My friend sent me this and I thought it was hilarious. It’s David on what looks like a McDonald’s diet in America. He was so incensed when he saw his cousins after several years of not seeing them. He said they had ballooned to the size of blimps and had a hard time just walking up a single flight of stairs. They then proceeded to make all sorts of defensive arguments about their size, that the models in magazines were too much pressure and were unrealistic body sizes!
“No one’s talking about becoming model thin,” my friend had to remind his cousins. “We’re just talking about being at a healthy weight which you guys are obviously not.” He tried to get them to play more sports for their short visit but got all sorts of complaints about the weather instead. “America is killing my cousins, slowly but surely,” he finally declared in exasperation at their attitudes.
The biggest people in the world are in America. Who is to blame for the supersizing of America? Is it personal responsibility or corporate responsibility? The documentary below was produced in 2004 (written, produced, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker).
Morgan was able to show, by eating nothing but McDonald’s for 1 month, the damage that junk food causes. It was a wake up call, but like so many things that cause initial shock, didn’t do much so its worth bringing this up again and again.
Below is the SUPERSIZE ME trailer but you can watch the entire scary, but completely true documentary (among others) on http://www.freedocumentaries.org
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