While most see the documentary Super Size Me as exposés of the fast food industry, comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton sees it as a challenge: It will show you can eat on burgers and fries Come lose weight.
In addition to documenting Norton’s weight loss, the film also interviews doctors, nutritionists and others to support his contention that much of what we know about “healthy eating” is wrong.
Naughton echoes Spurlock’s argument that the current obesity epidemic cannot be caused by home-cooked or non-corporate family-run restaurants because they have been around longer than corporate fast-food chains.
Norton says people eat the same unhealthy food at a family restaurant as they do at a fast food chain, and it doesn’t make you fat because only a handful of young families in his generation eat it once a year and don’t Often like some people do in fast food restaurants.
