The Bizarre Aftermath of Super Size Me | McDonald's Documentary
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
- Have you ever wondered what happened as a consequence of Super Size Me? Was McDonald’s mad? Did they retaliate against Morgan Spurlock?
This video answers “What did McDonald’s do after Super Size Me”. It tells the strange story of John Cisna, a science teacher from Iowa who lost weight on his “McDiet” and convinced the teens in his high school that McDonald’s fast food wasn’t as bad as they thought.
We discuss “540 Meals” - the controversial documentary created by McDonald’s and John Cisna, and sent to middle schools and high schools across America - and unravel a 20 year old mystery in the process.
When Super Size Me came out - McDonald’s took out ads in Australia and the UK telling people not to see the film. It backfired. So in America - they seemingly didn’t react at all. Other than ending their Super Size program the very same year…
This video investigates whether that’s all McDonald’s did in America, or if McDonald’s simply decided to conceal their reaction to Super Size Me from the public - and try a sneakier tactic instead…
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Super Size Me and McDonald's
1:12 - John Cisna & The McDonald's Experiment
3:20 - This Wasn’t About McDonald's
6:47 - SUS
9:30 - CHOICES
13:18 - McDonald's Reaction
15:10 - John Cisna vs Morgan Spurlock
16:30 - A "Normal" McDonald's Diet
19:51 - The Aftermath of “540 Meals"
23:00 - The Smoking Gun
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I'm still watching through your video, so if you mention it, oops! But 2008-2016 was around the period that Michelle Obama had advocated for changing school lunches to be healthier and so fries were now baked, only diet sodas could be served in machines, some chain restaurants were trying to use less fats, and the food pivoted towards something less terrible. A lot of high schools used to allow kids to leave campus and go get fast food for lunch but that was also getting cut. So I wonder if this is what triggered him/McDs (in part) to do this 10 years later.
Just bullshit, we are responsible for our choices, i am overweight, and i know that this is not good, and i am doing everything that i can to change it.
@@sarahproton such a good point!
Big corporations would do the craziest s**t possible to stay relevant and to keep sales high. Finding an "ambassador" and promoting an entire documentary is not the weirdest thing for these people.
When I was growing up, I was always jealous of how much fast food, desserts, or candy other kids ate... Now as an adult, in extremely happy my mom pushed healthy eating habits on me as a kid.
my parents fed me macdonalds every day and i do the same for my kids kids deserve good food and what kid doesnt like macdonalds i mean if you dont spoil your kid some that is child abuse my kid can wipe out 4 mcdoubles like nothing and im proud of him and when we hit up the chinese buffet he can slay 7 or 8 plates and i make damn sure he piles on the chicken because he gets his moneys worth then and one time i cought him eating rice and noodles and i almost whooped his ass lol i took his plate and dumped it in the trash and grabbed him a plate of MEAT HEALTHY GOOD MEAT NOT NO VEGGIES
same here it sucked having all to eat the off brand healthy snacks when i wanted “real” snacks but retrospect is everything
I was one of the kids who ate a lot of junk when I was little, partly because my mom also loved the stuff and she likes treats and convenience. As an adult, I wish she cooked only homemade meals and pushed more healthy eating when I was younger😅
Yeahh
that jealousy is form of social engineering those companies employ to intease kids to get more junk and get them addicted early , to get stable customer as an adult.
There were certainly issues with Supersize Me, but the red flag for me here is how Cisna simultaneously changed his exercise habits. A science teacher knows (should know) very well that you must try to minimise any other changes that might affect your results. In fact he should have had some kind of control.
Yes!! This! It proves to me he was definitely paid by mcD to do it. If he was genuinely he would not have exercised and he would also have been focused on what food he ate ( egg sandwiches and salads + a burger meal + skipping sugary drinks ) and not that it was from mcD
@@ul8590 That logic doesnt follow at all.
Not necessarily.
If the goal is to show that you can live healthy while eating primarily (or even exclusively) McDonald's (as in "it is possible at all", not as in "this is healthy in and of itself"), then changing other variables might be appropriate. It's not a scientific experiment to isolate the exact mechanism, it's a proof of concept experiment utilizing an existing knowledge base.
The real problem is the seeming lack of proper disclosure of the full details of the experiment, leading to a deception by omission. (Side note: I hate the term "lie by omission", because it's not a lie. A lie is an outright false statement, a "lie by omission" is true statement designed to lead to incorrect conclusions. Not all forms of deception are lies.)
Did he hide that he changed how much exercise he did?
He was also dealing with alcohol abuse he even admitted it in a letter in 2017
Surlock recently admitted he was an alcoholic during the filming. Its funny the doctor is stunned snd tells morgan hes only seen this level of damage this quickly in someone drinking. Hilarious
McDonalds should have been able to sue him for defamation.
@@colliric they couldnt and wouldnt cause they would have to prove their food was not unhealthy and their marketing wasnt purposefully upselling people to always get the bigger meal only because it's basically the same price.
Honestly the most concerning thing about this is how easily McDonalds (or any corporation) is able to influence the education curriculum in the US.
They actually aren't even that high on the influence list. First place goes to the soda manufacturers.
They ate not even close to the ability of leftist activists to change the school programs, from kindergarten to PhD.
After all, the zealots are the teachers and state employees designing the curriculum.
Uh...I hate to break it to you, but most of our official dietary guidelines and nutrition advice is influenced or guided by corporate interests.
I worked for McDonald's (in Denmark) from 1998 - 2004. By the time "Super size me" came out, I had worked my way up the corporate ladder to manager. So I was in a prime position to see what kind of change "Supersize me" brought about.
I too remember the line that "no one has seen the movie", which kinda pissed me off was the official line because it was so clear that all the high level corporate people were scared shitless, it was so obvious that the official line was complete BS.
What I remember in terms of damn near immediate ramifications from the film, was the immediate pulling of the super size items on the menu - This happened within a week if I recall correctly. - It was super surprising as the super size items had only been introduced a couple of months earlier to help with brand recognition. - I think after the movie McD didn't want the association to the words "super size", so the super size items were pulled so quickly as to be one of the most surprising moves I saw thorough out my time with the company.
Another consequence of the movie happened a couple of months later when McD decided to introduce salads and generally more healthy menu items. We had in '99 been given a "Shaker Salat" product. But that was introduced to allow "the health conscious mother to eat at McD while her kids had happy meals". Although the amount of calories from the dressing alone made them more nutrient dense than a Big Mac.
What about the people there? was there a drastic decline in customers if you know?
Denmark is awesome.
Of course, they have seen the movie. There's no way that McDonald's PR team would not pay attention to the "Supersize me". I bet they made very detailed reports to the bosses almost on a daily basis, consisting of what was the last episode about, what was written in the press and who made any public statement regarding the show.
@@hihungryimdad We didn't really see a significant drop in sales, but we had no doubt become an unpopular brand. But people still need to eat.
thanks for your insider perspective!!! very interesting!
The fact that he was working with the franchise owner connects him to the company. Additionally, he was compensated with free product.
"Free product" and, eventually, a job. This is pure corruption.
@@profe3330 not to mention a sexual predator.
It dosent matter it still works. Calories in calories out
@@rad8311 Well hun, if you knew even the first thing about any medically recognized study, you'd know that actual researchers (those ppl with degrees) are required to divulge potential confounds like receiving free meals and that included confounds like suddenly starting a regular excersize regime after years of being sedentary would actually disqualify the "study" as being medically accurate. Also, I'm pretty sure the next time I need medical attention, I'll be going to a doctor rather than a high-school science teacher from Iowa for treatment. Also, education standards in that state must be right in the toilet if this dude is allowed to teach there.
@@madpoetsociety2917 yes he probably should have disclosed it. However it is something worth thinking about. I followed a similar diet to his and lost a ton of weight. Everyday I'd do intermittent fasting and for about a month I only did it with various fast food, keeping it within my daily calories. I'm down 61 pounds so far and just 20 more to go
I think it's also important to state that just because you're losing weight doing something doesn't mean you're on the right track, theres a lot more to nutrition than calories☠☠
True. Additionally, eating lots of fruits of vegetables and adding "healthy lifestyle choices" shouldnt always be someone's priority. For example, the biggest lifestyle factor in counteracting metabolic disorders and early stage heart disease in obese people is simply losing weight, not eating more olive oil. Healthcare is very personal.
The same goes for gaining weight.
All of his numbers were good during a physical, what more do you want? You have nothing to go on other than your fee fees that "McDonald's bad". I assure you, 98% of "mom n pop" budget food options are buying from the same suppliers, cooking in the same oil, etc., but I'd like to see you try to smear them the same.
@@FuckGoogle-FuckChina If you're gaining weight and it's not verifiably muscle from working out that you're probably flat out over-eating. Being overweight (from accumulated fat/overating) almost universally leads to health problems.
@@nunyabusiness896 No contest in that regard.
Very informative video. A couple of important points are missing, however. In Super Size Me, Spurlock set a couple of rules for his experiment. If a McDonald's employee asked him if he wanted a Super Size (extra-large) order, he had to say yes, and he had to finish it. This is a major difference to somebody choosing from among menu items and ordering smaller or even normal-sized portions. Spurlock was not claiming that everything at McDonald's was unhealthy, only their marketing practices (though he did comment on the fact that other people typically ordered unhealthy food and too much of it). The main result was that soon after the film hit theaters, McDonald's dropped its Super Size portions altogether.
He was also restricted to the average amount of exercise a typical person got per day, to the point of having to take cabs if he walked too much. This was to show how unhealthy a sedentary life was coupled to being pushed into overeating by the company. He also showed how hard it was to lose the weight afterward.
just say no
Sounds like he should have eaten at multiple restaurants.
Or, you could go to the supermarket, buy cola and chips and eat the entire bag and finish the 2 L of cola in a day.
You will end up with the same effect == too much fat and sugar.
I know, right? Some "science" teacher, lol.
@@warrensteel9954 Yeah, even at the time, science teachers were saying that the study wasn't properly controlled, since it had two variables (stopping most exercise and changing diet simultaneously).
Super Size Me in the end was cinema, and not formal science that would get published in a science journal.
