Sue the bastards episode I

We watched Supersize Me, a documentary movie about this guy who tried to deliver a message: fast food is a killer. So to prove it, he ate ONLY McDonald's for breakfast, lunch and dinner, for 30 days. He bought nothing outside McDonald's food outlets, not even a single candy or water. And after 30 long days, he -technically- was killing himself. The last medical check-up of his general condition, he had gained about 24.5 lbs, claimed for a high cholesterol and glucose, a high chance of getting Heart Disease, Diabetes, and some other medical terms =P

Watching it actually was like a jab to my stomach. Seeing him visited the golden arch over and over again was a bit depressing. But from this brilliant documentary movie, I got some fascinating facts about McDonald's. Do you know that -everyday- McDonald's serve food for about 46 million people worldwide - more than entire population of Spain. McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries, it's more than Burger King's, Wendy's and KFC outlets combined. McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us. And in Manhattan, with its total area is 87.5 km², there are actually 83 McDonald's outlets. He said something like every 3 or 4 outlet for couple block (I'm trying to find the exact size of Manhattan lol).

Anyway, we might be a casual consumer of fast food. While in U.S.A. where 1 in 4 American goes to fast food restaurant at least once everyday, the affect is just worrying, 100 millions of Americans are overweight. Some other countries, where the population is smaller, the numbers might be lower. But it doesn't mean that the percentage of people who have a high chance of obesity is gonna be lower also. Again, he only wants to show us that eating fast food without having regular exercise or moderate your dietary, could end you up in hospital.

Talking about bastards, I have this story. But I'll post it in the next posting. Coz if I put them together here, it will be pretty long and some of you might bored hehehe.

To be continued...