Every Super Sized Lie in Super Size Me
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
- Today on Weird History Food we are examining the 2004 breakout film 'Supersize Me' by Morgan Spurlock. For a 'documentary', this expose took the country by storm, even being nominated for an Oscar. The film rooted itself deep into the public consciousness for a number of years, until skeptics began to try and replicate Spurlock's claims. Ever since its release, more and people have begun to question its claims, and various legal woes have further dispelled the connection between the physical effects Spurlock experienced and his diet of McDonald's food. Maybe you have seen the film, or maybe you know of these controversies that have erupted in the years since its release!
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We should all thank Morgan for showing us that eating 5000+calories a day while being a raging alcoholic and drug addict is unhealthy.
Eating 5000 calories a day itself is unhealthy, being an addict is unhealthy itself too
While sedentary*
Let’s not forget that he limited his steps to an impossibly low standard for an able-bodied man. No one does that.
Don’t forget he was also a vegan before he started this.
It's also basically mathematically impossible to eat 5000 calories of McDonalds on average if all you're eating is three meals (one of which is breakfast) and you have to eat everything on the menu once. A large Big Mac meal is 1300 calories, so it would still fall short of 5000 if you ate three in a day.
I think I saw that in the Fathead documentary that was mentioned. Spurlock never released his food logs, and even adding an apple pie to all the large Big Mac meals wouldn’t get you to the calorie levels he claimed.
When i tried this terrible diet I had constant nose bleeds. It made it difficult to keep up with my cocaine addiction.
you should sue mcdonalds for not putting a warning label, like the lady that sued mcdonalds for burning her tongue on her coffee :P
@Bjorick The original comment is hilarious because Spurlock wasn't being scientific at all, but that lady got 3rd degree burns on her genitals because McDonalds was, as a policy, keeping the coffee way hotter than is allowed. Coffee should be hot, not third degree burn hot. I had a pot of it spilled on me by a waitress at a diner when I was little and it hurt but it didn't disfigure me like it did that lady.
@@Bjorick It burned her crouch and it was proven to have been served too hot for human handling, let alone drinking. aka it was so hot it was illegal to serve.
So she was entirely right and even won her case if memory serves. Yet she gets harassed over it all the time by the ill informed.
The punchline was indeed a punch, on the line.
@@Bjorick She sued for getting 3rd degree burns on her crotch, because it was served too hot to be safely consumed by any human being on the planet.
Guy made movie studios pay for his hangover food, frickin' hero.
LOL
He gets way too little * credit for pulling that off.
*For our little grammar nazi
He wanted an excuse to eat burgers around his vegan girlfriend
@@HerrHoppenstedt”way too less” 🤦♂️
Big brain play for sure
The best part about the movie is that they interviewed a guy who ate at least one big mac every day for 30 years and he looks perfectly fine
The guy is still around and is still doing that as well.
Of course he looks fine. A single big mac ia different from 3 meals lol
There's a difference between 1 big mac and whole ass 5 plates breakfast emericans eats everyday at McDonald
@@giuseppenasca2091 sometimes he ate like 3 to 5 a day. also there is no 5 plate breakfast at mcds. also the vast majority of Americans don't eat that way that often lmao
@@inyrui The data on obesity says otherwhise 💀
plus the 5 plates McDonald is just a way to put in prospective how much they eat
I feel like the fact that Spurlock purposefully hid the fact that he's an alcoholic should have made anything about his liver during the movie irrelevant
It more specifically makes the movie an act of defamation.
Alcohol has a lot of empty calories too. His weight gain is inaccurate also.
@@Lordoftheswollen 100% this. Alcohol IS like easily the worst thing you can consume in many regards, but it surely is the easiest way to gain weight too. Lots of empty, useless calories that if you are not careful, can make you go "super sized" within months, if not weeks.
@@doom4067 there were lots of lawsuits after the movie McDonald's even had to publicly say nobody should ever eat their food as often as he did for the movie
It's really good all of you are parroting what the video said. Very smart.
Doctor: "Do you drink any alcohol?"
Spurlock: "Not since I got here"
I'm gonna say this next time I visit a doctor
I am an alcoholic and actually went to see a doctor for the first time after moving. I was drunk and had a big cup of booze I was drinking with me in the exam. room as well that I was sipping on. The doc asked the usual questions the first time you meet a new patient. When she got to when was your last drink? I said, about 5 seconds ago. I didn't really find it funny, neither did she. She wasn't mad, more worried. My mom knows I've been an alchy for 25 years. When I told her, she laughed her butt off. Who knows..
@@Karvega11please stop. My dad has been drinking since 6 and went blind at 65. Stroke in the optic nerve.
@@kittycat8222 I'm sorry to hear that. I'm trying.
@@Karvega11 thanks. I believe in you! My dad was sober for 10 years around 1990-2000. Best part of my childhood. Visiting his brothers out of state brought it all back. He has stopped smoking and everything over a year ago and gave his life to Christ.
When White Castle first opened (ostensibly the first "fast food" joint) they literally did this same experiment. American moms were unsure about the health of the food, so they hired college kids to eat nothing but white castle and drink water for 30 days and prove it was ok. Shocking he never mentioned it.
"and drink water" I'll have to look more into it, and I agree that the movie was manipulative, but that experiment seems unrealistic without adding the excessive sugar intake soda would add, since most would not abstain from sugar when already eating fast food exclusively.
@@GeneralOccam yeah the diet is kinda unrealistic either way, but it's not as though they were intentionally avoiding soda, they just wanted to control for the one variable. It was also the 1930s and the introduction of fast food to the culture, so it probably wasn't taken for granted at the time that burgers must go hand-in-hand with soda. If you only wanted to prove that people can get fat from fast food, of course you could introduce the variables to prove that, but there's also something to be said about proving that you won't necessarily get fat.
If I remember correctly, White Castle additionally even paid doctors to eat there while in full coat and everything
Thing is moms normally make unhealthy food so the forced water would have been more healthy than what they drink
@@owenthompson4686 Makes sense. Meals are the main distinction between dining places so putting the focus on their food is the only approach. Finding out that soda is unhealthy wouldn't be a "we don't serve those unhealthy sodas", but a "you shouldn't drink sodas" conclusion.
