They played Supersize me in my middle school health class to scare us into eating healthy. At the end of that day, my grandma took me to McDonalds and I forgot about it until just now
Yeah I saw it in either end of elementary school or beginning of middle school, I don’t remember, but I forgot about this until now and it’s all coming back lol
This is why teachers should stick to whatever is on the syllabus. The older I get the more I realize that the teachers that wanted to impart extra wisdom to me turned out to be the worst kind of wrong, factually wrong.
i was an obese child, now I'm at a healthy weight. while i can say shaming people for their weight is wrong, the current culture pushing big is beautiful is destructive to our society imo
They took up 3 days worth of PE class in middle school to show us this not long after it came out. I found it ironic they denied us physical activity to lecture us about obesity.
That's insane! A class called physical education (PE) would use, a then, current documentary about the physical effects of poor diets on your body. Physical activity is only one part of the picture for a healthy lifestyle and from all the standard education system subjects I think PE is the most fitting to put that topic into the curriculum.
It’s not terrible. I get what you’re saying but education on health is part of it. The documentary has flaws but mostly… people just need to make their own food
I do wish they would have mentioned poverty and not having a lot of money. At me and my partner’s worst, homeless and struggling, we could eat for around $2 at McDonald’s while a salad from the grocery store was $5-$8 and couldn’t be safely eaten at a later time after purchasing it.
Food deserts are a huge systemic problem that requires huge systemic solutions - not individual blame. I feel like back in 2004 when this was filmed, we were so busy ragebaiting each other over "frivolous" lawsuits that nobody bothered with real solutions aside from "just put down the fork". State and local governments passed "hamburger laws" that prohibited people from pursuing big corporations, but they never discussed expanding access to food assistance or developing the infrastructure to make healthy foods more affordable. At least we're having the conversation today, even though the system is still failing so many individuals.
I've been broke my whole life, and always ate healthy. When I was homeless with my family in the car, I still went to the grocery store daily and fed my kid and myself healthy. Things are on sale. Veggies are not expensive. I have never had a savings...even beans and rice is healthier, which I lived on for a year. This is a misconception that fast food is cheaper.
@@FattyButterBits Where do you live? I weathered half a dozen layoffs during the Great Recession, so I had to learn pretty quickly how to spread the family food budget. I found that going to local discount grocers and highway produce stands could yield me pounds of fresh, giant, beautiful produce for pennies on the dollar. The trade-off was that whole foods took a lot more time to prepare. But that worked out ok because we were unemployed and had the extra time anyway. But this was in Florida, where everything is always in season, and farmland and the migrants to work the fields were plentiful. I live in a northern area of the country now where I've found the complete opposite to be true. Fresh produce of any kind is much harder to come by even when it's in season, and is exorbitantly more expensive per pound than a fast food dollar menu. This goes back to the issue of food deserts. Some people can access plenty of whole foods at affordable prices, while many more cannot. I'm genuinely grateful that you were able to, but please don't judge others by assuming they're as lucky as you were in this area. The argument for beans and rice can still be made. But rice is just as much a simple carbohydrate as the bun of a fast food sandwich. And I'd call it cruel to expect a poor family to eat nothing but beans for every meal. Edit: considering the username and the fact that they supposedly had a kitchen in their car to prepare meals, I'm assuming this is a troll. I'm leaving my comment up in support of anyone going through a rough period. You don't need shame on top of stress, and your struggle is valid.
There was a documentary named “Fathead” that discredited a lot of what “Supersize Me” claimed. The guy actually proved you could lose weight eating nothing but fast food. But Fathead included a lot of nutritional information that helped me actually lose weight, while Supersize me only left me feeling guilty and grossed out.
Eating less food can lead to weight loss. What fast food can never prove is that it is not detrimental to health compared to either eating nothing or non processed food.
You can eat anything and lose weight including fast food. It's literally only calories in versus calories out that matters. You'll probably die a very early death if you eat nothing but fast food though.
I'm a Program Manager for a substance abuse treatment outpatient program in California and have been in this field for around 8 years. The doctor talking about giving Naloxone (Narcan) to a "chocolate addict" is the most misleading thing said. The study the doctor is referring, is Naloxone being administered to Women who have been diagnosed with Bulimia and Obese women when eating Sweet and High Fat foods. It was shown to be 0% affective in reducing the obese women from eating but it stopped the Bulimic Women from binging. It concluded that Naloxone should be considered for treating Bulimia not obesity. This study was done in 1995.
chocolate does stimulate the mu-opioid receptors but the idea that Narcan will have an impact on a chocolate addiction when sugar is a much bigger factor is a deliberate lie, 99% of people won't question that because they understandably don't know anything about basic neurochemistry. Wild and intentional misinformation
So if one were to stop bulimic women from binge eating does it also stop the purging that normally follows? If they normally restrict their caloric intake and most of their calories came from the binge eating, did they start to eat more regularly or did they have other issues?
You're absolutely right. You won't get a mainstream documentary critical of alcohol. It makes too much money. There are plenty of books and videos on the dangers of alcohol. Be careful not to watch the ones about Alcohol addiction or the AA model because they're critical of the people not the poison.
@@rodb66Not to mention(at least in my area) Liquor stores put alot of money towards stuff like construction projects and education funds among other things, so that hinders the criticism. If local McDonald's put several thousand dollars into repairing roads and funding schools, I'd sure be less likely to complain about them..
@@charlescannon2469the thing is, McD's does contribute to donations and funding projects (usually ones that are mutually beneficial to them/get them a tax write off). Criticism shouldn't be hindered by money, either way.
One thing I don’t get is, Morgan didn’t reveal his history with alcoholism in the documentary. But then, years later, when he was accused of inappropriate behavior, then he decides to mention that he had been actively drinking for over 30 years since he was a teenager. I mean, I fear sad to hear that he died since his health took a nose dive. But the guy were deceptive and almost everything he did, especially in this film, entertaining as it was, was strategic.
@@manicpepsicola3431 better to have empathy than ever have sympathy. Sympathy implies you're somehow better than someone. We are all just suffering from the human condition.
ANOTHER THING, terabytes, in the early 2000’s, waaaayyyy more expensive than terabytes now, a terabyte now can be upwards of $80, imagine back then for a bit under 6, jesus, absolute monster
Ya but I recently learned that when they find even one image they deep all images no matter what they are part of it. So it could have been 1 pic and 5.9 terabytes of frog memes. It definitely wasn't that but I hate that we don't get a clear truthful data from cops like ever no matter what
The first problem Supersize ME runs into is the fact that dude went from what he calls vegan diet straight into a meat filled McDonald's diet. Yea, that's going to make literally anyone sick af for at least a bit. They had us watch that movie in a health class in high school and I just spent the entire movie trying to get past that glaring issue that popped up in the first few minutes of the film. And then yea, the doctors commenting on the condition of his liver...
It doesn't change the FACT that fast food is full of garbage trash and is FACTUALLY unhealthy to eat on a daily basis. The entire point of it there are alot of people who eat this trash food every meal, every day.
Fr I'm a vegetarian and one of my friend's parents made a soup with beef broth and told me it was vegetarian (she's older, I don't blame her) and I shat my brains out that night. Reintroducing a food you haven't eaten for a long time, especially a lot of it at once, is just gonna be a bad time
This movie came out when I was in high school, at the time i was morbidly obese, over 300 lbs. Super Size me actually was an eye opener for an impressionable teen and I went on to lose over 100lbs by senior year and a portion of that came from cutting out all fast food. I know the film gets some criticism today, but he at least contributed to the changes I made in my life and for that I'm grateful.
so the alcoholic vegan decides to start eating greasy, high calorie meat and cheese 3 times day and immediately feels sick? wow! what a shocking result no one could have seen coming!
So its not concerning if it isnt shocking? Whats youre reasoning? "Wow the chainsmoker died of lung cancer" - Yeah we know and yeah its bad. Should they twist the truth so that it has shock value?
@@unorevers7160 Are you familiar with sarcasm? Did I say it wasn't a concerning outcome? No. I was simply referencing the fact that the results of this "experiment" were skewed from the beginning because a.) he wasn't honest about his addiction and b.) he was not a representative of the average American diet that eats McDonald's because he was eating a mostly vegan diet. Shock factor on this scale causes fearmongering, not concern.
I remember in 2012 telling my health teacher that I heard supersize me was fake, because no scientists were able to recreate it. She said "you shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet" and I just said yeah I know. I doubted whether or not it was true since this. I felt so vindicated this year now that is 100% proven to be misleading. She shouldn't have believed everything she saw on the internet I guess.
I was an alcoholic for the better part of nine years and tried to give up on my own. Its true that quitting cold turkey can have severe effects on the body. I suffered two heart attacks and spent two weeks in the hospital pretty much entirely immobile and had to spend a few months doing physical therapy sessions twice a week afterwards. I haven't received any official diagnosis but I still suffer from crazy tremors under high stress (probably due to nerve damage). If you're an alcoholic and you want to quit, it is in your best interest to seek professionals for help. I don't know what hospitals are allowed to offer outside of my state but I was made aware of several outlets that help you ween safely and comfortably. Please don't do what I did.
I’ve lost two loved ones this way. I hope people take the time to read and understand what you went through and currently going through. It’s serious business and men especially think they can kick the alcohol addiction on their own and instead end up succumbing to the dangerous withdrawals of going cold turkey 😢
what do you consider being a alcoholic though? Drinking everyday? Every weekend? How much were you drinking to make your body withdrawal like that. I ask cause I would drink 10% Alc. level IPA's everyday when I got off work. I noticed I was starting to get obese so I quit cold turkey and started to work out twice a day and lost 35 pounds in 3 months. And the only side effects I got was healthier skin, eyes, and I was thinking more clearer.
@@lah-tee5412 I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately it's just the way most alcoholics think, and being under the influence only exacerbates that toxic thought pattern. I hope you know longer have to deal with that.
@@Terrath12 I went through the IPA phase for a while but switched to seltzers because I could drink them faster and I thought I would gain less weight. When I was at my worst and unemployed I would drink anywhere from 24-36 seltzers a day. And that was for about 2 years? It was really bad.
"Supersize Me" was shown to me at a 4th grade stand in that was actually an inpatient wing of John Hopkins. They showed us "supersize me", and "Into thin air" not a documentary, but a recreation of Jon Krakauer's novel. Why did they decide to show these to a group of children already deemed unwell enough to take asylum school?
I rewatched the documentary like a year ago, and he isn’t wrong a diet of just McDonald’s isn’t healthy. However he ate way over the normal amount of calories, doesn’t really matter what you’re eating when it’s 37,000,000 calories a day
The bit about the docs talking about how his health looked like that of a chronic alcoholic (after he lied and said he never drank) didn’t exactly help his case either.
What someone sees as a "normal diet" is entirely subjective, unless they know exactly how many calories they need to maintain and stick to it. I used to weigh 320 lbs and I didnt see myself as an overeater but in hindsight I totally was. People can just be oblivious that they are overeating. Ive lost more than 100 lbs now and I can comfortably say that I eat a normal diet now lol
I'll always remember that for $3 you could get the 2 cheeseburger meal... The meal... Not just 2 cheeseburgers... You can't even get the 2 cheeseburgers for $3 now... When I was younger, I never understood why the older folks complained about how much things cost... I'm nowhere near that age and I'm complaining... I don't even eat fast food now and here I am complaining about the prices...
i kinda find it hilarious how subway advertised to be more healthy while their "bread" is legally classified as cake becase it has sooooo fking much sugar in it.
