The reverse of Super-size me and it’s lessons for us…
At this point, everybody probably knows about “Supersize Me”, the awesome documentary where a 30-something healthy male filmmaker named Morgan Spurlock vowed to eat McDonalds for a month and look at his health (to the horror of his vegan girlfriend!). The results surprised even him. The film documents the diet’s drastic effect on Spurlock’s physical and psychological well-being. Spurlock ate at McDonald’s restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chain’s menu at least once. As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained 24½ lbs. ( a 13% body mass increase), a cholesterol level of 230, and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his future wife, a chef who specializes in gourmet vegan dishes. Fast forward to writer Michael Pollan, who has done more than anyone to teach us about food and what the western diet is doing to us. Here’s the reverse of Super-Size Me! “The human animal,” Pollan …
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