The fact that not exercising is bad for you was already pretty common knowledge in 2004. And...honestly, McDonalds was generally perceived as junk food on some level before the movie came out. The stuff I found interesting was the claims about the addictive properties of certain types of fast food, how easy McDonalds made it to consume a high number of calories, and how corporate profits made it beneficial for corporations to encourage overeating through deals, as they sell more product to overeaters. These were new concepts to me in 2004, and were my main takeaways from the Super Size Me film. (The one guy eating at McDonalds for 30 days while not exercising felt like more of a publicity stunt to get attention for the movie).
What’s funny is that my health class showed this movie, but they still took us to McDonald’s for a treat for all the kids that did well that week.
One day in elementary school, my brother was taught that Styrofoam never decomposes. Then he went to lunch and was served lunch on Styrofoam plates
@@laurie_guilbeau lol
I watched the film in the cinema and on the back of the ticket was a McDonalds ad with a coupon for free fries.
@Jesse Kinkead Nah, just an average American school.
There was a 3 month span that my husband was training for his job, which required us to travel to multiple states and stay in hotels. This meant eating fast food and prepackaged foods basically the whole time. I’ll tell you what- I workout everyday, but during this time of only eating that quality of food, my energy levels were TRASH! And my muscles felt so fatigued during my lifts.
Sure, somebody could potentially lose weight eating only fast food everyday, *if* they’re in a calorie deficit. But! How do they *feel* everyday??
virile, they feel virile :vvvv
Exactly, you feel depressed and without energy on this type of diet.
I find the idea of fast food and health going together down right stupid. Not only does it raise and than crash your sugar most Americans eat it because one it is.largely cheaper than making their own meal at home and two it takes less time.than making a meal.
@@alnklar Did you actually mean vile?
@@Ingrid922 Did you watch this video all the way through? Virile was intentional. You missed the joke.
In Australia, in the wake of Supersize Me, McDonalds went out and got a bunch of their meals certified as heart-healthy by the Heart Foundation, a cardiovascular not-for-profit institute. It was supposed to turn public opinion on Maccas, and undo some of the damage done by the movie, but instead there was massive public outrage at the Heart Foundation. Their certification program was later axed.
I didn't know that. Now that you mention it I haven't heard of the heart foundation in ages.
I remember their little freak out after the movie and them producing a bunch of ads trying to push their own narrative. It all came off as a massive cope and stank of panic
The problem with ANY Mc Donalds'-centered diet is not just the issue with weight, but the lack of fiber and micronutrients that fruits and vegetables have and that McD's (since they cancelled the salad menu) lacks
Plus processed food makes you overeat (this is proven in many studies)
Your body doesn't need fiber..
The importance of micronutrients from fruits and vegetables is over rated.
@@Mouse73no but you’re not gonna have a fun time on the toilet with little to none
@@deseuryderia you have nothing to back up your baseless claim. I've been eating an animal based diet for a few months now. I have no constipation, no diarrhea, no cramps, no gas, no bloating, and no trouble using the bathroom. In fact, I have less waste to get rid of because my body is maximizing nutrients from what I eat. My time spent in the bathroom is minimal, without difficulty and without pain which is a common occurrence for people who eat strictly animal based once their gut biomes have adapted. Your body does not require fiber. In fact, it doesn't require carbohydrates either. Educate yourself.
And Cisna very clearly said his students were monitoring a 2,000 calorie diet per day for him using the menus. I highly doubt the typical McDonald’s frequenter and targeted marketing group is counting daily calories this carefully… 🙄
Also, how many calories was he eating prior to the 2,000 calorie diet? And my main concern is not weight but long term health consequences of the chemicals and junk, which can’t be measured in 90 days.
EDIT: Literally just hit play and the part where you talk about this just came up 😂😂😂😂 Thanks for being so on it!
All he did was prove that calorie deficits work. And I would even say SHORT TERM, even though it’s six months. I’d be curious how much this would work (and be safe) after a few years.
Chemicals? What does that even mean. Everything we eat is made up of chemicals.
No grown man is going to become overweight on 2000 calories, that is all I know. Even men who are stuck in a hospital bed for weeks are given 2000 calories a day, and sometimes even more depending on the situation.
“Chemicals” well let’s be scientific about this, I think the harm is in the unhealthy fats and possibly preservatives for people who are allergic/sensitive to those.
I completely agree that the McDonald’s (and fast food, even restaurant food in general) is made to taste good, for people who are not counting calories. The funny thing is though a sit down burger and fry meal at a restaurant is often more calories than a cheap McDonald’s meal. This is a widespread issue with how the market of ready made food is affected by demand and the lack of regulations to prevent these kinds of obesity issues.
Pffft, a few months won't have long term effects on health.
I remember when that old lady sued McDonalds for getting injured after spilling coffee on her lap, McDonalds spent a lot of money to try to discredit her. When I first heard about the lawsuit I myself thought she was just trying to get rich from a fraudulent lawsuit. Then when I heard actual facts of the lawsuit I was amazed. The actual facts were a far cry from the information that was being distributed via McDonalds in an attempt to sway public opinion
If I recall correctly she actually got 3rd degree burns, there's no excuse for it to be that hot
@@vivilover9409 I read that it fused the skin on her legs together because it was so hot. I know people like hot coffee, but that just seems excessively hot to me.
@@josh1200 it was extremely hot and did cause horrible pain and suffering, but the kicker is she originally just wanted to be reimbursed for the medical bills but McDonald's balked at that so it worked it's way into big settlement. It went from her asking for about $20,000 to cover ONLY the actual costs, including skin grafts to her walking out with a much more comfortable $2.7M, although she never got that.. it was later reduced (which seems absurd considering the original amount was only 2 measly days worth of McDonald's income to begin with!) to $640,000, although rather than go through an appeal McDonald's settled for something in the middle, but definitely not what she was owed.
She ended up dying before getting paid.
@@josh1200
Could that have been caused by the normal temperature it was served at, or the layer of fat and greed that made her keep the liquid in one specific location for long enough that it would leave a mark and get that sweet sweet litigation cash that she would've needed to work thousands of hours for while she doesn't want to work even 1 hour?
McDs is a super easy target. But, I always focused on the sodas. Even the example she gave of what an average 3 meals would be, if you removed the sugary drinks from all of them you are around a realistic 2000 cal diet. Morgan Spurlock was drinking about 1500 calories a day in sugar! Yeah, the body is going to take a hit.
First thing that occurred to me, as well. Diet sodas alone could make the difference.
They really showed their hand in the documentary with that topic. At one point they had all the sugar he had drank on a table, but they immediately forgot about that massive detail and spent the rest of the documentary talking about how bad his “high fat” diet was for him.
Yeah but how else are you going to get that pleasure sensor stimulation and dopamine hit? These meals, soda included, are designed this way for a reason. Fast food chains have their formula down to the gram consisting of simple carbs, fats, and salts.
@@nedkelly2035Diet sodas aren't healthy though.
There's a good reason why artificial sweetners are used in pig fattening...
They cause a whole host of issues starting with bowel bacteria going crazy from stuff like sucralose.
I personally prefer traditionally sweetened sodas over diet sodas. I don't like the texture and taste. It doesn't really matter for me though because I only drink soda once every few months.
I wish people would please stop spreading this doom and gloom misinformation. There are people with terrible habits who are going to drink a lot of soda. No artificial sweetener that's been approved is as bad for you as consuming a lot of sugar. Perhaps everyone should just stick to water and avoid anything that's sweetened but I'm not sure that's a realistic scenario. The studies people like to cite will take rodents and feed them with amounts of artificial sweeteners per their weight that no person could reasonably consume. Oftentimes it's not even the animals themselves but cell cultures and the cells are directly injected with these compounds.
I do have to say, as a former McDonalds employee, the salads actually did sell a decent amount, more than you would probably think. Them getting rid of it was more than likely due to the lettuce shortage we had.
I agree. Everyone I knew who ate at McDonald's had at least one salad a week from there. And only a salad.
I believe it because I ordered them quite often. I like salads and I didn't always want a burger and fries. I also liked having the grilled chicken sandwich option.
as a former McD employee no one ought to take your opinions seriously in any way regarding business related decisions
I miss the salads
Also during the pandemic there was probably less demand for them as it's easier just to buy a big bag of lettuce at home and mix the ingredients in yourself than doordash the same thing for 5x the price. McDonald's salads were useful for people stopping for a quick lunch during the workday, but if you're working from home there's no longer a use. At least a McDonald's burger and fries isn't something you can easily replicate at home, especially if you want the fries fried in oil which is a big mess to do just one quick batch.
Man that documentary is going to be 20 years old.
i know right lol
How many McDonalds opened since then?
Dang, 20 years old, I remember having to watch this in science class lol. Time flies!
@@KianaDochertySad News… Morgan Spurlock died today aged 53, RIP legend, he was taken too soon from us because of McCancer
This guy was absolutely working with McDonalds.
Except for the fact that he wasn't.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 dude was friends with a franchise owner and got all of that food for FREE. He was definitely working with McDonalds
@@libbywatson6122 if you have a friend who works at a place, that doesn’t mean you work for the place. That don’t make no sense. That’s bullshit logic.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 I respect your opinion. Have a good evening
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 And yet, John straight up said he was working with McDonald's. 🙄
John and Morgan both succeeding in showing that total calories and physical activity are the most important aspects. Morgan screwed up his health and weight by eating everything from the menu and stopping his exercise routines, while John started working out and being sure to not eat at a caloric surplus.
Both provided some value while being uniquely misleading in other ways.
@@PoochieCollins How so, in Spurlock's case? The '90s and '00s were a low point in American nutrition and lifestyle, between the unholy trinity of incredibly lax nutrition education, highly sedentary lifestyles, and glut of processed and unhealthy food options. Much of which is directly attributable to lobbying and marketing efforts by fast food, soda, and convenience/snack food companies, and started in the '80s.
All he did was replicate a contemporary blue collar/working poor American's diet and lifestyle.
Just so you know, they offer reading comprehension courses at most community colleges. @@ProfessorGothic
I don't understand Kiana's POV here. Is it that hard to believe that an adult with a captive audience who's heard kids regurgitate this morality play without understanding it would concoct an alternate experiment? Note I'm not saying it was particularly well constructed (IE "get healthy" vs "lose weight") but all in all I don't think it rises to the level of Great Corporate Conspiracy. Honestly the fact that they showed Supersize Me to kids is pretty gross in and of itself, so I'm not shocked that at least one teacher decided to construct an alternate hypothesis.