It’s really odd to me because I’ve heard that, (even though it doesn’t really taste sweet) but believe it or not my weight loss journey (17 years ago) where I lost 61 pounds had a lot to do with eating Subway. I ate a 6 inch almost every day for lunch and something light for dinner and started a consistent exercise routine and went from 188 to 127. But I also cut out chips, cookies, candies, cakes etc and no sodas. I guess I’m just saying that if one is to combine other healthy choices into their lifestyle, then one can get way with eating bs too. AND genetics has a lot to do with it.
in regards to breads and sugar...I haven't done it before but i'm sure if you took a list of the most commonly sold breads in US grocery stores....i'd be surprised if any of them don't have sugar...
@@TheReluctantVloggerWe believe it. You just listed a myriad of reasons why you lost weight. Cut out processed food, had only a light dinner, and subway for lunch. It’s very believable once you listen all those other very important changes instead of just “I ate subway.”
When you look at the results of a liver function test, you can see the difference between damage caused by alcohol and damage caused by other lifestyle factors. Those doctors he saw seemingly called him out in his own documentary by saying that this type of damage is usually only seen in alcoholics. Very specific liver enzymes show up, in certain ratios. Any medical professional who watched that documentary and heard the words spoken by those doctors will have picked up on this.
Not really. Eating McDonald's everyday , 3x is nasty and terrible. Doesn't matter if you drink also. His drinking has nothing to do with McDonald's being brutal on your body. No one eating McDonald's 3x a day is healthy. Its complete slop. Not real food
Yep, you'll actually get fat drinking a lot of beer all the time, or hard liquor. I eat quite a bit of home cooked food and it never gave me a belly like when I was drinking a lot of beer.
I have a story about Morgan Spurlock. I was at a gun show once and in walked Morgan Spurlock and a small camera crew. I’m pretty sure I was the only person who recognized. Also with him was a college kid wearing a Virginia Tech shirt (this was right after the VT shooting.) He kept instructing the kid on what to say- obviously trying to further his narrative. It really affected how I viewed documentaries after that. Many of them are largely fabricated.
The first documentary ever made was pure fiction. I always get a bit kicked out when people believe that docs are a better source of information than say a made for TV movie about a topic. Maybe it is, but often times it's just as full of misinformation or melodrama.
@@ds7307yup. It doesn’t matter how more professional and seemingly more real any form of content for the masses is. Everything is for entertainment and our money
Hey Oompa and editors. I truly appreciate your choice to not "beep" out curses, the beeping is super annoying and a simple cut of the audio is perfect.
Even here in Denmark every high schooler was probably shown this in health class at some point. It actually really stuck with me, even if I rarely ate fast food. Looking back on it now, it makes so much more sense that alcohol obliterated his liver, and not just him eating fries and burgers for 30 days.
How come everyone from Denmark acts like they were from some uncontacted Amazon tribe or the planet Mars? "Even here in Denmark I heard about blah blah blah" ... Love Danish people though... Love Danishes, too... I should get some Danishes...
It could also be the fact that he went from vegan to meat. That hits really hard, and yes - it's extremely nausiating. He said that he hadn't been sober for over a week in 30 years - that's not equal to drinking 24/7.
There is an AMAZING rebuttal movie called “fathead “ that is also free on UA-cam and was made shortly after super size me came out. I would highly reccomend checking it out!! He goes point by point against Morgan and proves he was simply poorly executing the experiment
His very methodology invalidated the documentary. The point was that McDonald's was unhealthy full stop. It's true but the documentary doesn't prove this at all. The documentary only concludes that eating the largest meals at McDonalds is unhealthy which is a far cry from the original point. The Supersize Me challenge isn't what McDonalds has never promoted and neither was it something that Americans did every day. The documentary's main target should have been convincing people like Warren Buffet that him eating his McDonalds every day was unhealthy not 3x his daily food intake in one meal.
Alcohol would ALSO cause major weight gain. This documentary holds 0 scientific relevance in it i swear. He did everything wrong that could be done wrong.
Fast Food is actually addictive. All processed food is. Other countries keep certain chemicals/components out of foods and they don't have the obesity issues we do in the US. Plus the US also has a consumerism issue. Which Carter warned would hurt this country & he was correct. Look at Dougherty Dozen & others that over purchase for content plus we throw away more food than any other country
We a big country. Our statistical averages are bound to be high. You also forget culture is a big factor in our averages. I work with immigrants and the indian guys put us to shame on how much we eat in a sitting during lunch break. I'm of mexican heritage too and my country has a high obesity average on the fact we love sugar, salt, spice and a fat guy is considered desirable.
@anglosaxiphone8246 I love the food Mexican families make. But I love the culture and how you guys stand by your families ferociously! I wish more ppl would remember THATS what needs to change. How we treat our families and each other. Even strangers! Kindness is a virtue & necessary 4 life. Being mean has zero value. Unless you're standing up for your family. And only after you've exhausted all other measures. Ppl matter. Every body is somebody to somebody. And they matter too.
Instead of better benefits, McDonald’s always gave us a free meal whenever you worked. A small meal if you worked under 5 hours. A large meal if you worked over 5 hours. That often means eating McDonald’s more than 3 times a week. Got sick of it quick. You can freeze the milkshakes and its like ice cream
I'd get extra pickles on my company meals when I worked at McDs as a teen. The store manager didn't like that, even though it's not something you even pay for extra. In response, my coworkers would sneak me nugget boxes full of pickles 😂 I honestly never got sick of the food when I worked at Subway because there was a lot more variety
the part that always gets me about that super size me movie was when his girlfriend said "you wouldnt shoot up a ham, would you" like, ofcourse not, you SMOKE a ham, who shoots a ham?
Subway is gross. I worked at a franchise in England, the refrigerator was broken the entire summer of 2012. They still served the food. They’d defrost meat in hot water, over write labels with dates. Just gross.
My kid got food poisoning eating there and wouldn't eat there for a decade...then one day decided to try it again thinking it was just a one-off perhaps. No. Subway strikes again. 🤢🤮🤢
Spurlock had a network series for awhile called "30 days" in which he would spend a month pushing whatever social narrative he wanted, like the woes of living on minimum wage. The guy was basically Michael Moore.
He ate roughly 3500 extra calories a day over what he burned. Thats way more than 3 meals a day at McDonalds. I had forgot that super sizing was a thing.
@@-TheUnkownUser For him to gain a pound a day he was eating roughly 6000 calories. That was still way over what 3 meals would have been. Remember this guy also lied about his health to make it seem like McDonald's was making him sick.
@@Goatfer He lied about being an alcoholic; but that doesn’t prove that McDonald’s is healthy. Even the fact that he was a vegan makes it worst for his case. I repeat, *his case.*
@@-TheUnkownUser No one believes McDonalds is healthy. But by lying from the very start and eating 6000 calories a day then claiming it's only the McDonalds being bad for you is extremely misleading.
Odd note that I have but as a former doordash driver let me just say you have nothing to feel guilty about for ordering food in poor weather. That was when I made the most money, I would have multiple orders per trip and there wasn't more than a few seconds before the end of one order and the beginning of the next. I would make close to $60/hr in extreme weather (mostly snow) but we are aware of the risks we take as working adults lol
My problem with Super Size Me is that he didn't live a normal life, but just eating McDonalds, he intentially refused to do even moderate exercise, like getting the daily recommended steps.
Showing the extreme side usually works to show how bad it is to people. And you know it's actually more healthy than how some people are in a similar lifestyle, because it's been soo bad that we need to make "disability" scooter for those people
I mean what is a normal life? What's the norm? For quite a bit of people I know, a normal life is literally sitting around all day, doing nothing and the only excercise they get, is getting up to grab their food, and then sitting back down to eat and then fall asleep.
Not sure how going around the world asking random people where Osama Bin Laden is is journalism or even War Correspondence, but to each their own, I guess.
she really said genetically modified potatos, who's gonna tell her. All vegetables in the world are genetically modified, for example carrots arent supposed to be orange but some dude a couple hundred years ago made them orange as tribute for the dutch noble family Orange-Nassau. For the rest almost every fruit has been modified over the last thousands of years, bananas werent even edible when they were first found, 90% of a banana is supposed to be seeds.
You are only sort of correct. Yes about the orange carrot, but what about the small heirloom carrots that are a variety of carrots and look nothing like the orange ones in the store? Definitely yes about the banana. They are all clones of the same mother seed. But what about heirloom tomatoes (Cherokee purple ftw) and beets? Those have been unchanged for at least 100 years to achieve that heirloom designation and are obviously not GMO products.
*variety of colors Anyway you know what she meant. She was talking about Monsanto style MODERN genetic engineering. Not cross breeding and selective breeding over centuries.
@@JosephHPaineregardless, gmos are essentially fast forwarding the selective breeding process and has not been found to be harmful by any health organization. People who market things as ‘Non-GMO’ are capitalizing on the irrational fear that many have towards GMOs.
@blurb9319 that is categorically false. The main GMO we see are vegetables that are more resistant to Roundup. The cancer levels in farming communities where roundup is sprayed by planes onto GMO roundup resistant crops is absolutely off the charts. So no.
@@blurb9319 the gmo s have glyphosate spliced into the crops ( pesticide) . the rodents will take a bite and spit it out while humans cant taste the poison. so this is not an ''irrational fear'''. this a very valid fear and the truth we are being poisoned by these gmo crops.
@@beckydavis4958 I don't think anyone ever implied he didn't? He refused to become vegan so my guess is she wasn't the one cooking his hotdogs. We cracked a vegan joke no big deal lol. We all know the worse part of dating a vegan is not the food, its hearing about veganism every minute of the day till you lose the will to wake up in the morning.
The Supersize Me movie gave me an eating disorder. It wasn’t until I was in college and took a health class and we watched the movie again along with another guy that did the same experiment for longer who actually lost weight and his cholesterol went down, that I realized that Supersize Me was the problem not me.
i've tried more times than I can count with both smoking and drinking(i've never actively decided to quit drinking just take time off...or calm down with it) but smoking yeah cold turkey a few times....never made it more than 3 months before something will happen and i'm back smoking...
@@denen404 Literally me with how I drink. I have what I semi-jokingly call ‘liver breaks’ if I wind up hitting it hard multiple days in a week. I won’t give ya the full breakdown of my system, but the nutshell is that I should be able to count the number of times I drink in a month on one hand. I may let like having a single lager or White Claw type thing slide, but usually the way those go is that I end up crushing half the pack one night, the other half another, and then just don’t buy any more and while having like the last one or two sit at the back of my fridge for the rest of the month. This also makes stuff like getting beer or opening a bottle of wine or liquor into little things I can look forward to for motivation when things feel like a slog. Anyway, still wound up rambling a bit I guess.
My former neighbor recently had to go back to rehab trying to stop drinking. It also doesn't help that he has paranoid schizophrenia which has its own problems. But at least he is trying to keep off of it which is more than I can say for my former tenant who despite her cancer keeps returning, she refuses to stop drinking alcohol and refuses to stop smoking cigarettes and didn't even try rehab as far as my knowledge once. Though I guess most insurances doesn't cover stuff or something since the healthcare here in the United States of America is such a "GREAT" system. Sorry, went on a tangent at the end.
