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If you have not seen the award-winning film documentary, Super Size Me, by
actor-director Morgan Spurlock, then it's time for a trip to the video store.
You can view the movie trailer, and learn more about the movie, by visiting
their Web site at www.SuperSizeMe.com.
The premise for the movie is simple enough. What would happen if an otherwise
healthy and fit person ate nothing but fast food for 30 days? At the outset, the
medical doctors monitoring Spurlock, the star and guinea pig of the
movie, speculated that nothing much would happen. The body will adjust, they
said, with minimal negative effects. After all, it was only to be for 30 days.
Half way through the ordeal, however, the doctors were incredulous and called for
Spurlock to end the experiment. They knew that a person could destroy his
or her liver in 30 days with enough alcohol. But too much fast food? That seemed
preposterous. And yet Spurlock quickly starting packing on the pounds, losing
fitness, and having his vital signs deteriorate to dangerous levels.
Spurlock nevertheless persevered, and as time went on he experienced a wide
variety of additional serious health problems, including mood swings,
depression, and sexual dysfunction. By the end of 30 days, he had gained almost
30 pounds and found himself addicted to a high-calorie, high-fat, and
high-glycemic diet. It then took him more than nine months to lose the weight he
had gained.
Unfortunately, Spurlock's experiment is many people's lives. A recent news story
reported on how French Fries have become the staple of school lunches and many
diets. We are eating the kinds of foods that make us overweight and threaten not
only our quality of life but life itself.
We are literally eating ourselves to death, and we find ourselves in a vicious
circle -- the more high-calorie, high-fat, and high-glycemic foods we eat the
more we want to eat. That's the way such foods are designed to work. They
undermine our will power and make us crave more of the same. It's not that we
are sick, dumb, crazy, and stupid. It's that we are addicted to a powerful drug.
The answer is detoxification, going through the inevitable withdrawal, and then
avoiding such addictive foods in the future. Like alcoholics who refuse to take
a drink, we need to refuse to eat high-calorie, high-fat, and high-glycemic
foods. Instead of "super sizing" our meals, we need to under size them. This
will break the vicious cycle and help to bring us back into the picture of
health.
Coaching Inquiries: How often do you eat fast food or other high-calorie,
high-fat, and high-glycemic foods? How often do you "super size" your meals? Do
you control what you eat, or does what you eat control you? Does your
environment support or interfere with your ability to do better? Who could
assist you to break the cycle?
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