pizza pza hot Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza hot a pizza hot a pizza hot Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza H McDonald McDonald Fried Chicken in a pizza h McDonald I Chicken and a Pizza I like I like I chicken pizza H you like you like Fried Chicken and a Pizza H Pizza [Music] Pizza everything things bigger in America we've got the biggest cars the biggest houses the biggest companies the biggest food and finally the biggest people America has now become the fattest nation in the world congratulations nearly 100 million Americans are today either overweight or obese that's more than 60% of all us adults since 1980 the total number of overweight and obese Americans has doubled with twice as many overweight children children and three times as many overweight adolescents the fattest state in America Mississippi where one in four people are obese I grew up in West Virginia currently the third fattest state in America when I was growing up my mother cooked dinner every single day almost all my memories of her are in the kitchen and we never ate out only on those few rare special occasions today families do it all the time and they're paying for it not only with their wallets but with their Bas lines obesity is now second only to smoking as a major cause of preventable death in America with more than 400,000 deaths per year associated with related illnesses in 2002 a few Americans got fed up with being overweight and did what we do best they sued the bastards taking aim at the fast food companies and blaming them for their obesity and illnesses a lawsuit was filed in New York on behalf of two teenage girls one who is 14 years old 4 10 and 170 lb the other 19 years old 5'6 and 270 lb the unthinkable had suddenly become reality people were suing the golden arches for selling them food that most of us know isn't good for you to begin with yet each day one in four Americans visits a fast food restaurant and this hunger for fast food isn't just in America it's happening on a global basis McDonald's alone operates more than 30 ,000 joints in over 100 countries on six continents and feeds more than 46 million people worldwide every day that's more than the entire population of Spain in the United States alone McDonald's accounts for 43% of the total fast food market they're everywhere Walmarts airports rest stops gas stations train stations shopping malls department stores amusement parks even hospitals that's right hospitals at least you're close when the coronary kicks in lawyers for McDonald's call the suits frivolous stating that the dangers of its food are universally known and that these kids can't show that their weight problems and health woes were caused solely by their mcds the judge States however that if lawyers for the teens can show that McDonald intends for people to eat its food for every meal of every day and that doing so would be unreasonably dangerous they may be able to stay a claim are the food companies solely to blame for this epidemic where does personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility begin is fast food really that bad for you I mean what would happen if I ate nothing but McDonald's for 30 days straight would I suddenly be on the fast track to becoming an obese American would it be unreasonably dangerous let's find out I'm ready super siize [Applause] me hey I was just a skinny l never knew no good from bad but I knew life before I left my left alone with big fat fatty she was such a nauy NY he big woman you made a bad boy out of show oh won you take me home tonight all down besid you're ready for life oh and you give it all you got back of girls you make the rocking world [Music] [Applause] around I knew if I was going to do this I would need some serious medical supervision so I Enlisted the help of not one but three doctors a cardiologist a gastroenterologist and a general practitioner you feeling quite well today yes quite well in general any fatigue or weight loss weight gain any change in your vision no fever no irach no cough no shortness of breath no chest pain no nausea vomiting heartburn and no hospitalizations for illness no do you take any medications of any sort I don't I've just been taking vitamins okay any food allergies or anything no there's no heart disease or diabetes or blood pressure or cancer in the in the in in the immediate family my grandfather's had a couple open heart surgeries m one out of four grand parents is dead yeah good jeans that's the important thing any alcohol use now none you don't smoke I I used to but I don't any drug use at all not for a long time M are you sexually active a present yes a girlfriend yes is there anything I we didn't cover is there anything else you need to tell me yeah don't think so patient is embarking on a one month McDonald's binge very good you might have something called White Coat Syndrome so 140 over about 95 130 over 105 120 over 80 that's what it is MHM other guys are stressing me out you're much more relaxed I tend to do that to my patients see swallow please your reflexes are perfect it's good back out normal they are so everything looks pretty normal here good we'll skip checking for hernas we're going to do a recal exam I like to be more thorough than that and I like doctors to be thorough you're going to go downstairs get your bloods drawn so the reason we have you fasting is the true cholesterol and glucose numbers fasting so if you had like a bacon egg and cheese your cholesterol would be way high if you had like orange juice your glucose would be really high free down your blood tests are are excellent okay you're starting off with a cholesterol total cholesterol of 168 Which is less than 200 it's really superb your blood level's fine your iron level is good as well mhm you have no evidence of diabetes your fasting blood sugar is very low the other thing that we looked at were all your electrolytes in terms of your salts in your blood your kidney function your liver function they were all perfect your triglycerides which is your building blocks of fat basically from what you acquire from eating fat is 43 which is low which is good your General Health you know is outstanding great your Ur analysis is is is great so you're starting off terrific um I think the worst case scenario is that you increase your triglycerides and your cholesterol level and if you have any um heart disease in the family or any heart under underlying heart disease you're putting your heart at risk uh I expect to see an increase in your triglycerides uh because that will uh can be affected you're at 87 now and I think that will change and I think that's the only thing that will change out of everything out of everything I mean you know there might be some minor variations but the body is extremely adaptable and the kidneys will handle any extra salt that you're taking in and your liver will be able to metabolize additional fats um as far as you gaining weight you probably will as far as your cholesterol going up it probably will um as far as you feeling miserable maybe I don't know uh um unless you start cheating and just just order the salads I also went to a fancy New York Wellness Center to meet a registered dietitian who would help track my progress okay let's start with getting your height and weight um I'm 6'2 mhm I weigh about 185 for your height this is a healthy weight I can tell you that right now um your BMI which is the body mass index is within normal limits which means you're not obese you're actually at the the correct weight okay so what I should do is I should keep a sort of a checklist of the things that I eat for breakfast lunch and dinner keep a food log your calorie needs are going to be averaging about 2 200 calories a day as far as fat goes for 2500 calories you're going to want about 80 gram of total fat in a day the saturated fat which is a component of total fat you want to have less than 25 gram a day don't try to overindulge too much yeah good luck Morgan great thank you hi there hi I'm Eric Raley our exercise physiologist great the official way in 1852 will'll go through the cardiovascular assessment and then I'll be able to calculate how much oxygen your muscles can utilize and that's also an indicator of type of condition your cardiovascular system is in all right good work I'm going to use these skinfold calipers to estimate your body density your 11% body fat that's great we're going to measure your flexibility if your hamstrings your hips and your lower back good good very nice 38 CM was your best this a basic you know old school test for muscular strength and endurance 36 good job you're above average above average fitness for your age group definitely I'd say okay yeah so you're at a good spot right now more than 60% of Americans get no form of exercise so for the next 30 days neither will I but I'll still have to walk how much does the average American walk a day oh you know there's reason to believe we have these pedometers that we put on people step counters you could very roughly estimate that about 2,000 steps because 2,000 would make a mile and we know that people that work in office settings um who drive a car to in from work or take an elevator up to that office may take as little as 2500 or 3,000 steps in their entire day if you want it to feel physically like a lot of Americans do then you'd kind of limit yourself to about 5,000 steps a day Us New Yorkers we walk everywhere we walk to work to the park to the store most of us don't even own cars the average