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"Unbeknownst to me, Lawler began repeating the phrase in interviews of his own, including one with the director of a documentary film about obesity in America, super size me (2004). I had been looking for a concrete way to illustrate the effects of exercise on learning for this book, and focusing on a school district was a natural way to do that. But I also think the sheer size of the Naperville experiment gives it a broader resonance. The story is about students, but the lessons apply to adults too." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The school was also filmed in the documentary super size me. The kids in this school shaped up, focused on their schoolwork, and achieved better grades. The school ended up saving so much money from lack of vandalism that they still came out ahead despite paying more for the wholesome food and losing out on junk food kickback money." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Morgan Spurlock, creator and director of the renowned documentary film super size me, found that he became seriously addicted to the food at McDonald's. He would even suffer depression until he got his "fix" of fries, burgers and shakes! One reason people on cooked diets experience so many cravings is not only addiction but also malnutrition. They are simply not getting enough nutrients, so they are constantly hungry. Obese people are often the most undernourished people in the world, which is why they are always hungry and always eating." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"They are super size me and What the Bleep Do We Know. super size me is a very important documentary about an individual who decided to eat only McDonald's food for thirty days. It shows clearly just how dangerous fast food is. When you watch the documentary, you will see that this man almost died in thirty days. He gained 28 pounds, and the doctors who were monitoring his health said that whatever he was doing was killing him. This points out the fact that the fast food industry is causing disease." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Xenohormesis: The Attack of the Foreign Molecules in Food In his movie super size me, Morgan Spurlock ate three fast food meals a day for one month. Most of us recognize that eating a lot of fried, processed food, full of trans fat, high-fructose corn syrup, and calories will make us gain weight, promote heart disease and diabetes, and even give us fatty livers. But what struck me the most was not that his cholesterol or blood sugar went up, but that his personality changed. He became aggressive, depressed, restless, foggy, and felt "good" only when he was eating the food." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Books such as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation (along with the movie version) and documentary films like Morgan Spurlock's super size me, for example, have drawn attention to the myriad ills (personal and social) to which fast-food chains like McDonald's have contributed. But despite the increased media attention, not everyone fully understands the scope of the food industry's role in creating such problems. And how could they, given that so much of the relevant information is distorted or kept hidden by food manufacturers and government agencies alike?" - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "For example, in March 2004, just prior to the general release of the movie super size me (which had already generated much publicity after winning the director's prize at the Sundance Film Festival), McDonald's made headlines by announcing its intention to stop supersizing fries and sodas. The company vehemently denied that its decision was in any way motivated by the film, in which director Morgan Spurlock documented the untoward effects of daily consumption of McDonald's fare on his own body, including near liver failure." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Why You Should Care, Even If You Hate Lawyers Maybe you're wondering: who doesn't know by now, especially with the success of the documentary super size me, that eating too much fast food isn't good for you? Why should food companies be held responsible by people who lack common sense or don't have enough willpower? Is litigation really the answer to solving America's obesity epidemic? I have asked myself all of these questions." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"They are super size me and What the Bleep Do We Know. super size me is a very important documentary about an individual who decided to eat only McDonald's food for thirty days. It shows clearly just how dangerous fast food is. When you watch the documentary, you will see that this man almost died in thirty days. He gained 28 pounds, and the doctors who were monitoring his health said that whatever he was doing was killing him. This points out the fact that the fast-food industry is causing disease." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"While we're talking about huge portion sizes, I urge you to rent or buy the Academy Award-nominated documentary, super size me. Its producer and star, Morgan Spurlock, ate nothing but McDonald's foods for a when in america, dd as the french do td stay slim! Over the years, you may have wondered how the French get away with eating rich Camembert and Brie cheese, croissants, French bread, foie gras, and butter-drenched escargots and still have lower rates of obesity and heart disease than Americans." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"And the success of the documentary super size me may be because it hit on that gap between the scientific research agenda as presently defined and the public's concerns about the deeper problem. It concerns a young man called Morgan Spurlock who ate nothing but McDonald's for a month while taking the same amount of exercise as the average American. This was folk-science as entertainment that exuberantly ignored the methods of medical research. The process by which science is peer-reviewed by other scientists was non-existent." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"International reaction to the film super size me stung McDonald's into changing its menus; support for celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's campaign forced the UK government to improve school meal provision. When people get together they can change the world. Parents may come in all shapes, sizes, colours and creeds, but they're united by one overriding ideal: they want their children to grow up happy and healthy. Working together, parents could become the world's most powerful and positive pressure group." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "The film super size me first shown in cinemas, then on DVD, then via TV stations has, in the words of BBC documentary head Alan Hayling, 'probably made young people think about the effects of fast food more than any amount of public information'. And a TV and Internet-based campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver made the UK government do a complete U-turn on the issue of school meals. Broadcasters are learning how to work in creative partnership with their audience, but that of course depends on the audience putting in their twopenn'orth too." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Watch the movie super size me. It's a real shocker. Trans-fat intake raises bad cholesterol (LDL) and also lowers good cholesterol (HDL). For this reason alone, trans-fats are accountable for tens of thousands of heart attacks each year. Substituting foods high in trans-fat for food containing pure polyunsaturated fat could reduce the risk of type II diabetes by some 40% as well as protecting against numerous other diseases. Soybeans are high in polyunsaturated fats (oils) which help lower the blood cholesterol level." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"If you had the chance to see Morgan Spurlock's film super size me (my thrilling screen debut, brief as it was), you know that Spurlock's crew could not find anyone to interview who had the slightest idea what a calorie might be. So there I am rolling my eyes and attempting to define a calorie for the camera crew. I said something like this: A calorie is a measure of the energy content of food. One calorie—the kind you usually see on food labels—is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a liter of water by one degree Centigrade [Even so, I left out the rest of the definition." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Soon after the release of the anti-McDonald's movie, super size me, the company announced that it would be eliminating its supersize portions. In April 2004, you could buy french fries in small, medium, large, and supersize portions, with prices ranging from about 50 cents per ounce for the small to 34 cents per ounce for the large and the supersize. A 16-cent per ounce price differential is a strong incentive to choose the supersize. By June, McDonald's had changed the sizes on its Web site, but it took until early 2005 for franchises to get the new sizes and prices in place." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"They are super size me and What the Bleep Do We Know. super size me is a very important documentary about an individual who decided to eat only McDonald's food for thirty days. It shows clearly just how dangerous fast food is. When you watch the documentary, you will see that this man almost died in thirty days. He gained 28 pounds, and the doctors who were monitoring his health said that whatever he was doing was killing him. This points out the fact that the fast-food industry is causing disease." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Soft drink portions: super size me! At the same time advertising expenditures on soft drinks are skyrocketing, and fast food restaurants, movie theaters, quick stop convenience marts and other retail establishments that sell soft drinks are upsizing their portions to ridiculous levels: The largest movie-theater soft drink contains 800 calories if not too diluted with ice. Larger portions can contribute to weight gain unless people compensate with diet and exercise. From an industry standpoint, however, larger portions make good marketing sense." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"REPPED: In the 2004 film super size me, MorganSpurlock embarks upon a month-long descent into fast-food Armageddon. Spurlock, a 30-something, 6'2", 185-pound man, decided to begin a one-month, three-meal-a-day "Mac Diet" (McDonalds food only). Prior to the experiment, Spurlock was healthy, physically active, and consumed a reasonable 2,500 calories a day. Thirty days later, he was eating more than 5,000 calories a day and suffering from depression, rapid mood swings, high blood pressure, low sex drive, and symptoms of addiction. He had gained 24." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"From the movie super size me it stated if you look at the menu at a fast-food restaurant they use all the addicting components. They'll take a slab of meat, cover it with cheese, and then serve it with a sugary soda, which has the addictive powers of sugar with plenty of added caffeine. Give this to a twelve-year-old kid and his brain is no match for that chemical combination. I wondered about the health of the 22 percent of people who ate at McDonald's three, four, five times a week and up. In my observations I found that these people are riddled with disease." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "Read the book Fast Food Nation and watch the documentary super size me! After you have finished throwing up, be glad that you are hearing the truth now. Fast food is simply some of the most nutritionally deficient and chemically loaded "food" on the planet. If the definition of food was "fuel for the body that also encourages life," fast food could no longer be called food. It should be called "fast, good tasting poison," which is a more accurate description of what it is." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

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"Morgan Spurlock's movie, super size me (see supersizeme.com), revealed the devastating effects on the body of eating fast food. The New Yorker ate three meals at McDonalds every day for a month and his health was monitored by doctors. The outcome was devastating. Within days he went from being a fit, healthy 33-year-old, to vomiting, suffering headaches and depression, and losing his sex drive. His liver became overwhelmed by saturated fats and Dr Daryl Isaacs described Spurlock's liver test as shocking. 'It became very, very abnormal', he said." - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.)

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