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Go rent this movie. It might change your life.

I would like to see that, I have heard it is both funny and worrying.

The guy has made a fortune because McDonald's made such a fuss about it.

I would like to see that, I have heard it is both funny and worrying.

The guy has made a fortune because McDonald's made such a fuss about it.


The guy ate McDonalds for breakfast lunch and dinner everday for a month... It practically killed him.

I haven't eaten McDonalds in 6 months because:
1. Their food is sooo greasy and fatty it gives me the ****s.
2. Their commercials are absolutely beyond annoying.

that movie is sort of a croc.

eat the same stuff, everyday, at any popular restuarant, and see how bad if ****s you up.

Good movie, it certainly opens your eyes to what that crap will do to you if you eat it regularly.

I changed my fiance's, mine too, but he was a regular McDonald's eater as he is on the road every day - neither of us has had ANY fast food since we saw it over a month ago.

I saw this guy interviewed, the interviewer said that it was unrealistic to believe someone would eat that stuff everyday.

Well i know people out there who eat take aways nearly every day. And feed it to their kids too.

Over here the usual mix is McD and Burger King, Indian Curry, Chinese, Kebabs or the fish 'n chip shop. None of which could be described as health food.

It looks a scary movie, I must rent it out.

that movie is sort of a croc.

eat the same stuff, everyday, at any popular restuarant, and see how bad if ****s you up.
Well that's sort of the point, popular restaurants don't serve healthy food. He has stated (I think even in the movie) that it's not a film about McDonalds, it's a film about American eating habits.

Well that's sort of the point, popular restaurants don't serve healthy food. He has stated (I think even in the movie) that it's not a film about McDonalds, it's a film about American eating habits.
but by the title of the movie and name of the site, ppl automatically focus on McDonalds as the only evil fastfood restuarant. with my comment i was only explaining it can happen with any restuarant.

but by the title of the movie and name of the site, ppl automatically focus on McDonalds as the only evil fastfood restuarant.

Which is why McDONALD'S took such umbrage over the film.

with my comment i was only explaining it can happen with any restuarant.


Even, good ol' humble HOME COOKIN'! As long as one indulges.....or rather OVER indulges....with NO physical activity/exercise to burn off the impending calories....it's an inevitability that one WILL end up looking like ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S doppelganger, or WILLIAM CONRAD'S cousin....with ALL the inherent physical maladies accompanying said expanded girth...

Even if one NEVER sets foot in a Mc DONALD'S , PIZZA HUT, K.F.C., or BURGER KING EVER in life....

ALL things in MODERATION, eh?

Bad News has a good point - you can really suffer the same health problems that Morgan allegedly had after his 30 day diet if you just eat badly at home. This movie - IMO - made too much of an issue about fast food in the States and didn't really focus on our percpetions of portion sizes and overall lack of exercise. Yeah, he touched on them but these are the real culprits to obesity if you ask me.

The thing is, you eat healthy food just about anywhere if you just make the right choices. Did you hear about the woman who ate McD's for 30 days and actually lost weight?

Did you hear about the woman who ate McD's for 30 days and actually lost weight?


Was she not the one that passed the burgers & fries by and exclusively partook of salads & stuff?

I agree with all those of you have commented that you can get fat and unhealthy from many other sources than Macdonalds, and even from home cooking.

However Macdonalds does pose many problems to our society above and beyond the fact that their main menu items are heart-cloggers.
It reinforces the red meat-heavy diet our nation favors, which is a serious problem both for human health and for the environment.
It uses battery eggs and mistreated poultry.
It markets itself deviously to children who are far below the age at which they can make descriminating choices for themselves, and those children then put enormous pressure on their parents to bring them there. As a result, feeding our kids junk food becomes a way of pacifying them while also not having to cook: a powerful combination for overworked and stressed parents.

Lets get this straight. Macdonalds is garbage. They have built an empire on damaging public health and over-exploiting the natural world. Why anyone should be concerned that they are being unfairly picked on by this film is a mystery to me.

M.

It is a real statistic that American men and women weigh on average 25 pounds more than they did in the 60s.
I grew up in the 60s and I can recall knowing very few obese people. Now there are more fat people than thin people. Just go to the mall and look at all the lard butts, men and women.
I think it is a trajedy and a national disgrace, especially when young kids start off life that way.
If this movie makes 1% of the obese people wake up and slim down, it`s worth it.

I agree with all those of you have commented that you can get fat and unhealthy from many other sources than Macdonalds, and even from home cooking.