@@BonBonWasHere111🤣 No, a 'psychologist' isn't "still a doctor" unless they have a PhD like Dr. Phil which is why he is called Dr. Phil! He's not a 'medical' doctor though! 😂
Schools having healthier lunches is BS, At least from personal experience. I worked as a “lunch lady” for 5 years and while we offered a small “salad bar” (plain lettuce, 1 fruit and 1 veggie option) we mostly served meals such as pizza, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, etc (and ofc most stuff was pre-cooked and frozen) The kids were all meant to take at least 1 fruit and veg, but we couldn’t force them to and ofc most kids just wanted nuggets or pizza. For “snacks” we had different chips, pretzels, etc, but nothing like cookies, brownies, ice cream. That wasn’t allowed. At least not at the elementary school. BUT that was allowed and more (cinnamon buns, cupcakes, soda, etc) in the middle and high school cuz kids were deemed “old enough and responsible enough” to make their own food choices. You really think the 5th grader isn’t gonna go into 6th grade and splurge on all the junk food? I know it. I asked a 5th grader and he said he’ll go and get ice cream every day once in 6th grade. The state claims that this program is what’s healthy for kids and that’s a joke.
The only thing that stopped me from eating pizza and french fries with ketchup ranch every school day was the fact that line was the place where 99% of all of the fights started. It wasn't fast food but it was still better than the store brands.
I remember when I was in high school, the kids would just used the “salad bar “ just to pour cheddar into their other meals 😒 I was the only one that used it for its purpose 🤣
I also found it funny that he said, “At least liquor stores don’t spend billions of dollars a year on ads”. Like, bro, have you never seen a sports program or the Super Bowl commercials before? 😂 Beer companies probably spend way more than fast food on commercials. I can name you the amount of alcohol sponsors and ads on TV like the back of my hand. I’m sure McDonald’s has paid for ads on these programs, but I feel for every one fast food commercial I see, there’s at least twice as many alcohol ads. This goes for UA-cam ads as well.
The 'documentary' left out the part where the man who was supposed to be only consuming mcdonalds was drinking heavily on set the whole time because he was a raging alchoholic and that's why he threw up so much. Did people really believe it was the fast food making him so sick when millions of people eat the same food every day with no problem?
As for the food thing-- No, the kids eating worse tend to be kids whose parents are busy. That is to say, the ones working 12 hrs shifts are more likley to buy fast food compared to cooking at home. These kids also like valuable support at home. Correlation does not mean causation in this case!
@@mdedes9891 Not sure if it's his face that he's worried about when someone puts him in a headlock.... I think he's more concerned about the guy's friend that sneaks up behind him, while he's in a headlock.
@@joeyjojojr.shabadoo915 Sadly, Jared won't get to experience what happens when one drops the soap in prison, because he made a deal to be in protective custody. He gets his own shower room that has the entrance watched over by a guard to make sure that Fleece Johnson doesn't manage to sneak in. Of course, we can always hope that the prison hires Fleece Johnson as a guard, and that Jared will learn all about having to do it the easy way or the hard way, the choice being his.
As someone who used to be anorexic, I hated having to watch Super Size Me three different times in the K-12 times, especially the part where they tried to normalize heckling an overweight person like heckling a smoker (also not okay). I know that was touched on a bit in the video but that really was a big fear when I was anorexic, as well as others who I knew who were in a similar situation, and they all remembered this awful "documentary" as well. Its gross how much it was showed in schools around the country.
I grew up with a very emotionally abusive father (among other things) and I was never really given much of a lesson on how to eat properly, just shown movies like Supersize Me and had my dad make comparisons to me. I'm still learning how to have a decent relationship with food and I am SO here for the take down of stuff like Biggest Loser and Supersize Me. Feels cathartic.
Oompah was today years old when he learned PSYCHOLOGISTS GET DOCTORATES 😂🤣💀 Dr.Phil still isn't a doctor, he doesn't renew his license, he just has a doctorate... "just"
Smokers smoke doesnt affect me. Someone 200lbs overweight makes me puke. Watching their skin flop all over and thinking about what the contents of the body under the skin look like and are made up of, is nauseating. You can hold your breath for 7 seconds while you walk past a smokers smoke.
You dont need to overindulge, or suppress emotions with food either. Causing others to have to take care of you, causing taxpayers to support you, burdening the healthcare system with bodies and people who could have avoided being there if they have any self control…
@@kenw2225This vitriol is disturbing having this much disgust for a people you do not know is creepy secondhand smoke does affect you someone just living in their body does not and its not like you *care* why people are overweight you just have this hatred in you you need to process somewhere that is not a UA-cam comment section
I think the point of the school teachers documentary was kinda missed here. He wasn’t trying to prove the health benefits of McDonald’s by any stretch of the imagination. He was trying to demonstrate that eating McDonald’s in of itself doesn’t destroy your body, further proving that by improving his overall health with the help of exercise.
One glaring thing that I noticed about the documentary since I rewatched it recently is that the lawyer representing the two girls suing McDonald’s was only interviewed once and was never seen being interviewed again throughout the film (mind you, this lawyer and his case is the catalyst for the whole movie). The one and only interview that was shown of the lawyer wasn’t very flattering, as he was asked what was his other motivations for pursuing the case. His response was (paraphrasing here), “Besides monetary gain? Um…” and they cut to the next scene with another interviewee. No follow-up interviews later on, nothing. The lawyer must’ve said something so laughable and ridiculous that they had to cut out his answer, but I was shocked as to why that part wasn’t cut out altogether.
Not sure if you've heard about a documentary called Fathead, but it's a counter to Super Size Me. It's made by stoner comedian Doug Benson, and he ran a same 30 day fast food experiment but he didn't limit it to McDonald's. He didn't add anything exercise wise, but what he did was just watch his calories, trans fat, carbohydrates and sugar intake and lost 13 pounds at the end of the documentary.
The only person's food intake you need to worry about is your own, or perhaps your kids or an elderly parent. Harassing overweight people to lose weight just makes the issue worse. Especially when they also get harassed going to the gym to try and lose the weight.
No fat people get harassed at the gym. People acknowledge they are doing the right thing and getting into shape. It IS something I need to worry about, because obesity puts a massive strain on the healthcare system and insurance premiums for everyone. It does harm EVERYONE
19:12 This right here. The original director behind PSYOPS in the CIA (they have an entire sector dedicated to manipulating human psychology) was marketing manager.
whats even more shocking is the fact the fast food market only continues to grow uncontrollably, at some point i do expect the governemnt to step in, the obesity epidemic is out of control, even more so than 20 years ago
I mean, it really doesn't make sense. I used to work at both bugerking and McDonald's... (Obviously excluding the soda and fried foods) Their burgers are actually most likely healthier than the average home-cooked burger lol
Are kids that dumb? I wasn't. I never ate it. Never. Teenage girls have brains. I couldn't have been the only teenaged girl that knew Mcdonalds was bad. Like they can't ask for something else?
I live in Europe and visited U.S. couple times and I honestly don´t see huge difference. Sure, there are different menu items in different countries but I don´t feel like it is "healthier" or what she said - cleaner - in here.
The documentary was shown for so long in schools here that I watched it as a student in class, grew up, went to college, became a teacher, and the students I taught were still watching it in gym class lol
42:07 Dude my parents have never taken me to McDonald's in my life lol. The slight obsession with healthy foods growing up didn't help create the best relationship with food for me.
Yes, muscle weights more than fat. Its not based on weight, it's based on mass. A square inch of muscle weighs more than a square inch of fat. So you can lose a pound and it was actually losing muscle while gaining fat. You'll still have "lost weight" but you'll be fatter.
A pound of fat takes up *way* more space than a pound of muscle, just so ya know. That's what they mean when they say muscle weighs more than fat. It's similar to a pound of bricks vs a pound of feathers - the bricks take up way more space than the feathers.
This video really opened my eyes to how dangerous fast food consumption can be. Though corporations have certain responsibilities, the ultimate decision lies with us. We as consumers need to be more discerning with our health choices.
Almost any food consumption can be dangerous. Over the last probably 10 years I would estimate i eat 1.5 meals a day on average. Normally a meal either on the way home from work or at home and then occasionally id stop while traveling while on the clock for work(i would take drinks for work but almost never food). I usually would work 6 days a week. Usually the meal was on the way home and it was/is McDonalds. The food while on the clock would be usually McD but occasionally sheets/wawa/whatever gas station i drove past if i wasn't going right past a McD. Some days i may skip eating if Im not out traveling for whatever reason or may occasionally stop over a family members for dinner if they invite me(by invite i mean they mention they made dinner. Lol. I do enjoy home made meals). I would estimate at least half my meals and certainly a minimum of half my calories are McDonald's. I'm 31(? I think). I'm 6' tall and my weight is somewhere around 175-185(dressed, with boots). Fast food consumption isn't as bad as most make it out to be. Nothing is as healthy as some claim it to be. The US government pushed milk on its citizens for many years. Surprise, milk isn't as healthy as they claimed. Last i heard fruits can be horrible for your teeth.
Ah, the real reason he did the 30 day Macas challenge. He hadn't had processed, satisfying junk food since he started the relationship. This was an excuse to eat all that he wanted and tell her it was for "science-
It’s funny because the amount of calories for one of Subway’s footlong subs are 910 calories, which is more than McDonald’s Super Size fries (610 calories). The footlong has just as much calories as a Big Mac and large fries meal from McDonald’s.
@@BirdsandGhibliFan so if i ate 900 calories of straight lean meat and i ate 900 calories in straight fried carbs its the same??? LOL. a subway footlong is not the same as happy meal even if the calories were identical. GMOs and pesticides in mcdonalds is crazy. thier fries are one of a kind for a reason. and mcdonalds is luring kids with a happy meal toy. subway aint doing that. the only thing fresh at mcdonalds are their eggs and its probably coming from chickens pumped with hormones lol
@woolgathrr Not to mention that's JUST the fries. A whole mcdonald's meal; burger, fries, drink, definitely adds up to quite a bit more than a subway footlong
I guess what's frustrating to me about his lies is that there is so many legitimate reasons to be mad at mcdonalds and fast food in general but ESPECIALLY mcdonalds.
Hi, European dietitian here. Our McDonald's foods don't have any extra preservatives but the basic plain hamburger will also not rot here. It's because of three things: low moisture content, high salt and high fat content. You need water for bacteria and moulds to grow, but hamburgers that don't have high water added ingredients simply get more dry over time, which acts as a natural preservation method, in addition to the salt and the fat. The low moisture factor is the most important one actually, because the salt isn't THAT high that it would act as preservative alone. Dehydration, salt and fat are preservation methods that different cultures have been using for millennia, the ancient Egyptians were already using especially salt and dehydration to preserve food. So just the fact that the hamburger doesn't rot isn't a sign that the hamburger is dangerous, it's just what you would expect to happen to it based on what's in it. It's not particularly healthy but also not particularly unhealthy if eaten occasionally as a treat.
What I think is most important about Super Size Me is that it forced McDonald's to change a lot of their policies and menu. Even with all the exaggerated and outright false claims Morgan Spurlock made (which are obviously not ok in a documentary) fast food became somewhat less unhealthy with fruit in kids meals and salad options. It's still far from ideal but there's absolutely zero chance any fast food company would have made any changes without some sort of catalyst.
Although it was extreme and not as educational as it could’ve been, the point he made was helpful overall. By stating the sheer amount of McDonalds there are plus eating there everyday is actually pretty relevant. My grandparents lived a couple miles down the road from a McDonalds and my uncle ate there pretty much everyday, and sometimes twice because he came to visit them daily. He wasn’t a healthy guy. It was also the reason my family and I went there often when I was young. Convenience. After I saw this film in the 11th grade, I stopped eating there. Now I hate McDonalds food and rarely eat fast food. It made its point and was generally a positive thing I think.
@@TheReluctantVlogger Lying and misleading the public when you *do not have to* is not a positive thing at all. Because when people figure out the truth, they'll now second-guess anything they hear about McDonalds being unhealthy because "well, what if it turns out this guy is making stuff up too?" Don't lie to make a point. Just tell the truth and let people make their own choices.