"Any alcohol use?" "At this precise moment? No."
what's a alcohol?
Born too early to explore the galaxy. Born too late to supersize in McDonald’s.
Born just in time to experience shrinkflation.
In Norway the supersize was just a normal large but you got an extra cheeseburger so you can still get it if you just buy an extra burger. I just can't take the packaging anymore even the shakes come in their wird hybrid paperplastic cups
@@CakeWreck 🤣🤣🤣
You didn’t miss much with super sizing, but if you want to be sad about being born to late, be sad that you never got to experience a juicy, dark meat chicken McNugget, their apple and cherry pies FRIED, or their french fries fried in beef tallow…the food was a million percent better before Super Size me ruined mcdonalds. They were number one for a reason. Now you get dry chicken McNuggets because they’re all white meat whether you like it or not (and they cost more), baked pies which are okay, but not as great as the fried, and french fries in seed oils which are worse for your health…
My oncologist told me to cut down on seed oils because as a cancer survivor, seed oils can help to make cancer return for females. Because canola oil and other seed oils have phytoestrogens…they affect the body like estrogen would metabolically. And since i had a reproductive cancer, if i ate like morgan spurlock did with the non beef tallow fried food hat mcdonalds used to have, it could increase my chances of the cancer returning,
Morgan Spurlock ruined McDonalds. One of the worst “good” people on this planet imho.
@@SandyDiVaHow about a Bucket of fries…
I miss getting a ridiculous size of food for a tiny price...we didn't know how good we had it 😭
And yet, almost no one complains that governments all over the west are trying to destroy farming "To save the planet"... Because you know, The entire western world starving to death will stop the immense amount of damage that China is doing.
My family doesn't eat fast food anymore...because of how expensive it is now.
A burrito at Taco Bell used to cost just $0.89, same one now costs more than $5. Even when you adjust for inflation, it's $3 more expensive.
Something has to give.
@@WanderingRurouni92 I'm in Upstate NY and a Burger King in Binghamton charges $3.89 for a regular hamburger. There's a Taco Bell in Norwich that charges the same for a regular taco (not a supreme).
Joe Baseden!
Super Size Me would have been torn to shreds a lot faster if twitter was around back then.
Social Media really is a game changer when it comes to calling out bs
mhmm
Fathead is a criminally underrated documentary. Worth watching for everyone even remotely curious about health (or propaganda).
it's also entirely free and on youtube
Teachers were obnoxious as hell back in the day when they showed this movie in the classroom. Suddenly everybody was an expert dietician.
Nutrition science seems really poorly understood against how confident the people are who tout it. We were all over fat being the reason people are fat for decades before it became common knowledge that excessive carbohydrate intake like starches and especially sugars are what do it to you. There are a few other popular sciences that are like that, but that's off topic and will make people mad at me...
I agree with you. I'm only sure that they only show it during health class in high school.
Literally, watching this in high school half of us literally said nobody eats like that what is the point.
I remember back when John stossel was on 20/20. He killed the film. He even did an experiment with himself. He also ate McDonald's every day. The difference was he didn't pig out. Morgan with binge eat every single time he order from McDonald's. It was all a scam. John lost weight. He would eat pancakes and sausage for breakfast. The salad shakers for lunch (remember those?), and then a super sized Big and Tasty for dinner.
@@tankerd1847 you state that nutrition science is poorly understood while claiming carbs are the reason for obesity, proving you have a poor understanding of nutrition science. Calories are the ONLY thing that matters. Eating more than you need means you gain fat. Eating less makes you lose fat. This is not even up for debate.
> No one could duplicate his depression or liver damage
> Turns out dude was an alcoholic the whole time.
No, that's a myth.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver stop simping for a lying vegan alcoholic jfl
@@RideAcrossTheRiver it's a myth he was an alcoholic?
@@gowdyman Yes. Spurlock was assessed by three doctors. Not a one found what you say. It's really weird, twenty years on, all this dedicated lying and hatred over desire to stuff bellies to bursting.
@@gowdyman Yes. Spurlock was assessed by three doctors. Not a one found what you say. It's really weird, twenty years on, all this dedicated fibbing and hatred over a desire to stuff bellies to bursting.
Are you kidding me? I'm not a fast food guy anymore but man, the price for these meals back then was insane, inflation is getting real bad.
This was the equivalent of some boomer Karen lady taking one instance of a gamer kid being aggressive, and making a whole documentary about how video games make you a psychopathic killer.
My husband and I used to supersize one meal and then just order an extra sandwich. We’d split the fries and drink. It was cheaper that way.
I would SuperSize my fries but not the pop. Extra fries? Duh...Yes!
I used to order a meal super sized than just eat it all as a teenager. Its easy for a teenager, especially a guy. They also leave out they used to do promotions all the time where a big mac would be a dollar. When that shit would happen id go buy like 20 of them.
That’s the responsible way to consume it! I hate when you walk into a restaurant and get huge portions because so many people have the mentality of having to clean their plate. I will say the portions are pretty much okay now. Shrinkflation is alive and well.
My mother would do this, and spilt it with us kids, it was a money saver.
@@mikeschembri8870 Now we have tiny fries for twice the price of a supersize
1999 the Food was Super Sized, in 2024 the only thing Super Sized is the Bill.
#Bidenomics
@@viktorakhmedov3442 inflation happened with him too though
LOL!
@@liamzakhaevinflation is always happening. But it was nowhere near as bad under the orange man. Not to mention, Creepy Uncle Joe has drained our oil reserves. That's why gas is nuts.
Miss those 35 cent burger days
Don Gorske has entered the chat.
"Don Gorske, age 70, extends his Guinness World Record for most McDonald's Big Macs eaten to over 34,000. He ate his first Big Mac in 1972, and has eaten at least one every day since. He used to consume nine Big Macs daily but has cut it down to one for lunch and one for dinner. In order to maintain his health, he doesn't eat French fries and walks six miles a day."
