{"id":5683,"date":"2004-01-26T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/01\/26\/guy-gorges-self-at-mcds-gets-sick.html"},"modified":"2004-01-26T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T16:51:47","slug":"guy_gorges_self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/guy_gorges_self.html","title":{"rendered":"Guy Gorges Self at McD’s, Gets Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, duh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.
\nScores 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.
\nBut 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.
\n“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.<\/p>\n

I note that nobody at McDonald’s actually recommends you eat there three meals a day. And I strongly suspect Spurlock wasn’t making healthiest meal choices at McD’s, either. Not that it’s the best-balanced menu available, but “cheeseburgers, fries, and shakes” are probably cherry-picking (so to speak) the worst of the worst.<\/p>\n

Fact is, I’ll betcha I could go on the “eat three meals a day at [fill in the name of any restaurant]” experiment, and pretty much wipe out my health, too, whether we’re talking Ma Maisson or Akbar & Jeff’s Tofu & Wheat Grass Hut. <\/p>\n

Oh, but, wait, that probably wouldn’t make my independent movie sell as well at Sundance, or nail a book deal for me.<\/p>\n

Spurlock charted his journey from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek documentary, which he has taken to the Sundance Film Festival with the hopes of getting a distribution deal.
\n“Super Size Me” explores the obesity epidemic that plagues America today – a sort of “Bowling for Columbine” for fast food.<\/p>\n

[Must … resist … Michael Moore … and … fast food … joke …]<\/p>\n

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