However Macdonalds does pose many problems to our society above and beyond the fact that their main menu items are heart-cloggers.
It reinforces the red meat-heavy diet our nation favors, which is a serious problem both for human health and for the environment.
It uses battery eggs and mistreated poultry.
It markets itself deviously to children who are far below the age at which they can make descriminating choices for themselves, and those children then put enormous pressure on their parents to bring them there. As a result, feeding our kids junk food becomes a way of pacifying them while also not having to cook: a powerful combination for overworked and stressed parents.

Lets get this straight. Macdonalds is garbage. They have built an empire on damaging public health and over-exploiting the natural world. Why anyone should be concerned that they are being unfairly picked on by this film is a mystery to me.

M.

Dude, you should be PRESIDENT!!

Or the U.S. SURGEON GENERAL, at LEAST!!! :nice:

I agree with all those of you have commented that you can get fat and unhealthy from many other sources than Macdonalds, and even from home cooking.

However Macdonalds does pose many problems to our society above and beyond the fact that their main menu items are heart-cloggers.
It reinforces the red meat-heavy diet our nation favors, which is a serious problem both for human health and for the environment.
It uses battery eggs and mistreated poultry.
It markets itself deviously to children who are far below the age at which they can make descriminating choices for themselves, and those children then put enormous pressure on their parents to bring them there. As a result, feeding our kids junk food becomes a way of pacifying them while also not having to cook: a powerful combination for overworked and stressed parents.

Lets get this straight. Macdonalds is garbage. They have built an empire on damaging public health and over-exploiting the natural world. Why anyone should be concerned that they are being unfairly picked on by this film is a mystery to me.

M.



Yeah....and their Big Macs SUCK! ;)

Good movieagreed
it wil occur me whenever im going to enter mcdonal's

Great movie. Also check out the bonus interviews on the dvd with the guy who wrote "fast food nation."

McDonalds food is actually scientifically engineered to be both tasty and addicting.

Yeah the bonus stuff on the DVD is great.

I especially like the "smoking fries" section.

If Satan walked the earth today he would eat at McDonalds.

Dude, you should be PRESIDENT!!

Or the U.S. SURGEON GENERAL, at LEAST!!! :nice:

:p

I agree with all those of you have commented that you can get fat and unhealthy from many other sources than Macdonalds, and even from home cooking.

However Macdonalds does pose many problems to our society above and beyond the fact that their main menu items are heart-cloggers.
It reinforces the red meat-heavy diet our nation favors, which is a serious problem both for human health and for the environment.
It uses battery eggs and mistreated poultry.
It markets itself deviously to children who are far below the age at which they can make descriminating choices for themselves, and those children then put enormous pressure on their parents to bring them there. As a result, feeding our kids junk food becomes a way of pacifying them while also not having to cook: a powerful combination for overworked and stressed parents.

Lets get this straight. Macdonalds is garbage. They have built an empire on damaging public health and over-exploiting the natural world. Why anyone should be concerned that they are being unfairly picked on by this film is a mystery to me.

M.


Agreed with everything you said..

The McDonalds's ad that says "Hamburgers come from a Hamburger patch" that is targeted at kids has always bothered me..

Yeah....and their Big Macs SUCK! ;)

And pretty much everything ELSE...save for the breakfasts, the potatoes (fries & hash browns), and the filet-o-fish.....IF it's done RIGHT!!!!!

One item on the menu that IS perfect .... though no-one here, or in the documentary, has bothered to take note of....

....is the coffee....

Only trouble THERE is....these lawsuit-happy schmucks that go dumpin' said hot product on themselves in hopes of retiring a $$ - skillionaire - $$ from the settlements.. :rolleyes:

The coffee at McDonald's isn't bad. I like it.

As far as this rediculous documentary is concerned, I don't know. After seeing it, there's something that still doesn't sit well with me about it. I guess its the fact that eating a 5,000 calorie diet is pretty far fetched when compared to real life.

The coffee at McDonald's isn't bad. I like it.

Hear, hear...long live a GOOD cuppa Joe!

I guess its the fact that eating a 5,000 calorie diet is pretty far fetched when compared to real life.

Oh, I dunno..........

Check out CNN and pay close attention to those zoom-in shots of all those expanded girths that walk around our city streets, or tune into the ones that parade up & down YOUR municipality..