New Yorker will walk four to 5 miles a day a day that's a lot of walking I'll also have the blessing of being close to a food source almost everywhere I go I walk past three golden arches just on my way to the office three and just over a mile there are more Mickey D's in Manhattan than anywhere else in the world this tiny little island is less than 13 m M long by 2 m wide 22.4 sare mil and packed into that area are 83 McDonald's nearly four per square mile there are twice as many Mac Shacks as there are Burger Kings and there are more McDonald's than KFC Wendy's pop eyeses and Taco Bell combined that's a lot of burger I know he's going to do it for a month but I think after a week he's going to be really irritated I think it's going to affect our relationship you are a vegan chef yes I'm a vegan Chef I just don't know if I can of course I will I'll sit next to him while eat McDonald's of course I will I'm just going to be rolling my eyes the whole time we have a vegetable tart and a quinoa and roasted veggie salad archo and a simple green salad all beautiful organic fresh vegetables that you're going to miss so much what am I going to have that's organic in the next month nothing nothing you're only going to have genetically modified potatoes I'm going to eat as many vegetables as I can tonight there's plenty here for you that's really good good right mhm thanks have they improved their cookies in the last 10 years cuz the last time I had them they were like little hockey pucks I don't know we'll see it's uh it's the first day and uh I'm on my way to breakfast could I get a uh a an Egg McMuffin extra value meal every 8-year-old's dream right now that I'm getting ready to fulfill I got my egg make muffin that's going to be the first thing right there [Music] this McDonald's delivers for free all I did today was leave my apartment walk down the stairs and walk to the McDonald's 1,272 steps so we got to go to the corner and we got to get a cab the Cales are going to add up in this sh I can tell already I got my score card and in here I had one egg MC had one sausage biscuit do you eat fast food once in a while yeah once in a while how often I'd say probably once every two weeks oh three four times a week maybe uh in France yes yeah but here not no I don't like here it doesn't sound very um clean and uh what's your favorite place uh probably one of these Mago Taco Bell Taco Bell McDonald's is pretty close do you ever have a super sized C uh no uh in France uh the the small size here it's the bigger size in France even the small size here I can't drink There are rules to what's going on here in this whole process I will only super siize it if they ask me I can only eat things that are for sale over the counter at McDonald's water included if McDonald's doesn't sell I can't eat it I have to have everything on the menu at least once over the next 30 days and I have to have three squares a day breakfast lunch and dinner no excuses oh I love Big Mac too see this this is probably the first time in a long time that I've actually seen a Big Mac that looks like the picture that actually almost looks like the picture look at that Big Mac's never look this good you got to come to chinat town for the good Big Max [Music] [Applause] [Music] you've heard about all these people who are suing these fast food companies yes yes I've heard I think it's ridiculous but it's uh it's uh the American way to sue for uh everything I throw the lawsuit out if I was a judge and like I was saying if uh these these fast food places can put their signs up if I can walk by them and just totally ignore them and say I'm not hungry I don't need this they can do it too we don't have to go there you know we don't have to shop with them we can easily go in McDonald's and grab a salad but we choose not to now if the McDonald's refused them service they'd be in court again saying we were we were refused service so you can't win if you tried in this world I think there's a lot of focus on the fast food companies because they are mentioned more than virtually all the other causes in most of the Articles and books and studies about why it's a sudden epidemic again it can't be the neighborhood restaurant we've had neighborhood restaurants for hundreds of years it can't be the foods we eat at home we've been eating at home for hundreds of years something is very different I think the figure is we eat out something like 40% of our meals John bzaf is currently spearheading the attacks against the food F industry advising many of the lawyers who are currently going through the process people say he's crazy but that's what they used to say about him when he first sued the tobacco companies until he won I think in terms of responsibility it's fair to point the big gun at McDonald's McDonald's is one of the biggest but more importantly it is the one with far more than all the others lures in young children they have the playgrounds the closed indoor playgrounds many many places there are no other playgrounds you got to take your kid there so even at two and three and four those kids are being lured into there McDonald's was very heavy on birthday parties they of course pioneered the Happy Meals now the Mighty Kids Meals also with those little got to have them toys so they get the kids in and of course the whole clown McDonald's is the clown a lot of those ads appeal primarily to kids there's a cartoon on TV which features them so they more than others lure the kids in and I think all of us are far more concerned about the kids another man who is worried about the kids is Samuel Hirsch he represents the two girls who are suing McDonald's with much advisement coming from Professor bzaf why are you suing the fast food establishment you mean motives besides U monetary re compensation mean you want to hear a noble cause is that it um I think the fast foods are a major contributor to this epidemic in 2000 Dr David satcher became the first Surgeon General to draw attention to the Obesity crisis declaring it a national epidemic now remember we're supersizing everything uh you go to any place to buy go to any fast food store and they're trained to tell you to buy a bigger size for 5 Cent more you can get the super siiz federal government will Define a piece of meat 3 ounces of meat as a sensible portion and that looks like a deck of cards few people would be able to find this deck of cards if they were served piece of meat a steak in a restaurant it would probably be about four or five times the size one typical Bagel that one is eating that looks something like this is going to comprise five servings of bread when fast food companies first open they generally introduced one size for example one siiz french fries when McDonald's first opened pull fries that size fries is now called small medium large and super size that original size is still here it's got about 200 calories but the super size is going to pack in over 600 calories when Burger King first opened they had a 12 oz small and a 16 o large this 12 oz is now Kitty the 16 oz is now the small the medium the 32 and the 42 and this is across the board with fast food places cars have introduced larger cup holders to accommodate those huge 7-Eleven Double gulps which are 64 o a half gallon and hold anywhere from 6 to 800 calories depending on how much ice you put in half gallon of soda a half gallon of soda for one person 48 teaspoons of sugar hello may you yeah can I get the uh Double Quarter Pounder with cheese meal not go super size I think I'm going to have to go super siiz look at that look at that coke that barely fits in there oh [ __ ] I'm going to look at that look at how big that thing is look how big that french fry is that thing is like 4 feet tall Double Quarter Pounder with cheese more calories than anything there it is a little bit of Heaven M I feel a lot of food man I you what you get all that superide stuff I your super man look at that I just put a put I'm just not even I'm not even way done with those fries not even halfway it's like a workout see Now's the Time of the meal when you start getting the MC stomach ache you start getting the MC tummy the MC you get you get the MC gurgles in there you get to MC brick and you get to MC stomach ache right now I got them I got them some MC gas that's rocking my AR you sweating there my arms I feel like I got some mcats going my arms got the MC Twitches going in here from all the sugar that's going in my body right now I'm feeling a little M crazy just give me a minute I'm in pure McDonald Heaven this is going to be you like after every meal oh I'm I'm dying God that so nasty make a me puke you're right yeah I believe we live in a toxic food and physical inactivity environment that is we live in an environment that almost guarantees that we become become sick not 100% of people become sick but the numbers of people who do are growing and growing and growing I don't believe the toxic is too strong a word either because this an epidemic of obesity where 60% of the population is suffering and record numbers of children having this is a crisis by any standard the toxic environment is constant access to cheap fat Laden Foods it's gas stations that sell more candy and sodas than gas it's a nation where there are more than 3 million soda vending machines means that's one for every 97 Americans it's a world where people depend completely on their cars for transportation and where walking has become such a chore that we rely on machines to do it for [Music] us my stomach feels horrible