Super Size Me Page #5

No way.

Ben Cohen,

the Ben of "Ben and Jerry's",

a couple years ago,

had a quintuple bypass procedure

at the age of 49.

My uncle,

Burt Baskin of Baskin-Robbins,

dies at the age of 51

of a heart attack.

My father, Irv Robbins, the

other founder of the company,

ended up

with very serious diabetes.

You can't deny these links.

You just can't.

Yeah, could I get

the two-cheeseburger meal?

Okay, super sized.

Second time.

Thank you, sir.

Thanks, man.

After five days

on the McDonald's diet,

what I did was I ran three days'

worth of food analysis.

the needs for you to maintain

weight at the 185

that you were at

when you came in -- 186 pounds

was approximately

2,500 calories.

Right now you're getting

almost 5,000 calories a day,

the average being 4,986.

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 substitute for the hot fudge

sundae would be the yogurt.

That is true,

if you get the snack size --

five ounces.

If you get the regular size

without granola,

it contains nearly as many

calories as a strawberry sundae.

With granola,

it has more calories

then the hot fudge

or caramel sundae.

And if that doesn't make you

think twice about the parfaits,

then how about this?

There's a big,

nappy hair in it!

That's disgusting.

I'm gonna show you

how we do it.

You go like this.

We go...

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.

192, 193, 194.

No.

We have to stop everything.

I don't believe it.

195 pounds.

It can't be.

We have to redo this.

That's zero.

Second try.

88, 92, 94.

You've gained, actually,

about 5% of your body weight.

Losing and gaining weight

that fast is not healthy.

Do you eat fast food?

Yes, I do.

Unfortunately.

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

love it, love it, love It!

Love fast food.

How often

do you guys eat it?

Every week?

Oh, maybe once

or twice a week.

We're gonna go hit up

McDonald's in a little while.

At least two times today

you know we ain't had

no meal yet today.

We were just pointing

towards McDonald's.

I get the number two,

the cheeseburger

with the supersize coke

and fries.

Super-size it up!

Make it bacon, 69 cents.

That's what they say.

"Make it bacon."

Make it bacon, baby.

How often do you think

people should eat fast food?

I don't know

if they should eat it at all.

I don't know if I should

I don't know about

what they should do.

Oh, that's baloney!

It's baloney!

What they need to do

are 25 minutes on that treadmill,

work out a little,

do some push-ups.

If you do some push-ups

when you eat,

you'll keep

your weight down.

I keep my weight down.

I hit them push-ups

and everything,

Keep myself cool.

who has time to do that?

we have to work.

We have to take care of the kids.

We have to clean.

so you exercise --

you run after your kids.

These are the first

McNuggets I've had

in this whole exciting

tour of duty.

Look at that

glistening in the sun.

Boy, that is miserable.

Im not sure what portion of the

chicken that's shaped like that.

I'm guessing

this is the foot on the chicken.

In the lawsuit against them,

McDonald's 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 familiar shapes,

breaded, deep-fried,

freeze-dried,

and then shipped

to a McDonald's near you.

Judge Robert Sweet called them

"A McFrankenstein creation

of various elements

not utilized by the home cook."

So, for the past couple days,

which I haven't

shared with everybody --

it's been a new thing --

Ive started to have --

not chest pains, but pressure.

I feel like I got pressure

on my chest.

I figure that's probably

not a good thing.

But neither's

eating all this, so...

I tell you.

I haven't smelled bad yet.

Yeah, you have.

No, I haven't.

You just don't smell

how bad you smell.

Look at that fish filet.

Look at this thing.

Oh, God,

that looks nasty, man.

Isn't that horrible?

Obviously, that's been

sitting around all day.

That, the filet-o-fish.

Sh*t!

WOMAN:

How can I help you?

Can I get the double quarter

pounder with cheese value meal?

- Okay, thank you.

- $4.86.

I don't feel good today.

Not that I feel sick,

but I just feel

really depressed,

you know, for no reason.

I mean, things are going great.

Ive had a good day.

I just feel really...

yeah.

It's not real hard

eating this food all the time,

just because it tastes good,

it makes you feel good.

I 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.

Im pretty bored

with their menu.

It only took me nine days.

But it's pretty good otherwise.

Nine days.

How many?

How many's

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 for now.

As soon as I got my first car,

this is the first place

I came to.

I bought three Big Macs,

ate them out there.

I enjoyed them so much,

I came back about 5:00 at night,

bought three more,

ate them out there,

came back around 11:00

before they closed,

and ate three more,

so the first day I came here,

I ate nine Big Macs,

and it was like I couldn't get

enough hamburger at that time,

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.

Now, last year,

I ate 741 last year.

That's more than two a day,

so that means

there's days I had three,

but that's because

they're getting smaller.

Probably 90% of my solid diet

is probably Big Macs.

That parking spot,

that's where I asked her

if she wanted to get married.

This place is special --

a lot of reasons.

I had one whopper

in my life -- 1984.

A guy gave me 5 bucks

to eat a whopper.

After I ate the whopper,

took my 5 bucks over to

McDonald's, got some Big Macs.

I always make fun

of people at work.

They say, "I'm gaining weight."

I say, "well, you should

try the Gorske diet."

they don't like that.

This is a perfect sandwich,

you know.

At least for me, it is.

There it is --

bite number 19,000.

The wife says when she's

got to put them in a blender,

it ends.

That's what she told me.

Big Mac smoothies.

Americas have been McDonaldized,

you know.

It's been franchised out.

It's like one of those

"Flintstones" cartoons

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