The moral of the story: walk six miles a day.
Moral of the story: Live a happy stress-free lifestyle for the rest of your days
What an interesting person
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske
9 a day is insane, but when you think about it 2 a day is actually less than half the calories the average human should be eating, and it doesnt seem like he really eats much else. Sounds a lot unhealthier than it actually is
@@marcusaurelius5149 don't forget to be 6'2" as well
this movie made McDonald's get rid of the supersize. I was so fkn mad about that lol
No I'm pretty sure they did it on their own
@@griggletv6974thats what they say but it was probably the film
You know you went to public school if you watched this in health class and your teacher believed it to be fact.
I remember being shown this. My health teacher was a meathead healthnut.
Yep 😂 we watched it in 7th grade PE class in the 2000s. Dang I'm getting old.
Gulity but we were glad we did not have to do work.
Lol
Ok, keep eating McDonald's. Let's how that works out for you 👍
The irony is that the documentary could have been an excellent gateway into helping kids understand alcoholism and other addictions, but Morgan lied to the doctor in order to protect is "fast food bad" idea and not.... y'know, get help.
There's a line in the film where an "expert" says overeating is as bad as smoking or drinking.
How many fat driving accidents are there a year?
OMG is that a Harley Quinn pfp? That looks adorable!
@Werewolf_Korra In terms of adverse health effects, food addiction can be just as bad as drug or alcohol addiction. Just look at how many “fat positivity” influencers have died within the last few years, most of them in their late-20s or early-30s. They’re all equally detrimental to the individual who is addicted, but some go farther than others. Just because there aren’t any “fat driving accidents” doesn’t mean it’s not bad for you. Food, sex and gambling addictions can be just as bad as alcoholism and drug addiction.
The documentary actually does help, last year in my freshman year my health teacher showed this to the class even though most of the things in the documentary are a lie it did a great job of scaring us for a few days 🤣
Probably fewer directly due to say obesity related heart attacks or strokes while driving causing an accident, but that’s where actual life is complicated. Because obesity is associated with things like sleep apnea and then you get into how many accidents are cause by fatigue and sleep deprivation related to obesity. Then of course traffic accidents are a tiny fraction of mortality. I’d assume heart disease and stroke would be more. Obesity related diabetes being next. Then obesity induced cancers the next.
I’ve always hated Morgan Spurlock for making this. Any person with an IQ above room temperature knows how detrimental fast food is if eaten for every meal every day. A documentary isn’t needed for that. All it did was make McD’s remove their super sizes which were awesome as a treat on occasions.
ton of folks dont have IQs above room temperature, turns out.
Spurlock knew that of course people wouldn’t eat MCD’s or any fast food 3 meals a day for a month, but an average American will eat that around 6-8 months. So even though effects for Spurlock were probably more severe considering his past medical history, people would still experience something similar, although over a longer period of time.
You must have bought the supersizes and shared the fries/drink with someone else because that amount of fries is unthinkable to eat for one person. My dad gets free medium fries with his Friday coffee and we share them. I'm 6' and built and could never eat an entire medium fries, not to mention that they'd be cold and no good before I'd finish.
@@riproar11People have different caloric needs. Go figure.
@@riproar11 nope. Sometimes it’s just nice to indulge. Which is why I stated that I purchased them “on occasion”
Thing is at no point in the film did it mention that he also was a massive drinker. Also the main rule this film breaks is whenever u do a experiment u have to do it more than once with different people to see if the results are the same not just do it with 1 person and just accept the result as fact.
I'm still mad at Morgan Spurlock for getting my Super Size chocolate shake taken away
wait a minute, was this off camera?
Yeah!!!! Whata CHOAD!!!!!
Hear hear.. I'm a bigger guy naturally and getting super size fries and a drink was the perfect portion to fill me right up. I thought it was ridiculous that they took it away. Granted you can still say "Make it large" and it's basically the same thing but still, it was definitely a nostalgic hit from my childhood to say "Super size it!" when ordering.
Yep Morgan's that guy to kick the ladder down behind him.
I do miss the Super Size drink. If I forgot my lunch, I'd get a medium meal with a Super Size diet drink and that drink would last me the rest of my shift.
This documentary gave McDonald's the green light to say "Oh gee, so you want LESS food for MORE money?? Wow, we hate doing this to you, but you're the boss!"
Dang, that actually makes you think.
average American economic literacy
@@LobstersLobsters as opposed to
McDonald's was playing 4d chess the entire time
You know, you don't have to eat there. I haven't in years. It was crap then, it's overpriced crap now. Just skip it.
Gotta appreciate his hustle. Somehow persuading his vegan girlfriend that he should exclusively eat McD instead of her cooking is worthy of the Oscar alone.
_"Gotta appreciate his hustle."_ No, you really don't have to appreciate a raging alcoholic lying about shit.
@@Mechanomics You really don't have to spout a synopsis of an 11 minute video in reply to a joke comment under said video.
"""hustle"""
@@eewweeppkk You really don't have to white knight some dude's dumb comment with a "it's just a joke bro" non-argument.
You are both right, he found an excuse to Eat meat for a month in front of e vegan and is a lier. But what this is really here about it that i want the super size options back@@Mechanomics
If Morgan Spurlock has a hundred haters, I am one of them. If he has one hater it's me. If he has no haters, that means I'm dead.
Who would’ve guessed a guy who’s been an active alcoholic for the most of his life probably isn’t the most reliable source when it comes to nutrition.
It also seems like a really bad idea to put yourself through what might well have been the DTs on purpose.
Damn. Took it there for no reason at all. Bitter and disgusting you should be ashamed
I'm amazed he hasn't died of an intestinal blockage because that's the only way someone can be that full of crap without painting the wall brown.
Yeah, and shaming alcoholics really gives you credibility too. 🙄
does that invalidate the fact that McDs is poison? nope. surely doesnt
Going back in time, to when "Supersize Me" was at the hight of its popularity:
"Relax, people! 20 years from now, you won't be able to afford it anymore anyway."
