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Re: Documentary on how McDonald's will make you unhealthy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (it is his custom to be helpless)
Mon Jan 26 11:11:30 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:11:08 -0500 (EST)
From: it is his custom to be helpless <krevice@sub-zero.mit.edu>
To: dilley@MIT.EDU
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this is the absolute best propaganda i've seen from the
left in a long time.
i really want to see the documentary. if it is as effective
as the story makes it sounds, we may really have a
retorical weapon to use against mcdonalds.
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 dilley@MIT.EDU wrote:
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> Subject: [McLibel] [presscutting] Shock news: McDonald's make you unhealthy
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> 22/01/04
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> p r e s s c u t t i n g Megan Lehmann
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> New York Post
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> USA
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> Shock news: McDonald's make you unhealthy
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> LAST February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a
> gastronomical guinea pig.
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> His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at
> McDonald's and document the impact on his health.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart over the
> course of 30 days," Spurlock told The Post.
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> 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.
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> "Super Size Me" explores the obesity epidemic that plagues
> America today - a sort of "Bowling for Columbine" for fast food.
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> "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.
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> "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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> http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/16393.htm
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