What did you think of the movie, "Fat Head"?

I liked it....I think. I've watched so many documentaries about food I can't remember which is which.

In before people talk **** about it. People love to bash stuff they don't believe in or is opposite of what they do.

I liked it. I take it for what it's worth and learn what I can from it.

Low-carb is the way to go for me

I'm having great success with little effort.

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Never saw it but just read a synopsis. The synopsis didn't mention any references other than a guy ate a 2,000 calorie fast food diet and increased his exercise and resulted in losing 12 lbs. That doesn't sound surprising to me, eating a calorie restricted diet and increasing exercise resulting in weight loss. Cholesterol has a number of factors to it but it also appears that his HDL went down which is a bad sign especially considering exercise usually ups HDL.

Anyway, studies aren't composed of 1 person for many reasons and changing multiple variables isn't a good idea if you are trying to 'prove' something. Again, I only read the synopsis so I'm guessing I'm missing a lot of info.

I bought 6.5 lbs of Lemonheads at my local supermarket. I hope Fat Head was as at least as awesome but I doubt it.

I've queued it for tomorrow morning.

I liked the part were they figured out that Morgan Spurlock couldn't have eaten the amount of calories he claimed to have. Then they call him to confirm and see his notes and they refused! :bigsmile:

Except Tom Naughton pushed the idea that calories didn't matter, that weight gain is controlled by carbs. There's no question Spurlock ate a ton of simple carbs. By Naughton's own premise, Spurlock absolutely could and should have gained the weight he did.

You can't claim calories in/out is a lie but then try to use the theory to discredit someone.

i like it.
so much better than fat, sick, nearly dead and supersize me.

I love it. Very educational and entertaining at the same time. I always show it to family and friends and suggest it to others.

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I liked the part were they figured out that Morgan Spurlock couldn't have eaten the amount of calories he claimed to have. Then they call him to confirm and see his notes and they refused! :bigsmile:

Except Tom Naughton pushed the idea that calories didn't matter, that weight gain is controlled by carbs. There's no question Spurlock ate a ton of simple carbs. By Naughton's own premise, Spurlock absolutely could and should have gained the weight he did.

You can't claim calories in/out is a lie but then try to use the theory to discredit someone.

No, he was making the impression that calories in vs calories out is over simplified. He is correct.

Eat a daily diet of 2000 calories consisting 100% fat, or 100% protein, or 100% carbs and see how poorly it will go. The premise of his diet is that reduction in carbohydrate will help by playing a positive roll on hormones, and to use common sense along with a caloric deficit.

It's not necessary to vilify one particular food and I don't believe he was doing that. If anything, he vilifies ignorance and extremism by using Super Size me, and fat-phobic extremists. Besides, 100carbs per day in his diet is not exactly low carb, it's merely a restriction. Low carb is half that, and even less for the Keto diet.

The lesson I took away form Fat Head was to use common sense and to educate myself.

That movie was crap. It was disinformation. The guy participated in a short term calorie restriction diet and claimed that he achieved better health. Very short sighted.

hmmm? so you're saying he made a doc where he did what he claimed... and that was disinformation??? i'm not following the logic here.