Wow.

[pixiecrinkle]

A filmmaker ate three meals a day at McDonald's for a month and filmed it.

What a great idea, but it's astonishing what happened to this guy physically. I haven't eaten at McDonald's since August 17, 1996. I remember this, because it was my 20th birthday, and I had I recently become a full-fledged vegetarian. My boyfriend at the time (the Prada model) decided it would be fine to stop at McD's for lunch. Um....yeah. So I can't imagine eating nothing but that. Ick.

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[kateo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been curious about that film. :-)

(You dated a Prada model? Wow. :-) )

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

He wasn't a Prada model at the time. He got "discovered" after college, and is now modeling.

It's a little disconcerting to open up a magazine to find a two page spread of your ex-boyfriend on page 1. And a little gross. :-)

[queensheba.livejournal.com]

This bugs me, though, because it doesn't really prove much. Of *course* eating nothing but McDonald's for a month straight is bad for you. But you could eat something healthy - say, apples - nothing but apples for a month, or broccoli, or chicken breasts - and you would have a whole variety of *other* things wrong with you. Somebody then could used that skewed logic to say that apples or broccoli or chicken is bad for you.

We already knew that McDonald's is generally not good food for us and should be consumed only occasionally...this doesn't prove anything but that this guy is a turd, imo.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's terribly unscientific, but I still think it's valuable for being the extreme example. I saw a survey recently that named the percentage of US kids eating fast food daily -- and certainly I think some people would call that "moderate" consumption. I think this guy just kind of serves as an example, sort of in the way that some activism seems "way out there" but still proves a point.