McDonalds for a month

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

I'm curious to see this documentary that is showing at Sundance:

A guy had McDonalds for 30 days, three meals a day and had a Dr monitor him the entire time. He gained 24lbs and his cholestorol level went from 126 to 238.

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[sunshine 2]

Damn....i'm glad i gave up McD's.

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[McG 0]

As I´ve always stated: "McG´s is better!"

>If God meant for man to fly, He´d have given him much more money.

McG, DZ EFVA dictator

[caress 0]

YIKES!!! That makes my arteries cringe. Glad I only see that place once in a great while.EEEEEEK-Caress

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[Zenister 0]

you know i was taken into a Mc D's within 20 hours of landing back in the US...

sure the breakfast sandwich was sinfully divine, but the stench of grease and corporate 'fun' pump throughout the place was really making me sick...

think i'll pass for a looooooong while...

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[Paige 0]

The secret lies in their french fries! They have to add crack cocaine/other highly addictive substance.

I always seem to finish all of my french fries. Can't eat just one! Maybe that't the problem, get everyone off the crack cocaine

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[ChasingBlueSky 0]

I haven't eaten anything from McDs, Burger King, etc in probably close to 7 months.

I will eat at Subway and Arby's

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
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[cvfd1399 0]

And with their new all white meat chicken nuggets. It might be all meat of a white color but it aint' chicken! LOL

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

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I haven't eaten anything from McDs, Burger King, etc in probably close to 7 months.

I will eat at Subway and Arby's

Arbys! America's Roast Beef, Yes Sir! Who remembers those commercials?

[Zenister 0]

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I haven't eaten anything from McDs, Burger King, etc in probably close to 7 months.

I will eat at Subway and Arby's

i'm skipping it completely i think.. Arby's had some items i enjoyed, but i think i'd rather live as far away from corporate fast food as i can for a while...

of course i still drool over Quizno's...

and around here it seems i'm always sacrificing quality and taste for speed and expediency...

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[boxingrrl 0]

And is he "loving it" now? eeeewwwww....

[jmpnkramer 0]

I would not want to be a part of that experiment.

Oh wait, I am lucky, I can eat anything I wish and still stay thin and my cholesterol has never been above 124. Usually sits at 110 or so.

Just so you know the chart starts at 125.

Laters,

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[ChasingBlueSky 0]

Last time I had mine checked it was 117. Now if I could just get my metabolism to speed up again, that would be nice.

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[Unstable 9]

WHY would anybody do that to themselves? Sounds like He's craving attention at his expense....

I hate McD's. I LOOOVE chinese food, I wonder if that stuff is any better for you?

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[jumper03 0]

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Last time I had mine checked it was 117. Now if I could just get my metabolism to speed up again, that would be nice.

86 over here!!! Doc thought it was wrong and redid it - 86 again!

Now if I could just get rid of the extra poundage...

Jump

Scars remind us that the past is real

[Casie 0]

OMG! That's insane! I can't help it......I luv their fries but only eat there like once a month

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[Cava 0]

I recall hearing an interview on NPR in which the author of a book, I believe it was Fast Food Nation but not positive, reported that McD actually jacked up the flavors of its items by adding chemical flavor enhancers, effectively making the flavors more intense. These flavor enhancers are such, if I understood it correctly, that they could actually make a plate of horseshit taste like an apple pie.

[Casurf1978 0]

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I'm curious to see this documentary that is showing at Sundance:

A guy had McDonalds for 30 days, three meals a day and had a Dr monitor him the entire time. He gained 24lbs and his cholestorol level went from 126 to 238.

And some people call skydivers insane.

[canopycandy 0]

Yup, that's the book.

Excellent read, by the way.

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Arbys! America's Roast Beef, Yes Sir! Who remembers those commercials?

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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.

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.

"Super Size Me" explores the obesity epidemic that plagues America today - a sort of "Bowling for Columbine" for fast food.

As well as documenting his own burger-fueled bulk-up, Spurlock travels to 20 cities across America, interviewing people on the street, health experts and a lobbyist for the fast-food industry.

Despite making dozens of phone calls, Spurlock fails to get anyone from McDonald's to agree to an on-camera interview.

A spokeswoman for McDonald's told The Post yesterday that no representatives from the corporation had seen "Super Size Me."

"Consumers can achieve balance in their daily dining decisions by choosing from our array of quality offerings and range of portion sizes to meet their taste and nutrition goals," McDonald's said in a statement.

Over the course of the film, Spurlock is regularly examined by a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist and SoHo-based general practitioner Dr. Daryl Isaacs.

"He was an extremely healthy person who got very sick eating this McDonald's diet," Dr. Isaacs told The Post.

"None of us imagined he could deteriorate this badly - he looked terrible. The liver test was the most shocking thing - it became very, very abnormal."

Spurlock has since returned to normal health. "The treatment was to just stop doing what he was doing," Dr. Isaacs says.

Spurlock, who says he ate at McDonald's only sporadically before his total immersion in the Mickey D's menu, says he even began craving fat and sugar fixes between meals.

"I got desperately ill," he says. "My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I've never had in my life.

"My knees started to hurt from the extra weight coming on so quickly. It was amazing - and really frightening."

Spurlock's girlfriend, Alex Jamieson, was horrified - she's a vegan chef.

"She was completely disgusted by me, not happy at all," he says. "But she realized what my goals were in trying to educate people."

Spurlock, a film producer who grew up in West Virginia and studied ballet for eight years, was spurred to make his first feature film while watching TV on Thanksgiving Day, 2002.

"I was feeling like a typical American on Thanksgiving - very bloated and happy on the couch - and at some point on the news they were talking about two women who were suing McDonald's.

"People from the food industry were saying, 'You can't link kids being fat to our food - our food is nutritious.'

"I said, 'How nutritious is it really? Let's find out."

Not surprisingly, Spurlock has steered clear of the Golden Arches since filming wrapped.

"I have not had McDonald's for seven months, but yesterday, during an interview, I had a bite of a Big Mac," he says.

"I chewed it up, swallowed it and I said, 'You know what, I'm pretty much done after that bite.' "

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[Aviatrr 0]

Very disturbing that somebody would volunteer for that....but no suprise as to the results. I eat at McDonald's about once every 9-12 months....and after I eat there, I realize why I hadn't for the previous 9-12 months, and vow not to eat there again.

I try to avoid fast food whenever possible, but when I am out on the road for work, sometimes it's that or nothing. I try to find a Wendys and grab some of their chili and a salad, or find a taco bell and get 2 crispy tacos. Quiznos, Subway, and Arbys are also on my "will eat" fast food list. Both make for fairly low cal, but high fat content, meals. The only fries I eat are at home....and cooked in the oven, not in the grease. I get sick to my stomach if I eat more than a few of those greasy fast food fries.

Mike