this morning doesn't feel good at all there we go I'm getting this really weird feeling right in my midsection like basically in my penis right now it's just like this it's really freaky that is very odd yeah it could be from the caffeine but it's I'm not you I couldn't really pinpoint that 100% I have a delivery from Mr Morgan 1339 1339 I made it over the 3-day hump you know how when you you quit smoking I don't know how many of you out there smoke cigarettes but you should stop I quit smoking and there's the it's the 3-day hump the three day it's the three day hump when you quit smoking cigarettes if you can make it over those three days without smoking one cigarette you can make it past day one day two day three you make it over the hump you're fine same thing with this I made it past day three I'm all right left unabated obesity would overtake smoking as a leading preventable cause of death in this country I was at this meal and it came up that one of the people was a smoker and somebody else at the table started hectoring them about it what's the matter with you don't you know how bad it is for you it'll do this that and the other thing to you and you really should stop and the smoker rather than saying [ __ ] you which you know is mind your own business which I think is the appropriate response was abashed and and and defensive and like oh I tried to quit and yeah I'm going to try again and you're right you're right and so on at that same table there was a quite large woman and I was wondering what if this guy instead of confronting the smoker had said to the large woman what's the matter with you you fat pig don't you know how dangerous it is to be so overweight stop eating for God's sake and don't you dare get dessert and what's the matter right uh same logic I'd be hard pressed to find a distinction between those two examples okay so one is now socially acceptable to Hector smokers but the other one isn't quite yet so the question is at what point will it be come acceptable to publicly Hector fat people uh in the way that that that smokers are publicly hectored a secret study by one of the tobacco companies it had the ominous title something like brand imprinting for later actuation in life they would buy the the little toy cigarettes uh and they' start Play smoking them at four or five or six wouldn't even notice pack I mean if you ask them what pack it was they wouldn't notice it but the theory was that somewhere it's buried in here and then when they get to the age where they're smoking without even realizing it they're going for that pack that they recognize because it had those nice feelings for when they were little kids and the same way here yeah they're they're satisfied it's nice they remember the warm feelings of playing and getting the toy and being with Mom and Dad and it's going to carry through that's why when I have kids every time I drive by a fast food restaurant I'm going to punch my kid in the face then he'll never he'll never wi Rock and Roll McDonald's rock and roll McDonald Rock and Roll McDonald's Rock and Roll McDonald's McDonald's will make you fat they serve big Maxs they serve Quarter Pounders they will put pounds on you Rock and Roll McDonald's Rock and Roll McDonald's Rock and Roll McDonald's rock and roll McDonald one of the most disturbing things uh to me is that in the last 20 to 25 years we've actually seen a doubling of overweight and obese children and Adolescence and this weight gain has been linked to countless health problems later in life such as hypertension coronary heart disease stroke gallbladder disease osteoarthritis sleep apnea respiratory problems endometrial breast prostate and colon cancers dyslipidemia seat hepatitis insulin resistance asthma hyperemia reproductive hormone abnormalities polycystic ovarian syndrome impaired fertility and adult onset diabetes in fact if current trends continue one out of every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their life time at least 17 million Americans now have type 2 diabetes about one out of every 20 people if the diabetes starts before the age of 15 you lose somewhere between 17 and 27 years of lifespan according to the new research the direct medical costs associated with diabetes have doubled the direct medical costs have doubled in the past 5 Years From 44 billion in 1997 to $92 billion in 2002 and somewhere in the neighborhood of about 20% of the uh of the obese children have elevated uh abnormal liver function tests U and we have now started a study where we're biopsying these children to see what their livers actually look like under the microscope and half of them have evidence of scarring of the liver fibrosis of the liver the early stages of sorosis uh so when these children end up being adults uh they're going to end up if they don't change their uh their eating and and exercise uh habits are going to end up with liver failure and uh and well either transplant or death did you want lettuce and Men on all of them I think it's very very hard for overweight teenagers because you're always going to see the thin pretty popular girls and you can't help but look at them and think I wish I was her or I wish I could have that and I mean it it's it makes it's depressing it makes you feel like crap I mean that's just that's just how it is and and it it's of course it's hard being a teenager because you see all the girls in the cosmo girl or teen people and they're all beautiful and you think aren't I supposed to look like that and it it's just not it's not realistic it's not a realistic way to live so without further Ado let's welcome Jared F my my big thing was never smoking it was never drinking obviously it wasn't doing drugs my big vice was food and before I knew it I wound up weighing 4 25 lb I brought in a present for you my old pants that are now made famous in all the subway commercials there you go you're welcome this is my daughter Victoria she's an eighth grade honors student and you're real inspiration to the kids I really appreciate that one of the greatest I mean you know as I said when I I started putting my weight on as you guys know you know at third or fourth grade so she she was real tiny when she was little and it's been in our family um in fact I had a great-grandfather that died and buried in piano box years and years ago so it's in a history and absolutely absolutely so and she's been trying to maintain her weight it's tough It's always a challenge I know I mean I know and it's you know as a kid it's it's awfully hard these days but um and and kids are not always kind no not at all and I I know that firsthand and it's uh you know the problem is the world's not going to change you you have to change and I guess it's kind of cool to know somebody or be able to listen to Somebody talk about actually being where I am right now and it's kind of hard because I can't afford to like go there every single day and buy sandwich like two times a day and that's what he's talking about like that's the only solution like that's what he said that like work the best but I can't do that and I've tried other ways and it kind of hurt my body from doing other ways that I've tried to do and it's kind of hard to like look at someone who said hey I've done it so you can do it but it's not that easy I've been sick as a kid I grew up eating a lot of ice cream more than you could believe we had a ice cream cone shaped swimming pool in our backyard we had a commercial freezer with not only all 31 Flavors in it but all experimental flavors that were under development and I made myself the official taster I had to prove everything in my mind and and I I mean I loved it what kid wouldn't I mean I literally had unlimited ice cream I ate ice cream for breakfast but I was sick a lot and I wasn't very athletic I didn't ex you know I was really ill and I didn't feel good so I would kind of appease that by eating more ice cream you can see how the Vicious Cycle would take place one of the triggering factors for me was my uncle Bert Baskin my dad's partner and brother-in-law co-founder of the company died have a heart attack I think it was 51 now my uncle weighed about 240 lb heavy set fellow and when he died as a young man I I asked my dad you know you think there could be a connection between his fatal heart attack and the amount of ice cream he would eat my father said no his ticker just got tired and stopped working by this time he had manufactured and sold more ice cream than any human being that had ever lived on this planet he didn't want to think the product he was selling was hurting anybody that had contributed to the death of his brother-in-law and partner and in many ways best friend I mean no way Ben Cohen the band of Ben and Jerry's a couple years ago had a quintuple bypass procedure at the age of 49 my uncle Bert Basin a basin Robbins dies at the age of 51 of a heart attack my father IR Robbins the other founder of the company ended up with very serious diabetes you can't deny these links you just can't yeah can I get the two cheeseburger meal okay super sized second time thank you sir after five days on the McDonald's diet what I did was I ran um 3 days worth of food analysis the needs for you to maintain weight at the 185 that you were at when you came in 186 lb um was approximately 2500 calories okay right now you're getting about almost 5,000 calories a day the average being 49 86 I would love for you to take a multivitamin McDonald's doesn't sell multivitamins well here's my new advice is just kind of minimize the