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From: Shea Tisdale

>Do you have any links on SuperSizeme being a con?

This blog has a collection of articles and media quotes:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/supersizecon.html

An excerpt from one of the articles:

But "Super Size Me" is not a serious look at a real health problem. It is,
instead, an outrageously dishonest and dangerous piece of self-promotion.
Through his antics, Spurlock sends precisely the wrong message. He absolves
us of responsibility for our own fitness...

He could have gained that extra weight anywhere -- at a health-food
restaurant in Cleveland or at Taillevent in Paris. He could have burned off
the extra weight if he had exercised, but he gives such a solution short
shrift. He whines that it's all Ronald McDonald's fault, when really it's a
matter of calories in and calories burned. [DeNiro did the same thing at
top-end restaurants for his role in Raging Bull- DR]

The math of weight gain is simple. Someone Spurlock's size can eat 2,500 to
3,000 calories a day and maintain his weight. In the movie, he eats 5,000 to
5,500 calories a day. Nutritionists calculate that a man gains roughly a
pound for every 3,500 extra calories, so roughly every three days, Spurlock
overeats his way to an extra two pounds or more.

"In fact, it's not easy to eat 5,000 calories at McDonald's.

Consider this daily diet: a breakfast of Egg McMuffin, orange juice and
coffee; a lunch of Big Mac, medium fries, Coke and hot caramel sundae; and a
dinner of 10 chicken McNuggets, sweet and sour sauce, milk and Fruit 'N
Yogurt Parfait. Total calories, according to an excellent calculator on the
McDonald's website: 2,730. No skimping here. Now, double it (two Big Macs,
20 McNuggets) and you get a notion of what Spurlock ate every day.

He got fat. Duh!"