Not even 20 years, more like right now
@@aychemara Super size me came out 20 years ago ...
@@aychemara that's okay. 2004 feels likes yesterday for me too.
Supersize my bill
@@aychemara damn you're dumb lol
1987: *companies realize they can make more $ by selling bigger portions*
2024: *companies realize they can make more $ by selling smaller portions*
I worked at a regional pizza chain while in college. On Sunday's we had an all you can eat salad and pizza buffet. At 12:30 every week on the dot, we had a family of super sized people show up. The dad was pushing 400lbs, the mom was easily 300+ and the five kids were a combined half ton. One pass and the buffet was cleared out and we struggled to keep it stocked before they went back again.
Anyway, on one visit the mom went back to her chair and it collapsed when she sat down. She hadn't put the food on the table and it ended up all over her. Our manager did her best to help the woman, but she just rolled around on the floor, yelling call 911.
The buffet was discontinued after the incident. It was a shock to many other regular customers when they found out it was no longer available. Many blamed it on greedy management.
They family eventually sued the company, claiming the chair was defective. It was settled out of court.
The pizza buffet never returned.
One of the doctors asks Spurlock in “Super Size Me” if he abused alcohol, to which Spurlock replied no. That's not true. He's an alcoholic.
he ate mcdonalds every day for 30 days and gained weight
@@Magnatross excessive booze will definitely do that to you too.
@@Gerkins1313 Yes, and unlike eating McDonalds, it'll also do nasty nasty things to your liver. Like it did in his case!
@@Magnatross 5,000 CALORIES A DAY.More than TWICE the USDA recommendation for a normal adult male.
Not to mention alcohol is very high in calories also.Dude is/was a walking lying POS.
@@GodzillasaurusJr He deserves every bad thing he gets he's a disgusting piece of crap.
not to mention this guy was cramming so much food down his throat he was throwing up, then going back for more. How do u watch that and think 'ah yes, this is science'
At the time this movie came out, I was single working 60hrs per week eating nothing but fast food everyday three meals with occasional ribs and pizza for dinner, I felt great, no medical issues at all. I knew this movie was total BS then, even told people that when they mentioned my diet.
@KingfishStevens-di9ji, sure buddy, I bet you have no issues at all I bet you have a six-pack your not over weight don't have issues breathing with and don't have high blood pressure with all the garbage you throw down your gullet
Hell, now that we know about the drinking, how do we know him yakking wasn't just a hangover?
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji That's incredibly unhealthy and you were at extremely high risk for serious health issues, including liver disease as portrayed in the film.
Yeah, so? @@saintsalieri
I was a fat kid and when i saw this i rolled my eyes. He ate McDonald's for every meal and super sized it every time of course thats bad.
THIS. "I ate a pound of butter for every meal every day and mcfuckin died. Ban butter!"
6:44 DIDDY: 'I'm a failure at love' yes you are, oh yes you are!
Indeed!
That's a relief! Turns out I'm just fat because I eat too much.
Yes.
And move too little.
It's an equation with several inputs. Your body can easily handle an intake of 5000 kcal and more a day, if you use them up. If not, you gain weight. If you use more than you take in, you lose weight.
If course, it's more complicated than that, because no two metabolisms are the same and there's also a thing called essential nutrients. But in essence, per calorie fast food won't make you any more fat than any other food would. (It's just harder to take in and actually digest 5k calories in the form of just salad. Ask the koalas and pandas: they had to become ridiculously dumb in order to be energy efficient on their extremely low energy food. But I digress.)
I only eat roughly 1200-1400 calories a day. One meal and a snack. I’ve always been underweight and I don’t get much exercise. Just eat fewer calories and get some exercise, your body will love you.
Well, carbs specifically. You can practically bury yourself in saturated fats and not gain weight. Carbs/sugars go straight to the cushion though. Just keep them in moderation and you'll lose weight without even trying.
@@lonestarr1490 Cool your tits. It was just a joke.
I love how Tom Naughton also proved that “The Subway Diet” could also apply to literally any fast food place, since Jared walked to and from there each time.
calories burned being greater than calories consumed leads to weightloss. what a thought provoking concept!1
Dont forget that little disclaimer at the bottom, was a 6 inch with like a piece of turkey on it.
He had exactly 2000 cals a day, but just using subway foods. Genius bit of manipulation fitting for that scumbag
Jared does a lot of walking these days....in the yard.
Jared was burning crazy amounts of calories chasing kids around
This movie also featured Jared Fogle as an example of a great guy.
Yep, this was known years ago.
The m'effer tried to say Mickey D's brought about his health problems.
BUT, he was already unhealthy, didn't exercise, had a bad heart too/high blood pressure already before he did his film.
There's another film where a guy did the SAME diet, at McDonald's, but even though he ate the burgers, fries, etc. everyday, he exercised regularly, took vitamins, went to the doctor, etc. and he had normal healthy numbers.
There was another study in Austria, meat eaters vs. vegetarians.
The vegetarians didn't exercise, sat mostly for work and lived to about 75 to 80.
The meat eaters, were more active, worked out regularly and lived OVER 80.
The key...eat in moderation, and keep moving. Moving is the key.
Okay but that dosent some how make the fast food healthy for you mickey ds slop that can be around for months with out molding still makes Americans over wight
@@griggletv6974 The point is the guy lied.
And if you read what I wrote at the end of my statement, the KEY is eating in MODERATION. And exercise regularly.
Get it?
@ShortRound42 no sorry but if you looked at facts, fast food is super unhealthy for you it has all kinds of shit that makes it addictive so my point still stands
@@griggletv6974 Youre point is not thinking. Eating in moderation doesn't mean eating mcdonald's in moderation. Means eating all types of foods, moderately.
Not one over the other.
A balanced diet.
Your point is off base. We're talking about a man who tried to fool people into thinking if they ate McDonald's all day they'd end up unhealthy.
He lied.
The guy who did the same diet but was a healthy person to begin with and exercised regularly was fine health wise.
Again...moderation, various food's, NOT just McDonald's.
Your point is not thinking overall on what we're talking about here.
