Reply #6: Fuck MickDs and their special liver-destroying ingredients. [View All]

[tom_paine]

I'm no doctor, but I am a biologist who has taken some anatomy and physiology classes, so I know a little bit about the topic.

It is INSANE that the things that occurred to Morgan Spurlock in his film "Supersize Me" caused his liver to sicken so damned rapidly it started leaking uric acid (one of the most toxic waste products our bodies produce) into his blood.

One other part of the movie, just glossed over, really, and people probably missed it, was the doctor who has started doing long-term studies on kids who eat lots of McDs was now taking biopsies of the kids' livers to start a baseline for compraison over the years.

At 11 and 12, these livers are already showing signs of cirrohses. At 11 or 12!

Here's an experiment I propose: Someone like Spurlock should try what he did but FIRST do a "30-day local pizza shop diet" to see if the local pizza shop has the same effect on his liver, THEN recover and THEN do what Spurlock did, 30 days McDs diet, and see if there is any difference.

My scientific intuition says the local pizza shop WILL NOT cause rapid liver sickening, even though the food is just as fatty as McDs.

But "scientific intuition" is worthless in that all i can do is suggest what experiments to perform and it is THEY which tell the tale.

Maybe I am wrong, and the local pizza shop's food would cause a liver to sicken to the point where it was leaking uric acid in 21 days, as McDs did to Spurlock.

THAT is why the experiment NEEDS to be performed, so we can have a look at the hard data which may help us answer the question.

And IF the local pizza shop's food does not have a deleterious liver effect (or a much smaller one), then the NEXT QUESTION is What the hell are they doing tio their food in the processing that s causing this unique liver-detroying effect which has undoubtedly helped sicken millions?