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New shock: eating too much makes you fat

Here’s a report (from the Telegraph of all places) that deserves a damn good fisking:

Morgan Spurlock sent his body on a scientific voyage of discovery when he ate nothing but McDonald's for 30 days solid.

“…scientific” huh? Call me old-fashioned but I do seem to remember that science involves things like hypotheses and controls. Exactly what is the null hypothesis here? That eating nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days is just fine? Frankly, I doubt if eating nothing but anything for 30 days does you much good. Where’s the control restricted to eating nothing but tofu and mung beans?

The results were captured for a film, Supersize Me

Oh really. And I am sure that not for a minute did they ever think of the royalties. I can just hear the pitch:

“What we’re trying to do here is make a movie that just shows how healthy fast food is. The world is growing tired of all that depressing modernity-is-killing-us nonsense. What they want is a movie showing them just how much better things are getting. McDonald’s is great will be simply packing them in.”

The filmmaker admits his stunt is an "extreme experiment" but even the doctors he hires to record the deterioration in his wellbeing are shocked at how much damage a few burgers can do.

“…experiment”, huh? See above. “…the doctors he hires…” and, of course, the money wouldn’t be subconsciously influencing what they might say, would it? And then the killer “…a few burgers…” Sorry, chaps but at the top of the page didn’t you say he was eating nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days? Call me old-fashioned (again) but I would say that was quite a lot of burgers. Plus, of course, the chips and coke.

"Your liver is sick. It is now like pate," says a doctor

Yes, but what sort, Ardennes or Brussels?

The human guinea pig starts as a very fit man in his early thirties with low cholesterol, a healthy heart and a perfectly functioning liver.

Did I say “and a diseased mind and an empty wallet”? Surely not.

As the food binge starts, he develops minor ailments such as McGirgles and McStomachache, which turn into McSweats and McTwitching.

He is soon completely McCrazy as his mood swings from morbidly depressed to chatterbox happy.

His girlfriend complains about their flagging sex life as he balloons from 185lb to 210lb

And who says there's no justice in this world?

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Silly, stupid people. http://www.gastroblog.com/archives/001840.php

Posted by Jackie D on March 19, 2004

This is a test

Posted by Patrick Crozier on March 22, 2004

This guy is presumably a McTwerp

Posted by Tom on March 22, 2004