7:35 - Surprisingly, in Germany, McDonald's no longer uses their typical colors like red and yellow, nor do they have the mascots. If you look it up on Google, you can see how "boring" it looks now. I am not quite sure why they did that, but I guess it has to do with not advertising their unhealthy food as aggressively to children, to prevent obesity.
Funny enough it's the opposite it's marketing strategy. Mcdonalds changed their image to a little kids fast food place to a more "mature" "adult" restaurant. Mcdonalds now knows the current adult generation has more money and will buy more of their food then adults in their 30s or 40s buying for their children.
We studied MacDonald’s advertising in Behaviour Science in my degree two decades ago. Red & yellow are the first two colours (primary colours) that a baby recognises/ responds to. It’s all strategic to capture an audience from birth.
I have watched this documentary over 30-40 times. I put it on at night to fall asleep, it was one of the only documentaries that put me to sleep despite my insomnia 💀
The movie straight up has him saying he's ending all working out and reducing his step count down to less than 5k. So a highly active, healthy eating, vegan went to no excerise and an entire days worth of calories per meal. Three meals a day. And that's supposed to a reasonable representation?
"I'd be hard pressed to find a difference between obesity and smoking." I mean, don't harrass anyone. But a person being fat won't give another person living with them cancer the way a smoker can expose someone living in their home to increased cancer risk can. That argument never held for me because of that. Like anything related to health, this is a multifaceted, complicated conversation that can't be summed up in a tag line for a shallowly researched documentary.
@@thecoedbutcher52 totally! But I was also think about adult roommates when and secondhand smoke as well. Plus I'm severely asthmatic and stop breathing when someone lights up in public lol
Also someone can choose to stop smoking and never have to pick up a cigarette again someone within 5 seconds can change your whole life and choose to not smoke while someone cannot choose to not be fat within 5 seconds they can't just magically shed the weight plus they still have to eat they can't just choose to stop eating or they'll die
It’s disingenuous for people think fast food corporations don’t care about health but believe that vegetable/produce corporations do. Newsflash, neither corporation cares about the effects their foods have on people and they take no effort (past what they’re legally regulated to do) to ensure their products are healthy. Corporate responsibility is the end all be all. Directing people to eat vegetables that are sprayed with pesticides and chemicals that also cause health issues is insane if you care about eating healthy. Our food industry needs to be heavily regulated so even if you do overindulge it doesn’t create undue harm. The corporations are capable of making healthier versions of their food, which you see when see the product in other countries, so it’s possible. They just don’t do it for their products here in the US.
No regulation is insusceptible to bribery and corruption. Growing your own food is very easy for a vast majority. You don't need a food industry if you have the instinct and wherewithal to produce your own. If you want it readily available and in a package at your whim. You have to make peace with the fact that it will be designed to keep making you give money for the luxury. Even if the convenience will probably shave years of your life. Either eat it, or don't.
Unfortunately many live in neighborhoods and homes with small lawns to begin with, so gardening is a difficult task, not to mention nonideal growth conditions. Overpopulation is also an issue in that regard, cause more houses built, less land to garden, etc. etc. For people who have the ability, more power to them, but quite a few people just don't have the means and can't afford it. Sure planter boxes are a thing and all, but there's the problem of rodents, pests, and HOA deciding they don't like that and need to further be a menace because their kids don't call them out of second-hand embarrassment.
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They played Supersize me in my middle school health class to scare us into eating healthy. At the end of that day, my grandma took me to McDonalds and I forgot about it until just now
Yeah I saw it in either end of elementary school or beginning of middle school, I don’t remember, but I forgot about this until now and it’s all coming back lol
Same, then they would give you those step centers like that helps. Then kids would just shake them nonstop to get fake steps lol
This is why teachers should stick to whatever is on the syllabus. The older I get the more I realize that the teachers that wanted to impart extra wisdom to me turned out to be the worst kind of wrong, factually wrong.
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i was an obese child, now I'm at a healthy weight. while i can say shaming people for their weight is wrong, the current culture pushing big is beautiful is destructive to our society imo
NGL tho that big is beautiful thing is super online- you don't see it much in person
@@JL0ndon yeah for real. I've never heard anyone try to spin fat positivity in real life. LOL.
@user-bi3vi2wx8x2 lizzo
@user-bi3vi2wx8x2just go on litterally anything except from yt shorts
I was skinny child now I am fat man
They took up 3 days worth of PE class in middle school to show us this not long after it came out.
I found it ironic they denied us physical activity to lecture us about obesity.
That's insane! A class called physical education (PE) would use, a then, current documentary about the physical effects of poor diets on your body. Physical activity is only one part of the picture for a healthy lifestyle and from all the standard education system subjects I think PE is the most fitting to put that topic into the curriculum.
They did it in health class back then lol which makes more sense to me at least
💀💀 that's silly
@@Saniteeetaking 3 days to watch essentially a lie of a documentary wasn't that smart now was it?
It’s not terrible. I get what you’re saying but education on health is part of it. The documentary has flaws but mostly… people just need to make their own food
I do wish they would have mentioned poverty and not having a lot of money. At me and my partner’s worst, homeless and struggling, we could eat for around $2 at McDonald’s while a salad from the grocery store was $5-$8 and couldn’t be safely eaten at a later time after purchasing it.
Food deserts are a huge systemic problem that requires huge systemic solutions - not individual blame.
I feel like back in 2004 when this was filmed, we were so busy ragebaiting each other over "frivolous" lawsuits that nobody bothered with real solutions aside from "just put down the fork".
State and local governments passed "hamburger laws" that prohibited people from pursuing big corporations, but they never discussed expanding access to food assistance or developing the infrastructure to make healthy foods more affordable.
At least we're having the conversation today, even though the system is still failing so many individuals.
This exactly! Especially now as food prices and rent prices are skyrocketing with no matching raise in wages
I've been broke my whole life, and always ate healthy. When I was homeless with my family in the car, I still went to the grocery store daily and fed my kid and myself healthy. Things are on sale. Veggies are not expensive. I have never had a savings...even beans and rice is healthier, which I lived on for a year. This is a misconception that fast food is cheaper.
@@FattyButterBits
Where do you live?
I weathered half a dozen layoffs during the Great Recession, so I had to learn pretty quickly how to spread the family food budget.
I found that going to local discount grocers and highway produce stands could yield me pounds of fresh, giant, beautiful produce for pennies on the dollar. The trade-off was that whole foods took a lot more time to prepare. But that worked out ok because we were unemployed and had the extra time anyway.
But this was in Florida, where everything is always in season, and farmland and the migrants to work the fields were plentiful.
I live in a northern area of the country now where I've found the complete opposite to be true.
Fresh produce of any kind is much harder to come by even when it's in season, and is exorbitantly more expensive per pound than a fast food dollar menu.
This goes back to the issue of food deserts. Some people can access plenty of whole foods at affordable prices, while many more cannot. I'm genuinely grateful that you were able to, but please don't judge others by assuming they're as lucky as you were in this area.
The argument for beans and rice can still be made. But rice is just as much a simple carbohydrate as the bun of a fast food sandwich.
And I'd call it cruel to expect a poor family to eat nothing but beans for every meal.
Edit: considering the username and the fact that they supposedly had a kitchen in their car to prepare meals, I'm assuming this is a troll.
I'm leaving my comment up in support of anyone going through a rough period. You don't need shame on top of stress, and your struggle is valid.
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There was a documentary named “Fathead” that discredited a lot of what “Supersize Me” claimed. The guy actually proved you could lose weight eating nothing but fast food. But Fathead included a lot of nutritional information that helped me actually lose weight, while Supersize me only left me feeling guilty and grossed out.
That movie was really interesting.
Didn’t another scientist eat twinkies but work out and take vitamins and lost weight?
Eating less food can lead to weight loss. What fast food can never prove is that it is not detrimental to health compared to either eating nothing or non processed food.
You can eat anything and lose weight including fast food. It's literally only calories in versus calories out that matters. You'll probably die a very early death if you eat nothing but fast food though.
I dunno, but feeling guilty from that movie sounds like a you thing. Not even being mean, but it wasn't that accusatory or anything.
I'm a Program Manager for a substance abuse treatment outpatient program in California and have been in this field for around 8 years. The doctor talking about giving Naloxone (Narcan) to a "chocolate addict" is the most misleading thing said. The study the doctor is referring, is Naloxone being administered to Women who have been diagnosed with Bulimia and Obese women when eating Sweet and High Fat foods. It was shown to be 0% affective in reducing the obese women from eating but it stopped the Bulimic Women from binging. It concluded that Naloxone should be considered for treating Bulimia not obesity. This study was done in 1995.
Yup, such fear mongery horse pucky.
chocolate does stimulate the mu-opioid receptors but the idea that Narcan will have an impact on a chocolate addiction when sugar is a much bigger factor is a deliberate lie, 99% of people won't question that because they understandably don't know anything about basic neurochemistry. Wild and intentional misinformation
That’s fascinating.
So if one were to stop bulimic women from binge eating does it also stop the purging that normally follows?
If they normally restrict their caloric intake and most of their calories came from the binge eating, did they start to eat more regularly or did they have other issues?
Aegis treatment centers?!?!?
The fact that girl was thinking she had to eat subway twice a day made me so extremely sad for some reason.
That wasn’t the submarine Jared really wanted her to eat
Same here Broski
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Imagine eating foot long meatball subs twice a day and lose weight, you would have to be an Olympic swimmer or something
I wish we had a "just as popular" documentary on Alcohol consumption. It's really held as an innocent substance in some cultures.
You're absolutely right. You won't get a mainstream documentary critical of alcohol. It makes too much money. There are plenty of books and videos on the dangers of alcohol. Be careful not to watch the ones about Alcohol addiction or the AA model because they're critical of the people not the poison.
@@rodb66Not to mention(at least in my area) Liquor stores put alot of money towards stuff like construction projects and education funds among other things, so that hinders the criticism.
If local McDonald's put several thousand dollars into repairing roads and funding schools, I'd sure be less likely to complain about them..
@@charlescannon2469the thing is, McD's does contribute to donations and funding projects (usually ones that are mutually beneficial to them/get them a tax write off). Criticism shouldn't be hindered by money, either way.
💯agree
Just look up "Super Size Me with Whiskey"
One thing I don’t get is, Morgan didn’t reveal his history with alcoholism in the documentary. But then, years later, when he was accused of inappropriate behavior, then he decides to mention that he had been actively drinking for over 30 years since he was a teenager. I mean, I fear sad to hear that he died since his health took a nose dive. But the guy were deceptive and almost everything he did, especially in this film, entertaining as it was, was strategic.
I don't feel bad for him
I think you can feel sad for a person dying and still not feel bad for him, you know?
@@perpetualsick I think its like we can have sympathy but not empathy.
oh no!... anyway
@@manicpepsicola3431 better to have empathy than ever have sympathy.
Sympathy implies you're somehow better than someone.
We are all just suffering from the human condition.
Btw Jared Fogle didn't just have CP. He had 5,6 TERABYTES of it. He's literally a supervillain
ANOTHER THING, terabytes, in the early 2000’s, waaaayyyy more expensive than terabytes now, a terabyte now can be upwards of $80, imagine back then for a bit under 6, jesus, absolute monster
Ya but I recently learned that when they find even one image they deep all images no matter what they are part of it. So it could have been 1 pic and 5.9 terabytes of frog memes.
