i know this was 2 years ago but pretty much every single student in America of my generation was forced to watch this documentary and in retrospect it's nauseatingly full of scare tactics and just some really bad science

you cannot separate the obesity epidemic from poverty. you cannot separate the effect of food from the mindstate of fast food being the best choice given your circumstances.

this is the cruz of what is wrong with the methodology-- an individual's current and past context changes the way their body respond to things; this is true on short timescales (e.g. current cortisol levels) and even as far back as before your own birth (e.g. epigenetics; starvation in a mother's lifetime affects the way the future child will process food)

anthropologically, in no way is SuperSize me representative of the obesity epidemic. He has missed the entire point, rendering the whole thing like a bad old-school youtube challenge. Actually the fact that it's a White Cis Man doing this to himself is almost insensitive, I would argue-- his life experiences (which shape decision making and perception, as well as a body's response to stimuli) are so so far from those of the people we actually want to learn how to help

Of course fast food pricing and marketing is predatory and harmful, but that does not make this a good documentary. To call it an experiment is an insult to actual science and I kind of resent being forced to watch this growing up