meals a nice substitute for the hot fudge Sunday would be the yogurt that is true if you get the snack size 5 oz if you get the regular size without granola it contains nearly as many calories as a strawberry sunde with granola it has more calories than the hot fudge or caramel sundae and if that doesn't make you think twice about the parfet then how about this there's a big nappy hair in it that's disgusting I'm going to show you how we do it you go like this we go oh look it's long too did you see that oh that's so gross only the finest at McDonald's here we are at 190 was 186 last2 193 194 no we have to stop everything I don't believe it 195 lb can't we have to redo this that's zero that thing is zeroed second try 88 92 94 you're going gained actually about 5% of your body weight losing weight that fast and getting me that fast is not healthy do fast food yes I do yeah unfortunately oh yeah oh yeah love it love it love it love fast food yeah how how often you guys eat it every week oh maybe once or twice a week oh we going to go hit up McDonald's in a little while a cuz you know we a had no meal yet we just pointed to us McDonald's I get the number two the Cheeseburger um the two cheeb with the super siiz Coke and Fries super size it up 30 put make it bacon 69 Cent that's what they say make it bacon make it BAC you baby how often do you think people should eat fast food I I don't know if they should eat it at all I don't know if I should I I I don't know about what they should do oh that's Boney it's need to do is like 25 minutes on that treadmill work out a little something do some push-ups see if you do some push-ups and you eat you'll keep your weight down see I got I keep my weight down stuff I hit them push-ups and that keep myself cool who has time to do that we have to work we have to take care of kids we have to clean see you exercise you run after your kids yeah chicken these are the first McNuggets I've had in this whole exciting Tour of Duty look at that glistening in the [Music] sun M boy that is miserable I'm not sure what portion of the chicken that shaped like I'm guessing this is the foot on the chicken in the lawsuit against them McDonald stated in their own defense that it's a matter of common knowledge that any processing that its Foods undergo serve to make them more harmful than unprocessed Foods case in point McNuggets originally created from old chickens that could no longer lay eggs McNuggets are now made from chickens with unusually large breasts they're stripped from the bone and ground up into a sort of chicken MASH which is then combined with all sorts of stabilizers and preservatives pressed into shapes breaded deep fried freeze-dried and then shipped to a McDonald's near you judge Robert sweet called them a mcf Frankenstein creation of various elements not utilized by the Home [Music] cook so for the past couple days which I haven't shared with everybody it's been uh it's been a new thing is I've started to have like little some chest not chest pains but like pressure you I feel like I got pressure on my chest so uh I I figur that's probably not a good thing but neither's eating all this [Music] so I tell you I haven't smelled bad yet yeah you have I know I haven't you just don't smell how bad you smell no look at that fish fillet look at this thing oh God that looks nasty man is that horrible obviously that was been sitting around all day that the FL of fish oh [ __ ] going to help you did I get the uh Double Quarter Pounder with cheese value meal okay thank you 46 I don't feel good today not that I feel sick but um I just feel really depressed you know for no reason I mean things are going great we've had a good day I just feel really yeah it's not real hard eating this food all the time just because you know it tastes good it makes you feel good I've really noticed I'll eat some and just a little while later I'll be hungry again and I'll want more more more more I'm pretty bored with their menu it only took me 9 days but it's pretty good otherwise nine days do that again how many is the question no that's that is the question we always ask how many and he holds up how many fingers that's it it's always the how many it's just one one for now yeah one one for now as soon as I got my first car this the first place I came to uh I bought three Big Macs ate them out there uh enjoyed them so much and I came back about 5:00 at night bought three more more ate them out there came back around 11:00 before they closed and uh ate three more so the first day I came here I ate nine Big Max and it was like I couldn't get enough hamburger at that time and and Big Macs are so good so I ate 265 in the first month how many do you eat a day usually usually it's two a day okay now last year I ate 741 last year okay well that's more than two a day so that means there's days I had three but that's because they're getting smaller it's probably 90% of my my um solid diet is probably a big Max that parking spot that's where I asked her if she wanted to get married I mean this place is special a lot of reasons you know I had one Whopper in my life 1984 guy gave me five bucks to eat a Whopper so I went I after I ate the Whopper took my five bucks over McDonald's got some B Max I always make fun people at work you know say G wa I said why I should try the Gori di oh yeah they don't like that they don't like that man this is a perfect sandwich you know at least for me it is there it is bite number 19,000 yeah the wife Sayes one she's got to put them in a blender it ends you know that's what she told me Big Mac [Music] smoothies America's been mcdonaldized you know it's been uh franchised out it's it's like one of those old uh Flintstones cartoons where they just had something rolling around in the background you kept seeing the same buildings go by it's like Kmart Walmart McDonald's Kmart Walmart Wendy's Kmart and it's just like you have no sense of where you're at anymore the way I look at is like um seison was uh inspired by the mountain you saw at his window and when I look out my window I see no mountains I just see Billboards and advertisements so so I use that as my inspiration the average American child sees 10,000 food advertisements per year on television 95% of those are for sugared cereals soft drinks fast foods or candy a parent who eats every meal every day for the whole year with her child and every meal gives a very compelling nutrition message and can bring in cartoon characters and Michael Jordan so instead of selling McDonald's he sells oranges and Britney Spears instead of selling Pepsi will will sell radishes or or lettuce or something that parent will have a thousand cracks at their child compared to 10,000 for the food industry so it's a fair fight you know by the time kids are able to speak most of them can say McDonald's I'm going to show you some pictures and I want you to tell me who they are okay who's that you don't know George Washington yeah who is he he who was the fourth president he freed the slaves and he can never tell a lie who's that don't know I don't you don't know I George the blue Bush NOP that's a good guess though who is this I don't know I forgot the name but I I think I know yeah where Have You Seen Her that picture is on the side Wendy nice who's that McDonald R McDonald's who is it McDonald's what does he do he was helping people at the cast register he works at McDonald's I love their pancakes and talk he brings every of his friends to McDonald's for a Happy Meal where have you seen him on television on the commercials he's the character that made McDonald and he does a lot of funny stuff on TV companies spend billions making sure you know their product in 2001 on Direct Media advertis ing that's radio television and print McDonald's spent $1.4 billion worldwide on Direct Media advertising Pepsi spent more than a billion dollars to advertise its candy Hershey food spent under a mere $200 million internationally in its peak year the 5 A Day fruit and vegetable campaign's total advertising budget in all media was a lowly $2 million 100 100 times less than just the Direct Media budget of one candy company think about the way food is marketed t-shirts coupons toys for children giveaways in fast food places plac mats I mean just all of the different ways in which food marketing is ubiquitous the most heavily advertised foods are consumed the most no surprise thank you come again welcome to McDonald's tomato concentrate distilled vinegar high fructose corn syrup high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup that means [Applause] sugar move over to my salad Shaker I feel a little sick to my stomach this is the best part of the day when I get to be fat on the bed with my quart of coke m [Applause] people eat out a lot and so if there aren't healthy foods available at restaurants and there isn't good nutrition information it makes eating out difficult McDonald says nutrition information for all their products is available online but according to the 2,000 US Census more than half of all us homes still don't have internet access so what are these people supposed to do go to the stores for nutrition information is that information even there I went to find out do you guys have any of the nutrition fact sheets you guys have one of those you know the things that fold out and have the nutrition info in [Music] them aren't any over there or would they be up front yeah they should be but they got lots of info about Dora the Explorer live that's cool thank you [Music] can't find