It definitely wasn't that but I hate that we don't get a clear truthful data from cops like ever no matter what
So an essence I guess Subway since they were giving Jared all that money technically helped him get all those terabytes
@@YomotomenYeah I agree. But we’re talking about a guy that was a millionaire at the time. They coulda cost 8000.
And didn't he also try to film children with one of this friends so they could distribute it? Or am I remembering it wrong
The first problem Supersize ME runs into is the fact that dude went from what he calls vegan diet straight into a meat filled McDonald's diet. Yea, that's going to make literally anyone sick af for at least a bit. They had us watch that movie in a health class in high school and I just spent the entire movie trying to get past that glaring issue that popped up in the first few minutes of the film. And then yea, the doctors commenting on the condition of his liver...
It doesn't change the FACT that fast food is full of garbage trash and is FACTUALLY unhealthy to eat on a daily basis. The entire point of it there are alot of people who eat this trash food every meal, every day.
Fr I'm a vegetarian and one of my friend's parents made a soup with beef broth and told me it was vegetarian (she's older, I don't blame her) and I shat my brains out that night. Reintroducing a food you haven't eaten for a long time, especially a lot of it at once, is just gonna be a bad time
Foreshadowing
He was never vegan. His gf was a vegan chef, but Morgan never called himself vegan.
Alcohol effects liver values. Just saying
This movie came out when I was in high school, at the time i was morbidly obese, over 300 lbs. Super Size me actually was an eye opener for an impressionable teen and I went on to lose over 100lbs by senior year and a portion of that came from cutting out all fast food. I know the film gets some criticism today, but he at least contributed to the changes I made in my life and for that I'm grateful.
Happy for you man! Glad it was a positive influence even if it wasn’t an honest experiment. :)
Without “Super Size Me” we never would have gotten “Super High Me” with Doug Benson
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Anyone remember seeing this in health class for high school?
It made me sick-
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Live in Italy, and still yes!
That was my favorite day of class 😂😂
Yes
so the alcoholic vegan decides to start eating greasy, high calorie meat and cheese 3 times day and immediately feels sick? wow! what a shocking result no one could have seen coming!
They only care about unhealthy habits when it affects your appearance.
He also blamed his liver damage on the Mc Donald's instead of the full bottle of liquor he drank
So its not concerning if it isnt shocking? Whats youre reasoning?
"Wow the chainsmoker died of lung cancer" - Yeah we know and yeah its bad. Should they twist the truth so that it has shock value?
@@unorevers7160 Are you familiar with sarcasm? Did I say it wasn't a concerning outcome? No. I was simply referencing the fact that the results of this "experiment" were skewed from the beginning because a.) he wasn't honest about his addiction and b.) he was not a representative of the average American diet that eats McDonald's because he was eating a mostly vegan diet. Shock factor on this scale causes fearmongering, not concern.
@@unorevers7160 You don't get to lie by omission in your "documentary" to make a point. If your point is true, you can just tell the truth.
I remember in 2012 telling my health teacher that I heard supersize me was fake, because no scientists were able to recreate it. She said "you shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet" and I just said yeah I know. I doubted whether or not it was true since this. I felt so vindicated this year now that is 100% proven to be misleading. She shouldn't have believed everything she saw on the internet I guess.
Dont believe everything on the internet, but DO believe everything you see in a documentary
I was an alcoholic for the better part of nine years and tried to give up on my own. Its true that quitting cold turkey can have severe effects on the body. I suffered two heart attacks and spent two weeks in the hospital pretty much entirely immobile and had to spend a few months doing physical therapy sessions twice a week afterwards. I haven't received any official diagnosis but I still suffer from crazy tremors under high stress (probably due to nerve damage). If you're an alcoholic and you want to quit, it is in your best interest to seek professionals for help. I don't know what hospitals are allowed to offer outside of my state but I was made aware of several outlets that help you ween safely and comfortably.
Please don't do what I did.
I’ve lost two loved ones this way. I hope people take the time to read and understand what you went through and currently going through. It’s serious business and men especially think they can kick the alcohol addiction on their own and instead end up succumbing to the dangerous withdrawals of going cold turkey 😢
what do you consider being a alcoholic though? Drinking everyday? Every weekend? How much were you drinking to make your body withdrawal like that. I ask cause I would drink 10% Alc. level IPA's everyday when I got off work. I noticed I was starting to get obese so I quit cold turkey and started to work out twice a day and lost 35 pounds in 3 months. And the only side effects I got was healthier skin, eyes, and I was thinking more clearer.
I'm so sorry that happened to you, thank you for sharing your experience with others.
@@lah-tee5412 I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately it's just the way most alcoholics think, and being under the influence only exacerbates that toxic thought pattern. I hope you know longer have to deal with that.
@@Terrath12 I went through the IPA phase for a while but switched to seltzers because I could drink them faster and I thought I would gain less weight. When I was at my worst and unemployed I would drink anywhere from 24-36 seltzers a day. And that was for about 2 years? It was really bad.
"Supersize Me" was shown to me at a 4th grade stand in that was actually an inpatient wing of John Hopkins. They showed us "supersize me", and "Into thin air" not a documentary, but a recreation of Jon Krakauer's novel. Why did they decide to show these to a group of children already deemed unwell enough to take asylum school?
I didn't realize that was even a thing, but I guess it makes sense lol
@@TheNothing7777 bc yous the settler class. 😂
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I rewatched the documentary like a year ago, and he isn’t wrong a diet of just McDonald’s isn’t healthy. However he ate way over the normal amount of calories, doesn’t really matter what you’re eating when it’s 37,000,000 calories a day
the moridly obese people are eating way way way over the amount of calories... Einstein. Thats part of the point
The bit about the docs talking about how his health looked like that of a chronic alcoholic (after he lied and said he never drank) didn’t exactly help his case either.
@@windsnowandstatic9075 dude I forgor all about that part, bro was an alcoholic!
What someone sees as a "normal diet" is entirely subjective, unless they know exactly how many calories they need to maintain and stick to it. I used to weigh 320 lbs and I didnt see myself as an overeater but in hindsight I totally was. People can just be oblivious that they are overeating. Ive lost more than 100 lbs now and I can comfortably say that I eat a normal diet now lol
@@nattibun bro would force himself to eat till he threw up in the documentary multiple times, that’s not a normal diet
Super Sizing for 2 dollars will be remembered fondly and with great nostalgia of better times when we were richer because the dollar went further.
I would take America 15 years ago when I was a kid with all it's faults
I'll always remember that for $3 you could get the 2 cheeseburger meal... The meal... Not just 2 cheeseburgers... You can't even get the 2 cheeseburgers for $3 now... When I was younger, I never understood why the older folks complained about how much things cost... I'm nowhere near that age and I'm complaining... I don't even eat fast food now and here I am complaining about the prices...
I remember the dollar menu used to exist and things were actually just $1
@@briettasharee and then the dollar menu changed to "increments of a dollar"... LoL
i kinda find it hilarious how subway advertised to be more healthy while their "bread" is legally classified as cake becase it has sooooo fking much sugar in it.
Exactly. The subway breads in Europe have a different recipe.
It’s really odd to me because I’ve heard that, (even though it doesn’t really taste sweet) but believe it or not my weight loss journey (17 years ago) where I lost 61 pounds had a lot to do with eating Subway. I ate a 6 inch almost every day for lunch and something light for dinner and started a consistent exercise routine and went from 188 to 127. But I also cut out chips, cookies, candies, cakes etc and no sodas. I guess I’m just saying that if one is to combine other healthy choices into their lifestyle, then one can get way with eating bs too. AND genetics has a lot to do with it.
EU standard is Fat + Sugar weight
in regards to breads and sugar...I haven't done it before but i'm sure if you took a list of the most commonly sold breads in US grocery stores....i'd be surprised if any of them don't have sugar...
@@TheReluctantVloggerWe believe it. You just listed a myriad of reasons why you lost weight. Cut out processed food, had only a light dinner, and subway for lunch. It’s very believable once you listen all those other very important changes instead of just “I ate subway.”
When you look at the results of a liver function test, you can see the difference between damage caused by alcohol and damage caused by other lifestyle factors. Those doctors he saw seemingly called him out in his own documentary by saying that this type of damage is usually only seen in alcoholics. Very specific liver enzymes show up, in certain ratios. Any medical professional who watched that documentary and heard the words spoken by those doctors will have picked up on this.
And it was kinda crooked how he made it seem that it was due to only eating McDonalds
Not really. Eating McDonald's everyday , 3x is nasty and terrible. Doesn't matter if you drink also. His drinking has nothing to do with McDonald's being brutal on your body. No one eating McDonald's 3x a day is healthy. Its complete slop. Not real food
Yep, you'll actually get fat drinking a lot of beer all the time, or hard liquor. I eat quite a bit of home cooked food and it never gave me a belly like when I was drinking a lot of beer.
@@HonkHill-ev4hkIt's cause alcohols extremely calorie dense. You can easily consume many times more calories than needed by constantly drinking.
@@Chuck_EL Extremely crooked.
I have a story about Morgan Spurlock. I was at a gun show once and in walked Morgan Spurlock and a small camera crew. I’m pretty sure I was the only person who recognized. Also with him was a college kid wearing a Virginia Tech shirt (this was right after the VT shooting.) He kept instructing the kid on what to say- obviously trying to further his narrative. It really affected how I viewed documentaries after that. Many of them are largely fabricated.
To me, Morgan always came off as condescending, mendacious, and unlikable.
The first documentary ever made was pure fiction. I always get a bit kicked out when people believe that docs are a better source of information than say a made for TV movie about a topic. Maybe it is, but often times it's just as full of misinformation or melodrama.
@@ds7307yup. It doesn’t matter how more professional and seemingly more real any form of content for the masses is. Everything is for entertainment and our money
Hey Oompa and editors. I truly appreciate your choice to not "beep" out curses, the beeping is super annoying and a simple cut of the audio is perfect.
Does anyone know if Tara is still the editor?
@@HowNeatImImpressedidk, why?
How about just not bleep it, the fact you can't curse just makes me cringe
@@shandyhilling7889monetization duh
@@OutOfTheCloset02fr, it’s an hour and half long video like who wouldn’t want to monetize
Even here in Denmark every high schooler was probably shown this in health class at some point. It actually really stuck with me, even if I rarely ate fast food. Looking back on it now, it makes so much more sense that alcohol obliterated his liver, and not just him eating fries and burgers for 30 days.
How come everyone from Denmark acts like they were from some uncontacted Amazon tribe or the planet Mars?
"Even here in Denmark I heard about blah blah blah"
... Love Danish people though... Love Danishes, too... I should get some Danishes...
Mmm. Danishes
@@CrazyGuyoftheWest relax dude
@BilboB Relax? How am I supposed to relax when the galaxy needs saving?
Polyunsaturated fat is terrible for your liver, even exacerbates the damage done to it by alcohol (oxidative stress).
"im getting the McSweats" while is clearly in alcohol withdrawal
It could also be the fact that he went from vegan to meat. That hits really hard, and yes - it's extremely nausiating.
He said that he hadn't been sober for over a week in 30 years - that's not equal to drinking 24/7.
@@Foxizit’s not, but that’s still quite alot
Bro I get th mc sweats after mucking a mcgangbang at 3am when I get home
@@Foxiz he's not drinking 24/7 but he's still an alcoholic if he hasn't been completely sober in 30 years
Yea that length of time will have a physical dependency @@Yomotomen
I feel like not enough people are annoyed by how expensive McDonalds has become. 3-4x the price is some BS
I absolutely refuse to order anything that doesn’t have a deal on the app (I know I’m totally playing into their marketing strategy with that)
McDonald’s increasing their prices has done more for reducing the amount of McDonald’s people eat than Super Size Me ever could
There is an AMAZING rebuttal movie called “fathead “ that is also free on UA-cam and was made shortly after super size me came out. I would highly reccomend checking it out!! He goes point by point against Morgan and proves he was simply poorly executing the experiment
I'll check this out.
