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There's literally a section in the documentary where his doc is like 'You're getting liver damage from this diet. I don't believe it. I've only ever seen this from alcoholics.'

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

"My liver values are through the roof! Look at my cholesterol!"

Yeah no shit sherlock, your triglycerides are super sized because of the vodka you drink daily

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe this was just the experience in my small town, but you might as well have been telling people that going to church wasn't healthy. For many small town Americans burgers were considered a healthy diet and this documentary was literally shocking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, the burgers are the healthiest part of a McD's meal. The fries and soda are far worse, as they are unsatiating, drive hunger later in the day, and have almost no nutritional value beyond pure calories.

For the burger itself, remove the bun (bleached white flour), the ketchup (hfcs), mayo (vegetable oil), and cheese (whatever tf is in that cheese), and what you have left is pretty healthy. Fresh veggies. Some grilled meat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Tells you something about the impact it had that people would still try to discredit it all those years later! What's OP's point, eh? McD every day is gonna be healthy if you don't drink. Get outta here!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

No, I think their point was more the fact that it's heralded by people as a great study but is massively flawed and with obvious outcomes. There wasn't really anything stringent done in the documentary. Any impact it had was purely from shit people already knew. He had no controlled experiments and was an active alcoholic during it.

My point, personally, is that people who reference Supersize Me in any capacity as a valid documentary or study is someone who is either uneducated or a fool. There's little difference in holding this documentary to your chest and referring to it or in doing the same thing to Joe Rogan or Bill Maher's Religulous. It's low-effort garbage that's not made for intellectual consumption but is still used for it anyway.

That's kinda problematic.

That's my point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So in other words, the documentary was so successful in decrying the rampant hyperconsumption that was accepted in its time, that such rampant is no longer considered acceptable or normal. And on that basis, you consider it to be facile, obvious... "problematic"?

No shit its conclusions were already obvious to educated people. They were never the target demographic. Literally nobody references Supersize Me as a "study". It isn't, and it hasn't ever claimed to be. It's a shock story to grab the attention of the least well-informed segment of the population. That you're trying to call it out for not succeeding at being something it never claimed to be, and even more so for succeeding at the thing it did try to be, is not a problem with the documentary.

Whenver you come up with similarly hot takes, the comments always end up being filled with a you offering litany of obtuse bad reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It wasn't a study. It was a stunt. The stunt worked. People ate less fast food, and laws were passed restricting the companies ability to market to children.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

It would not matter if a perfectly scientifically controlled version of this movie was done, people would still not stop bitching.

Stop eating this poisonous shit, it makes you fat as well as destroying your gut biome and hormone balance. Get over it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Been a functioning alcoholic my whole adult life. Got my first bad test for liver enzymes. Looked the numbers up, holy shit that's fucking off the scale! Quit kratom powder for 2 weeks, keep drinking as normal, perfect retest.

Doc: "I'm so proud of you!" Uh....?

Another anecdote: Good friend crashed her liver with Tylenol. This was before it was widely known to fucking kill you. Hardcore alcoholic. 90-proof generic vodka, hiding bottles kinda alki. She got a transplant after being in a coma for 2-months, poster child for success! Doctors wanted her to speak at medical events as to how she no longer needed anti-rejection drugs after only 18-months. Imagine that!

Surgeon to family: "Believe it or not, her alcoholism had nothing to do with her liver failure."

All that to say, yeah, other factors we didn't evolve for can kill your liver. We been drinking for 10,000 years, the weak livers are largely weeded out.

Let's hear from Kurt Vonnegut!

"Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise." I feel personally attacked. :(

Anyway, Julie got run over by a random dude while crossing the corner with her husband, my best friend. So it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Well our society says it acceptable to shit on people who drink too much but apparently not people who eat too much...

I guess drinking has more negative social externalities to warrant it

But from national economy perspective... Fat people are a huge strain on healthcare system.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

There a lot to unpack here…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

This reminds me of a friend who told me about a decade ago that smoking "hadn't killed him yet".

Kurt's been gone for 3 years now. He was right, the smoking didn't get him, but his lungs packed it in during covid. Surprise, surprise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Who the fuck is Julie?? I'm so confused

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

The person who got ran over.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

I mean AFAIK he did checkups before and after. I thought it was reasonable to assume his ... drug habits... were the same before , during and after.

‘You’re getting liver damage from this diet. I don’t believe it. I’ve only ever seen this from alcoholics.’

... I have no comeback for this though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats the level of explaining USAmericans needed for this. Unless you directly show it to them in 1:1 the exact same way that they would experience it, they will not believe you. Even if you do, they will still call the film fake and CGI and whatever they like today.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

the film is fake, you can read about it on the wikipedia page!

That's what the alcoholism bit in the op image is referring to, the shenanigans that were going on and not revealed to the audience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The point he was trying to make is that people that eat McDonald's every day are unhealthy, and sure, the alcoholism on top of it made everything worse, but do we really think that MCD's is the only bad choice those people are making?

Like someone willing to eat a shitload of fast food (not for a movie) also is likely to have alcohol or substance use disorders, or eat unhealthy amounts of sugar, or not exercise.

I think a fair point was made regardless of the shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Like someone willing to eat a shitload of fast food (not for a movie) also is likely to have alcohol or substance use disorders, o

Yes poor people are disgusting degenerates!

People eating high quality diet would never abuse drugs or booze for fun or otherwise.

Some classist bullshit here lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

That is a funny coincidence then

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well that doesn't magically make mcd's healthy. Especially fries and sugary soda.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know. I'm saying it for those who will read, "it's fake" and immediately discount its message. We both know there are far too many people out there like that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trever Moore's follow-up "Supersize Me, With Whiskey" was better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] KindnessIsPunk 10 points 1 day ago

it was the precursor do they modern day YouTube challenges.