Fast Food Confessions...The Other Side

After watching Supersize Me the other morning and my gut feelings about the possible shadiness of it, I was delighted to at the suggestion of commenter Julie to watch a "rebuttal" as it were.

From the description on the Hulu Site:

While most people saw the documentary Super Size Me as an expose of the fast food industry, comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton saw it as a dare: He'd show that you could lose weight on a diet of burgers and fries.

I really enjoyed this movie. I would probably watch it again. Aside from a couple small crassities, I wouldn't  hesitate to show it to older children (high school age).

Mr.Naughton took a much more common sense approach to the matter and went about to prove that by eating a reasonable amount of calories and limiting the carbs, he could eat  fast food for a month and not gain weight or suffer significant detriment to his health.  He did increase his physical activity, though- from walking 2-3 days a week to 6.

I didn't agree with everything that was stated in the movie, there was some carb dissing (hello...bread baker here!) and the term "mother nature" was used more times than I would've liked, but all in all I agreed with the point being made.

It's all about personal responsibility.

From the very end of the movie (the 1 hour 41 minute mark or so) Mr. Naughton asks:

Who decides to drink 44 ounce sodas and eat big bowls of sugary cereal and large orders of fries and then go home and sit in front of the TV and eat more sugar and more starch instead of taking up a sport  or just going for a long walk?...You do.

Fast Food Confessions

It has been a lazy day. I actually sat at the computer this morning and watched an entire movie. I hardly ever do that, but hey, it's August, school is starting soon, and well, I just felt like it.




(I did clean my computer screen while watching it so that counts as work, right?)




The reason for the movie was that is was something I had been meaning to watch for a long time and after last week's fast food outing it was brought to mind again.




We rarely eat out. Breakfast, lunch, supper, snacks, the Mr.'s lunches, lunches at the baseball diamond, trips to the lake, etc. are all from home. Having a semi-big family just makes it impossible financially to always be hitting the drive-thru (a blessing I think).




Once in a while, the kids will decide to pool some of their monies and ask if we can go to McDonald's for lunch, their treat. We had to run an errand last week and they decided this was the day.




I have to tell you after eating, I felt awful. That's what reminded me to see if I could find the movie Supersize Me online...sure enough:

****Caveat:  This is definitely not a movie for little uns and mine were doing their own thing at the other end of the room (or still in bed) and out of earshot during the flick.  There is some adult language (including an f-bomb at about 25 minutes in) and some unpleasant images.

So here's my little review: I thought it was interesting, but kind of strange. In the end, he did gain weight ,24 lbs I think, and his medical team was none too pleased with the results of their blood work findings and such. I understand the point of the experiment, but I am sure that he did overdo it a bit in order to get the desired (or expected) results. I have no doubt that fast food is bad, though. But everything in moderation.


  This website claims that  Mr. Spurlock ate way more than normal portions during the 30 day experience:

He ate roughly the equivalent of 6 meals per day. He didn’t just eat. He massively overate.

and that he purposely avoided exercise (which he clearly states in the movie in order to show what the "average" American does all day). They also had a problem with some of the crassness of the movie (as did I, but then again, not for kids).

Super Size Me contains innumerable instances of graphical sexual language and innuendo. The film also includes profane language. Graphic footage of an actual gastric bypass surgery, a rectal exam, and vomiting are included. Along the way, the film and Spurlock himself mock obese people and individuals afflicted with eating disorders

One of the last things in the movie was Mr. Spurlock asking nutritionists how often people should eat fast food. While their answers were a bit varied, we fell well within safe levels. I figured we've been out to eat 4 times in the past year. That's plenty for me.

Gnosticwood

 I really got schooled lately on the whole Hollywood machine. Tom Bionic of Futurequake called it "Gnosticwood" in the latest show with Joe Schimmel, the maker of the documentary Hollywood's War On God.

I have spent the last few days listening to the movie (I convert just about everything to mp3) and listening to Pastor Joe's research into what is really going on in the mind control agenda of popular culture. 

In my fallen state, I can see how this type of thing is seductive and would make perfect sense to those who are not given the love of the Truth. In fact, I cannot see any way at all that one could escape such thinking on their own.

2Cr 11:3     But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Pastor Schimmel quotes from Helena Blavatsky, a self-admitted worshiper of Lucifer:

The “Old Dragon” and Satan, now become singly and collectively the symbol of, and the theological term for, the “Fallen Angel,” is not so described either in the original Kabala (the Chaldean “Book of Numbers”) or in the modern. For the most learned, if not the greatest of modern Kabalists, namely Eliphas Levi, describes Satan in the following glowing terms: — “It is that Angel who was proud enough to believe himself God; brave enough to buy his independence at the price of eternal suffering and torture; beautiful enough to have adored himself in full divine light; strong enough to reign in darkness amidst agony, and to have built himself a throne on his inextinguishable pyre. It is the Satan of the Republican and heretical Milton. . . . . the prince of anarchy, served by a hierarchy of pure Spirits (! ! )

 The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavastky pp.506-07

So in the whole gnostic scheme, the role of savior is reversed and the Creator becomes the one who is holding us back whilst Lucifer is the one to free us.  I will admit that is makes my skin all creepy-crawly even thinking about such things. But did you notice this in the above quote "the Angel who was PROUD enough..."? And there it is, the downfall of everyone who just won't humble his/her self to the real Savior.

Luke 19:14     But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this [man] to reign over us.

We don't really watch many movies (even "family" ones) around here anymore. I'm not sure why, but they just kind of stopped appealing to me awhile ago. I would rather do other things. I don't take the stand that all movies are bad, but I will say this whole study is a big eye opener. I was almost shocked when he analyzed   a movie I have seen and enjoyed:





When watching the movie, one cannot help but want to cheer on Truman and see his rebellion against the creator of the television show as a good thing. This kind of stuff is everywhere and we must be on our guard.

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

For those of us who are His, though, I don't believe any amount of gnostic programming will turn us or lead us away from the Truth, we can be assured that He will keep us. And He is not holding back on us either....we are promised to be inheritors of all, just as Christ is.

Gal 4:7     Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Those who don't receive the love of the truth will fall for the lie: you shall be as gods.



MARANATHA!

Joseph

We don't watch many movies, but once in a while something good will actually show up on TBN.
This is actually a very Biblically accurate account of the story of Joseph and then some. I will say that it does not sugar coat anything.  In some places one has to really wonder why did God choose these people again?

He chose them because that was His choice.

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.


We seem to have a kind of candy-coated view of the sons of Jacob being like the Sunday school coloring pictures we get, all smiling and hanging around sheep.  But these guys were just as human and depraved as the rest of us.

The scene where they throw him down the well is kind of hard to watch as the brothers ruthlessly listen to his cries and let him sit there for what seems like hours...or perhaps days. You could see how much they just hated him, well most of them. It makes me want to go off on a tangent about the parallels between the story of Joseph and the way the Jews treated Jesus during the first coming and how they will be reconciled at the second coming, but I won't do that now.

I really liked this film and will probably watch it again at some point. It is pretty long (about three hours) and I do believe it was a made for TV mini-series type event.

The ending is kind of a tear-jerker and I was disappointed that it was over....it could have just continued on into Exodus so far as I was concerned.

You can actually watch the whole movie on youtube. Here is a link to part one.