Exercise is the key.
Moderation of all types of foods is the key.
Making a movie to falsely accuse a company that made him sick is slander.
Like ANY food, if you overdo it will hurt your health if you DON'T exercise.
The Austrian study proved this.
Meat eaters who exercised live to over 80.
Vegans/vegetarians who were sedentary, lived from 75 to 80. A few years less.
Got it now?
Jeez.
Do you know what's WORSE than McDonald's? Diners. But no one goes after diners.
Or steak houses.
The point it was slander against McDonald's.
Which was proved false.
@@ShortRound42no one is arguing that you can’t indulge in a unhealthy food every once in a while?? It’s about people that continue to lead unhealthy eating habits
You missed he lied about how much he ate. If you follow film, his orders can't add up to what he said ingested in calories.
Yep, 🎵something here just doesn’t add up, something here just doesn’t go down!🎵
I dont like him because A: his girlfriend is fuckin hot B: He seems like the first fame-whore even before the internet ones
No shit, Sherlock. That video here said 5,000 calories a day. That's starving.
@@DaveMcIroyNot even close.
@@henrylicious, the fuck are you talking about???
F. e. 100g of apple have about 50,000 calories. So all you need is 10g of apple a day? Are you an ant?
Put it this way, ANY food taken in excess will be bad for your health, no doubt about that. But Supersize Me was a sham as it hugely exaggerated the "effects". Dude made it look like he was going to "die" any second by the end of it.
However, it's still no excuse to eat nothing but fast food every day. McDonalds is too expensive nowadays anyway.
You’d probably spend $600 a month if you ate McD’s twice a day
Yeah Mcdonalds is forgetting what they are.
Its just better to make your own burgers; cheaper and tastier.
Finally the one intelligent comment. Everyone seeing this video thinks it justifies unhealthy habits or being obese as long as you’re not an alcoholic. America used to be conscious about the dangers of unhealthy foods and obesity as a whole, but somewhere in the past 5-10 years we’ve done a massive 180
@@FatherAndrew-Scarlet-Priest Tastier is an ehh errr situation. Hit or miss depending on the location.
I never understood this documentary to begin with. Who believed that eating McDonalds 3 times a day was healthy? It's no different to eating a chocolate cake, pizza or fish&chips 3 times a day. Of course it was unhealthy, I don't think McDonalds would disagree either. He also ate 5000 calories a day, so of course he gained weight and became unhealthy, that will happen regardless of what you eat.
The point was that a lot of people in America ate fast food everyday and have issues with obesity.
@@iggydc8034 Didn't need a documentary to notice that.
@@arandombard1197 Bunch of obese people would disagree with your statement.
@@iggydc8034yes, but most western nations eat the same amount, but Canadians and Britains do not have that issues. I belive all first world nations have an obesity problem, but for some reasons USAers which i think more hast todo with them eating higher amounts of salt and sugars then greasy food
Even if you eat nothing but vegetables you will still gain weight if that is all you eat.
It is better to eat various things as a chocolate bar once in a while is good for you.
The overseas news paper says, diddy: “I’m a failure at love”. that hasn’t aged well
I’m an ER doctor. I see alcoholic patients multiple times per shift. A large majority of obese patients don’t randomly have liver disease or elevated liver blood tests.
However, patients with heavy alcohol use, regardless of their weight or size, are the one with elevated liver enzyme levels and cirrhosis. And yes, the alcoholic patients are the ones who shake with tremors and hallucinate and have chest pain and fast heart rate and nausea and etc because they have had a drink in 8 hours.
Elevated liver blood tests aren’t the main concern with obesity though, heart problems are. You can’t find that through a blood test. I agree with your sentiment though, using his liver tests as “evidence” is ridiculous.
Heart, kidney, pancreas. Secondarily from failures in those eyes, lungs, extremities (as in losing them).
Okay but obesity and bad food in general is linked to so many diseases. Heart issues, kidney diseases, diabetes, some forms of cancer and even Alzheimer’s is being linked to bad processed foods. We shouldn’t pretend obesity isn’t a problem or that McDonald’s is by any means good for you
@Sniperboy5551 uhm you do realize you don't have to be fat to have a heart attack. i know first hand
@@RavensSoTired4081 he never said heart attacks only happen if you’re obese. They can happen to anyone, however there is a much higher risk when you are obese. Obesity is a leading risk factor for countless diseases and complications. Idk why we need to suddenly pretend that’s not the case
Wait wait…the lying alcoholic told FALSEHOODS?
For money no less? I am blown away!
Say it ain't so!
@@friedpickle8332 dude, off topic, but I haven't had a decent fried pickle since the last time I was in Little Rock. Northern California sucks for anything but Mexican food.
That mofo ruined it for all of us...now you order a large shake and get that whimpy medium sized clear cup.
Lmao, preach!
If I learned one thing from Super Size Me, it's to not drink alcohol.
The whole catalyst for the documentary was when two teenage girls sued Mcdonald's for making them fat. I believe they said they made the food look so good that they had to eat it. The judge threw the case out.
Ah, I love being an American, where everyone blames other people for their own issues. I hate lawsuit and victimhood culture. I’m glad that judge had common sense.
@@Sniperboy5551 I agree with what you said, specifically people blaming other people.
In this case the girl's should have sued their parents for one not teaching them healthy eating and exercising habits and for not preventing them from eating junk food. Teens have very little impulse control and their parents still need to be parenting them. Adults on the other hand are responsible for their own actions.
It's personal responsibility if just a few people get fat. If it's millions of people then it's an epidemic and we should look at how we can change as a society and not just blame individuals.
@@brandonsteele2826 No, millions of people getting fat is still down to personal responsibility. You can change by not eating too much. Eat enough food to feed one human being rather than 2 medium sized hippos.
YES THE DOWNFALL OF THIS MOVIE IS FINALLY HAPPENING
Praise the Golden Arches!
@@JakoWakoThe Super Size Promotion has finally gotten its revenge!
There is probably a universe where Spurlock never made the movie and supersizes still exists
The downfall of this movie started a long time ago.