Depends on the food quality for calorie. 500 calories in hi carb food will add more easily to weight than 500 calories of low carb food. If food has fructose added to it, and more food than one imagines does, then that will suppress leptin release into the body which tells you that you are full. It's very difficult to over eat on low carb simply because your leptin release is normal.
it's also important to note that the guy who did the twinkie diet was also taking a lot of supplements to compensate for what his body actually needed.
you can always reduce calories to lose weight, but that doesn't mean losing weight is always "healthy"
For me, McD was a HUGE trigger for my BED. I ate fast food almost every day when I was over 300 pounds. I tried to incorporate fast food into a healthy diet but I couldn't. I had to cut it out completely because it led me to a very bad and dark place. Even now, thinking about getting a large fry and 20 piece nuggets makes a little tingle in the back of my head like it's a good idea. I was very addicted to it and it was a hard habit to break. I will never go back or take my kids there to eat.
I’m so proud of you for recovering. I was anorexic for years, and had binge eating as a side effect of starving myself at times. It’s not easy, just wanted to say I’m happy for you and you aren’t alone. ❤️
getting a large fry and 20 piece nuggets would make any normal person tingle....who the hell eats that much?...its not mcdonalds..its the fact that you eat the quantity of 3 or 4 people at once..of course you gain weight..i ate mac every day for 2 years at lunch,(a cheeseburger and a small portion of fries)yet never gained a gramm.....its not healthy anyway but to blame mcdoanals,coke,kebabs etc for you obesity its wrong....
Good to hear that you’re passing good habits to your kids. I’m so glad my parents didn’t give us fast food (with the exception of road trips) because I really think that giving fast food to kids changes how their brain craves food.
I am fine with your choice but not for your kids
@@pacoro84 bro did you *read* their comment? They had a binging issue, the tingle described by bingers is NOT the same as what "any normal person" experiences.
many great points made! There were few things in Super Size Me that weren't in 540 meals:
1. Spurlock clearly said he was going to reduce his steps as posible - using elevator inside, driving car as much as possible to match the unhealthy lifestyle, contrarery to Cisna who started excerising
2. He set a rule to choose Super Size menu if the staff asks him about it (hence the puke because he wasn't used to this amount of food at all) which also meant he didn't have any calorie limit - Cisna has a limit about 2000 cal
3. another rule was to try every meal avalaible on the menu during those 30 days, in contrast with Cisna's meal plan
So if Cisna was trying to replicate Spurlock's experiment as he said, he would've followed those same rules, except for super size menu since it was discontinued (but could be replaced with 2 smaller portions)
Also, Spurlock was an alcoholic behind the scenes.
@@rickardkaufman3988 True, I know about that, still doesn't change the last sentence
His earlier stated goal was to do the exact opposite of spurlock if you recall, so he did in face do that. Spurlock changed ALL the parameters of his life and then grossly over ate, suggesting that the individual had no role. then stated McDonalds was obviously the cause. A better experiment would have been to eat no more than he usually does and keep exercising. But that film would not have been compelling nor make money.
Cisna did exactly as the government (And by the read on McDonald's disclaimer) recommends and ate nothing but McDonald's, and lost weight, I think the goal was to show that the variable causing the problem was not expressly fast food. But your choices and behaviors.
At the end of the day ultra processed foods are bad, people do not eat them reasonably and the flavonoids and stuff are addicting. That and 90 days is not long enough. Also, this so called 10,000 dollar value? I figured it at 20 bucks a meal 3x a day for 90 days and got 5000-ish.
The one thing thing I can affirm to both of these cases.. neither has brought forward a food diary..
That documentary was trash. We all know your body wouldn’t crash that hard with one month of fast food. Of course eating McDonald’s everyday isn’t healthy, but he wouldn’t have had life threatening health issues from 3 weeks of it. It takes years, as we have all seen with the HAES movement to deteriorate like he did.
In the UK TV show "The Inbetweeners", Will asks Simon "did you not see Supersize Me?" Simon says "Yeah but it just made me really want a Big Mac".
As you showed, a day of eating like that would come out to nearly 3000 calories. Spurlock's movie showed he would order multiple sandwiches for he meals. And apparently Cisna was basically eating a salad for lunch and a set meal for dinner. All of these so-called documentaries that start out with an agenda somehow always manage to prove it correct.
You seem to have completely missed the point. Spurlock ended up eating more calories than was healthy because McDonalds practices encouraged that behavior. Spurlock was reasonably transparent about his rules for dining at McDonalds. While Cisna was deliberately deceptive. To the point I would call Cisna's description of what he did to be outright lying.
Plus, you really don't know if he truly finished every meal or stuffed himself with laxatives afterwards.
It's pretty obvious he was exercising, otherwise there wouldn't have been those scenes of him doing exercise in conjunction with his Mac diet.
Really, that's cheating in itself as he is increasing his metabolism to cope with the increase in calories, esp those from fat and sugar (an Age Of Sail sailor required 4000 calories a day to maintain his weight, and when I was a gardener I needed 3000 per day. Working as a teacher, which is quite sedentary for most subjects, plus the extra sitting time to mark stacks of homework and lesson planning, you probably need 'less' than the average).
He never had more than one sandwich, and he provided his entire month's diet, with receipts, as part of the movies promotion so no one could claim that. Everything he ate was part of a pre-packaged meal served by McDonald's. Everything.
His main goal was to show that McDonald's encouraged people to eat more and more unhealthy food. Hence why he had to agree if they offered him the option to super size the meal, among other rules.
I'm still annoyed that McDonald's got rid of their healthy choices because they actually had some fairly cheap, decent-tasting food. I used to order a snack wrap which was basically grilled chicken, cheese, and lettuce in a tortilla. It was super helpful when I need something simple and fast that wouldn't make me feel sick.
Those healthy options are still available in my country. I suppose they weren’t that popular in US so weren’t kept.
The KFC in my country used to have grilled chicken as a healthy alternative. It has been gone for a long time now and i wish i was trying to lose weight when it was around (i was a chubby 7 year old when it was still available).
I loved the spicy veg deli's but they don't even do deli's now 😭
None of it was axtually healthy though. Even the salads were really unhealthy.
just make salad from fresh vegetables you cut , you'll be much better off
"How much you eat is what counts in weightloss"
That is true. You're gonna lose weight if you eat 1500 cals/day at McDonald's.
But they left out how eating 1500 cals a day at McDonald's basically means having one meal a day, considering that even their salads amount to almost 1000 cals each. You add a side of fries and a soda and ding! Ding! Your limit is busted!
You can lose weight eating garbage, but you will go through hell in the process.
(Also can we talk about the fact that Cisna was already obese when he started out this experiment? Not that hard to lose weight when you start out with an already poor, calory-heavy, diet.)
Exactly. He was obese to begin with. Then there's me, a 39 year old woman with PCOS and on certain medications that make weight loss difficult, and my resting metabolic rate is an abysmal 900 calories.
This. This is what I came to say. He may have lost weight, but is it sustainable? no. You can look "healthy" and not be.
It also completely ignores the negative health impacts of the ingredients in the highly processed foods served at McDonalds. You can lose weight and still poison your body.
The problem isn't one meal a day, the problem is if that one meal is designed in a lab to be filling temporarily and then make you hungry again immediately after.
You're still going to clog your arteries and ruin your health eating McDonald's every day at a calorie maintenance/deficit. You'll LOOK good and healthy, but you'll rot from the inside out. Speaking from experience. My cholesterol started to slightly elevate, in the prime of my life, extremely athletic, 6 pack, everything you'd visually think of when you think of a fit, healthy person. My diet alone, despite the rest of my lifestyle, was enough to damage my health. Even working out and running 6 days a week, AND being youthful, STILL isn't enough to keep your body from sustaining damage from that crap. Can you imagine how much worse it is on an older, more stagnant person??
Laughed out loud when I got a Burger King ad in the middle of this
That's hilarious.😂
Since he's a science teacher, he should know that you need a control sample to do this kind of experiment
That was the issue with th e late alcoholic Morgan Spurlock's documentary as well
I'm 30 years old and have weighed roughly the same amount for the last 10 years. Weight doesn't typically correlate with how your body feels and functions. I could imagine eating McDonald's for 3 months would lead to lots of insane headaches, acne, and digestive problems. Not to mention all the micro plastics found in the food 😬. For a science teacher it's really strange that he didn't use the McDonald's as the only variable but he also changed his activity at the same time. His lack of exercise should have been held constant. That just shows that the entire experiment was flawed and a waste of time.
Exactly. Adding in another major factor of suddenly exercising regularly is going to have a massive impact on the results. Completely negated the whole thing.
Microplastics are everywhere
Obviously a bowl of fiber-filled veggies and a burger have the same calories but different nutrients.
@@Tribuneoftheplebs exactly! 👍
And not only microplastics. There is even worse.
@@Theruleforlife What is more, the satiety effect of a liquid soup is higher than of a burger! There was a research on that too! So after a healthy bowl of soup you are less likely snacking afterwards...
By the way, my takeaway from Supersize Me in health class was not "Fast food is bad." It was "You don't need to eat 4 people's worth of mcdonalds when you go. And you don't need to eat it every day" Again, the problem was with the supersize meals.
But do you know WHY he ate the surpersized meals?
He only ate that, and his body was starved for nutrients. When your body is lacking something like that, it is very likely it will be urging you to eat so it can get what it needs, despite it causing a calorie surplus.
And even "normal" sized meals are very calorie dense in McDonalds. A Big Mac meal is a hearthy sadwich with potatoes and a coke, it's is 1080 calories. That's literally a daily caloric intake for a sedentary short woman, and it will NOT hold her for an entire day that's for sure. Lets be nice and say that for breakfast she had healthy 200kcal oats and for dinner a nice bowl of vegetables with chicken, and some greek yogurt dressing, 400kcals, that's... 1680 calories. It would create a 500 calorie surplus every day.
Now, of course, you don't need (nor should you) have it every day.
But the point of SSM was never "have McDonalds once and you die".
