From what i’ve read about Morgan Spurlock and his movie he said that before he started eating McDonalds daily he gave up a relatively healthy diet and exercise regimin.
in my experience most people who intentionally eat healthy and exercise regularly are either trying to lose weight or maintain weight loss. its also common knowledge that people who have lost weight in the past have a much easier time regaining it if they ‘let themselves go’ and eat as much as they want of high fat foods.
So does anyone know if Morgan Spurlock was maintaining a lower than ‘normal’ bodyweight before he started eating at McDonalds 3x a day? if he did then that is not a fair assessment at all about McDonalds ability to make someone fat since his body was going to react differently to endless amounts of high fat food.
I think your basic premise is essentially wrong. There are a lot of people who have an exercise regime and a healthy diet as a lifestyle choice, it has kept them healthy from the start and so they are not actually trying to “lose” anything and don’t have anything to put back on.
I don’t know the answer to your actual question though, but I don’t really think it’s relevant to his story. I also don’t think his story is any great surprise. If you ate breakfast lunch and dinner at an expensive restaurant for a month you’d probably gain a lot of weight as well.
There is an interesting McDonalds advert on TV here in Australia at the moment where the CEO of McDs (Aus?) says that he couldn’t agree more, that having McDs all day everyday is a really bad idea.
McDonalds is CRAP and I NEVER eat it. It’s packed with more additives, preservatives, flavor enhancers and chemicals than cigarettes. I’d venture to say that fast food is more harmful to Americans than cigarettes.
I’m not a Europhile but I strongly believe we need to borrow a page from their lifestyle book. America is getting way too unhealthy.
Read the article “Why the French Fries Taste Good” by Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation.” Best account of flavor additives I’ve ever read. Hundreds of different chemicals go into the stuff.
Actually, he was keeping just a general healthy lifestyle–in the beginning of the movie, he mentions that he was always at a healthy weight growing up.
Plus, his girlfriend is a vegan chef, and she pretty much fed him what she made herself–lots of whole grains, fruits and vegetables. He was a pretty confirmed meat eater, but he seemed to also enjoy what she made, too. He was pretty used to having a healthy and balanced diet before he went on the experiment.
It is rather typical of many people who we might think as being ‘naturally slim and healthy’ that keep a day-in-day-out healthy lifestyle, even if we may not notice it. Especially if they know if they slip into bad eating habits that not only do they cause weight gain, but there are many other long-term health problems that come about from poor habits.
Well, no one knows exactly. Many of them haven’t even been identified yet, particularly complex proteins. However, I’ve seen estimates from 2,000 to over 10,000. My point really was, “chemical” does not always mean “bad for you”, and “natural” doesn’t necessarily mean “healthy”. Snake venom is natural, too.