the booklet you can use one right there but I mean you don't have ones you can take with you do you guys have one on the wall they only have like they don't put it up oh they don't post those anymore why not I don't know only half the McDonald's in Manhattan had the nutrition info posted on the wall some had the takeaway nutrition charts and one in four had no information whatsoever this nice manager brought me the nutrition wall chart from the basement oh thank you very you don't have ones that I could take with me like a takeway do you know when you'll have some of the paper ones again John bansa and I looked all over this McDonald's in Washington for any nutritional information and then we found it here we go behind here you never see it it's right back there you can't argue that people should exercise personal responsibility and then not give them the information on which to base it I got my chicken group there's no chicken group that's my cholesterol group protein I got my protein group carbohydrates I got my meat group you got meat meat sugar and fat I officially had to loosen my belt the other day from had to go a notch lower one notch one notch scary I'm an old Pro with this now right you'll get sick of this too though girlfriend is be loving you she hates me all right thank you bye-bye I averaged out all the calories for the last N9 days and you're eating you're still eating over 200% of what your needs are I suggest you cut out all the liquids that you're drinking from McDonald's except for water a lot of people who lose 10% of if they're obese and they lose 10% of their body weight it's it's beneficial it can be beneficial in terms of you know blood pressure and so on um so gaining 10% of your body weight maybe could be equally non beneficial all here we go second way in what do you think Eric 203 202 203 203 yeah I think you almost got 10% of your body weight gained so you've pretty much gained 17 lbs in 12 days you look like you better slow down I'm telling you that don't drink your calories I told them no more shakes no more coke no more double double Burgers the staff here is calling you Burger boy it's starting to get dangerous now man I'm getting nervous for you the one place where the impact of our fast food world has become more and more evident is in our nation's schools can I get a shot of your lunch right there you guys you got a cookie and some fries you going to have anything else no ketchup do you think uh judging by the food that's in there on a whole do you think the kids make healthy choices for lunch here we try to teach them to make the right choices in life yeah you got two bag of ruels a pretzel a car and a Gatorade LA are you sharing that it's all for yourself how many people actually just have fries for lunch today um a lot of them do get fries a lot of them do have their lunches they'll have a sandwich and like a dish yes I get is that your a whole lunch too well I'm getting milk that's it's my calcium and vegetable but you don't think you should take away things like like look I love I tell you something swis rolls I used to eat pack these all the time by just offering these up in the lunch line are are we also are we setting the kids up to make bad choices no I don't believe so because a child like just like you saw this child she's not going to slly eat just there and a child isn't going to pick up two or three she but it doesn't mean this is all she's going to eat right you have to follow her back to her table inste we got to go find Lori see that's all she's going to eat this is where schools turn a blind eye the student with the french fries probably brought a bag lunch with real food the girl with the chips is probably sharing them with someone else out of sight out of mind no we wanted to see the question did you bring your brown bag with youch you brought that you brought a Coke so you brought the coke so she b a Coke and then the rest of the stuff for one thing we don't right can I see your lemonade real Qui but there's still there's still 36 g of sugar in there which is as much as a Coke you know there's 36 g of sugar in the P lemonade which is just as much as granted it's not cting but it's still f with sugar right at that point a question [Applause] like Barbara Brown is the field representative for sedexo one of the countless lowest bids that school districts have farmed out the feeding of your children to sedexo Services more than 400 K through2 school districts Nationwide every day providing quality food like Little Debbie snack cakes Gatorade and candy bars to your children they also operate prisons and feed thousand of inmates worldwide part of our position is that we're hoping that through nutrition education the students will learn to make the right food choices without restricting uh and what they can purchase at this Middle School in Beckley West Virginia the school lunches don't have the flare they do in Illinois this school does not Outsource their food service but they are on the federal school lunch program providing USDA reimbursable meals to the students students most of which are reheated reconstituted packaged Foods some days the amount of calories in each meal tops a thousand this so the USDA sends this food for you to prepare for kids right well not all of it now you got sppy Joe barbecue sauce with pork from the government whatever happened to Cooks actually cooking I don't know what happened too many whiny people yeah they don't want her work hard it's easy to come in here this is the best tool we got right here box opener that's that's your Chef's tools the box cutter that's it open up a Box serve it give it to them yeah let's look at the things that are actually cooked okay here you go here's a menu this day mashed potatoes chili homemade the chili will be homemade what about the tomato soup uh Campbell meatballs comes in comes in a box heat it up out of the course of an entire month 6 out of 36 you're only cooking six out of 36 meals Appleton Central Alternative High School is filled with students who have treny and behavioral problems but they've turned things around not through discipline but through diet we were fortunate to uh kind of stumble across this healthy healthy program as a result of uh some contact with natural Oven and Bakery of manat qualk Wisconsin and they uh believe in low fat low sugar non-chemically processed foods that are free of dyes and preservatives um full of uh whole grains a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables uh we do no beef here at all and then it's the method of preparation where we don't fry uh we do a lot of baking and then just just fresh preparation as opposed to opening cans or thawing things out from the box we got rid of candy machines soda machines brought in bottled water and it was just um a situation where we saw a major change in the kids you know if you walk through these halls and you're here these do not look like at risk out of control kids they behaviors are better uh they seem to be more focused uh teachers will tell you that they get more out of them in the class keep in mind this is not a private school these are the quote unquote troubled kids of the public school system in Appleton Wisconsin that are eating so well and it costs about the same as any other school lunch program so my question is why isn't everyone doing this there's an awful lot of resistance from the junk food companies that that make huge profits off the schools at the present time they don't want to get kicked out of the school system they want to be there to addict the children for Life the soft drink companies especially boast about how they're contributing to America's education but in fact what they're doing is they're draining money from the community whether rather than contributing money to the community because the soft ring companies aren't pumping those dollars into the machines it's the children in the community who are getting the money from their parents parents and instead of that money going directly to education the soft drink companies are taking a cut of it and you know walking away rich as a consequence we just banned soda in our school district and um this sugar here shows you how much sugar um a student will drink in a week of just soda um forget about the rest of the food they eat and some of these companies are really opposing the um the ban for reasons of that we would lose revenue and it's not about money it's not about economics it's about health oh the McDonald's Texas Homestyle Burger meal that's a uh that's a local specialty so it's kind of like a big and tasty but said the big tasty comes with manise comes with man oh then you know what I need the uh McDonald's Texas Homestyle Burger Meal please should I toiz today oh yes I would do a lot of people super size it yes yeah like say you ask five people how many of those five do it actually I get the like I get mostly all of them mostly all of them so you just say you're batting about 100% that she's that good Den's that good so first meal inside the restaurant that I went in to get and they asked me to Super siize it we're going to keep the little tabs see how many times they asked me to Super siiz it here in Texas cuz Texas Texas out of the top 15 fattest cities in America Texas has five here we are Houston Texas fattest city in America getting my first breakfast when it comes to the topic of obesity many people are quick to point the finger at various foods and food companies but the grocery manufacturers of America a Washington DC based