@Blue Turtle - definitely agree. I love McDonald's. Last year I went there twice and each time I had a cheese burger. Nothing else. And there's nothing wrong with that.
@@JeDindk There IS indeed nothing wrong with that, but I don't think SSM was saying your health will be damaged if you eat there sometimes.
@Lulu Pomegranate - you are probably right. Nevertheless, I know quite a few people who act like they think a single meal at McDonald's will kill them. I also know quite a few people who feel superior to those who go to McDonald's, because they don't eat unhealthy food. These concepts are largely based on SSM.
So, you are probably right. But that is nevertheless what lots of people took away from the movie.
@@lulupomegranate His math still doesn't add up, he only super-sized a maximum of 9 times for the month he went to eat there, and even then those times were spaced out far enough from each other it's hard to tell the exact amount of calories he was consuming, not to mention he was an alcoholic/recovering during the process of the film.
Not trying to discredit the overall message of the film, since if you look at it from a consequentialists perspective it's outcome is all the same, but Spurlock is a lying, disingenuous, sophist fear monger at worst, and a barely credible health advocate at best.
This guys hypothesis is why he's a highschool teacher and not a scientist.
Honestly, your CZcams channel is really helping me during my weight loss, I want to thank you for being the voice of reason and the person to help people on their own little journey.
Hope it's still going well for you. I just found this channel recently and feel the same. I have about 10 more pounds to lose, but being the last 10, they're quite the grind. Watching Kiana's videos really keep me grounded. Reading the comments after is always an added bonus, just for the discussions and sometimes the drama.
My biggest problem with the ideas that McDonald's/Cisna were pushing on the public is that eating McDonald's day in and day out simply isn't filling enough for most people! Not with their menu full of nutrient-devoid, refined carbohydrates, and sugar-dense foods.
Hahaha nutrient devoid, only if you believe the idiots pushing grains on people lol
Another problem is that most people are not counting calories. Yes technically you can eat junk food all day everyday if you stay within your daily calories. But with fast food its so easy to go overboard with the calories and that's why fast food is "bad" for you unless you are a super strict calorie counting nut. Normal people don't wanna live like that, counting calories like an anorexic person, they just wanna eat their food in peace. It's a way better option to just eat better foods if you want to stay healthy, calorie counting is not neccecary then. I still read calorie info sometimes on certain items just so I can get an idea how much if said item I can eat in one sitting so I don't go overboard, like icecream and such. But I have never counted my total calorie intake for an entire day and with the foods I choose daily I don't have to either cuz I know I'm already eating healthily(for the most part). It's about having healthy habits that you can follow everyday. Then there are some people that have zero understanding of how to cook healthy foods + no self control making them balloon to 600-800 pounds! Those people already eat fastfood multiple times a day or order insane amounts enough to feed a normal person for a week, but they eat that in one sitting. It's a bad idea to tell those people "hey you can eat mcdondalds 3 times a day AND lose weight" cuz their lack of self control will result in them gaining more weight, and them being addicted to fast food is already the core problem so it's not helping... Teach people to cook better healthier foods instead, if you are getting better at cooking you can make some delicious meals that are still way less calorie and more nutrients than any mcdonalds menu could provide! But also eating things in moderation is a good standard but the problem is that to a 600 pound person garfing down 5000 calories in one sitting is "moderation" when they could eat 8000 calories on their worst days. Badly educated + bad parents that taught them bad habits = morbidly obese person.
Maybe for some. But shit I eat a 20pc nugget (which is only like 800cal, pretty normal for a dinner) and I can barely get trough the first 10
Maybe it’s just me but McDonalds sits like lead in my stomach. But yeah you’re right on the money. There’s protein in your average combo, but it’s not enough to counteract the addictive refined carbs
@@zebnemmabinge eating is a real disorder that you seem to have glossed over in your comment. eating disorders are more than just anorexia.
I used to be a complete fast food addict. 2-3 fast food meals a day. For October last year I gave it up for a month, and then I decided to do it again this February. On March 1 I had taco bell and felt SO SICK. So now I'm giving it up completely, barring the occasional "road trip no other choice" situations, and learning to make healthier copycat recipes of my favorites at home. Today I'm going to be doing a copy cat of the chicken chipotle melt (I've already perfected a better burrito lol). And I haven't had McDonalds in ages. It's amazing how when you give it up for awhile then have it again, it's not as good as you remembered it being, but if you eat it for awhile regularly, it starts tasting really good again. Addictive as crap.
I’m a sugar addict and used to have McFrappes at least weekly for a whole year while in grad school. I gave it up for almost a full year trying to lose weight for my wedding, then decided to order one to keep awake during a road trip. The first sip was like drinking straight syrup, so sweet that it was gross. I didn’t even finish a third of the drink. I have never looked back.
Even on a road trip you can make healthy choices.
I was gonna say youre going to get sick from fast food but i see it already happened same thing happened to me i work at MDS and used to eat the food everyday but i started getting bad bad stomach pains and hiccups so i stopped eating fast food in general and feel way better
Wow, that's $800-900 a month, maybe more.
@@clementine9187 yep. I have no clue how I afforded it.
When my twins were younger I explained to them that if they eat fast food, especially to save money, order a sandwich and skip the fries, drink and anything else. If it’s a two for one sandwich deal save one for later. Many time it’s the extras that cause problems not the sandwich. Don’t be embarrassed to ask for a courtesy cup of water.
When I worked at two places across town from each other and barely had 30 minutes between busses, I'd get a mcdouble and a side salad (RIP) with low cal vinaigrette for dinner five days a week. Skip the sugary sodas and fries (or keep to a small and only rarely get a larger size), and you aren't doomed to overeat. It's EASY to overeat at fast food places, but we have brains and I expect people to use them. It's not as healthy as ideal, but it's fine in a pinch.
I feel like the point he was trying to make is that you can produce whatever outcome you want with these sorts of things. He was right that supersize me was not really scientific, although I don't imagine the creator ever intended it to have that kind of rigor. His doco wasn't either, obviously. Hopefully he was not so broke as a science teacher that 3 months of free fast food was enough to make him do something unethical. Probably his own social views and the fact his friend owned a McDonald's had more to do with it.
I don’t agree with Super Size Me or John Cisna. It’s a matter of choice but they strongly urge you to eat fatty foods, taking away from the choice.
Please do a video on competitive eating
While neither documentary is perfect due to the reasons others have mentioned, and I agree that we have to be responsible for our own choices, it's just insidious the lengths these giant corporations will go to to get people hooked on their products for the sole purpose of making money, even knowing full well how unhealthy it is (because let's be real, McDonald's doesnt want you to eat their food 'once in a while as a treat', they DO want you to eat it every day). Especially by targeting kids, who can't see through their tactics. There's a lot that goes into it, from the food itself being addictive, as you mentioned, to the sneaky marketing/blatant propaganda. I find it very unsettling.
^^^^^ this exactly this lol
In a better world it's the governments job to stop these companies, because they harm their citizens.
That's the goal to strive for.
But as long as money equals power and politicians are corrupt people have to look after themselves.
Big corps are whats wrong with the world and they're ruining the planet and greedy. No one should buy it. The wealthy make the poor suffer.
@@CordeliaWagner
Actually, a lot of “the people” vote for these paid-out politicians BECAUSE they support what is happening between the revolving-door of Congress and Wall Street: enriching yourself to diseased extents (even to the point of ignoring natural death itself), even if it means crushing millions of innocent faceless strangers along the way.
In other words, people vote for these barons precisely because they imagine BECOMING these barons
My favorite food is the Double Quarter Pounder with cheese and I eat a value meal EVERY SINGLE DAY during my lunch break, sure I am fat as hell but I really don't care. It's a free country and it's my choice to eat what I want. Sure, I could eat healthy but I wouldn't enjoy it so what is the point of that? My stupid doctor keeps trying to tell me to cut red meat but you know what I do instead? Head directly to the nearest steak house and order a medium rare ribeye and cover it in sauce that is filled with sodium and yeah, I get that I'll probably die a lot sooner but that is MY CHOICE.
I'd like to know what John Cisna's food intake was before he did this. He looked overweight before he started. I'm thinking he reduced the amount of food he normally ate when started this "experiment"
I saw this when I was in high school. I think 10th grade. I stopped eating all fast food cold turkey. Have not had ANY since. Twice I was in a position where for whatever reason there are only fast food options and I opted for skipping the meal. I know this documentary was not factually perfect but I’m happy I watched it. ❤
That's great commitment
I remember watching Super Size Me in school. My health teacher tore the experiment a new hole for its clear bias and actually taught us about calories in/calories out and how to make healthy choices. It was a whole unit. We kept a food log and had to guesstimate how many calories we ate in a day.
Holy crap. Kudos to your teacher! Most people out there don’t know how to manage their weight in a healthy way due to lack of info. But your teacher gave you such important life lessons with that.
There's more to it than just calories though. The crap that McDonalds food contains is nothing short of toxic and horrible for longevity. 1000 calories of non-processed, fresh food is better than 1000 calories of McDonalds
Calories in calories out is the be all end all. Because it leaves zero room for excuses. Even those with actual metabolic conditions have no excuse around calories in calories out. The condition only changes the amount of calories. I've literally LOST WEIGHT, on a diet of nothing but junk food, JUST to prove a point to a family member lol I'm sure my actual biomarkers like blood sugar and cholesterol were atrocious, but nonetheless, I lost weight, on a diet of twinkies 🤷♂️ even doing literal damage to my body to prove a point to this person wasn't enough though unfortunately. Some people will reject the very laws of thermodynamics, just to hold onto their delusion
I hated when I went to school that the food pyramid was still the prevailing thought. I really could have avoided so much dietary issues if I actually knew about CICO, food logging and making better choices than "eat a shit ton of bread because the grain lobby donated the most money."
How hungry would you be if you ate 2000 calories of McDonalds vs healthy food.
I serve as a curriculum reviewer for one of the largest urban school districts in the US. I’m just commenting to confirm that the review committee received the Cisna/McD “health lesson” and it had beautiful graphic design and genuinely excellently crafted discussion questions and project ideas aligned with standards for Science, Health, Language Arts, and Social Studies! We denied the curriculum as quickly as we denied Walmart’s gorgeous (and similar) curriculum, but it actually was fascinating to wonder: who are the staff educators working for these corporations?
