

I don't eat McDonalds - their burgers have never looked that good to me and they put that awful mustard in them but I do eat Burger King/Dairy Queen burgers at least a couple of times a month and if I'm really hungry, I'll upgrade the fries and drink.

Seems a bit silly to remove what is an option anyway, just for a few folks that can't deal with it for whatever reason.

I found the story slightly interesting but ultimately a bit pointless.

for some people, eating is an obsession/compulsion just as smoking/drinking/drugs are to others. Someone who is an alcoholic and trying to quit are advised not to have just one drink because one can lead to more very easily. For someone who finds it very hard to resist food having someone ask you every time whether you want to supersize your meal makes it very tempting to say 'yes' thinking that you can share it but you end up eating the whole lot yourself!

Personally, I just won't eat a McDonald's anymore and I will very rarely take the children. It does seem to be a competition, however, among the kids at a certain age of who can eat the most, especially when allowed to go to McDonald's without an adult.

If smoking, drinking and drugs are not available to children, then why shouldn't supersize meals?

Also, if it puts a stop to McDonald's trying to sell their food as being healthy then I am all for it. :)

So we should probably ban coke, chocolate, sweets, ice cream, crisps....?

btw, when did this interference suddenly become children-only?

And unlike, beer and tobacco, the food doesn't contain an addictive substance that affects all users.

That's the absolute ridiculous extrme of a nanny-state roll

I'm pretty speechless at the absurdity of it.

Me too.

Now instead of super-sizing it, they'll probably just get the 20-piece McNugget meal roll

Or the triple Wendy Burger. -? Excellently at the Wendy's right down the street from me it's a joint Wendy's/Tim Hortons so it's always entertaining to watch people pretend they aren't going to have a donut as well. Or three.

Anyone else get those commercials on tv where they are "we ran a study and it turns out it isn't your fault your fat..." accompanied by "if you only want to lose a few pounds our product isn't for you." This is followed by people who claim to have lost 20 pounds in one week without any amputation involved.

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I like the ones that say "Colin lost 60 pounds in 12 minutes" and then in tiny print at the bottom of the screen "Results not typical"

Have you ever stood behind a person ordering at McDonald's and after supersizing their order, asking for a DIET Coke? Makes me smile. In regards to the restaurant deciding to stop offering the Super Sized portions... the person who would have chosen to upsize will instead get pie or ice cream.. or some other fat-adding food. So in the end it doesn't really matter what is offered on the menu, the individual person decides what to shove in their mouth.. the only fault the restaurant has is in wanting to earn a buck off of american's willingness to gorge themselves.

:lol: I've been guilty of doing this myself, but in my defense I prefer the taste of diet coke/pepsi to regular.

In regard to portions, as my husband pointed out when I mentioned this story to him, people will just buy 2 portions of fries instead of supersizing it.