Sometimes you have to mix it up. Sometimes you crave different things. Some days I want Delirium Tremens or Newcastle, and some days I want a Budweiser. Some days Ciao Bella sorbet and some days Baskin-Robbins sherbet.

Plus, McDonald's makes the french-fryingest french fries of all french fries. Just ask Jeffrey Steingarten.

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Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?

Micheal Moore doesn't really make documentaries either but for whatever reason people feel the need to point that out all the time.

You can lose weight eating anything. You can gain weight eating anything. The way he was eating it I don't think there is any question that he is going to gain weight. Even then there are tons more health concerns with a diet like that then just gaining weight. I always kinda questioned the part where, what was it, his liver or his kidneys started shutting down from the sodium but yeah, its not got a lot.

Its not really a debatable thing though. Yeah he proved that McDonalds isn't good for you in insane amounts but that was never really a question.

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As for the amount, a study was done where they loaded participants up w/6,000 calories vs/Spurloks 5,000 calories. They didn't exercise and they watched their intake. Except for gaining 5-15% more body weight, and feeling tired, there were no adverse affects a la Spurlok.

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5,000 6,000 calories is going to put weight on anyone. Putting that much weight on that fast is bad for you. If you eat 3 meals a day at McDonalds (especially if they're "square" meals, entree, side, and drink) you're going to put on unhealthy amounts of weight in no time. A "meal" there is about half of what you should get in a day and that assumes a certain amount of activity in a day. Combine it with a sedentary life style and its bad.

There isn't a study out there that says otherwise. Not a nutritionist anywhere that is going to recommend a value meal for every meal. Even you're saying its not good. So since Spurlok drank a shake it makes McDonalds healthy?

Obviously he had an agenda. You don't make a film about eating McDs everyday if you don't know what is going to happen. Thats true of every "documentary" since the dawn of time. Getting caught up in that detail just blinds the truth. You can't say "oh he was already against fast food so none of its true". Its sensationalized to get the point across. McDonalds isn't good for you. As a treat, as an occasional thing, as the on the go meal it was intended as its fine. As the consumer driven every street corner of every town every meal of every day its not good for you.

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You see, Morgan Spurlock is not the only person to have ever tested fast-food-only diets, or even McDonald's-only diets. After his movie came out, many people repeated his experiment themselves, including a number of scientific institutions that applied controls and conducted the research in a scientific manner. At least three other documentary movies were made, Bowling for Morgan, Portion Size Me, and Me and Mickey D, in which the filmmakers lived exclusively on McDonald's food for 30 days but (unlike Spurlock) did not force themselves to overeat when they were not hungry. All filmmakers lost weight during the period and suffered no ill effects; and the subjects in Portion Size Me, which was scientifically controlled, also had improved cholesterol.