Consuming this adds no calories to your diet and will not harm your liver, although it may raise your bile levels regarding the purveyors of fast food.

I just saw this two days ago, so I’m what… like three years late to the hype around this movie? In other words, I got to see it outside of the hype-context, and I think my viewing benefited from that.

What I really think Spurlock seemed to be presenting was not a scientific test of the effect of a glut of McDonald’s food on the system, but really an excuse to analyze the MINDSET and OUTLOOK regarding food that we are/have been cultivating in this country. (And which, thanks to our corporate diplomacy, is now being cultivated in the rest of the world.) We’ve moved away from food being an itegral, sensual part of our lifestyle, to it being a matter of time and economics. And corporate America, or fast-food America, has both encouraged and exploited that drift.

As someone raised in an Italian home, eating home-cooked meals my entire life, and living with food as a very important, binding factor in my family, the notion of low-priced, quick, superficially-satisfying food was never really in my consciousness. But when you are watching television, and Kentucky Fried Chicken is pimping out its bucket of wings as a way to “bring the family back to dinner,” you know that we’re a long way from celebrating and being enriched and nourished by food in any way that makes sense.

That distortion in our relationship to food, it seems to me, is what Spurlock was really focusing on in this movie.

A good way to motivate a New Years Resolution to cut out the fast food!

I do believe that a lot of the responsibilities is the consumers’. I’d like to think that we’re not such a patently stupid nation that we don’t realize that fast food is bad for us — especially in such excess.

However, I feel the fast-food corporations should at least have easily accessible nutritional information. It’s good to see that, especially since this film debuted, there are now more healthy options available in these restaurants. Still, there could stand to be more. But I guess that’s the American way — anything for a buck, even at the expense of your consumers’ well-being. Why should they care? As long as we live long enough to reproduce, they’ll always have a new herd of consumers.

What was especially interesting was the bit about the food choices available in most public schools. I had never really thought that much about it before, but I realized how true it is. In my high school, we had a Pizza Hut kiosk that was open every day, and each day we had the option of burgers and fries if we didn’t want the “healthy” meal of the day. I had a burger and fries just about every day junior year, and there were soda vending machines in every hallway. I’m amazed I didn’t get fat in high school. I don’t remember any of the cafeteria workers encouraging me even once to choose something healthier. Not to say I blame them — I knew it was bad for me and made that choice anyway — just to say that the schools do seem unconcerned with the health of their students.

Anyway, pretty much any documentary is going to be biased, but it’s still something that should get you thinking. Sometimes I’m still amazed, after all this time, at how to big businesses we are not people but demographics. Talk about sickening.

I love experiments like this. It was interesting to see to what extent damage was done.

Everyone in America needs to see this film, absolutely. Repeatedly.

Key Point: Our school systems need to wise up and start preparing healthy foods for the kiddies, too—how many kids rely on school breakfast, lunch, and snack as their first line of nutrition?

You are what you eat.

Totally unscientific and slanted. Spurlock’s approach is seriously flawed and he doesn’t seem to have a grasp on basic science. Um, putting McDonald’s food in glass jars will show us how it breaks down in our bodies? Even a first grader knows about stomach acid.

I also feel like he is preying on the same lack of general knowlege of nutrition, health and science that he blames the food industry for. Critical thinkers and those with even rudimentry health knowledge could rip his whole “experiment” apart.

Totally reactionary and without any solutions offered.

And are the people he says are most in danger even watching this? Can they afford the ticket?

I feel ill.

No, it wasn’t the best movie EVAR. Yes, I believe that everyone knows not to eat out three times a day every day. But what did you expect? For him to literally drop dead after a week? Not even the doctors expected that kind of decline in health. The point was to show what a worst case scenario would be like. I was floored and disgusted, but still entertained. I felt like it lived up to my expectations — don’t go in expecting him to gain 200 pounds or something, because that’s just stupid, the human body doesn’t work that way. What did happen to him WAS amazing, whether you realize that or not (desensitized as we are to amazing feats after watching X-Men or infomercials or what have you).

Are you starting a diet? I recommend watching this the morning of the first day. Man, it would be sweet.

I didn’t need it to know fast food was unhealthy, but it’s worth watching just to scare you away from overindulging on it.

After watching this, I have stopped eating at fast food places.

I always knew that fast food contained alot of fat and sugar – I just didn’t think it was that big of a deal. This movie really makes the case.

NO more – Whataburger, McD, BK, Wendies, Taco Bell, and my daily Triple Grande Mocha

(P.S. I saw the movie six months ago – the theatrics mentioned are used just like theatrics are used in every production

I was surprised by how slick the post-production on this was; it looks pretty good! I enjoyed watching it even though I already know how terrible fast food companies are (or any big corporation for that matter).

Quite obviously Spurlock went into this to show that eating McDonald’s fast food is akin to playing Russian roulette. I think the average person realizes a steady diet of this type of fare, let along eating it for THREEMEALS A DAY like Spurlock does (he flagrantly ignores a dietician’s advice when she tells him how to eat healthier items from the menu if he insists on eating ONLY at McDonald’s and instead he continues to deliberately choose the poorest choices [high fat and cholesterol] nutritionally) isn’t smart. But the fact that he includes the scene of him retching up his first Super-sized McMeal just demonstrates complete lack of distance for a supposed documentary.

Seriously an eye-opener. I’ve heard people say that it wasn’t that extreme and enough bad things didn’t really happen to him. HELLO, liver shut down? 30 pounds of sugar in ONEMONTH? 10 pounds weight gain in ONEWEEK? It was a big deal. And I feel stupid for saying it, but I had Chicken McNuggets over the weekend. I only felt better about it because since the documentary, they changed them to all white meat. But I kind of feel grossed out by that now…

Strangely, after watching this, I craved McDonald’s. Fast Food Nation had the opposite effect on me, though.

i don’t think i’ll ever eat fastfood again…..at least no mc. donald’s.