May 06, 2004

• whoops - here's a better link to her whole blog
• [i]Whaley said she believes Spurlock simply over-ate, and his weight gain had less to do with where he ate and more to do with how much. Whaley, on the other hand, tried to consume around 2,000 calories per day.[/i] right. sure. i eat more for per meal and have more snacks per day than anyone i've ever met, and i'm very healthy (and weigh less than the average for my height). i'm sure i'd keep on being perfectly healthy if i just kept eating at the same rate and switched over to an all-mcdonald's diet. because the quality of mcdonald's food is not a significant factor. right. sure.
• Here's where this woman works. The Competitive Enterprise Institute. they've been at it for years just google.... "competitive enterprise institute" fast food....and you'll see all the lobbying they've done over the years for the fast food industry What a bunch of crap
• Weight gain is a function of calorie intake and exercise. Doesn't matter where the calories come from. (Whether food is 'healthy', i.e., whether it's good for the heart, encourages or discourages cancer, and so forth, is another question, which none of this stuff about McDonalds addresses.) Whether you gain weight or lose weight eating at McDonalds depends on how much you eat. Just like every other restaurant or food source. Argh, the sites you link to are just as ideologically driven as is the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
• What we all need to read is Jeffrey Steingarten's "The Man Who Ate Everything."
• Slithy - here's your blinders. Enjoy, be happy. Every news story out there says she's an independent filmmaker and animal trainer. Nowhere does it say she (via CEI) is being funded by Coca-Cola or Phillip Morris. (which it is) This so-called "think tank" she is being aided by is one of the biggest pro-corporate, right wing ,anti-enviorment groups out there. She's even listed on their website McDonalds is not a direct funder of CEI but another company who has a major interest in Mcdonalds (Coca Cola) is a major donor. This will never be disclosed to the general public. That's what's wrong with the whole thing. I don't mind being screwed but at least take me out to dinner first.
• How about a whopper?
• Whatever I eat is good for me.
• Wow! What an honest position!
• Very good. Now, can you tell a double whopper?
• *coughs*
• Thought so -- wasn't sure if you knew that idiom wot with you off in the wilds of Adelaide among all those parrots, Wolof. Have a banana-flavored coughdrop.
• What we all need is to read Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation"
• I had to read Wolof vs Beeswacky EIGHT times before I got it. I think I need some comfort food... anybody wanna split a Quarter-Pounder Supersized Set?
• Look, McDonald's food sucks but does anyone believe the guy who did Super Size Me didn't have an agenda as well? You'd get sick as hell if you went on an all-soy diet for 30 days too. Apparently both moderation and personal responsibility have gone down the toilet in this country.
• What we all need to read is P.G. Wodehouse. Then we'd be too busy laughing to worry about our weight.
• Um..er..ah...I'll pass on the "whopper"
• I think we should be less worried about the Big Macs and more worried about why McDonald's insists on keeping the hot apple pie filling at roughly the temperature of hot friggin lava. You want health issues? Take a nice bite into one of those magma-pockets fresh off the rack. I'm pretty sure they make them in a smelter.
• sorry, I just have to say it: Spurlock's website really sucks. That's one of the most horrible layouts I've seen in a while.
• What we all need to read is The Family Circus. That little Billy walks all over creation just to perform a simple task!
• On the other hand, has anyone here heard of the McDonald's Phenomenon? Supposedly, no two countries have ever gone to war with each other since they have both had a McDonald's in them. This comes from a friend of mine who just got back from Iraq. I don't have any documentation for this, nor am I in any way defending that awful place and its godawful, gutwrenchingly disgusting food. However, it's interesting to think about.
• Weezel, that's because it's very difficult to mount an invasion when your explosive diarrhea drives you to the can every 15 minutes.
• Weezel, your friend was talking about the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. It was disproved when NATO started bombing Yugoslavia.
• Weight gain is a function of calorie intake and exercise. Doesn't matter where the calories come from. even if this is the case (if the type of food has no impact on digestion, or energy level, etc) I doubt people who run into mcD's for a quick bite are always fully conscious of just how many calories a normal meal there has. A burger and fries is something like 1200 calories. That woman was mostly eating yogurt parfaits for dinner. That does not seem like a meal. While it's entirely possible that the super size me guy overate, the point is that he was just eating normal meals from a mcdonald's point of view. The number of calories in their servings is surprising. Supposedly, no two countries have ever gone to war with each other since they have both had a McDonald's in them. Maybe mcdonald's doesn't go into a country until it's sufficiently stable and unlikely to provoke war.
• Another person on the McDonald's "Supershrink me" diet.