in this weeks new scientist magazine.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19325881.400
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'Supersize me' revisited - under lab conditions
* 27 January 2007
* Kate Douglas
* Magazine issue 2588
When Swedish scientists decided to repeat Morgan Spurlock's famous month-long junk food binge under lab conditions, they were in for a big surprise
IF YOU had bumped into nursing student Adde Karimi last September, he probably wouldn't have had much time to stop and chat. He was too busy stuffing his face with burgers, cola and milkshakes. It takes a lot of planning to get 6600 calories of junk food down you in a day, he explains. If you are not a born glutton, serious overeating also requires a high level of commitment. Karimi's motivation was commendable. "I did it because I wanted to hate this type of food," he says. He also did it for science.
Even if you have never tried to cure your cravings for fast food by overdosing on it, you may be getting a sense of déjà vu. That's because Karimi was a volunteer in an experiment based on the 2004 documentary Super Size Me. In the movie, film-maker Morgan Spurlock spent 30 days eating exclusively at McDonald's, ...
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basically they redid supersize me with more scientific conditions. and the results were not the same, some handled it far better than others, theres natural variability, some people barely gained weight, some gained quickly, and some even had lower cholesterol. as for the liver issues spurlock had with the diet, none of the ones in the swedish test had that problem, so it might just be a spurlock thing