People have been calling this movie out for years. If I eat 5000 calories of carrots I would be unhealthy also.
Spurlock purposely drank giant 2000 calorie sodas and ate desserts too. It's why it was 5000 calories. If you stick to eating just a sandwich and small french fry, it's not too bad. You're looking at about 2500 calories. You're still going to gain weight though. Just slower. Spurlock wanted to gain weight quickly to prove his point.
I remember everyone thought it was obvious that if you ate thay much McDonald's it not healthy. The movie did stop me from eating McDonald's occasionally like normal.
They have actually done trst to compare fast food to homemade food and have found many home made dishes are very high in salt and fat. They also had calories that wrrr 1.5 to twice the.number found in fast food.
I find it hilarious that all his health complications during the experiment had nothing to do with the food, and was all just his natural state as a deeply unhealthy person.
The guy never exercised and went out of his way to drive everywhere. He activly sat at home and did nothing.but watch TV on his couch.
That alone is enough to have serious negative health problems on its own. Very little activity an sitting will result in heart, liver and lung issues even if you eat healthy.
Seeing the food his vegan chef gf was making him id have found any excuse to eat fast food for a month too.
Looked like garbage
He did another documentary about trying to live on a single minimum wage job. She made them eat beans and rice everyday.
That food she made looked good and delicious, have you ever actually tried food like this?
@@salam-peace5519 yes, and I stopped at McDonald's on the way home
@@KingfishStevens-di9jithe fact you eat at McDonald’s of all places says enough on its own, hope you enjoy their 3 cm burger patty
The small fries cost the same as a super size now 😑
6:44 “I’m a failure at love” - Diddy. All the flags we ignored 😂
Can you really call it a non-fiction documentary at this point?
calling something "non-fiction", rather than jsut "reality", that's already one foot deep in admitting being full of shit, and i only expect them to be at that point.
we're not in a book store that categorizes a multitude of things... the genre "documentary" implies real unless stated otherwise, it goes without saying
what a redundant bullshit term
not to say that "reality tv" has anything to do with being real, but that only further proves a point in how they're all full of shit rather than disproving my point some of them are.
Call it an edited livestream?
Pretty sure he was saying it passive aggressively
I worked at McDonald's when super size was phased out; had to tell a lot of customers, "Sorry, we don't have that anymore."
Anyway, here's a fun, random anecdote from McDonald's. While I acknowledge the following wasn't a _typical_ customer, it's stuck out as one my strongest McDonald's memories after all these years: One day a very tall, very obese man came in for lunch. He couldn't fit between any of the benches and tables, so he sat at the one, odd spinning chair in the lobby. After he got done eating, he waddled up to the counter, leaned forward, and laid an arm on the counter. He started to order an ice cream cone, but mid-sentence he literally _burped up a french fry,_ which landed on his outstretched arm. He looked down, picked it up, put it in his mouth, and ate it. Then he continued to order his ice cream cone as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
Damn, you're lucky. You actually got to meet Mr. Creosote.
WTF!! That is hilarious 😂
Sounds like you encountered Bubble Bass. Did he hide any pickles under his tongue?
Bruh that sounds like something you'd see on The Simpsons 😂
a true american hero. I hope you saluted to him
I got an ad for a sausage egg and cheese mcmuffin during this video lmfao
I love when stuff like that happens on CZcams! LOL!
I remember watching this movie twice in school once in middle school and again in high school and even though it’s supposed to sway you away from eating unhealthy everyone would just leave class craving McDonalds
I bet he wasn’t “depressed” after making tens of millions of bucks on the back of this film from all the book and speaking deals. His partner also wrote a “detox diet” book saying that’s how they got his weight off after this experiment. Follow the money.
To be fair, dating a vegan chef would probably make me an alcoholic, too.
@@lonestarr1490 LMFAO!
@@lonestarr1490 Underrated comment. 🤣
She also became a pescatarian later saying it helped her energy levels. All her vegan friends berated her for that.
He made tons of money being a phoney documentuary maker he prob. did a backflip
The ironic thing for me is that there's nothing in this world that makes me crave McDonald's as much as watching this movie😂
And THE FOUNDER! That was a fucking masterpiece.... Loved Michael Keaton in it!
@@colliric the founder gave me a bit of respect for McDonald's, very interesting story
And McDonald's knew that, which is why they didn't sue Spurlock for defamation, even though he was obviously lying all along.
Ikr? I remember watching this film as a teen and immediately after school, I went to McDonald's 😂
Kinda like how anti-smoking PSAs just make smokers crave a cigarette more
6:44 "I'm a failure at love.". - Diddy
😂😂😂
I remember watching this at school and having my teacher cover his butt with a folder when that hospital check up scene happened.
That "Diddy: I'm a failure at love" headline at 6:45 hits different now 😂
"That one didn't age quite so well..."
-JonTron
*differently
@@riproar11don't be pompous
@@negativedumpster9778 Or it aged spectacularly, depending on how you look at it
@@sillkthashockera correction itself isn't pompous. You're projecting.
My experience with McDonald's is as a place where parents with low incomes and of meager means, like mine, could treat their families to dinner out. (Except on July 4 when we went to Pizza Hut, which was super mega funtime fanciness.) This, of course, is when dinosaurs roamed freely and gas was .65/gal.
There's a lot to beef about with McDonald's, but I've never known anyone, though my experience is admittedly anecdotal, who ate there with enough regularity for it to harm their health. I think soda is a thorn in our collective health, but that's not a McDonald's thing, it's everywhere.
ETA: I still love me a double quarter pounder with cheese and their fries are pretty dang good when they're fresh --- but I miss the beef tallow. And I miss the molten hot apple pies that would burn the paint off a door.
Umm, only beef tallow still is used in Mcdonald's locations in the U.S. I think you're 1 of many people who experienced the change of their fries outside of the U.S.
@@here-kc9kt Worked there last year and you are wrong on that its a canola oil blend. They did that to make the fries vegan.
@@jamesweeks6865 Additional confirmation, worked there just over a year ago and it was indeed canola.