The supplemental binder from McD & Walmart was impressive (most designers of curriculum don’t include 500 pages of justification for their lesson plans) and CHOCK FULL of extremely expensive research studies from prestigious R1 institutions. The research backed up both the content and the pedagogical approaches, but obviously a reviewer doesn’t have to look very hard to see they had chosen studies that happen to correlate loosely (“consuming some protein is beneficial”).
And, like I said, the lessons were beautifully crafted around trash content, proving that a talented person can write an engaging curriculum about literally anything. I’m 100% positive Cisna played no role in the development of those materials bc they truly were airtight (and deftly included encouraging students to question their choices, not just revel in the “beauty” of the capitalist “virtue” of “free choice”).
The proposal materials alone must have cost millions to produce (even if they commissioned no new research), just in labor costs for the curriculum designers, graphic designers, and product designers (the binders and presentation materials weren’t pre-fabricated; everything was custom). When you sit in an under-funded room, reviewing materials that usually come best-case printed in Helvetica on cheap paper, a gorgeous, luxury, bespoke curriculum kit looks and feels like a sensory delight, and on first glance is a lovely, research-based curriculum.
Makes you wonder what all that money and talent could do for our public schools if it was used to help children instead of shareholders.
Very insightful. Thanks.
Like, you need to publish your *own* documentary about *this* - no cap, lol.
So this company produced a free curriculum revolving around "airtight" data (your term) and attempted to teach children the power of independent, critical thought (oh, and you take a swipe at capitalism for... reasons?)
And yet you "quickly" denied the curriculum with nary an afterthought because... reasons? Can't have children exercising critical, independent thought, right? Otherwise your entire system collapses. No more unions. No socio-communistic collectivist authoritarianism. No more drag queen story hour or 168 genders. Your entire world disappears once a generation of independent, critical thinkers deplatforms you.
Yep, lets burn these books. Can't have the children thinking too much.
so if you stop exercising and double or triple your calorie intake, you gain weight. If you exercise and count calories you lose weight.
Fascinating comment. You could write a book about this stuff.
Saw this when it came out, it absolutely blew up.
Here in the UK, the fast food chains' menus, portion sizes, and ingredients, are completely different than in the US. Fewer additives, fewer ingredients, less calories, less trans fats and so on.
Take aways and restaurants also have to include the calorie information which at least provides people a chance to make an informed choice if they so choose.
Morgan Spurlock's approach was new and novel, but it did expose that many people in the US, and other countries, eat far more fast food, more often, than they have ever done in history, and the trend sadly continues year on year.
If you were a prisoner and only got 2 twinkies per day for food, you'd lose a lot of weight fast. But it's not because of the twinkies it's because you're starving.
The disgust I'm feeling ugh
This is the world we're living in, where a teacher can easily sold not just his students' health, but a GENERATION of students' health for money.
they also serve fast food in schools for money.
A few years ago I was on a budget holiday with friends and every day for 9 days we would eat dinner at McDonalds. I would usually have a McChicken and maybe fries but by the end of the holidays I had to start ordering theirs salads just to eat something less processed. When I was returning home, it felt like my digestive system was through it, I had difficulty going to the toilet and felt nauseous after meals. And that's after 9 days of McDonald's in the evening. I can't imagine doing this for 90 days and claiming to feel healthier by the end of the process.
Well he lost weight but he looks like shit.. sooo
Mc chicken is deep fried. My stomach would be protesting too if I ate from the deep fry every day. I can't imagine why anyone would eat a deep fried chicken burger when the beef is grilled.
I watched "Super Size Me" when it aired and one of the differences in that is the guy was getting the super-sized options, which was part of the whole point of making the documentary. McDonald's and any other fast food company promoting getting larger portions was more economical when in reality it just encouraged more unhealthy choices. Another thing neither of these stories emphasize is that everyone's biology is different and will be affected differently. There could also be previous health factors in both men that weren't divulged in their journeys in their mad experiments. I stopped eating anything from McDonald's years ago because their food gave me diarrhea every time I ate it. Now I don't eat out at all and prefer to just make my own meals at home. Personally, I don't understand how anyone could eat the same food everyday. I would get tired of the same foods all the time.
No one ever talks about the lack of necessary nutrients, vitamins and minerals in their diet. Well, it becomes extremely important for good health.
He seems like that type of teacher that just loves to hear himself talk and probably gives a presentation about himself during the first class
just wanted to say, your channel is a huge tool in checking my habits. like you so often say say i don't even realise the bad dietary choices I'm making; and although a lot of my weight problems are due to alcoholism, your videos still help me.
right???? this woman changed my dang life, ily Kiana you're so beaut
Whoa, stop, don't worry about food right now, I'd suggest doing whatever you need to do to address the alcoholism first. I've been there, it just gets worse and worse, but when you stop you'll feel better and better and then address the food choices. Though be careful, I'm still guilty of rationalizing cupcakes by saying "at least it's not a beer." Good luck.
I only recently found your channel and am now binge-watching all your videos. Very informative and entertaining, thank you!
When I worked for McDonalds, back in the day, I was really thin, and I wanted to eat salads on my break and they allowed that for about a month, then, my meal allowance was taken away for salads, they said I could only order sandwiches, and instead of eating in the breakroom, I had to eat in the main room with the customers so they could "see a skinny girl eat the sandwiches." All of our overweigh employees were moved to the back areas where they couldn't be easily seen and those of us who were thinner had to work window and registers. That was an order that came down in our area because we had a team meeting about it, and our overweight employees were pissed - and rightfully so. This was pretty close to when Supersize Me came out, because I know these days they don't have the same policy - or any salads.
When I was a kid my family and I were vegetarians, so we would rarely go to Mc. Donald's, there was also the peer pressure that many kids would go there and I would feel left out but in retrospect, I really appreciate my parents for trying their best to avoid fast food restaurants which means I never developed an attachment to their food. Keep your kids away from those disgusting companies.
no lol
@@Not_Always Low IQ comment
I won't. Eat what you want. Don't need anyone preaching to me.
@@DigitalApex No. They are educated on how these foods are created specifically to get you addicted. Eating these foods change what you crave, that is why it is dangerous for kids. They end up not liking healthy foods. Same for adults even. It takes time to adjust to a new diet based on taste alone.
My parents never avoided take out food, but we couldn't afford it regularly, so it was a rare treat.
I never developed a habit or cravings for it. I think it also has to do with a person's addiction susceptibility. I don't have an addictive personality. I'm sure if I did, I'd be lining up like a lot of the people I know every day waiting for coffee and junk food, I'd be out smoking, and playing the lottery. I have zero interest in it.
The issue I am having with his experiment is when it was brought up that he added 45 minutes of exercise daily, plus biking everywhere. It was not standard before he started, and because he was new to exercise, he would have gotten the protective effect of noob gains.
I think that's kinda the point, which most people seem to be missing. If you believe Spurlock (which at this point, given the info that came out after, you've got larger issues), and many other *health* outlets, you'd think that no matter what you do, eating fast food at any time in any quantity is going to have primarily negative effects. What people should be learning from this is that the origin of food you eat has a proportionally smaller effect on various health markers than many of the other things you need to be aware of to make intelligent, conscious choices to help your health and weight. Total caloric intake, stopping when you're full, being active, the specific macros of what you're eating, all of those make up a much larger contribution to your total health than just being worried about the origin of your food.
I don't think the guy is saying that you *should* eat nothing but fast food, but maybe showing that people don't have to be as stringent in avoiding it completely. I had a kinda crappy childhood that didn't prepare me for adulting very well, and as a result, I would probably guess that about 90% of what I ate from age 16 to 31 or so was fast food of some sort, but I was in the best shape ever during that time, because of the other choices I made at the same time.
It's not only weight loss, but the quality of the food is a huge factor - especially over the long term.
@@GabrielShadowArcher Disagree. The type of food you eat on a regular basis is the most important factor within your control for your long-term health. The UPF most people eat now is completely different to the food people ate 70 plus years ago.
The worst thing about the Supersize Me doc is that Morgan Spurlock was a severe alcoholic at the time. This is why he had so many health issues like his liver starting to deteriorate and why he would feel nauseous and throw up after meals. He was constantly drunk/hungover. Couple that with the disgustingly unhealthy chemical laden McDonalds food and it will weak havoc on any body. He never divulged this information and lied to the doctor in the film. Along with the meal log issue it just shows how shady dude really is. I would love a completely transparent re-do documentary
There's actually one good idea in this documentary - if you start biking every day even McD can't destroy you anymore.
If I had kids and this guy was their teacher, I would be going to the school board and making a huge fuss. This is unacceptable.
Maybe he knew he was losing his job and ran crying to Mcdonalds. I doubt any parents would be thrilled about their kids insisting on eating McDonald's rather than "food at home" (like the meme lol)
i'd be more worried about his sexual misconduct if he was around children...
What’s wrong with the teacher? Who does science doing a experiment. It’s not like he was a creep. Oh touching children. Maybe you shouldn’t have kids if something that small bothers you. I remember our science teachers doing wacky experiments in high school. It was for fun and we will do a lot of idea experiment things that are teachers would heavily focus on, but the students would assist with. Honestly, I could imagine my high school teacher coming up with some idea like this for fun. It’s not like he put the great against the kids, and again it’s not like he was doing anything inappropriate with them. Again, maybe you shouldn’t have children.
@@Faceplay2 I don't have any. They might turn out like you.
For the people who ate only McDonald for months, it doesn’t matter about the weight gain or loss. That’s a matter of calories intake vs. burn.
What is much more of interest are their health markers. I want to know what was their triglycerides level, ldl, hdl, apo b protein, glucose, a1c, and inflammatory markers.
This was my conclusion as well. I used to eat nothing but fast food everyday. Now, I have no money and live on food stamps, which means I can only eat groceries bought at stores. I gained about 70 pounds. I was healthier eating the fast food that I loved. I would say that my overall health was better in just about every way.
@@EsotericBibleSecrets There are too many concrete studies showing that fast food is bad for us. I can say so from my own personal experience as well.
With your situation, use food stamp to buy natural wholesome foods, like meat, fish, eggs, veges. The more natural and less process it is, the better.