Lobby group whose mission is to advance the interests of the food beverage and consumer products industry are quick to shift the focus away from the companies they represent and to remind everyone that there's more at work here than just eating poorly We Believe very strongly in in our industry and and in other Industries I think you'll find there's a there's a growing consensus that the solution lies in good education we have to get good information to parents so that they can teach their children better exercise and nutrition habits and so that they can lead the Healthy Lifestyles uh we don't teach uh physical education in schools anymore in the US only one state requires mandatory physical education for grades K through 12 it's also one of the fattest Illinois had interfere sometimes with you got heart rate Phil Lawler is the Fizz ed teacher at Madison junor High School home of the soaring warhawks the snack ridden school lunches we saw earlier and one of the most well executed physical education programs in the country supported mostly by fundraising and parent involvement Lawler has created a role model for instructors and school districts Nationwide when's the last time you've ever heard of a science class fundraising to get their Labs eventually Society has to step up to the plate and say this is important we should have daily physical education and equip it properly well we have to say our greatest than is the resource of our young people that's our future uh and boy if the way we're treating our resources right now you know we're running into some serious problems with that see I've always said we've never had health care in this country we've only had sick care I think daily physical education is the only place out there that's really offering a solution when I start the music you are going to begin traveling for General space you will go back to your spot and I will tell you a body shape watch out for other people good job how many days a week do the kids here at this school get to go to the gym once one day a week one day a week for 45 minutes is that enough no nowhere close not when the Surgeon General recommends that at minimum you need 30 minutes of physical activity a day to maintain your weight and a healthy well-being so once a week is nowhere close in 2001 President Bush announced his presidency with sweeping education reform the No Child Left Behind Act would now hold States accountable for not having students who met minimum education requirements apparently we were not only the fattest nation in the world but we were quickly becoming the stupidest and it may be sending a very difficult message for schools I mean one of the reasons recess is being cut back in elementary schools as I said earlier that's being cut out so they can prepare for the tests you know and something I've said to a couple of groups you know it's very interesting we could end up with youngsters who could read but who are fat so we have fat readers quote unquote as more and more we put mandates on the school to be very myopic in their focus we mitigate against all these other areas where they should be devoting time and energy including phad nutrition Health these are all the things being cut out who in here can tell me what a calor is oh something you should watch something you should watch yeah you got that right is it U the fat that goes through your um what's a calorie oh Jesus uh calorie is an increment of um um that's a good question most of us know what a calorie actually is I don't know oh wait is a calorie some part of fat like I don't know uh something that builds up the fat in your body calories are not good this amount of see I don't know I want to say this amount of calories in the calories I don't know I never pay no mind what calories are I just eat when I'm hungry and that's the it so if you can tell me what a calorie is go ahead calorie is a measure of the energy content of food and a calorie the kind that you usually see when you see the caloric content on food labels one calorie is the amount of energy that's needed to raise the temperature of a liter of water by one de Centigrade well said could I get a u bacon egg in cheese McGriddle smells like a little pancake tastes like a little pancake look at that I haven't walked a half mile a day since we've been here no wonder everything's bigger in Texas if you're inside stay there the blizzard of 2003 isn't over yet I got my lunch I got my dinner never have to leave the house I'm not going to completely become vegan just because you want me to I'm not saying you should do it because I want you to I'm saying that you need to think about what you believe is a system that is corrupt and immoral and wrong and hurtful but you're going to be a part of it where is the disconnect there why don't you make that choice why don't I make the choice to not eat meat yes um because you like it cuz I like me it tastes good I like bacon I love pork chops ham is the greatest thing is awesome I'm sure it's heroin and ham are in completely different categories I'm sorry but ham and heroin are not the same thing they're not they're not I could be strung out on ham for days and be okay you are a little strung out and I am strung out on ham it's hard for me to watch him go through this I got to tell you I worry about his health he's exhaust usted by the end of the day just so tired gets home really late from work and you know he gets all jacked up on sugar and caffeine and then he crashes and then when we do have sex I got to tell you he's not quite as energetic as he used to be I have to be on top otherwise he uh he you know he gets tired easily I think the saturated fats are starting to impede the blood flow to his penis and he's having a hard time you know getting it up he does totally I mean it's still good but it's like definitely a big difference there's definitely a difference I can tell oh I feel horrible today my headache's coming back again it feels like somebody's yanking on the tendons behind my eyes my body officially hates me all the vitamins that you see here vitamin E thamin riboflavin niin and so on are all under 50% of what you need you're getting quite a lot of carbohydrates and I know clearly that those are all refined carbohydrates because those are coming from the Buns biscuits hash browns okay and the sugar I mean let's not forget the most refined carbohydrate of all which is coming from your milkshakes and your Coke in fact there are only seven items on the McDonald's menu that contain no sugar whatsoever french fries chicken McNuggets hash browns sausage Diet Coke coffee and iced tea everything else even the salads contain sugar telling you 202 yeah you lost I lost a pound oh thank God muscle weighs more than fat so no you might have lost loost some muscle mass and gain some fat MK I lost a pack let's go get something to eat I was feeling bad in the car feeling like [ __ ] really I was feeling really really sick and unhappy started eating feel great feel really good now I feel so good it's crazy a that right baby yeah you're crazy all right [Music] 150 over 90 um the headaches might even be hypertensive headaches but they're probably not they're probably uh related to you know to blood sugar you might be in this hyperinsulinemic state 150 over 110 the total cholesterol is 165 before now it's 2 25 a liver that's uh that's inflamed in any way or sick in any way will will will leak some of its enzymes out into the blood so this is very non-specific but it means the LI the liver is sick yeah and the most likely cause of your liver sickness is a fatty liver your liver is now like Pate it's G was originally 21 now it's 130 and this GPC was originally uh 20 was 20 290 more than 10 fold increase not good not good not good not good anybody would would would say right now that you're sick you feel fatigued with this you feel lethargic with this you'll feel run down with this you'll feel if somebody were doing this to their liver with alcohol they could theoretically Wipe Out the liver you know wipe out all the liver cells and and and and that'd be liver failure now I've never heard of anybody doing this to their liver with with with with a with a high fat diet but I guess anything's POS me I don't know can't answer the question never never been done before no one's ever wiped out their liver with a high fat died before wow and I won't wipe up my liver in two more weeks I would think it'd be unlikely I don't want to tell you you wouldn't I mean my my my my advice to you is to is to stop doing what you're doing because it's hurting you and you're sick you're sick and you're making yourself sick and and you can make yourself un Sick by stopping doing what you're doing I'm just afraid there will be something that's totally irreversible you know that there will be some damage done that yeah I don't know so do they think that uh once you change your habits that that's going to correct itself yeah they think that um everything should get back on track once this is done you know your your liver you and I've even been doing some reading your liver is very resilient and your liver heals itself so well if you need if if you need a portion of my liver honey you can have it I'll give up part of my liver for you thanks Mom than there's a drug that is used in emergency rooms called Noone it's used for heroin overdose and a guy comes in overdose on heroin comos he's going to die you inject him with this drug and it blocks the opiate receptors in in the brain heroin doesn't work he wakes up if I give