Transcript of the 7 minute YouTube summary of the movie “SuperSize Me.”
(singing by children: Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut. McDonalds, McDonalds…)
Narrator: Is fast food really that bad for you? I mean what would happen if I ate nothing but McDonalds for
thirty days straight? I knew if I was going to do this, I would need some serious medical supervision.
Doctor: “Your blood tests are excellent…blood level cholesterol 168..superb. In terms of your salts in your
blood, your kidney function, your liver function, they were all perfect.”
Day 1------
Narrator: It is the first day, and I’m on my way to breakfast. I got my Egg McMuffin; that’s going to be the first
thing right there. Oh, I love Big Macs too. You see this? This is probably the first time in a long time that I’ve
actually seen a Big Mac that looks like the picture.
Day 2------
McDonald’s worker on speaker: “Hello, may I help you?”
Narrator: Yeah, could I get the Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese Meal. Look at that. Look at that Coke. It
barely fits in there (the cup holder in narrator’s car). Look how big that french fry is. That thing is like four
feettall. Double-Quarter-Pounder.
Narrator:(5-minutes later) “That’s a lot of food man!”
Narrator:(10-minutes later) “Now’s the time of the meal that you get the Mc-stomachache. And I got some Mc-
gas that’s rocking. My arm… (cameraman: “Are you sweating there?) Narrator: My arms, I feel like I’ve
got some Mc-sweats going. My arms got like the Mc-twitches going in here from all the sugar going in my
body right now.
Narrator: (22-minutes later) “I’m…I’m dying. (He burps.) (Cameraman: Oh, that’s so nasty.) (The narrator
throws up.)(Cameraman: You all right?) Narrator: Yeah! (As he leans out the window to finish throwing
up.)
Day 3------
Narrator: “My stomach feels horrible this morning. It doesn’t feel good at all. I’m getting this really weird
feeling right in my midsection. Like basically like this (makes sound) whooo, whoo. [It’s] a bit freaky.
Doctor : “That is very odd”
Narrator: “Yeah.”
Delivery man from McDonalds:“$13.39.” Narrator: “$13.39” (as he pays deliveryman).
Narrator: I made it over the three day hump. You know how when you quit smoking. I don’t know how many of
you out there smoke cigarettes, but you should stop. I quit smoking, and there’s, it’s the three day hump. If you
can make it over those three days without smoking one cigarette, you can make it past day one, day two, day
three…you make it over the hump, you’re fine. Same thing with this. I made it past day three, I’m all right.
Narrator:[In]The lawsuit against them, McDonalds stated in their own defense, “that it is a matter of common
knowledge that any processing that its foods undergo serve to make them more harmful than unprocessed
foods.”
Narrator: Originally created from old chickens that could no longer lay eggs, McNuggets are now made from
chickens with unusually large breasts. They’re stripped from the bone and ground up into a sort of chicken
mash which is then combined with all sorts of stabilizers and preservatives, pressed into familiar shapes,
breaded, deep-fried, freeze-dried, and then shipped to a McDonalds near you. Judge Robert Sweet called them
a “… Mc-Frankenstein creation of various elements not utilized by the home cook.”
Day 7------
Narrator: Uh, the new thing is I started to have like chest, not chest pains, but like pressure. You know like I’ve
gotpressure on my chest, so, uh, I figure that’s not a good thing.”
Day 9------
McDonald’s worker on speaker: “Hello, how may I help you?”
Narrator: Yeah, could I get the Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese value meal?
Narrator: (as he starts eating) “I don’t feel good today. Not that I feel sick, but, umm, I just feel really depressed,
you know, for no reason. I mean, things are going great; I’ve got a good day. I’m just feeling really…yeah.
Narrator looking at a McDonalds big breakfast with his girlfriend: “I’ve got my chicken group.”
Narrator’s girlfriend: “There’s no chicken group.”
Narrator: Uh, there’s my cholesterol group.
Narrator’s girlfriend: Protein
Narrator: I’ve got my protein group.
Narrator’s girlfriend: Carbohydrates.
Narrator: I’ve got my meat group.
Narrator’s girlfriend: You’ve got meat, meat, sugar, and fat.
Day 18------
Narrator: My headache’s coming back again. It feels like someone’s yanking on the tendons behind my eyes.
Mybody officially hates me.
Dietician: All the vitamins you see here, vitamin E, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, and so on are all under fifty
percentof what you need.
Doctor: Your total cholesterol was 165 before; now it’s 225. The liver is sick, and the most likely cause of your
liversickness is fatty liver. My advice to you is to stop doing what you are doing because it’s hurting you.
Day 21------
Narrator: “I, uh, I woke up…couldn’t breathe. We’re having really difficulty breathing. I’m very hot and, uh,
felt Iwas having heart palpitations. Um, came up and walked around the living room, was trying to get my
breath back, and I would have finished, but don’t want anything really bad to happen here.
Doctor: Absolutely outrageous. I mean, for the first time we are seeing uric acid elevated, so you are giving
yourselfhyperuricemia, and the danger of hyperuricemia is gout, kidney stones. The results for your liver are
obscenebeyond anything I would have thought. Truly.
Day 27------
Narrator: Through this month, I would have eaten has eaten as much McDonalds as most nutritionists say you’re
supposed to eat in eight years.
Day 29------
Narrator: Oh, man, walking up the stairs is really starting to get difficult. By the time I get to the top, it’s really
pathetic.
Narrator: Over the course of my Mcdiet, I consumed thirty pounds of sugar from their food. That’s a pound a
day. On top of that, I also took in twelve pounds of fat. And only thirty days of eating nothing but McDonalds
I gained twenty-four and a half pounds. My liver turned to fat, and my cholesterol shot up 65 points. My body
fat percentage went from 11 to 18 percent, still below the national average of 22 percent for men and 30 for
women. Inearly doubled my risk for coronary heart disease, making myself twice as likely to have heart
failure. I feltdepressed and exhausted most of the time, my moods swung on a dime, and I craved this food
more and morewhen I ate it, and got massive headaches when I didn’t. In my final blood test, many of my
body functionsshowed signs of improvement, but the doctors were less than optimistic.
Narrator to doctor: Should people eat fast food?
Doctor 1: Uh, no. You know this, the answer’s no.
Doctor 2: It certainly needs to be very restricted and balanced with overall healthy diet.
Doctor 3: But unfortunately you caused some major harm to your heart, your liver, your blood.
Narrator: I guess the big question is who do you want to see go first, you or them?