I received this on another list. I hope you don't find it too far off
topic; I think it's pretty good.
ginny
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> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=84&e=5&u=/pagesix/
> 20040122/en_pagesix/archenemy
>
> ARCH ENEMY
>
> Thu Jan 22, 3:32 AM ET
>
> By MEGAN LEHMANN
>
> LAST February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical
> guinea pig.
>
> His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and
> document the impact on his health.
>
> Scores of cheeseburgers, hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate
> shakes later, the formerly strapping 6-foot-2 New Yorker - who started
> out at a healthy 185 pounds - had packed on 25 pounds.
>
> But his supersized shape was the least of his problems.
>
> Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33,
> was
> vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were
> shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated.
>
> "It was really crazy - my body basically fell apart over the course of
> 30 days," Spurlock told The Post.
>
> His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230,
> his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.
>
> Spurlock charted his journey from fit to flab in a tongue-in-cheek
> documentary, which he has taken to the Sundance Film Festival (news -
> web sites) with the hopes of getting a distribution deal.
>
> "Super Size Me" explores the obesity epidemic that plagues America
> today
> - a sort of "Bowling for Columbine" for fast food.
>
> As well as documenting his own burger-fueled bulk-up, Spurlock travels
> to 20 cities across America, interviewing people on the street, health
> experts and a lobbyist for the fast-food industry.
>
> Despite making dozens of phone calls, Spurlock fails to get anyone from
> McDonald's to agree to an on-camera interview.
>
> A spokeswoman for McDonald's told The Post yesterday that no
> representatives from the corporation had seen "Super Size Me."
>
> "Consumers can achieve balance in their daily dining decisions by
> choosing from our array of quality offerings and range of portion sizes
> to meet their taste and nutrition goals," McDonald's said in a
> statement.
>
> Over the course of the film, Spurlock is regularly examined by a
> gastroenterologist, a cardiologist and SoHo-based general practitioner
> Dr. Daryl Isaacs.
>
> "He was an extremely healthy person who got very sick eating this
> McDonald's diet," Dr. Isaacs told The Post.
>
> "None of us imagined he could deteriorate this badly - he looked
> terrible. The liver test was the most shocking thing - it became very,
> very abnormal."
>
> Spurlock has since returned to normal health. "The treatment was to
> just
> stop doing what he was doing," Dr. Isaacs says.
>
>
>
> Spurlock, who says he ate at McDonald's only sporadically before his
> total immersion in the Mickey D's menu, says he even began craving fat
> and sugar fixes between meals.
>
> "I got desperately ill," he says. "My face was splotchy and I had this
> huge gut, which I've never had in my life.
>
> "My knees started to hurt from the extra weight coming on so quickly.
> It
> was amazing - and really frightening."
>
> Spurlock's girlfriend, Alex Jamieson, was horrified - she's a vegan
> chef.
>
> "She was completely disgusted by me, not happy at all," he says. "But
> she realized what my goals were in trying to educate people."
>
> Spurlock, a film producer who grew up in West Virginia and studied
> ballet for eight years, was spurred to make his first feature film
> while
> watching TV on Thanksgiving Day, 2002.
>
> "I was feeling like a typical American on Thanksgiving - very bloated
> and happy on the couch - and at some point on the news they were
> talking
> about two women who were suing McDonald's.
>
> "People from the food industry were saying, 'You can't link kids being
> fat to our food - our food is nutritious.'
>
> "I said, 'How nutritious is it really? Let's find out."
>
> Not surprisingly, Spurlock has steered clear of the Golden Arches since
> filming wrapped.
>
> "I have not had McDonald's for seven months, but yesterday, during an
> interview, I had a bite of a Big Mac," he says.
>
> "I chewed it up, swallowed it and I said, 'You know what, I'm pretty
> much done after that bite.' "
>
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