Edit: I watched it & I'm 100% thankful I did. There was so much to learn & it was fun too.
once I found out he was like raging alcoholic drinking every single day while doing the 30 days, I knew he invalidated everything lol.
His very methodology invalidated the documentary. The point was that McDonald's was unhealthy full stop. It's true but the documentary doesn't prove this at all. The documentary only concludes that eating the largest meals at McDonalds is unhealthy which is a far cry from the original point. The Supersize Me challenge isn't what McDonalds has never promoted and neither was it something that Americans did every day. The documentary's main target should have been convincing people like Warren Buffet that him eating his McDonalds every day was unhealthy not 3x his daily food intake in one meal.
Supersize is a massive benefit to the world. People who never have sofa or fast food are better off.
How though? If he was drinking prior, during, and after, then the experiment is still valid, as the drinking variable remained constant, right?
That’s hilarious. You must be about to invalidate half of science then. Greek philosophers also drank to death.
Alcohol would ALSO cause major weight gain. This documentary holds 0 scientific relevance in it i swear. He did everything wrong that could be done wrong.
Fast Food is actually addictive. All processed food is. Other countries keep certain chemicals/components out of foods and they don't have the obesity issues we do in the US. Plus the US also has a consumerism issue. Which Carter warned would hurt this country & he was correct. Look at Dougherty Dozen & others that over purchase for content plus we throw away more food than any other country
We a big country. Our statistical averages are bound to be high. You also forget culture is a big factor in our averages. I work with immigrants and the indian guys put us to shame on how much we eat in a sitting during lunch break. I'm of mexican heritage too and my country has a high obesity average on the fact we love sugar, salt, spice and a fat guy is considered desirable.
I work with of Hispanic people and bro. On breaks and lunch breaks they got a whole spread of food fit for a king. Kinda jealous tbh.
Also the existence of food deserts
@@anglosaxiphone8246what? There’s countries with higher populations with less of this problem. Do you understand how statistics work?
@anglosaxiphone8246 I love the food Mexican families make. But I love the culture and how you guys stand by your families ferociously! I wish more ppl would remember THATS what needs to change. How we treat our families and each other. Even strangers! Kindness is a virtue & necessary 4 life. Being mean has zero value. Unless you're standing up for your family. And only after you've exhausted all other measures. Ppl matter. Every body is somebody to somebody. And they matter too.
Instead of better benefits, McDonald’s always gave us a free meal whenever you worked. A small meal if you worked under 5 hours. A large meal if you worked over 5 hours. That often means eating McDonald’s more than 3 times a week. Got sick of it quick. You can freeze the milkshakes and its like ice cream
I'd get extra pickles on my company meals when I worked at McDs as a teen. The store manager didn't like that, even though it's not something you even pay for extra. In response, my coworkers would sneak me nugget boxes full of pickles 😂
I honestly never got sick of the food when I worked at Subway because there was a lot more variety
I never ate McDonalds when I worked there as a kid. I knew it was bad...brought my lunch every day.
the part that always gets me about that super size me movie was when his girlfriend said "you wouldnt shoot up a ham, would you" like, ofcourse not, you SMOKE a ham, who shoots a ham?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You wouldn’t download a car
@@christopherrobert490*searches Maker for a car .stl*
Just vegan things
You wouldn't colon cleanse with coffee, or hopefully at all unless you're getting a colonoscopy
Subway is gross. I worked at a franchise in England, the refrigerator was broken the entire summer of 2012. They still served the food. They’d defrost meat in hot water, over write labels with dates. Just gross.
…England?
Yes 😭
@@pawfuzzseems a tad bit gross innit?
My kid got food poisoning eating there and wouldn't eat there for a decade...then one day decided to try it again thinking
it was just a one-off perhaps.
No.
Subway strikes again. 🤢🤮🤢
Their tuna isn't even tuna. I used to go to subway all the time, but once I tried Jersey Mike's and experienced actual tuna, I never looked back.
My friend and I were 16 when Super Size Me came out. We finished watching it and immediately went to Mcdonalds after.
Most my friends did the same lol
humans do tend to continually make idiotic choices almost actively at this point
😂
Yep, the irony of this us palpable I know this food is slop, but I'm going to eat any ways
You showed them!
Spurlock had a network series for awhile called "30 days" in which he would spend a month pushing whatever social narrative he wanted, like the woes of living on minimum wage. The guy was basically Michael Moore.
Isn't mackle more a wrapper?
@@r4microdsyes but we're talking about Michael, he made a bunch of other deceptive "documentaries."
Jared lied there. His big vice wasn't food...
He ate roughly 3500 extra calories a day over what he burned. Thats way more than 3 meals a day at McDonalds. I had forgot that super sizing was a thing.
The sizes were bigger at the time of the documentary. And people eat more than just one day meal.
@@-TheUnkownUser For him to gain a pound a day he was eating roughly 6000 calories. That was still way over what 3 meals would have been. Remember this guy also lied about his health to make it seem like McDonald's was making him sick.
@@Goatfer He lied about being an alcoholic; but that doesn’t prove that McDonald’s is healthy. Even the fact that he was a vegan makes it worst for his case. I repeat, *his case.*
@@-TheUnkownUser No one believes McDonalds is healthy. But by lying from the very start and eating 6000 calories a day then claiming it's only the McDonalds being bad for you is extremely misleading.
@@Goatfer Which I never denied. So, we agree.
Odd note that I have but as a former doordash driver let me just say you have nothing to feel guilty about for ordering food in poor weather. That was when I made the most money, I would have multiple orders per trip and there wasn't more than a few seconds before the end of one order and the beginning of the next. I would make close to $60/hr in extreme weather (mostly snow) but we are aware of the risks we take as working adults lol
I always feel horrible ordering in bad weather.
"Mr beast is doing well"
That aged quickly
he was an alcoholic during the whole 30 days. the WKYK skit about it is amazing. RIP Trevor Moore
Whitest kids you know 👏🏻🙌🏼
One of the greatest WKUK skits, Trevor is irreplaceable.
Okay it's literally called super size me with whiskey, I'm very very slow. But ay, sleep deprivation. F it we ball.
I DIDNT KNOW TREVOR MOORE DIED
My problem with Super Size Me is that he didn't live a normal life, but just eating McDonalds, he intentially refused to do even moderate exercise, like getting the daily recommended steps.
Showing the extreme side usually works to show how bad it is to people. And you know it's actually more healthy than how some people are in a similar lifestyle, because it's been soo bad that we need to make "disability" scooter for those people
Imagine thinking there’s a recommended amount of daily steps
And he was an alcoholic that's why his liver was badly damaged
@@cococock2418 American Heart Association recommends 10,000 steps.
I mean what is a normal life? What's the norm? For quite a bit of people I know, a normal life is literally sitting around all day, doing nothing and the only excercise they get, is getting up to grab their food, and then sitting back down to eat and then fall asleep.
Man I remember watching Supersize me in my junior high health class. No one took it seriously and the teacher was so ticked about it.
Those revelations at the end give that "Supersize Me, With Whiskey" skit that Whitest Kids U Know did years back a whole new meaning.
Dude for real, how did they know?
Not sure how going around the world asking random people where Osama Bin Laden is is journalism or even War Correspondence, but to each their own, I guess.
fr its straight up harassment atp
@@Axelarden Or Logan Paul when he visited that forest in Japan.
she really said genetically modified potatos, who's gonna tell her. All vegetables in the world are genetically modified, for example carrots arent supposed to be orange but some dude a couple hundred years ago made them orange as tribute for the dutch noble family Orange-Nassau. For the rest almost every fruit has been modified over the last thousands of years, bananas werent even edible when they were first found, 90% of a banana is supposed to be seeds.
You are only sort of correct. Yes about the orange carrot, but what about the small heirloom carrots that are a variety of carrots and look nothing like the orange ones in the store? Definitely yes about the banana. They are all clones of the same mother seed. But what about heirloom tomatoes (Cherokee purple ftw) and beets? Those have been unchanged for at least 100 years to achieve that heirloom designation and are obviously not GMO products.
*variety of colors
Anyway you know what she meant. She was talking about Monsanto style MODERN genetic engineering. Not cross breeding and selective breeding over centuries.
@@JosephHPaineregardless, gmos are essentially fast forwarding the selective breeding process and has not been found to be harmful by any health organization. People who market things as ‘Non-GMO’ are capitalizing on the irrational fear that many have towards GMOs.
@blurb9319 that is categorically false. The main GMO we see are vegetables that are more resistant to Roundup. The cancer levels in farming communities where roundup is sprayed by planes onto GMO roundup resistant crops is absolutely off the charts. So no.
@@blurb9319 the gmo s have glyphosate spliced into the crops ( pesticide) . the rodents will take a bite and spit it out while humans cant taste the poison. so this is not an ''irrational fear'''. this a very valid fear and the truth we are being poisoned by these gmo crops.
Perhaps he created the documentary as an excuse to avoid eating the unappetizing food his girlfriend prepared.
😂😂😂
She makes ultra cringe vegan pasta with basil goo 5/7 nights ❤
@@VeryGreatGladness so pesto pasta? I'm down.
Quinoa on its own is pretty bad... but yes the way she turned it to sludge is a sure way to make meals feel like a gross chore.
@@beckydavis4958 I don't think anyone ever implied he didn't? He refused to become vegan so my guess is she wasn't the one cooking his hotdogs.
We cracked a vegan joke no big deal lol. We all know the worse part of dating a vegan is not the food, its hearing about veganism every minute of the day till you lose the will to wake up in the morning.
The Supersize Me movie gave me an eating disorder. It wasn’t until I was in college and took a health class and we watched the movie again along with another guy that did the same experiment for longer who actually lost weight and his cholesterol went down, that I realized that Supersize Me was the problem not me.
John Lennon isnt dead he's in witchita eating 19,000 big macs.
I understood that reference
31:05 fun fact! Per the FDA, all drug commercials must dedicate at LEAST 50% of their run time to explaining possible risks and side effects.
And in other parts of the world drug commercials are illegal 😅
@@Tom1573realistalso those places are not required to list all related risks that arise during trials.
Shouldnt be drug commercials. Absurd.
As someone who just recently stopped drinking, it really is super easy to get back on it with “I deserve this” and “it’s not a lot”
Absolutely it is. Drinking, nicotine and sugar are all chemicals where abstinence truly is easier than attempting moderation
hey brother i’m in the same boat as you! cold turkey for over a month now. hope you’re doing well.
i've tried more times than I can count with both smoking and drinking(i've never actively decided to quit drinking just take time off...or calm down with it) but smoking yeah cold turkey a few times....never made it more than 3 months before something will happen and i'm back smoking...
@@denen404 Literally me with how I drink. I have what I semi-jokingly call ‘liver breaks’ if I wind up hitting it hard multiple days in a week.
I won’t give ya the full breakdown of my system, but the nutshell is that I should be able to count the number of times I drink in a month on one hand.
I may let like having a single lager or White Claw type thing slide, but usually the way those go is that I end up crushing half the pack one night, the other half another, and then just don’t buy any more and while having like the last one or two sit at the back of my fridge for the rest of the month.
This also makes stuff like getting beer or opening a bottle of wine or liquor into little things I can look forward to for motivation when things feel like a slog.