They were low-nutrient calories... not good for the body.
i dont really believe the guy to be honest and just because we cant find any proof doesn't mean their isnt some thing going on there
"let's auto believe the liar who acted like his body was falling apart and made it out like it as addictive as heroine, but someone else you ate the food and gets some exercise and loses weight must have something secretly wrong with him"
you lot don't know your body - lower quality food is lower quality, but your body doesn't care, calories and nutrients are calories and nutrients. Can there be long term consequences for eating a lot of low quality (lower amount of protein, healthy carbs, micronutrients per unit of volume, etc.), but how much will differ from person to person, and also, news flash - lots of stuff in the grocery store is just as bad or worse that whatever they current have on the menu at whatever fast food place.
This "anti supersize me" thing was done by a couple people. I think another one was called "Fat Head" or something like that. That one was interesting. If I remember correctly he tried to follow the Super Size Me diet, found that the reported calorie count and menu choices didn't add up, and then made a better diet plan with only McDonalds. I should rewatch it, it's been a long time since I saw it. I rolled my eyes at the "Super Size Me" documentary when we had to watch it at school, just like I did with the "Inconvinient Truth" that has proven to be a pile of BS. Now is McDonalds healthy? Nope, not at all. I already knew that. I also knew eating massive meals and tons of sugar was a terrible idea. Their choice of frying oils also sucks, those oils are terrible for you.
Yes!!! "Fat head" was much more blatantly an attack on Spurlock's own claims. It was brilliant!
"Fat Head" was solid. He didn't take either Spurlock's or this guy's approach. He basically said, "I have free will, and if I don't feel like getting fries, I won't get fries." Also, yeah, he repeatedly asked for Spurlock's nutrition logs and got stonewalled. There are so many factors in health and weight, including a person's age and metabolism. When I was 23 and 24, I was single and lived mostly on snacks and processed foods. I was the skinniest I've ever been because I was young and constantly active. Now I'm 41 and, no matter how careful or active I am, I'm always more or less overweight. A lot of that is genetics too.
I hoped somebody would mention the Tom Naughton film, Fat Head. It was a great response to Spurlock. 👍🎉
Fat Head completely obliterated Super Size Me.
How is global warming a "pile of BS"? You living on the same planet as the rest of us? 😂
I worked as a Manager in a very busy City Centre McD`s in the early 90`s. Previous to this I had been a very fit athlete. The BRUTAL working hours (Longest shift 36 hours) ensured that I started work before the sun came up and left after the sun went down. To start with I brought my own healthy food but after 6 months all I ate was McDonalds. One of the other stores nearby was shut for a period because there was an outbreak off infectious boils. I do not know the exact reason but I am convinced it was because of the staff living at the store and only eating that crap. They didn't shut the store because of the boils instead because of lack of staff. (they did not pay them for their time off sick) I started feeling terrible and my energy levels were always so low. My partner said I looked like a zombie. In the end I left but it took me a year to recover. The place is a meat grinder for staff. They care nothing for the customer but care a lot about the contents of their wallets. Staff were just a commodity. McDonalds are not your friend.
So happy whenever a Kiana video comes out! ❤️ Personal responsibility is just not enough! You need to make healthy choices the easy ones in a society, not let all the companies profit off of people. Companies like this are just the epitome of runaway capitalism / consumerism.
But why should companies make a change when everything works just perfect for them?
what a simp
I like how you say personal responsibility is not enough. Then the next sentence starts with "you need to". Should it be as easy to vote for a candidate wanting to heavily regulate fast food and a candidate wanting to remove all regulations? There you go.
this is a good point, there's a book called nudge that gets into this. as humans we often do the 'default' thing, and it's really helpful when the easy choices are the best choices
@@chrisstoltz3648 My point is that you can't escape personal responsibility. If you try, you are just at the whim of what others see as their personal responsibility, e.g. politicians who will be creating legislation.
I’m really surprised by how cheap fast food is in America. I never had Mcdonalds as a kid, because it was way to expensive. We ate homecooked meals everyday
Same, plus my mum hated it, she was a great cook and could cook most meals you could get as takeout, I only had takeout when I was round friends houses, I couldn't stand how greasy everything was and why on earth buns were sweet. It all tasted so gross and in my country it was expensive too, much easier to pop to the shop 5 mims away and het some real food. I made a chilli last night and tonight I'm debating making Indian (I don't like rice with either but always have salads ready to eat in the fridge) and I'm prepping salads for work with different proteins and eggs
I got a McDonald's ad while watching this 😂
His second movie holy chicken is incredible. I might agree with every take he has, but the man makes incredibly engaging documentaries
"I can't see how anyone would think that I'm promoting McDonald's"
John Cisna
McDonald's Brand Ambassador
Great episode. I think the issue of exercise is so essential to any weight loss and makes a massive difference in the two films. Spurlock did the average number of steps for an American each day while we know that Cisna upped his activity massively alongside eating lots more of the "healthy" options that weren't even on the menu during Supersize Me. The documentaries are comparing fresh apples and deep-fried apple pie.
Spurlock might have set his daily steps to the American average, but I did think it was a bit misleading to say, "I gained all this weight just from eating McDonald's!" When it was like... no, you didn't, you also reduced YOUR daily exercise. You can only compare yourself to yourself, really.
Oh yes, I forgot about that! He normally walked a lot as a New Yorker but purposely switched to driving to replicate the lifestyle of the average American consumer. I don’t think SSM is perfect by any means but it provided more context for its extreme choices than people give it credit for.
@Hannah but I don't think the average America eats at McDonald's 3 times a day nor did they get a super-sized meal just because someone asked them to.
Even without all of that the movie was misleading. The movie sold the premise "what would happen if I ate McDonald's every day" when what he actually did was "what would happen if i ate McDonald's everyday and stopped all forms of exercise."
There's a point in SSM where his doctor tells him to cut out milkshakes, pies, ice cream etc. and Spurlock essentially tells him to fuck off. The only information we have shows him eating 5-6000 calories a day, while deliberately cutting out his exercise. It's disingenuous at best and propagandistic at worst to deliberately overeat AND underexercise and then insist that your weight gain is entirely the fault of the restaurant at which you ate.
I worked in fitness gyms for 30 years. Exercise matters the least amount in the equation. I see people come and run on treadmills endlessly and never lose a pound. They don't understand about static state cardio versus interval training. Twice in my life I have lost huge amounts of weight, and I did it without exercise and by changing my diet. Over the years in all the gyms I've worked at, the people who were successful at losing weight drastically chaged their diets. They didn't just count calories, they changed the quality of the food they were eating. The trainers at the gym knew this to be true but would not admit it to their clients because they were trying to sell personal training sessions.
Great documentary and very focused on what is relevant. Subbed really quick.
I feel two ways about this. I like McDonald's and eat there maybe once every 3 months at the most, and when I do I enjoy it immensely. On the other hand I'm aware that it's very unhealthy. And I find their food is so delicious that I can understand how some people become addicted to McDonald's and go there way too often. But is it really McDonald's fault if people decide to go there all the time? I don't think it is. If it wasn't McDonald's they would be eating some other junk food. This kind of food wasn't meant to be eaten every day, and I think the responsibility lies on us and not the food itself.
You stated that very well. And I agree. No one is forcing people to eat there. One of the kids' parents who sued McDonald's was too lazy to cook for her kid so she got him McDonald's every day. Yeah, that kid is going to get fat, and you only have yourself to blame. I'm so glad that lawsuit was dismissed.
There was a British guy here on CZcams a few years back (I think his name was Ryan) who also did his own "response" to super size me eating only McDonalds for 30 days and documenting every meal while losing weight, highlighting that it's about calories in vs out etc. It was pretty interesting and well done, unfortunately it seems to be gone. :/
All those people linking short term weight changes with long term health are misled. Weight isn't everything. Ultraprocessed fast food lacks many beneficial compounds and their lack will show much much later than a few months. It isn't only about calories or macros. After all, it is in our plain sight that the obesity and metabolic diseases became epidemic after jumping on convenience and fast food on the national level... what are these individuals trying to achieve? Who are they trying to fool? There is a direct relationship between economic situation and the fast food outlets in cities, poorer regions having more of them than the affluent ones, and this feeds back into the loop of worsening health (including brain health, mental health) of those disadvantaged people, making poor decisions, criminality, gangs, more poverty and even worse food choices, because they either lack the education or money to make better choices.
@@D.von.N You are entirely correct. The only thing that experiments like the one I mentioned prove is when it comes to raw weight change/calories in vs out, disregarding anything about long term health. The person I mentioned I don't believe was ever trying to fool anyone into thinking fast food is healthy. They were simply trying to educate and tackle certain misconceptions about weight loss.
@@xrxt0 I think pretty much everyone knows it is down to the calorie in - calorie out, some hoping for miracles, but overall it is always down to this. Plus, if you don't exercise and just decrease your calories, you also lose muscle mass, not really helping in maintaining the weight loss in the long term. So another factor to consider when it comes to counting calories alone. All diets work while we are on them. But 95% fail rate long term suggests there is more that is going on than just calories.
@@D.von.N You'd be surprised how little people know about calories in vs calories out
@@D.von.N While that's true, it's also just a fact, that people don't just eat 2k calories when they eat McDonalds. Their food is so empty of nutritional value and specifically designed in a way, that you'll have to overconsume to feel satiated.
I could eat 2000calories of pure sugar and loose weight, while being terribly hungry and miserable during it.
Just found this channel a little over a week ago and I've literally binged everything so far.
Absolutely grateful for the quality of this content, especially since I've started losing weight about a month ago.
You can clearly see the amount of work, care, research and love put towards each video, not to mention your presenting and narrating skills.
It's somehow very serious and informative, but also without becoming too cumbersome to watch.
Thank you so much for all your work, Kiana!
Looking forward to seeing where this project is headed, but I'm pretty sure it's greatness!
I usually dont like channels like this but your content is really wholesome and digestible :)
Have you seen the other "Super Size Me" rebuttal film, titled "Fat Head" from 2009? In "Fat Head", Tom Naughton also demonstrated that Morgan Spurlock had made a dishonest polemic, and not a real documentary. Tom Naughton also lost weight eating at McDonald's for a month.
Yes! Fat Head was brilliant, and one of the things that led me to researching a keto/whole food approach to life. I lost 50 lb and put my type 2 diabetes into remission.
