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Shea Tisdale wrote:

> Do you have any links on SuperSizeme being a con?
Jacob Sullum has a review of the movie in the July issue of Reason;  
it's not up on the web site yet.  He knocks some pretty big holes in 
Spurlock's case, but rates the movie as pretty good entertainment ( much 
better than "Solaris", but not quite as good as "Mean Girls").  He 
claims that's not just because he's in a  bit of it.

Sullum's main points are (1) If you don't exercise and eat 5000 calories 
a day, you're going to turn into a wobble-bottom and (2) It's kind of 
hard to claim that fast food is literally  addictive when he has to 
force himself to eat it ("When it's all over, he says with relief, 'I 
can't believe that today I'm going to get up and not have to eat at 
McDonald's'").

Super Size Me isn't so much a con as a 96 minutes reiteration of the 
laws of thermodynamics.