Or, for FULL & LASTING (as well as NAUSEATING) effect, trundle on over to YOUR local COUNTRY/HOMETOWN BUFFET, GOLDEN CORRAL, BIG BOY or any all you can eat affair.....and see just HOW MANY people......that look like they'd make two (or even THREE) WILLIAM CONRADS/ROSEANNE BARRS help keep those Dining Emporiums in the black! :eek3:

There are MORE gourmands out there than you suspect.... :(

It is a real statistic that American men and women weigh on average 25 pounds more than they did in the 60s.
I grew up in the 60s and I can recall knowing very few obese people. Now there are more fat people than thin people. Just go to the mall and look at all the lard butts, men and women.
I think it is a trajedy and a national disgrace, especially when young kids start off life that way.
If this movie makes 1% of the obese people wake up and slim down, it`s worth it. - In Norway we are at the level the US was 20 years ago and health specialists are sounding alarms because we're growing fat so fast.

The main problem here, they say, isn't that we eat more - but 1: we use too much sugar and 2: we don't move as much as we used to.

Another problem that's supposedly bigger in the US is that cheap foods are usually cheap because they can be stored a lot longer: this means that a lot of nutrition and taste goes out of the food (because of how it's prepared for storage) the taste is replaced by things like sugar and artificial taste, making it even less healthy.

Interesting. There is definately no shortage of obese people in America, but honestly, can they blame anyone but themselves for eating so much??

I mean, I like fast food and eat it on occasion, but I'm definately not obese. I don't know, i just don't get it.

Interesting. There is definately no shortage of obese people in America, but honestly, can they blame anyone but themselves for eating so much??

I mean, I like fast food and eat it on occasion, but I'm definately not obese. I don't know, i just don't get it.

What I think they can blame society for its the subtle and not so subtle ways in which us Americans encourage over-consumption. It is a fairly fundamental trait of American society. Individual Americans cannot blame themselves for that.

M.

Interesting. There is definately no shortage of obese people in America, but honestly, can they blame anyone but themselves for eating so much??

I mean, I like fast food and eat it on occasion, but I'm definately not obese. I don't know, i just don't get it.over-simplistic attitudes like this don't help.

The individual's choice is only one aspect of a very broad problem.

I hate to sound trollish, but to me, it really does boil down to choice, and nothing more. Granted, some people are obese due to a medical condition. But the vast majority of overweight people are not so for the same reasons. I make the right choices for my life, I am not obese.

Though there are other factors contributing to the obesity epidemic, I don't place as much weight on things like accessibility of fast food as Spurlock does.

I think the movie raises important questions that need to be carried further, about diet and Western lifestyle, but what's going on in people's heads?
There are few people in society who don't know what healthy living is, or at least have some ideas (thank you diet industry), so why do they choose to be overweight? Is it laziness?
Can a rational person believe that a person consciously wants to be fat? That they are happy that way?
Perhaps it needs to be examined, why people, despite not wanting to be fat, still turn to fast food and other unhealthy foods.
Sure it's easy to get, but I believe most people get comfort out of a big rich flavour-packed helping of fast food. What are they comforting themselves against?
Growing class disparity? Fears for the future? Worries about terrorism and the war? Possible collapse of superannuation funds?
When you're faced with a burger that's going to make you feel good for awhile, being fat might not seem as relatively frightening.

I just rented it last night and I personally won't eat fast food again and will stop feeding it to my kid so much we get a "Happy Meal" at least once a week.

I thought the movie was great and it actually brought up some pretty good points besides the McDonalds bashing, like the Food that our children are eating in the school cafeteria, that stuff isn't even prepared by a "cook" anymore they just open it with a box cutter, heat and serve. Plus kids are drinkning pepsi and eating chips at school and eating instant mac n cheese when they get home.So in a way we are all teaching our children to be Obease by feeding them happy meals, giving them Koolaide loaded with sugar, Hot Pockets, High sugar cereal and other crap. I do it myself and after watching that movie I am going to introduce healthier choices. What really sucks is the fact that is it cheaper on the pocket to eat crap and instant sugar loaded food than it would be to serve a highly nutritional meal, go fuigure :not:

Humm I do also want to add to my reply that I really don't think McDonalds should have been singled out of all other fast food companies. Actually MCDONALDS does wonderful things for American children. I had to live at a "Ronald McDonalds house" for 6 months because of my sons medical condition and it was actually a wonderful place for a faimly in crisis. McDonalds is also starting a new program for childrens literacy. I'm will always be greatful for McDonalds.