Super Size Me (2004)

Morgan Spurlock created a documentary that said nothing is your fault: you're fat because of McDonnalds. Morgan Spurlock did a documentary on going an all McDonalds diet, and gaining weight, and claiming it is becuase McDonnalds offers you larger sodas and fries. That he was a chronic alcoholic, sex offended, and others that ate at McD's didn't have the same outcome. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2018-07-23

The premise is that if you ate at McDonald's, you're hurting yourself. To prove it, he tried to eat only at McDonnalds and got fat and sick.

Rules:

• He must fully eat three McDonald's meals per day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
• He must consume every item on the McDonald's menu at least once over the course of the 30 days (he managed this in nine days).
• He must only ingest items that are offered on the McDonald's menu, including bottled water. All outside consumption of food is prohibited.
• He must Super Size the meal when offered (but not otherwise).
• He will attempt to walk only about as much as a typical United States citizen: 5,000 steps per day. (He was normally more athletic)

In other words: abnormal diet, stop exercising as much, up his calorie intake not based on needs but based on accepting any offer, and blame the fast food restaurant for his bad choices.

This is the moral equivalent of saying you'll eat everything you see advertised on TV, Internet, or see on signage in a day, and then blame advertising for getting sick.

Ignoring that Morgan was a repeat sex offender (e.g. a not atypical representation of Hollywood), one of the key takeaways (that came out over a decade later) was Morgan had not been, "sober for a week since age 13". (Quoting him). When he went off the sauce, his body gave him the shakes, liver problems, and other symptoms typical of alcohol withdrawal, that he blamed on McDonnalds.

Debunked

• Soso Whaley copied the all McD's diet for a month and, "I lost 10 pounds (going from 175 to 165) and lowered my cholesterol from 237 to 197, a drop of 40 points." Of course she maintained her caloric intake at around 2,000 per day, exercised regularly and did not insist on consuming more food than she otherwise would.
• John Cisna, a high school science teacher, lost 60 pounds while eating exclusively at McDonald's for 180 days.
• Tom Naughton asked for the food log from Morgan Spurlock, and when he couldn't get that, he copied the experiment and made a documentary about it (Fat Head (2009)). It got better reviews, and he lost 12 pounds. But reviewers snubbed his film, because he wasn't a sexual abuser or alcoholic, and his story was more truthful.

 

Film Critics

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If you want to see leftist bias in media, you just have to look at all the examples of how far off from their reviewers are from their viewers. I use the spread as a predictor of whether I'll like a film. Big spread with audience over critics? I'm going to like it. But big spread with critics over audience? I'll usually side with audience.

Film Critics/Praising Propaganda

Tatometer	Summary
	Super Size Me - Sensationalized (and later disproven) documentary had a +20 (92/72) review spread. Reviwers loved it (it fit a far left narrative), audiences were a bit more neutral. This would likely be greater, if they knew the backstory and frauds. It was also more the critics job to be skeptical and fact check the claims, instead of cheerleading.

Conclusion

The fake take-away was that McDonnalds (Corporations) make you fat: you are a victim. It's not about excercise, food choies, or personal responsibility. Based on the psychosis of an alcoholic (and sex offender) in denial.

The real take-away is that you can be responsible at even the left's most hated institutions, like McDonnalds. Others who decided to eat exclusively at McDonnalds got healthier by making better food choices, or excercising to offset their diet.

Other than it being a complete fraud, by a drunk sex-offender, it was great.

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Fat Head (2009) Tom Naughton redid Morgan Spurlock's Super Size me: only this one was better, and showed the opposite.

🔗 Links

• https://townhall.com/columnists/phelimmcaleer/2018/07/23/superbooze-me-n2502900
• Tom Naughton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Head
• Soso Whaley - https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/06/soso-so-good-interview/
• John Cisna - https://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/08/meet_the_science_teacher_who_l.html

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