Anyway, still wound up rambling a bit I guess.
My former neighbor recently had to go back to rehab trying to stop drinking. It also doesn't help that he has paranoid schizophrenia which has its own problems. But at least he is trying to keep off of it which is more than I can say for my former tenant who despite her cancer keeps returning, she refuses to stop drinking alcohol and refuses to stop smoking cigarettes and didn't even try rehab as far as my knowledge once. Though I guess most insurances doesn't cover stuff or something since the healthcare here in the United States of America is such a "GREAT" system. Sorry, went on a tangent at the end.
“Give me a big Mack!” My big back self: “that’s a Mcchicken”😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dr Phil also has not been a licensed physiologist in decades or at least a decade.
He was never a physiologist. A clinical psychologist yes decades ago.
He is not licensed but a psychologist is still a doctor just not a medical doctor
Did you read the clip he showed? He has a doctorate but he doesn’t practice because he’s in the media.
welcome to television where we have "real" bigfoot spotting's
@@BonBonWasHere111🤣 No, a 'psychologist' isn't "still a doctor" unless they have a PhD like Dr. Phil which is why he is called Dr. Phil! He's not a 'medical' doctor though! 😂
Schools having healthier lunches is BS, At least from personal experience. I worked as a “lunch lady” for 5 years and while we offered a small “salad bar” (plain lettuce, 1 fruit and 1 veggie option) we mostly served meals such as pizza, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, etc (and ofc most stuff was pre-cooked and frozen) The kids were all meant to take at least 1 fruit and veg, but we couldn’t force them to and ofc most kids just wanted nuggets or pizza. For “snacks” we had different chips, pretzels, etc, but nothing like cookies, brownies, ice cream. That wasn’t allowed. At least not at the elementary school. BUT that was allowed and more (cinnamon buns, cupcakes, soda, etc) in the middle and high school cuz kids were deemed “old enough and responsible enough” to make their own food choices. You really think the 5th grader isn’t gonna go into 6th grade and splurge on all the junk food? I know it. I asked a 5th grader and he said he’ll go and get ice cream every day once in 6th grade. The state claims that this program is what’s healthy for kids and that’s a joke.
The only thing that stopped me from eating pizza and french fries with ketchup ranch every school day was the fact that line was the place where 99% of all of the fights started. It wasn't fast food but it was still better than the store brands.
I remember when I was in high school, the kids would just used the “salad bar “ just to pour cheddar into their other meals 😒 I was the only one that used it for its purpose 🤣
And when schools provide the free “healthy” lunch options, the kids end up throwing it out because they don’t want the non tasty things :(
What school were you a lunch lady at? Once my school started the tofu burgers and plain rice i was done
I remember rubber chicken sandwiches and pizza squares, where the dough was very doughy, half cooked i think. Hotdogs would've been better!
Very telling that he dodged that question about alcohol from Katie Couric
I also found it funny that he said, “At least liquor stores don’t spend billions of dollars a year on ads”. Like, bro, have you never seen a sports program or the Super Bowl commercials before? 😂 Beer companies probably spend way more than fast food on commercials. I can name you the amount of alcohol sponsors and ads on TV like the back of my hand. I’m sure McDonald’s has paid for ads on these programs, but I feel for every one fast food commercial I see, there’s at least twice as many alcohol ads. This goes for UA-cam ads as well.
Dude tried acting like alcoholism wasn’t his issue so he made into a movie about McDonald’s
The 'documentary' left out the part where the man who was supposed to be only consuming mcdonalds was drinking heavily on set the whole time because he was a raging alchoholic and that's why he threw up so much. Did people really believe it was the fast food making him so sick when millions of people eat the same food every day with no problem?
Eating McDonalds everyday will inevitably make you not feel well boss
As for the food thing-- No, the kids eating worse tend to be kids whose parents are busy. That is to say, the ones working 12 hrs shifts are more likley to buy fast food compared to cooking at home. These kids also like valuable support at home. Correlation does not mean causation in this case!
Jared Fogal: My vice was food.
Also Jared: My vice is kids.....
Jared took "Eat Fresh" to the next level.
Also Jared: My vice is the head lock that the prisoners put me in as they proceeded to beat my face to a pulp.
@@mdedes9891 Not sure if it's his face that he's worried about when someone puts him in a headlock.... I think he's more concerned about the guy's friend that sneaks up behind him, while he's in a headlock.
@@joeyjojojr.shabadoo915 are you inferring the same reason 1 shouldn’t misplace the soap?
@@joeyjojojr.shabadoo915 Sadly, Jared won't get to experience what happens when one drops the soap in prison, because he made a deal to be in protective custody. He gets his own shower room that has the entrance watched over by a guard to make sure that Fleece Johnson doesn't manage to sneak in.
Of course, we can always hope that the prison hires Fleece Johnson as a guard, and that Jared will learn all about having to do it the easy way or the hard way, the choice being his.
As someone who used to be anorexic, I hated having to watch Super Size Me three different times in the K-12 times, especially the part where they tried to normalize heckling an overweight person like heckling a smoker (also not okay). I know that was touched on a bit in the video but that really was a big fear when I was anorexic, as well as others who I knew who were in a similar situation, and they all remembered this awful "documentary" as well. Its gross how much it was showed in schools around the country.
I grew up with a very emotionally abusive father (among other things) and I was never really given much of a lesson on how to eat properly, just shown movies like Supersize Me and had my dad make comparisons to me. I'm still learning how to have a decent relationship with food and I am SO here for the take down of stuff like Biggest Loser and Supersize Me. Feels cathartic.
Oompah was today years old when he learned PSYCHOLOGISTS GET DOCTORATES 😂🤣💀
Dr.Phil still isn't a doctor, he doesn't renew his license, he just has a doctorate... "just"
@ 21:41
I love how frankie sometimes just freaks out whenever oompy gets a bit too crazy
Something I was told in culinary school. If a burger has at least 1% 100% beef in it, it can be marketed as 100% beef.
That is messed up
@@Uo0ua indeed. Granted this was in 2010, things could have changed, but I doubt it.
That's scary
No it can’t. “100% Beef” however was the name of a company.
@@Uo0ua They're lying
4:25 the difference is that you don't need to smoke in order to live... so having an eating issue is definitely not comparable to a smoking habit
Plus, smoking affects the people around the smoker via secondhand smoke. Eating has no such secondhand affects.
Smokers smoke doesnt affect me. Someone 200lbs overweight makes me puke. Watching their skin flop all over and thinking about what the contents of the body under the skin look like and are made up of, is nauseating. You can hold your breath for 7 seconds while you walk past a smokers smoke.
An bad eating habit is significantly worse. Nearly every health issue is a result of a poor diet.
You dont need to overindulge, or suppress emotions with food either. Causing others to have to take care of you, causing taxpayers to support you, burdening the healthcare system with bodies and people who could have avoided being there if they have any self control…
@@kenw2225This vitriol is disturbing having this much disgust for a people you do not know is creepy secondhand smoke does affect you someone just living in their body does not and its not like you *care* why people are overweight you just have this hatred in you you need to process somewhere that is not a UA-cam comment section
I think the point of the school teachers documentary was kinda missed here. He wasn’t trying to prove the health benefits of McDonald’s by any stretch of the imagination. He was trying to demonstrate that eating McDonald’s in of itself doesn’t destroy your body, further proving that by improving his overall health with the help of exercise.
I will always love the old Whitest Kid U Know parody of this, "Super Size Me with Whiskey."
Ah, a fellow of culture I see.
Wild how Trevor also passed indirectly due to his own alcoholism
Kid beer was great.
@@chorizoramen93cause you were there, right?
Turns out the original was also super size me with whiskey, we just didnt know yet
The bowl cut mullet with mutton chops is amazing on the big mac enthusiast
One glaring thing that I noticed about the documentary since I rewatched it recently is that the lawyer representing the two girls suing McDonald’s was only interviewed once and was never seen being interviewed again throughout the film (mind you, this lawyer and his case is the catalyst for the whole movie). The one and only interview that was shown of the lawyer wasn’t very flattering, as he was asked what was his other motivations for pursuing the case. His response was (paraphrasing here), “Besides monetary gain? Um…” and they cut to the next scene with another interviewee. No follow-up interviews later on, nothing. The lawyer must’ve said something so laughable and ridiculous that they had to cut out his answer, but I was shocked as to why that part wasn’t cut out altogether.
Not sure if you've heard about a documentary called Fathead, but it's a counter to Super Size Me. It's made by stoner comedian Doug Benson, and he ran a same 30 day fast food experiment but he didn't limit it to McDonald's. He didn't add anything exercise wise, but what he did was just watch his calories, trans fat, carbohydrates and sugar intake and lost 13 pounds at the end of the documentary.
I think you’re mixing up Fathead with Super High Me, which is the one with Doug Benson.
Yup, you're right. Thanks
The only person's food intake you need to worry about is your own, or perhaps your kids or an elderly parent.
Harassing overweight people to lose weight just makes the issue worse. Especially when they also get harassed going to the gym to try and lose the weight.
No fat people get harassed at the gym. People acknowledge they are doing the right thing and getting into shape.
It IS something I need to worry about, because obesity puts a massive strain on the healthcare system and insurance premiums for everyone. It does harm EVERYONE
I've even seen overweight people get harassed *at the gym.* Like, why do you think they're at the gym to begin with?
19:12 This right here. The original director behind PSYOPS in the CIA (they have an entire sector dedicated to manipulating human psychology) was marketing manager.
And sigmund freud's nephew 😂
It just shocked me that people needed a movie to tell them eating fast food every day is unhealthy.
i had the same thought until i saw how massive the fast foods are in US
whats even more shocking is the fact the fast food market only continues to grow uncontrollably, at some point i do expect the governemnt to step in, the obesity epidemic is out of control, even more so than 20 years ago
Americans struggle to point out America on a world map, are really that shocked?
I mean, it really doesn't make sense.
I used to work at both bugerking and McDonald's...
(Obviously excluding the soda and fried foods) Their burgers are actually most likely healthier than the average home-cooked burger lol
@@johnnyparsnips7641 yeah just exclude the fries and soda cause no one gets those right
Kids eat what their parents give them. It's messed up to put personal responsibility on teenage girls. Like most things, I blame the parents.
Are kids that dumb? I wasn't. I never ate it. Never. Teenage girls have brains. I couldn't have been the only teenaged girl that knew Mcdonalds was bad. Like they can't ask for something else?
I will agree with the French lady on eating out outside the US. Mexican McDonald's hits different
I live in Europe and visited U.S. couple times and I honestly don´t see huge difference. Sure, there are different menu items in different countries but I don´t feel like it is "healthier" or what she said - cleaner - in here.
Asian McDonald's tho 😻
Eating out French ladies, What?
The documentary was shown for so long in schools here that I watched it as a student in class, grew up, went to college, became a teacher, and the students I taught were still watching it in gym class lol
We were watching it in my freshman human geography class in 2019 students born the year it came out were watching it
That's insane
42:07 Dude my parents have never taken me to McDonald's in my life lol. The slight obsession with healthy foods growing up didn't help create the best relationship with food for me.
49:43 “Muscle weighs more than fat”. Well riddle me this, lady. What weighs more, a pound of muscle or a pound of fat? 🥴
Yes, muscle weights more than fat. Its not based on weight, it's based on mass. A square inch of muscle weighs more than a square inch of fat. So you can lose a pound and it was actually losing muscle while gaining fat. You'll still have "lost weight" but you'll be fatter.
A pound of fat takes up *way* more space than a pound of muscle, just so ya know. That's what they mean when they say muscle weighs more than fat.
