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66% Of Us Are Overweight: We should all see this movie.

Filed under: Fitness, Food, Mens Health, Nutrition, Parenting    

The latest Hollywood movies blow in like an Autumnal wind and for most of them, just as quickly disappear. Very few movies are interesting or memorable enough to stay in our cultural consciences but there are successes, like:

  • Jaws
  • Star Wars
  • Indiana Jones
  • ET
  • Austin Powers

…that’s all well and good but Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me caused something of a furore a few years ago and is now largely forgotten. That’s a shame, because it’s message about the disastrous effect of junk food on our health is even more appropriate today.

Spurlock’s brief was simple, dine at McDonald’s family restaurant’s exclusively for a month and super size when requested. The medically recorded results were catastrophic…