Monday, November 01, 2004

The Fast Food Fallacy

If people need evidence that blaming the company that makes the food you consume for your own ill-health does not make much sense:

The Super Size Con - A response to Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me.

Here is an article on the site reporting on two more experiments where the folks actually lowered their weight and one was able to reduce her blood cholestertol level.

Also, Chazz Weaver has started Truth In Fitness in "response to what [he] saw as a rising tide of obesity in our country and a corresponding refusal to acknowledge its root cause—the choices that people make. " He was also prompted by the Spurlock documentary and began his own McDonald's diet with a different result.

My thanks to AnarCapLib for the heads up.