A few years ago Spurlock admitted to being a heavy drinker for 30 years. So when they talk about all his health problems it’s a bit skewed. I’m not saying McDonald’s is health food. But dude got way more credit than he deserved.
If McDonald's didn't want the documentary to just go away, he would have been sued into oblivion for not disclosing this
Im glad im not the only one
That might be true, But he took test prior to eating MdD. So his results after eating McD are accurately associated with the diet. Otherwise it would have shown prior.
Yes, people are very prone to forget critical thinking when it comes to something that reinforces their ideology. We get this video making valid criticism of Cisna but you can make a very similar video about Spurlock.
he was also a vegan, which explains why he threw up from eating so much mcdonald's. such a radical shift in diet can shock your body into sickness.
super size me changed me foundationally. I'm glad it was shown in school. I believe this film contributed a lot to my fear of fast food. Specifically McD.
Not all calories are the same. The nutrition of McDonald's is different than eating veggies.
My parents did fast food 2-3* per week. None of us really eat fast food anymore.
Same. Spurlock’s initial reaction to fast food is exactly how feel if I would eat fast food (which is almost never). I would feel deflated, nauseous, and just gross.
Yes, McDonalds is more “food product” than “real food”. Pretty gross.
@@jlconnors7872 You feel bloated….like absolutely bloated like your stomach is slowly expanding.
@@jlconnors7872 You feel bloated….like absolutely bloated like your stomach is slowly expanding.
My parents eat nothing BUT fast food these days. My mom is obese and my dad is in end stage kidney failure. My mom does nothing but complain that she's fat, her back hurts, her knees hurt, etc. And yet when I tell her to lay off the cookies, she says no. Or worse, blames my dad. The man who can't even walk anymore, let alone do the grocery shopping. 🙄
I love your style of documentaries and your commenting. Please do more :)
People keep bringing up Spurlock's alchoholism like it's some kind of smoking gun that debunks all of his claims.
The original Supersize Me was far from scientifically rigorous, but I learned from it. I was astonished at the significant changes in metabolic markers in a relatively young healthy man after only 30 days of excess calorie consumption and sedentary lifestyle.
It seems that Spurlock may also have been consuming alcohol. That's extra calories, and if done in excess, extra strain on the liver, too. However, I'd like to remind people of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is increasingly common. There are now many non-drinkers who have cirhossis due to the potential impact of obesity and excess calorie intake on the liver. Furthermore, what Spurlock CHANGED was essentially food quantity and food quality, and presumably amount of exercise.
Spurlock also demonstrated how easy it is to eat excess calories when in the form of ultraprocessed food.
Spurlock could have tried to do the same thing on a diet of nutrient rich whole foods, but I suspect might have found it more difficult to consume so many excess calories that way.
Cisna's equally unscientific endeavor showed a less surprising result, that a 90 day program of exercise and caloric control had a beneficial effect on a previously obese and sedentary middle aged man. This does show that one, MacDonalds food had enough micronutrients to prevent a deficiency disease such as scurvy from appearing, and two, had no magic that completely negated the effects of exercise and calorie deficit. It is extremely likely that if Cisna had employed a same calorie diet of a healthier nature, he would have had at least equal if not better results.
The guy wasn't that healthy since he was a drunk and he consumed alcohol during the experiment, like a lot of it.
Now you sound like your reading a script from McDonalds, you don't have any evidence he was drinking... McDonalds put that idea in your head... don't you see how they operate by now?
Supersize Me was never intended to be rigorous, it was always meant to be an amusing anecdote. The results were more dramatic than they expected though.
@@Pushing_Pixels not the benefit of the doubt this video gives to the retest. Also there were many other retests that failed to replicate spurlock.
Yeah, alcohol is FULL of calories, it's just as fattening as lipids: about nine calories per gram. You can even intake calories from alcohol without actually drinking any. You can smoke it. Or put it up your bum. Or inject it, although you'd need a big syringe to really do anything, or 180+ proof moonshine. Trips me out how that works. I smoked some vodka once. I could still taste the vapor.
I’m so tired of the “personal choice” argument. I travel 3-5 days a week for work and I try to pack food. I run out a lot around day 5 and when I have little time, my only choice in airports is cheaper fast food or ridiculously expensive “healthy” options. Then, if people chose the expensive heathy option, they blame you that it’s “your choice” that you have no money when you are literally just trying to choose the healthier option for your health and well-being. In reality, we don’t have a choice because the choices are being made for us on a national level. These companies have so much control in congress that any legislation or agencies that try to regulate them are diminished. We don’t subsidize fruits and vegetables in this country like we do soy and corn which is grown to feed cattle that is eventually smothered in ungodly fats and portioned to us 10xs what it should be - I lived abroad for two years and the attitude towards natural foods versus fast food was so eye opening. Whole sweet potatoes and steamed corn on the cob was served in gas stations in China for practically nothing. Why not here? Because there isn’t huge profit to be made with a steamed sweet potato as there is with processed food. While I very sparingly eat fast food when I’m in a bind at work, health was the number 2 reason I decided to practically stop eating it. The number one reason is because we are completely ripped off, our health destroyed, our idea of what is “healthy” in America is beyond comprehension, the child predatory marketing schemes, and the insanely fat profits these corporations make made me so angry that I refuse to be a part of it. I feel like I’m completely taken advantage of and my own common sense regarding health and food is made out to be stupid by these companies. They are telling me I’m stupid and wrong. I am very liberal but grew up in rural America in a conservative family. I bring this up because fast food and nutrition in this country shouldn’t be ideological - even my conservative family that has gardens 1,000 perfect agree that real, nutritious food comes from the ground and not processed garbage. But these companies use “freedom, personal choice” to muddle the whole thing in order to create political discourse when most of us agree that everybody needs to eat more whole food and that it needs to be way more affordable. I know a lot of liberals and conservatives who avoid fast food - it isn’t ideological. A lot of people are so generally confused, low-income, have no time that fast food is the better option. Others like this guy, just want to be told that his bad habits , which he knows are bad, aren’t that bad at all. And others are so incredibly stubborn that any criticism of standard diet or cultural norm see it as an inherit attack of their patriotism and manhood.
Hi, I always watch your videos, and I think this is the first time I noticed your Corgi napping on the couch, and I love it! lol.
Great segment, thanks!
Spurlock ate everything on the menu and had to Supersize it if asked. He couldn’t bop around to the “ healthier “ choices on the menu. McDonald’s used to have salads on their menu and did away with the SuperSize by the time this teacher did his rebuttal experiment so if his students chose more
salads for him instead of Filet O’ Fish or Double Quarter Pounders did he duplicate what Spurlock did ??
completely agree!!!!! ridiculous rebuttal lol
@@KianaDocherty Thanks for exposing this shill. What a putz !! 😅
Spurlock has also admitted he was drinking heavily throughout the entire filming tho, so I’m not sure anyone trying to “replicate” his diet could get close to his results
@@friedrice4015 That explains how he got his "5k calories" a day number from, 3 meals from McDonalds even supersized wouldn't be that much on its own
But if he was heavily drinking years before, why did his bloodwork become so much worse while eating McDonalds?
It just shows that wherever you come from, JunkFood makes it worse.
And noone goes to McDonalds to eat a salad.
Thank you for making this video, Kiana. For the past few months I've been really depressed and unable to muster enough energy for anything apart from work, so have been defaulting to fast food because it's cheap and accessible. I'm afraid for my health because of this. I know this isn't helping my psychological state. I haven't gained any weight because I only eat once per day, but I am constantly lethargic and feel disgusting.
It's almost offensive to me for people to suggest that eating McDonalds or fast food is healthy, even in moderation. Just because you aren't gaining weight doesn't mean you aren't hurting your body, and I can attest to this
I totally understand and I hope things get better for you soon love. You will make it through this and you will have the energy to make healthier meals again. For now, maybe try supplementing your fast food meal with something quick like a simple spinach salad, frozen veggies, a piece of fruit...something that'll take a few minutes or less to prepare so it doesn't totally drain your battery, but will at least help to slightly "cancel out" the uncomfortable feeling left by the fast food. And then continue making small baby steps from there until you're on track to your ideal physical health again...which can only have benefits for your mental health as well. I totally believe in you 💜
My go to that's cheap and easy and not too bad for you is going to the grocery store and getting rotisserie chicken and bagged salads. You can even turn the bag sideways and cut it so it forms a bowl! Bam, no dishes other than a fork! You can also get pre cut veggies and hummus. I love sugar snap peas with it the most
Well said, and my sympathies for what you’re going through!
If I may, might I suggest taking a multivitamin every day as well? I know all too well how much our mental state impacts our food choices (or lack thereof), but it’s very important to make sure you aren’t neglecting the vitamins and minerals your body needs.
(Vitamin B and C deficiencies specifically can become particularly nasty)
In time and with patience/persistence, I believe in you and your incredible human ability of resilience, and I hope things turn around for you very soon! In the meantime, please don’t be too hard on yourself in your struggles and try to keep your vitamin/mineral levels in check so that you don’t get scurvy or anything of that sort.
God bless, and you have a friend rooting for you in Texas!
Hey, I understand entirely. Btw, idk if you can muster the energy, but an old go to meal for me was using a rice cooker and steamer basket to make rice and frozen veggies. I'd add a sauce or butter and herbs, then just heat up some protein. It really helped me when I was depressed bc our gut makes serotonin.
Genuinely not trying to be some reply guy asshole, I hope you're able to get out of that hard spot soon. I believe in you.
sending you love❤️
I liked Spurlock's documentary because it seemed realistic. He didn't change any environmental variable, except eating McDonald's. Which to me is a more realistic experiment. Cisna's documentary (which I have not seen) sounds like it was an invalid experiment. Like you said he started exercising daily after 40 years of not exercising. Also, like you said, he didn't reveal his whole menu; and every other point you made about his documentary.
A lot of changes in the fast food industry helped greatly, forced upon them by Congress. Calories are now readily available, most places have a "large" coke that looks like a medium.
I watched a movie called "Food, Inc." It was pretty good, strange way of delivering a message though, but good nonetheless. I have not seen "Fast Food Nation," so I'll have to put that on my list.