that same drug to a real chocolate addict a person just shoveling it in you find the most amazing thing they lose much of their interest in chocolate they take a bite they set it back down in other words it's not taste and mouth feel it's a drug effect of the food within the brain that keeps us coming back again and again but it's interesting you're saying that your mood goes up once you start eating yeah lately every time I eat I feel 100% better huh so it seems like you're starting to get addicted to it [Music] now I'm your mama I'm your daddy I'm that niggaer in the I'm your doctor when a need want some Coke have some weed you know me I'm your friend your main boy thick and thin I'm your pusher man I'm your pusher McDonald's calls people who eat their food at least once a week heavy users I'm not kidding 72% of the people who eat at McDonald's are heavy users they also have another category the super heavy user these people eat their food three four five times a week and up 22% of the people who eat at McDonald's are super heavy users if you look at the menu at a fast food restaurant they use all of the addicting components they'll take a slab of meat cover with cheese cheese of course which is filled with the quom morphins uh the opiates that are that are found in the cheese protein and then they serve it with a sugary soda which has the addictive powers of sugar with plenty of added caffeine now you might be a 12-year-old kid your brain is no match for that combination in 2002 McDonald's France took out a full page ad in a French magazine in which a nutritionist stated there is no reason to go to McDonald's more than once a week McDonald's corporate headquarters in the US freaked out saying that this is only one opinion and that the vast majority of nutrition professionals say that McDonald's food can be a part of a healthy diet so we thought we'd randomly call some nutritionists to see what their opinions were when it came to eating fast food how often do you think that people should eat fast food ideally never rare to never the less the better zero is the best hopefully no no more often than once a month if you are stranded uh on a deserted island or if we get bombed with Anthrax and that's the only food available that's the only time you should eat fast foods we called 100 nutritionists All Over America and the results were not on track with the vast majority McDonald's talked about only two out of the 100 said you should eat fast food two times a week or more 28 said once a week to once or twice a month and 45 said you should never eat it 95 of them agreed that it is a major contributor to the Obesity epidemic sweeping America okay okay okay hi Morgan how are you Bennett from heal unfortunately I have to tell you that health is going to have to close its doors effective immediately I'm sorry to have to tell you that over the phone we're all sort of surprised but um we will proceed as before just not at uh the Integrated Health Health Center okay Morgan thanks and I will talk to you soon bye-bye apparently we don't put much value on Health in America anymore in fact each year we spend over $30 billion on diet products and weight loss programs 2 and 1 half times what we spend on fitness and health there are pills drinks bars you can lose weight while you sleep while you watch TV and while eating everything you want always pushing the newest way to stay thin without exercise some people however feel that they have tried everything and see only one remaining option as their last hope for health I'm diabetic 80% of people don't have to take insulin or anymore after this plus I'm have hypertension hopefully correct that lose my weight and lose my high blood pressure yeah this is Bruce howlet in a few minutes his stomach will be surgically reduced to the size of a small apple in a gastric bypass operation people with hypertension who are obes about 75% of them will get rid of their hypertensive medications doctors Adam non and Carl gisler will be performing the operation together they have done more than 500 gastric bypass surgeries and with their tandem technique they are setting the industry standard completing the procedure in less than 30 minutes and sending patients home the following day we have established now that the only procedure that really cures diabetes is obesity surgery went blind for a week just went completely one day out of the blue you went blind I went to work um got to work drove to work that night got to work there couldn't read the charts and I had to call my supervisor tell her I couldn't work because I couldn't see what I was doing and I call my wife had her get a ride to work to pick me up and take me home and then once I stopped drinking the um diets H Waters and stuff got my sugars back down my I was fortunate enough my eyesight came back I didn't do that much damage to him at that time I I think it's human nature to seek a drastic solution only when you're faced with a drastic problem Oh I drink three or four those a day three or four cuz this this is a half gallon so that means you were drinking probably about two gallons of two gallons of soda a day it wasn't unusual for a two week time we'd buy like 52 L of s water 50 52 L every 2 weeks mhm and I probably end up having to pick him up a couple he drinks more than I do I'll go through about one of those a day yeah uh there some days I go through three or four two leaders a lot of us don't realize the uh social stigma that these people face on a on a daily [Applause] [Music] basis 1 2 3 [Music] he it's um it's like 2:00 in the morning on uh February 21st I uh I woke up couldn't breathe was having really difficulty breathing I'm very hot and uh um felt like I was having a heart palpitations um I came up and uh walked around the living room just trying to get my breath back and uh I want to finish but uh don't want anything real bad to happen either you e Ki is normal deeper and out now listen um I didn't I don't have a ready explanation for your chest pain um would you at least consider taking aspirin once a day now that you're on this ridiculous diet uh maybe I'll think about it why would you even think about it why would you just do it this is really you know you you saw these numbers right these numbers are absolutely outrageous okay for the first time we seeing uric acid elevated so you're giving yourself hyperthemia and the danger of hyperthemia is outout kidney stones the results for your liver are obscene beyond anything I would have I would have thought yeah truly I I mean you know that movie uh death in Las Vegas Nicholas Cage I mean that pickled his liver during the course of a few weeks in Las Vegas right I I would never thought that you could do the same thing with a high fat diet yeah uh my advice to you as a physician is that you got to stop you're pickling a liver yeah you you know you're kicking it while it's down now you know now it's down and you're going to you're kicking it further I mean if you were an alcoholic I say you stop I say you're going to die you keep drinking you'll die if a pain starts to radiate your jaw down your arm that's life-threatening and immediately so yeah so I need to hear about that or you need to call N9 on one okay all right hello hello hi sweetheart how are you I'm good I'm worried about you yeah I had no idea this was going to be such a dangerous experiment yeah I don't think uh anybody did you know the doctor didn't even think it was going to be this drastic he's floored by it yeah and um he doesn't know what will happen you know he says he listen I have no idea but um you know he said that if I am feeling bad or feeling anything for to page him and he'll admit me immediately wherever I am oh sweetheart yeah I love you so much and I don't want you to be hurt yeah me either me either so I'll tell you if you start to get nauseous and you start vomiting your eyes turn yellow you have got to go to the emergency room no matter where you are okay um if you're you know again if you're not keeping food down or anything you're feeling sick to your stomach you know it looks like you know your liver function tense are getting worse my um suggestion would be to uh to stop the diet okay and uh you know go back to eating lower fat diet you know rechecking the blood test in a couple of weeks nobody needs to be partisan about this issue we need fixes we need remedies we need support how much influence on government legislators uh does the food industry have well the food industry is an enormous business in the United States therefore it employs very expensive and well-paid lobbyists and those lobbyists are in Washington for two purposes number one to make sure that no government agency ever says eat less of the company's products number two that the government never passes legislation that is unfavorable and I guess the third one is to encourage the government to pass favorable legislation the GMA is one of those lobbies you're going to see us do what we do best and that is Market appropriately uh uh Finance uh education programs as we're doing in in a great abundance getting good information out to parents so we can solve the problem that's what we do in the food industry we are we are that we think that that is a respons POS important role to play we are not police we are not Regulators we provide a safe affordable abundance of food like the world has never seen the food industry and the broadcasters are extremely powerful lobbies and they have gun us the industry has stepped up to the plate we're going to do more