Very funny about the pie burning the paint off the door that was a good note I laughed at that
I've heard tell, but cannot confirm, that there were low-income people one place I lived who would come in there for the cheapest burger once a day for lunch. And back in college there were people who would eat fast food (though not necessarily McDonald's) every day, but that's college.
What's interesting is that any person with half a brain realizes Super Size Me was a scam but the wikipedia barely mentions the criticisms. Barely mentions he was an alcoholic.
I remember having to watch this in High School in 2005. I continued to go to McDonald’s after being subjected to this.
The huge price hike across all fast food restaurants over the past couple of years has had a much bigger impact on my purchasing habits than that movie ever did.
Yep. I got a double big cheeseburger meal at Hardee’s and it was over 11 dollars. Even burgers by themselves are 5-10, depending upon the burger of course.
Yes, by this point I'd rather just use that money to buy some fresh ingredients and make satisfying and tasty burgers at home
@@DeepEye1994 Me too, but I miss the speed and convenience
@@XianHu We can have the speed and convenience at a reasonable price, it's just the people in charge would make SLIGHTLY less money that way and they make the big decisions. When people stop buying their products, the corporations start losing money, only then will they change.
@@ASingleSpaghetti That's how they became the giants they are today, at least up until the last few years. I'm not sure what changed exactly, but something clearly has.
I was drunk in Santa Monica once and i saw Morgan Spurlock inside a restaurant. I wanted to say hi but i was embarrassed for being drunk. If I knew then he was a drunk we could have drank together!
Nobody likes being around a drunk, even other drunks - Joe Friday
The doctor does hint to it when he says I would expect this from an alcoholic and would tell them to stop immediately but not a high fat diet
I like how whenever one big thing comes out in the news, every CZcamsr and their mom all jump on the bandwagon to make videos about the same thing.
its pretty freaking obnoxious ive unsubbed to those types cause I don't want to see the same thing 3 times from the same creators.
The first scent of bullshit for me was the whole "my liver is ravaged" thing. A ravaged liver doesn't magically get unravaged when you stop eating burgers.
It kinda does though. A heavy drinker’s liver will have almost entirely repaired itself after 90 days of Sobriety.
@@caydenmcknight1797 not exactly true. Cirrhosis of the liver (Fatty liver) can be corrected; however, the damage is already done. It leaves behind scar tissue which is easily detectable and can spell severe consequences at a later date. It's true that other factors can cause fatty liver other than alcohol. Viral infections such as hepatitis B or C, which can also be caught through sexual contact. Millions of people are infected with hepatitis and don't know it. Most of them will never know. This is not something that is commonly tested when you go for annual blood sampling. Most people will never show symptoms of it either. If you ever had unprotected sex, which all of us have, we are all at risk of being carriers.
I believe that many cases of cirrhosis is linked to hepatitis, unless the patient has a history of drinking.
Diabetes, certain autoimmune diseases, etc can also cause cirrhosis. I've known a few people who have died at a young age from it. By the time it's spotted it's usually too late. One person I knew was lucky enough to receive a liver transplant, but it only gave him a few more years of life. Btw, you don't need to be an alcoholic to get fatty liver. It's the excessive use of alcohol. Being an alcoholic only speeds up the process. Eating MaDonald's doesn't cause fatty liver. lol There is no scientific evidence for it.
@@caydenmcknight1797Did you read the OP?
@@AppleOfThineEyeif they arent diseased livers can usually clean up pretty quick regardless if it was bad food, alcohol ect that caused it if you clean up what goes into them
@@sgriffiths1448 I don't think either of you read the OP. Or you just missed the point. Whichever.
Burger King also killed their "King Size" option at the same time.
wow, that's interesting. Probably BK got around less than 1/2 of sales than Mcd's as result.
That's ironic because where I live we didn't have the super size, but BK did have the king size (probably because of branding and the documentary wasn't as big of a deal here). I'm not sure but I think the king size is now just the large size, and that change might have happened in the mid 2010s so the documentary wasn't the issue.
The biggest flaw in his experiment is he reduced how many steps he could take so it would equal an average American. Reducing exercise but not changing your diet would also have an effect on your health. The fact that he reduced his exercise in tandem with eating McDonalds makes it impossible to parse out what affect each factor had on him.
I remember when this movie was taught as fact in my nutrition classes. I could sense the BS. Oddly enough people didn't like it when I brought up the counter documentary Fat Head. It's almost like Super Size Me wasn't truly scientific, but appealed to emotions. How strange.
I was shown this film in tenth grade in my health class. All we took away from it is that his girlfriend was delusional.
insufferable
Super Size Me: FASTFOOD MAKES YOU FAAAAAAAAAT!!!
no shit, if you only eats junkfood nonstop for months and no exercise of course it's unhealthy
Add to that, being a massively alcoholic, who would have guessed that issues that clearly already exist would get worse via an unhealthy lifestyle?
And then add onto that the very strange choice of eating vegan food as a routine right before going on a fast food binge... guys system must've been like "bro, wtf are you doing up there?"
@@johnmcshane4463 agreed along with drinking alcohol to affect the results.
The idea of fast food being unhealthy has been challenged for a while now, with the consensus being that it's probably getting a large sugary soda that's the unhealthy part, not the cheeseburger and fries.
I mean, think about how much Coca-Cola you're getting if you order even a medium drink from McDonald's, then think about just how much sugar is in that drink and how you're encouraged to not only drink it all in one sitting but in some restaurants you're encouraged to get a refill.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 yeah, many people today continue to not realize that sugar is horrible for you.
guy claimed to be a vegan. that was enough to throw a huge grain of doubt on the whole ordeal. he clearly had an agenda which made me not want to believe a word of it.