It's similar to a pound of bricks vs a pound of feathers - the bricks take up way more space than the feathers.
I believe the people in your replies are searching for the word 'density'.
Feathers?
@@whateverwhatever4026 But.. Steel's heavier than feathers...
Fun fact. Subway bread is classified as a pastry in some countries because of how much sugar is in it.
This video really opened my eyes to how dangerous fast food consumption can be. Though corporations have certain responsibilities, the ultimate decision lies with us. We as consumers need to be more discerning with our health choices.
That includes demanding clearly labeled foods, and more choices without any type of corn syrup at reasonable prices.
You control what you put in your mouth. That is what my college nutritionist teacher taught my class, and she is right.
Calories in and calories out. Fast food doesn't make you fat. Gorging yourself on excess calories does. Fat food just makes it easier.
Almost any food consumption can be dangerous. Over the last probably 10 years I would estimate i eat 1.5 meals a day on average. Normally a meal either on the way home from work or at home and then occasionally id stop while traveling while on the clock for work(i would take drinks for work but almost never food). I usually would work 6 days a week.
Usually the meal was on the way home and it was/is McDonalds. The food while on the clock would be usually McD but occasionally sheets/wawa/whatever gas station i drove past if i wasn't going right past a McD.
Some days i may skip eating if Im not out traveling for whatever reason or may occasionally stop over a family members for dinner if they invite me(by invite i mean they mention they made dinner. Lol. I do enjoy home made meals). I would estimate at least half my meals and certainly a minimum of half my calories are McDonald's.
I'm 31(? I think). I'm 6' tall and my weight is somewhere around 175-185(dressed, with boots).
Fast food consumption isn't as bad as most make it out to be. Nothing is as healthy as some claim it to be.
The US government pushed milk on its citizens for many years. Surprise, milk isn't as healthy as they claimed.
Last i heard fruits can be horrible for your teeth.
yeahh that wasnt really the point of the video pal, nice job trying to piggy back off of this video without een watching it entirely
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or hands up amirite
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Spurlock was spiking his Cokes with whisky the entire time then blamed his highly elevated liver enzymes on McDonald’s
The super size me movie made me wish the super size option was still a thing
Me too. It's the reason they removed it
What if instead of Oompaville he was called OompaFreak and got freaky every video
That’d be so crazy
𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂𝓿𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓮
im a freak fr just lmk...
Freakyville back again with another baby oil video
My farts are better than Oompaville’s farts 💨
Ah, the real reason he did the 30 day Macas challenge. He hadn't had processed, satisfying junk food since he started the relationship.
This was an excuse to eat all that he wanted and tell her it was for "science-
Im Guessing your Australian
@@filmsta5sixtoosiewas it the Maccas?
@@mongmanmarkyt2897 absolutely
The MrBeast comment aged like milk 🥛🥛🥛
That "Big Mac guy" DEFINITELY listens to The Beatles.
He seems more like a Rush fan
Whats wrong with the beatles? 😢
@@dreamyvill6421nothing, bro. They are amazing
subway: it's okay to eat an entire loaf of bread in one sitting :)
It’s funny because the amount of calories for one of Subway’s footlong subs are 910 calories, which is more than McDonald’s Super Size fries (610 calories). The footlong has just as much calories as a Big Mac and large fries meal from McDonald’s.
Especially with all the additives modern bread tends to have.
@@BirdsandGhibliFanto be fair, the calories from French fries are of the worst sort imaginable lol
@@BirdsandGhibliFan so if i ate 900 calories of straight lean meat and i ate 900 calories in straight fried carbs its the same??? LOL. a subway footlong is not the same as happy meal even if the calories were identical. GMOs and pesticides in mcdonalds is crazy. thier fries are one of a kind for a reason. and mcdonalds is luring kids with a happy meal toy. subway aint doing that. the only thing fresh at mcdonalds are their eggs and its probably coming from chickens pumped with hormones lol
@woolgathrr Not to mention that's JUST the fries. A whole mcdonald's meal; burger, fries, drink, definitely adds up to quite a bit more than a subway footlong
I guess what's frustrating to me about his lies is that there is so many legitimate reasons to be mad at mcdonalds and fast food in general but ESPECIALLY mcdonalds.
Hi, European dietitian here. Our McDonald's foods don't have any extra preservatives but the basic plain hamburger will also not rot here. It's because of three things: low moisture content, high salt and high fat content. You need water for bacteria and moulds to grow, but hamburgers that don't have high water added ingredients simply get more dry over time, which acts as a natural preservation method, in addition to the salt and the fat. The low moisture factor is the most important one actually, because the salt isn't THAT high that it would act as preservative alone. Dehydration, salt and fat are preservation methods that different cultures have been using for millennia, the ancient Egyptians were already using especially salt and dehydration to preserve food. So just the fact that the hamburger doesn't rot isn't a sign that the hamburger is dangerous, it's just what you would expect to happen to it based on what's in it. It's not particularly healthy but also not particularly unhealthy if eaten occasionally as a treat.
According to Oompa here, beef jerky and canned vegetables are the most dangerous food in existence.
"Rn I got some McGas and that's rockin" is not something I expected to ever hear in this lifetime.
Food companies and fastfood companies hire food scientists to find the most addictive combination of ingredients for the lowest cost possible.
That’s why flaming hot Cheetos are so popular! Kianna Dougherty made a video on it I highly recommend. (Michelle McDaniels may have made one too)
I can tell you this; I ate at a McDonald's in Paris and the food was the same.
Mcdonald is Mcdonald; delicious but to be enjoyed sparingly.
The only difference is there are certain preservatives the EU has banned so they aren't used there... They are much more strict on food additives
@@michaelkaizer85 their preservatives just go by a different name.
The food at McDonalds is different in Japan. Not necessarily healthier, but a menu tailored to local taste: like a shrimp burger.
You know what they call a quarter pounder in France?
That big french lady was lying 😅
What I think is most important about Super Size Me is that it forced McDonald's to change a lot of their policies and menu. Even with all the exaggerated and outright false claims Morgan Spurlock made (which are obviously not ok in a documentary) fast food became somewhat less unhealthy with fruit in kids meals and salad options. It's still far from ideal but there's absolutely zero chance any fast food company would have made any changes without some sort of catalyst.
That's what's docs are , one sided bs
Although it was extreme and not as educational as it could’ve been, the point he made was helpful overall. By stating the sheer amount of McDonalds there are plus eating there everyday is actually pretty relevant. My grandparents lived a couple miles down the road from a McDonalds and my uncle ate there pretty much everyday, and sometimes twice because he came to visit them daily. He wasn’t a healthy guy. It was also the reason my family and I went there often when I was young. Convenience. After I saw this film in the 11th grade, I stopped eating there. Now I hate McDonalds food and rarely eat fast food. It made its point and was generally a positive thing I think.
except mcdonalds today is far unhealthier than it was 20 or 30 years ago. It simply introduced the illusion of health
@@TheReluctantVlogger Lying and misleading the public when you *do not have to* is not a positive thing at all. Because when people figure out the truth, they'll now second-guess anything they hear about McDonalds being unhealthy because "well, what if it turns out this guy is making stuff up too?"
Don't lie to make a point. Just tell the truth and let people make their own choices.
The only thing it did was eliminate the "super size" option and replace it with "large".
7:35 - Surprisingly, in Germany, McDonald's no longer uses their typical colors like red and yellow, nor do they have the mascots. If you look it up on Google, you can see how "boring" it looks now. I am not quite sure why they did that, but I guess it has to do with not advertising their unhealthy food as aggressively to children, to prevent obesity.
Funny enough it's the opposite it's marketing strategy. Mcdonalds changed their image to a little kids fast food place to a more "mature" "adult" restaurant.
Mcdonalds now knows the current adult generation has more money and will buy more of their food then adults in their 30s or 40s buying for their children.
They stopped doing it in the US too.
They want to loose the stigma of being a "fast food" place and seem more of a "regular" burger restaurant, like they did with the "signature burgers"
We studied MacDonald’s advertising in Behaviour Science in my degree two decades ago.
Red & yellow are the first two colours (primary colours) that a baby recognises/ responds to. It’s all strategic to capture an audience from birth.
Yeah McDonald's chnaged their esthetic all over. They're going with some modernized decor now.
I have watched this documentary over 30-40 times. I put it on at night to fall asleep, it was one of the only documentaries that put me to sleep despite my insomnia 💀
For me that was karate kid part 3 on vhs. There are some soothing scenes that put me to sleep
...what?
It’s so boring it lulls you to sleep, too?
@@HavianEla Yea bro 😭
The movie straight up has him saying he's ending all working out and reducing his step count down to less than 5k. So a highly active, healthy eating, vegan went to no excerise and an entire days worth of calories per meal. Three meals a day.
And that's supposed to a reasonable representation?
"I'd be hard pressed to find a difference between obesity and smoking." I mean, don't harrass anyone. But a person being fat won't give another person living with them cancer the way a smoker can expose someone living in their home to increased cancer risk can. That argument never held for me because of that. Like anything related to health, this is a multifaceted, complicated conversation that can't be summed up in a tag line for a shallowly researched documentary.
So many children end up obese due to their parents choices. But i get what you mean.
"I mean 🤓🤓🤓"
@@thecoedbutcher52 totally! But I was also think about adult roommates when and secondhand smoke as well. Plus I'm severely asthmatic and stop breathing when someone lights up in public lol
Also someone can choose to stop smoking and never have to pick up a cigarette again someone within 5 seconds can change your whole life and choose to not smoke while someone cannot choose to not be fat within 5 seconds they can't just magically shed the weight plus they still have to eat they can't just choose to stop eating or they'll die
@@thecoedbutcher52 Plenty of kids end up with asthma and allergies because their parents smoke.
It’s disingenuous for people think fast food corporations don’t care about health but believe that vegetable/produce corporations do. Newsflash, neither corporation cares about the effects their foods have on people and they take no effort (past what they’re legally regulated to do) to ensure their products are healthy. Corporate responsibility is the end all be all. Directing people to eat vegetables that are sprayed with pesticides and chemicals that also cause health issues is insane if you care about eating healthy. Our food industry needs to be heavily regulated so even if you do overindulge it doesn’t create undue harm. The corporations are capable of making healthier versions of their food, which you see when see the product in other countries, so it’s possible. They just don’t do it for their products here in the US.
Grow your own vegetables, it's fun AND cheap
No regulation is insusceptible to bribery and corruption. Growing your own food is very easy for a vast majority. You don't need a food industry if you have the instinct and wherewithal to produce your own. If you want it readily available and in a package at your whim. You have to make peace with the fact that it will be designed to keep making you give money for the luxury. Even if the convenience will probably shave years of your life. Either eat it, or don't.
Unfortunately many live in neighborhoods and homes with small lawns to begin with, so gardening is a difficult task, not to mention nonideal growth conditions. Overpopulation is also an issue in that regard, cause more houses built, less land to garden, etc. etc. For people who have the ability, more power to them, but quite a few people just don't have the means and can't afford it. Sure planter boxes are a thing and all, but there's the problem of rodents, pests, and HOA deciding they don't like that and need to further be a menace because their kids don't call them out of second-hand embarrassment.
blah blah blah.
@@TheAntlionGuard Not everyone has access
Was forced to watch the Super Size Me in a culinary class. I wanted to die
super size me made you wanna cry? geez a genuinely sad movie would destroy you 😭
We had to watch it in health class 😂 it made me so hungry
Me too, but in health. It looked fake from the start, but it got me to do less work so 🤷♂️
@@hugeburger from disgust
Sure you did... sure you did.