Super Size Me Page #9

I don't know.

I can't answer the question.

Never been done before.

No one's ever

wiped out their liver

with a high-fat diet before.

Wow.

And I won't wipe out my liver

in two more weeks?

I would think

it would be unlikely.

I don't want to tell you

you wouldn't.

My advice to you is

to stop doing what you're doing,

because it's hurting you.

You're sick,

and you're making yourself sick,

and you can

make yourself unsick

by stopping doing

what you're doing.

Im just afraid

there will be something

that's totally irreversible,

that there will be

some damage done that...

- Yeah.

- I don't know.

So, do they think that

once you change your habits

that that's

going to correct itself.

They think that everything

should get back on track

once this is done.

Your liver -- I've been

doing some reading - -

your liver is very resilient,

and your liver heals itself.

Well, if you need a portion

of my liver, honey,

you can have it.

Ill give up part

of my liver for you.

Thanks, mom.

Thanks.

There's a drug that is used in

emergency rooms called Naloxone.

It's used for heroin overdose.

A guy comes in

overdosed on heroin, comatose.

He's gonna die.

You inject him with this drug,

and it blocks the opiate

receptors 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.

You're saying

that your mood goes up

once you start eating.

Lately, every time I eat,

I feel 100% better.

So it seems

like you're starting

to get addicted to it now.

McDonald's calls people

who eat their food

at least once a week

"heavy users."

Im 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 it with cheese --

cheese, of course, which is

filled with the casomorphins,

the opiates 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,

McDonalds 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."

McDonalds corporate

headquarters in the U.S.

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 more often

than once a month.

If you were stranded

on a deserted island

or if we get bombe

d with anthrax,

and that's

the only food available,

that's the only time

you should eat fast food.

We called 100 nutritionists

all over America,

and the results

were not on track

with the "vast majority"

McDonald's talked about.

Only 2 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?

Bridget Bennett from Health.

Unfortunately,

I have to tell you

that Health is gonna have to

close its doors,

effective immediately.

Im sorry to have to

tell you that over the phone.

We're all sort of surprised,

but we will proceed as before --

just not at

the integrated 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 1/2 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 the people don't have to

take insulin anymore after this.

Plus, I have hypertension.

Hopefully, correct that,

lose my weight,

and lose my high blood pressure.

This is Bruce Howlett.

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 obese,

about 75% of them

will get rid of

their hypertensive medications.

Doctors Adam Naaman

and Carl Geisler

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.

I went blind for a week.

Just one day out of the blue,

you went blind?

I went to work,

drove to work that night,

got to work,

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 called my wife,

had to get her to ride to work

to pick me up

and take me home.

And then once I stopped

drinking the diet soda waters,

got my sugars back down.

I was fortunate enough,

my eyesight came back.

I didn't do that much damage

to them at that time.

I think it's human nature

to seek a drastic solution

only when you're faced

with a drastic problem.

I drank three or four

of those a day.

This is a half-gallon,

so that means

you were drinking probably

about two gallons of soda

a day.

It wasn't unusual,

for a two-week time,

we'd buy

50 two-liters of soda water.

50 two-liters

every two weeks.

And I'd probably end up

having to pick him up

a couple extra.

He drinks more than I do.

Ill go through

about one of those a day.

There's some days I go through

three or four two-liters.

A lot of us

don't realize the social stigma

that these people face

on a daily basis.

It's, um --

it's, like, 2:
00 in the morning

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