From my personal experience, cutting down on the volume of soft drinks I drank, I have lost weight. Now I just have to cut down on fast food. Ugh!
Edit: I forgot to add. I saw somewhere on the Internet that Spurlock is now fat and eats at McDonald's all the time. I wonder what happened (if true).
He did - he stopped exercising
I think this video was a very good run-down for its time. I would include that it's suspected a lot of Spurlock's issues came from him suddenly and dramatically shifting his diet from vegan to one heavy in meat and fat. On the other end, it's unclear what long-term consequences people may get from eating heavily processed foods with pesticides, preservatives, and synthetic flavors like those used in McDonald's food, and health is about more than a handful of short-term measurements. It really got me hearing that half of what Cisna ate to lose weight isn't even available at McDonald's anymore.
You're blaming the fact that he was healthy when he started and ate healthy was the cause of why his health deteriorated so badly when he ate McD's? stop being an apologist for McDs' Bs and don't forget Dr "Science" was talking hamburgers and ice cream but he was eating all the "healthy food" McDonalds just put on their menu months before (setup) and which has since disappeared... it was all orchestrated and timed...
I mean I started eating ALOT of McDonalds when I was 8. My mom started working at one shortly after being let go from the factory she was working at (because for some reason I was getting sick a lot around that time and She was missing a lot of work to take care of me.)
We were just above what you would call poor and McDonalds was not only cheap, but between the daily allowance the crew was getting to feed themselves during their shift and the owner of the store she worked at was fine with my mom taking home some of that food that was technically still good but needed to be thrown away anyway because it had sat out too long, bringing me McDonalds nearly every day was a budget friendly and easy way to make sure I had food in my stomach.
I put on a lit of weight, but that was the extent of it, never got sick, developed any other heath issues, just got heavier and put on a little paunch. This was my diet for 4 years until she stopped working there to fork in a different factory,
So yeah I can totally believe Morgan's symptoms were mostly his body protesting the complete 180 in his diet.
" it's unclear what long-term consequences people may get from eating heavily processed foods with pesticides, preservatives, and synthetic flavors like those used in McDonald's food"
It's not unclear. We have one-third the Anglosphere's population obese, with all the resulting type II diabetes, heart disease and so on. We have literally hundreds of millions of people demonstrating the results. It's like saying we don't know the long-term consequences of smoking.
A) Spurlock wasn't a vegan. His girlfriend at the time was a vegan chef but he wasn't a vegan. He adopted a vegan diet post-Supersize me, mostly because his girlfriend wanted him to.
B) it was caused, likely, by his severe alcoholism. Most of his liver and kidney damage, as well as claimed hairloss, vomiting, and stomach pain were likely caused by his intense drinking.
According to spurlock, he isn't even a vegan now.
I'm surprised you didn't bring up the "super size" rule. Sure a normal combo will have between 900-1200 calories but the super-sized meals could easily have double then that. That was the issue I had with super-sized me, eating 4-6k calories a day of anything is going tk cause obesity and obesity related issues
Yeah she sounds so biased. Both these documentaries have flaws but the Super Size me is worse tbh. When I was in high school we watched the documentary too, and I thought Donald's was pure garbage and should never been eaten. I then watched it as an adult and the dude throws up because he wasn't even hungry! He didn't want to eat, he just forced himself to eat to reach the caloric numbers. I would say that the #1 problem with fast food is the sodas! Switch to diet sodas. Potatoes arent great for you (maybe ask for no, or less salt), burgers have protein and nutrients. Sodas are just sugar. That's the true poison in my opinion.
@@PrayTellGaming OK but finishing our plates till we have a tummy ache is something alot of people do often. I've struggled with that. Seeing someone actually healthy puke from the sheer quantity of food I could effortlessly consume in a day was a good thing for me and many other people. It's journalism not science. The rules aren't based on science of health they're based on the rules of McDonald's, where they offer you more fries for only 20 cents more or whatever and alot of people go "sure why not"
Do you know how easy it is to eat 4k calories at McDonald's? I think it's fair to say that gaining weight is significantly easier at fast food places like these.
It's way easier to eat 4k calories a day there than 2k without eating anything else.
@@twip_ I'd say it's easier to overeat at home honestly. At a fast food joint I will spend leagues more and see the amount of food I'm shoveling down. At home, you have nobody seeing or judging, food has already been paid and you can just grab more, no need to wait.
If anything Pizza, Pasta and Chinese are a threat but watching food habits of morbidly obese people the majority of their calories are in breading, sweets, snacks and such and in the direct worse off choice.
@@PrayTellGaming burgers have "protein and nutrients"? That's a very funny metric for healthy food to me because you can say that about more than half the food people eat regularly in the US.
I was a manager at McDonald’s for a while after finishing college to get work experience and I absolutely loved eating salads during my breaks bc I could mix and match ingredients as I pleased (knowing what was best and the most fresh).
Imagine my surprise a year later when I had a craving for McDonald’s after being in quarantine and finding out they no longer had salad or any type of grilled chicken.
Being a manager, I remember lots of times having to throw the salads out due to a recall on lettuce so I thought it might’ve been due to the company losing money in that way, but it does make a lot of sense that salads were probably the last choice most consumers were making.
They had salads in the diet conscious 80s. They were pretty much green salads with a couple of tomato slices and then you chose a dressing packet that I think was the same as brands you got at the store. I was a young child in the 80s and usually got these salads. I wass probably the only six year old that was. XD
Bu t I think salads will come back again some day. All it takes is some new food trend or documentary.
McDonald’s salads were good but probably weren’t profitable.
Here in Italy they actually still have salads with grilled chicken and/or Parmigiano but it's quite expensive for what it is.
They sell salads (including grilled chicken) in the UK still! I have never tried it....supporting your point 😂
Yeah I used to work there too. Salads would come up like maybe once or twice per shift.
When I was working way too much I used to eat at McDonald's on my way home as a way to sneak in some protein and calories to combat muscle and strength loss. It cost 2 dollars per meal (Either 1 "McDouble" or 2 cheeseburgers). Of course my beverage was water with no ice. I seem to have survived this pretty well. It was convenient and extremely inexpensive. I don't understand why people eat large, expensive ""meals" at these places, using fast food to undermine their health while giving excessive money to an entity that doesn't care about their wellbeing. Nine years ago I shortened my work week, and haven't eaten fast food since then. I've gained 20 pounds, mostly muscle, and I feel much better.
And yes, McDonald's PR is corrupt and reprehensible. No, it's not suspect. It's confirmedly evil.
A middle aged woman did the "experiment" but ate the recommended calories, did not super-sized, and tried to eat the less fattening items at McDonalds. She lost weight and lowered her blood pressure and cholesterol. By no means can you say McDonalds is healthy, but you can make healthier choices.
bullsh@@, you sound like your selling a load of scripted material... but nice try...
Bruh my grandma showed Supersize me to myself when I was 6 and was OBSESSED WITH IT FOR SOME REASON?! I watched it multiple times and became super scared of any fast or processed food, so much so it was one of the seeds that grew into a lifelong battle with food and an eating disorder 💀
Oh no😭
Did nobody tell you that there are other options thaan JunkFood?
Why did your parents let you watch this unsupervised?
Or did they watch it with you but didn't talk about it?
my brother watch was obsessed with it to but it made him eat more mcdonalds
@No Name Yeah i watched it unsupervised alot bc my grandma just put it on one day after school and was like: lol have fun. and little kid me became hyperfixated on it and watched the recording like 10 times 💀
It definitely flared my orthorexia tendencies too!!!
Thanks, Kiana. I really enjoy the time and research you put into these videos!
The meat riding is crazy 😮😮
Bro didn’t even get a heart 💀
“I’m hungry. Let’s go get a salad from McDonalds…”
Said no one ever. Those salads were amongst the worst things in the menu anyway. That dressing was straight sugar.
I just watched these videos!!! Great job!!! I had no idea that you couldn’t super size at McDonald’s anymore! 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤦🏻♀️
I’m ashamed to admit that it took charging almost $30 for me and my 3 daughters to eat at MCD’s to finally quit giving them our health and money , I don’t even have cravings anymore, it’s changed a lot of things for the better for my family and I.
At that point you can buy like 7 burger stacks, that's such a rip off 💀
Here's a list of good foods: thai rice, sticky rice, avocados, yams, blue potatos, coconut, figs, greek yoghurt, thiok aceto made from real grapejuice, shrimps, duck, octopus, seaweed, black beans, yellow kiwis, dark purple cherrys, starfruit, pinaple, buffalo cheese, goat cheese...
I found out that eating good food works out to about $8-$12 a person per meal. Once you know what's good, you start to realize how 90% in supermarket shelves is just junk, empty glucose calories with no nutritional value. Also never ever touch anything that says light, diet, low fat, reduced fat.
Abuse of employees is so true. Especially franchises. I worked a couple and all of them were the most stressful angry enviroments. It was like 5 star kitchen levels of seriousness and fights but over a damn mcdouble lol.
Super Size Me and Spurlock both have been debunked thoroughly.
You know, Taco Bell gets memed on a lot for supposedly giving you the runs after eating it, but I've never gotten sick from eating there, whereas I ALWAYS get an upset stomach followed by violent poos when eating McDonalds. I reckon I'm allergic to the toxic chemicals they put into their food that makes them addictive.
This came out when I was in college and spurred my health and nutrition obsession. I eventually lost 160 lbs, but this and Fast Food Nation was the spark of it!
Smart move, I'm 55 and am now just getting this.
Awesome! I used to be obese and it took me about two years, but now I've stayed at a healthy BMI.
Just curious did you eat McDonalds to lose that weight? 🤣
There actually was another homemade documentary made in response to Supersize Me called “Fathead.” Would be curious to hear your thoughts on it if you haven’t seen it already.
I'd like to see this too!
I'm surprised she didn't look into it. It's a great reasonable response to the hype. My high school refused to let me talk about Fathead after they tried to scare us in health class with Supersize Me :/
Yes! I was wondering why she wasn’t talking about that one! “Fathead” felt like a nice middle ground between Supersize and this one.
Fathead is great! And I think was made right after Super Size Me instead of a decade later.
Fathead was a fantastic documentary, my mom actually watched it with me when I was little and said “This is better than Supersize me, it’s more realistic”
great video really well put