we want to do more we recognize we have a role to play We're part of the solution we're part of the problem and we also also are part of the of part of the solution did everyone hear what he just said we're part of the problem the lobbyist for Coke hindes Smuckers Kelloggs Nestle craft Hershey Sarah Lee Cadbury General Mills seum Welches wise anheiser Bush bird's eye Lance Campbell Carell Mars Ocean Spray hormell Danon and Pepsi said we're part of the problem I think we're making some [Applause] Headway uh yeah I wanted to speak to somebody about scheduling an interview with Jim calupo I can take the information have somebody get back to you good morning me line uh good morning I wanted to speak to someone about uh scheduling an interview uh I can take the information have something get back to you I PL aliance to the flag of the United States of America for which it stands one nation under God indivisible lifting and justice for all one more time yeah what did you do I said it are you doing I pledge algi to the flag of the United States of America One Nation the Republic ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for Liberty where Liberty the Liberty I'm so sorry you want us to keep what's the Big Mac slogan you know two allbe patties Special Sauce lettuce cheese pickles I on you know that that is a that is a sh B McDonald's we're glad you're here I hope you got fat I hope you got really fat cuz if you got really really fat you just might want to see me come back I hope you got fat can I help you could I get a uh a large vanilla shake please I'm sorry so we don't have any Shake right now no shakes no what when will we have shakes you think guess that's never at the end of this month I'll have eaten as much McDonald's as most nutritionists say You're supposed to eat in 8 [Music] years you line this is Sheila uh yes she that's Morgan Spurlock calling I'm trying to reach Lisa Howard okay Morgan I will let her know hi this is Lisa Howard I'm not able to take your call right now if you leave me a message I'll get back to you as soon as hey Lisa it's Morgan Spurlock calling and I just want to follow up on the email that I sent to you close to the end of the day and I didn't know when she was going to be taking off sure I'll put another message on her desk Howard hi Lisa it's Morgan Spurlock calling hi Morgan how are you I'm doing good how are you I'm okay good so you got my email yes I got your email okay and I'm circulating it around okay I don't have an answer for you any idea when you think think uh you might probably in the next day or two oh man walking up the stairs has gotten start to get really difficult by the time I get to the top it's really pathetic oh man I've got Morgan's detox diet all ready to go the biggest thing is taking the crap out and putting good stuff in really focusing on nutrient dense food organic seasonal fresh food uh making sure that I'm getting as much as many cleansing vegetables into his diet as [Music] possible yummy yummy yummy [Music] myy [Music] see we're sharing a portion yeah we're [Music] splitting extra calories I love you dearly but you areed man sick see you tomor I can't believe that tomorrow I'm going to get up and not have to go eat McDonald's s unbelievable woohoo okay it just keeps getting bigger wow oh yeah oh boy 210 I'm going to say 210 right on the money we went from 185.5 to 194 a week later to 203 then down to 202 and now 8 lbs during the last week for 210 total I think we know the damage that can be done uh Lisa Howard it's Morgan Spurlock calling I don't know how many times we've called her now but this has got to be her 15th time Lisa Howard Morgan Spurlock calling from New York please call me when you get this message we'd still like to schedule an interview with someone from McDonald's uh please call me uh when you get this and let's talk about uh what's possible you'll not talk to anybody and you'll like it that way after 6 months of deliberation judge Robert swe dismissed the lawsuit against McDonald's the big reason the two girls failed to show that eating McDonald's food was what caused their injuries interesting and only 30 days of eating nothing but McDonald's I gained 242 lb my liver turned to fat and my cholesterol shot up 65 points my body fat percentage went from 11 to 18% still below the national average of 22% for men and 30% % for women I nearly doubled my risk of coronary heart disease making myself twice as likely to have heart failure I felt depressed and exhausted most of the time my mood swung on a dime and my sex life was non-existent I craved this food more and more when I ate it and got massive headaches when I didn't in my final blood test many of my body functions showed signs of improvement but the doctors were less than optimistic I would very very much doubt that these numbers would return to normal although it did drop it was a small drop if you kept on the diet indefinitely um I know that you you probably develop carra disease inflammation and um hardening of the liver should people eat fast food uh no you know this answer is no it certainly needs to be very restricted and Balan with overall a healthy diet and over a lot of exercise and there's no reason whatsoever why fast food has to be so disgusting uh the food fast food can be nutritious it's a cheap form of food and it does keep you full for a while so you get your money's worth but unfortunately you cause some major harm to your heart your liver your blood I wouldn't suggest you continue the diet for a year to to check this out I don't think it's appropriate or healthy especially with what showed up with your liver for a year right so I shouldn't eat this food for a year no I don't think so you know we see people who like go on an alcohol binge and their numbers go up like crazy but to go on you know a Mac attack and they've got numbers to show that your it attacks your liver too I would never honestly I would never I wouldn't have even thought about this but it it makes sense now that we have the data it definitely makes sense still the impact of this initial lawsuit is being seen far and wide school districts in New York Texas and San Francisco have banned sugary soft drinks in schools and all natural healthy options are popping up everywhere McDonald's joined right in sponsoring events that showed how health conscious they'd become and creating a new line of Premium salads at the same time however they also masterminded one of their fattest sandwiches to date the McGriddle a pancake wrapped creation that won my heart in Texas but can pack as much fat as a Big Mac and have more sugar than a pack of McDonald L cookies in fact their new premium ranch chicken salad with dressing delivers more calories than a Big Mac and 51 G of fat 79% of your daily fat intake over the course of my MC diet I consumed 30 lbs of sugar from their food that's a pound a day on top of that I also took in 12 lb of fat now I know what you're saying you're saying nobody's supposed to eat this food three times a day no wonder all this stuff happened to you but the scary part is there are people who eat this food regularly some people even eat it every day so while my experiment may have been a little extreme it's not that crazy but here is a crazy idea why not do away with your super siiz options who needs 42 o of coke a half PB of fries and why not give me a choice besides french fries or french fries that would be a great start but why should these companies want to change their loyalty isn't to you it's to the stockholders the bottom line they're a business no matter what they say and by selling you unhealthy food they make millions and no company wants to stop doing that if this ever growing Paradigm is going to shift it's up to you but if you decide to keep living this way go ahead over time you may find yourself getting as sick as I did and you may wind up here or here I guess the big question is who do you want to see go first you or them [Music] right now you have the urge to eat something when it's through if you still want to eat then you're probably really hungry think about what I'm saying F that is me but I didn't used to be I was hot I was hungry I was loose I was free then I waited in the line for some burgers and some fries super size that' be nice take a bite and close your eyes round two what do I do I can barely walk around Jenny Craig Richard Simmons but I still love to pound hamburgers Coca-Cola getting gas from too much soda double double chunky chunky hope this meal is never over the world is round and so am I big boys big girls with real big five Super Size super size the American way throw it down throw it down all day every day super size super size the American way getting F getting broke either way you're going pay super siiz me super siiz me suiz me suiz me now I can't get out of bed so I have to order in I'm a triple fat fatty and I have a triple chin who's to blame call the lawyer try to settle out of court get some cash spend it fast cuz I'm staring at my Fork cuz it's sad and it's lonely him and chees with Boney large pie stuffed crust the doggy bag is for a phony I have lost the motivation to inhibit the sensation bottle up the frustration birthday cake I sck my face and turkey club with double bacon it's got healthy connotations fast food is overtaken and it super size the Nation super size super size the American way throw it down throw it down all day every day Suze super size the American way getting back getting br BR 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