I watched this film back in school when it came out. I can't recall why exactly or in what class (I say that because all I know for sure is it wasn't Health Class, I didn't have one in my schedule at that time) but I can say it definitely felt like it was attacking fast food and being slightly over dramatized. Later in life, when I was in the Army, my diet was almost EXCLUSIVELY fast food. Taco Bell, Wendy's, and Whataburger. 2-3 times a day for nearly 3 years straight broken only by deployments and field exercises. I was incredibly active and saw no serious issues in my diet. I then left the Army and maintained that diet for the last 3 years. I've been FAR less active and yet, I'm only 180 pounds in a desk job where the only physical activity I get is some occasional skate boarding and some light walking to and from the train station about a quarter mile away. Super Size me was undeniably not telling the truth in it's entirety.
MacDonald was like...
I guess we'll charge more money for LESS? food then... If that's what you all want now.. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Now McDonald's is in a new controversy: Costing too much for too little, cheap food.
Ya but everyone has gone up in price.
"Eating too much and not exercising enough is bad. (also binge drinking)"
People in 2004: 😲😲😲😲😲
Less than 50% of people polled in 2023 even knew that Alcohol is carcinogenic.
I also have to say that McDonalds from different countries can differ. The amount or the quality of oil used in their fries or amount of salt used for instance can differ.
the original "i'm better than you cos of my diet" vlogger
He was just trying to impress his vegan "chef" girlfriend while getting to eat animal based foods.
@@geoffok bussy makes a man do weird stupid things
That documentary was a required watch for health class when I was in high school. All the segments involving how the food was made looked like a PETA scare tactic video to me
Nobody's accounting for the one constant Spurlock had incorporated that these others hadn't; he lived in New York City. Of course he got depressed.
I asked my parents about the super size meals, they said they would usually get a super size and then share the drinks and fries, they normally share drinks and fries anyway even after super says get removed, and at the end of the day it's the equivalent of two mediums but cheaper
If I remember correctly, he also forced himself to finish all his meals even though he was already full
That one’s always my favorite, when he was full, force fed himself, puked, and was so shocked.
No, it wasn’t the food dipshit, IT’S BECAUSE YOU OVERATE!
Yep, as well as literally putting an exact limit on his daily steps; literally no one does that!
That's how I got stuck with a lifelong ED and binge ate once I could buy my own food in high school. I worked my ass off- literally- until I was 30 to knock down my weight with an exercise plan that my skeletal structure and health limitations could handle without hurting myself. And all because my mother was severely disturbed and obsessive about feeding her children no sugar and no fats, underfed me dairy (usually got powdered milk which I could barely tolerate), overcooked meats to leather and vegetables to mush so that I literally could not eat it or would throw it up or just keep chewing it until I could run to the toilet and spit it into the bowl.
By the time I was 15 I was seven feet tall but was so underweight I could not be mistaken for healthy but my mother lied to every doctor we went to that 'he simply wouldn't eat', even though she was the one who had a post-secondary degree in early childhood behavioural psychology and took me to a specialist for testing herself, diagnosing me as not fully on the autism spectrum but I instead bear a palette of sensory-processing disabilities including synaesthesia, which she was happy to ignore in the face of what she believed would end me, and never did once I got my head on straight. Took until my late 30's, though.
I still am terrified enough of eating that I can't eat with other people but I can eat normally on my own, and have learned to moderate how much take-out or luxury food I eat and can enjoy eating without overstuffing myself. I don't have a natural sense of hunger, which may or may not be the result of my ED- there is no way to tell and the neurologists I've worked with and asked as reference can only make a good guess with no solid research or more context that I hypothetically could have retained and related to them- and in the end, all of this unkindness I have to live with for the rest of my life could've been avoided if my mother had fed me like a normal child should be fed, and not with her madness of fear.
I was working at McDonald's when this movie came out. We were across the street from a movie theater that was showing it. Wouldn't you know it after every showing people would walk right across the street and get McDonald's and proceed to tell me how bad McDonald's is for you.
McDonald's is bad for you! Gets McDonald's anyways. Confused Jackie Chan face.
What a bunch of predictable and impressionable sheep. 🐑 🐑 🐑 🐑
Please explain what you mean at 7:04 "...they then went on to point out that Spurlock eats the amount of McDonald's food in one month that it would take an average consumer six years to consume." Calories? Meals per day? Visits? What is the metric used to compare these?
I don't miss these over-the-top servings, but I miss the relatively small prices for the over-the-top servings.
Honestly Spurlock having a vegan girlfriend says all you need to know about the bias of the experiment 😂
facts.
Was that before or after bedtime@@jimjoe9945?
@@jimjoe9945Food meat or the other "meat"?
Not really since there is vegan fastfood as well and for most people the main reason to go vegan isn't even about health but about animal ethics (boycotting slaughter, abuse and factory farming of animals), though health benefits might be a nice side effect.
I knew Spurlock was full of shit when I saw this. His whole approach was unscientific but the moment we heard about his vegan girlfriend I knew this was a hit piece.
No one thinks McDonalds is good for you but for some, especially low income families, it was an affordable treat you could get yourself.
I agree with you.
Hell junk food is loved by all classes of society it has been found. I recall there were studies done where the people doing them were surprised rich people actually ate a little more fast food than poor people.
Key word being "was". Now McDonalds for two will set you back at least $30.
5:26 classic strategy.
Make a statement like "they believe poor people are stupid" to butter up the audience.
The moment I saw the scene where the dietary company closes because they were doing too many good things, that's when I thought "this movie is full of shit"
"It's YOU! McMUFFIN!" 😂
-Super Bad drunk bus dude
he was saying: "I was eating 5000 calories per day" that would be an issue on any food according to public information, 1,120 calories in a Big Mac Combo Meal, a full McDonald's day would be 3000 or so calories, which a lot of taller or muscular people requires for DAILY consumption
Some athletes consume more than that, knowing they’ll burn it off. Michael Phelps, for instance.
and people in recovery from restrictive eating disorders
Exactly! But I think it's safe to say MOST people shouldn't be eating 3000 calories a day.
I waited the entire video to hear what was advertised in the title, it never came.
One of the things people like the Danish scientists forget is, that Fastfood in Europe is different.
Over here McDonalds burgers literally are healthier (and some not available) because of EU regulations and regulations by every country on top of that.
Like that corn syrup stuff Americans put in their food is a no go over here.