alex chiang: web 6.0

I saw Super Size Me last night. Entertaining? Yes. Meaningful? Not so much.

Morgan’s amazing morphing body over the course of 30 days is impressive, but I’d be much more interested in seeing his results after 90 and 180 days of this diet. My guess is that his numbers and stats, especially those related to his liver, would have started levelling off. Although they may not have improved with time, I’m fairly certain that they wouldn’t have gotten significantly worse over time.

What he did was the equivalent of a teetotaller deciding to suddenly drink a case of beer a day. Of course your body is going to hate you and start going haywire — until it adjusts to the new demands you’re making on it and your systems have a new definition of “normal”.

I’m not making the claim that eating McDonald’s is good for you, but rather that the dramatic experience that Morgan went through, where his liver functions started going nuts, is because he was so healthy to begin with. Had he been a slobbering fat ass who already ate McDonald’s at least twice a week, his body would not have deteriorated so rapidly.

Oddly enough, rather than being disgusted after watching the movie, I had cravings for McDonald’s. Today, I went and got a Big Mac value meal for lunch.

I think there’s something wrong with me.