Mmmmmm, chicken McNuggets

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Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Did you actually watch the movie? At least read the summary of what he did. The guy ate a LOT more then 2k calories a day, I think around 5k a day. It was called Supersize me in part because McDonalds used to asked would you like to Supersize youre order. If/when (like 90% of the time) they asked if he would like to get his order supersized then he had to accept. Back then asking if you want your order supersized was like asking if you would like a drink to go with your order.

Maybe eating McDonalds every day isn’t great for you, but I don’t really think its bad either as long as you eat only your recommended caloric intake (most people 2k) and mix up the menu a little bit (Big Mac one day, McNuggets another). For the average person that gets the average amount of exercise I can assure you that eating 5k calories a day of organic foods is gonna be bad for you, even with a shot of wheat grass on the side. And eating that much food is probably going to result in the exact same health issues the guy in Supersize Me experienced.

Again I don’t think Americans really have a quality of food problem. However we definitely have a quantity of food epidemic.

There is a lot of research showing that types of food are as important as calories. The calories in/out is too simplistic of a model. It is the biggest fault in the guidance provided by the medical community. It ignores completely the causation of caloric over-consumption which isn't attributed as much to being sedentary as it is to what we eat. In fact much of this new research shows that our increasing sedentary life styles are more attributed to over consumption of carbohydrates which train our bodies to conserve energy and slow our metabolisms. So us getting fat is really about eating too much carbs. The medical community is starting to accept this. It is sort of unfortunate but the guy everyone called a quack (Dr Atkins) actually got a lot right. He just over did it.