Supersize Me is such shit...

[Dumpy Dooby]

Originally Posted by SpicyMcVoodoo

I just watched Supersize Me again and I have to rant about what a piece of shit it is...

There is no such thing as "bad" food. It's completely relative. You could eat nothing but McDonald's every day and lose weight. You could also eat enough "health" food to become a complete fat ass. Furthermore, lack of exercise also isn't the problem. You could do absolutely no exercise, but if you watch what you eat, you won't become fat. You could also exercise for an hour a day and eat so badly that you have huge pot belly.

If you burn more calories than you consume, you'll lose weight, and vice versa, period. It's just that simple. Use whatever foods in the equation you like. It doesn't matter. It's all about calories.

There are lots of businesses trying to get us to think it's food that's the problem. It's not. It's people not understanding what a caloric deficit is.

Furthermore, more exercise is not necessarily the answer. Getting kids to exercise every day isn't the answer to obesity. It's a short term fix because most people won't keep up an exercise routine. The only thing you can do is teach people about nutrition and let them decide whether they want to follow it.

This would actually be insightful if not for the fact that caloric deficit is largely determined by how fast your cells metabolize.

Our bodies are geared toward getting fat. That's what they want to do. When you starve the body, the metabolism slows down so it can store more calories. When you eat too much, the body sticks some calories in its reserve tank. The slower the metabolism, the more efficient your body is at using its energy.

Losing weight is rather antithetic for the human body, and it's academically dishonest to reduce it to a simple "it's all about the calories" mantra. Different foods have a different effects on how the cells will metabolize. Polysacharides (i.e., bread) have a triple (or more, but generally triple) carbon-to-carbon bond, which makes them harder to break down than, for example, a monosacharide (i.e., rice). Eating foods that easily break down will help increase the metabolism, which will thereby increase the basal metabolic rate.


And I never even took a health class. That's just basic 101 stuff.