Are you fucking serious? You seriously don't think that obesity isn't DIRETLY linked to the amount of shit food that people eat? holy fuck, take off the tinfoil hat.
I don't always agree with him but I watched this last night and was pretty blown away.
I have to do some of my own research because I don't trust today's documentaries to be unbiased like a documentary should be. But a lot of this documentary showed made a lot of sense.
The premise of the documentary isn't that eating fast food is fine and doesn't cause obesity. It discusses how the government following its own agenda told us what was healthy and what wasn't. Specifically the food pyramid and how we should eat 6-11 servings of grains a day and saturated fats are bad. It also showed how the CSPI said beef fat was bad and fast food and restaurants should switch it out with vegetable fats to cook their food. Then when we found out how trans fat was bad and they contradicted themselves.
The argument is how in just the few decades we have completely changed how we ate for thousands of years. This includes the government telling us what was good and what was bad. Even though we ate animal meat (high in saturated fat) it became bad and now we should eat low fat and more grains. These grains are high in carbs which essentially are shocking our systems.
The dude ate fast food for 28 days but was still watching his calorie intake (he kept it at 2000 a day and walked 6 days a week). Much to the surprise of his doctor he lost 12.5 pounds, lowered his bad cholesterol, and raised his good cholesterol in the process. He also ate way more saturated fat then was recommended in the process. He did another 30 day diet right at the end that cut out sugar and carbs. He still ate lots of bacon, eggs, butter, heavy cream, etc. After this was done he lowered his cholesterol even more and said he felt great.
Also, it talked about how everyone said cholesterol was the cause of heart disease when, in fact, it is inflammation. This included marketing cholesterol pills to women which according to multiple MD's saying women shouldn't take cholesterol pills because it really doesn't matter how high their cholesterol gets.
Basically, which I don't know if I agree with 100 percent, the guy is saying people can make their own damn decisions. Requiring calories being displayed on that triple monster cheese and bacon burger isn't going to stop that many people who want to eat it anyway. I think the majority of the population fits this. But, you still have the idiots who fall for the rebills and can't make decisions on their own.
I think having the nutrition info on the menu may be a bit excessive (at least making it a federal law is excessive). If you have pamphlets next to the cash register may be enough for most people to figure out themselves.
