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Swedish man loses weight with Max Restaurants

Posted Oct 3rd 2007 4:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Restaurants, Trends, On the Blogs, Health & Medical

I've never heard of the chain of restaurants named Max, probably because I live here in the U.S. The Swedish chain is one of the vital ingredients in the mission taken on by a guy named Johan, who has lost a lot of weight eating food from the chain (and exercising!) and is trying to lose even more (there's a few days left in his 90 day experiment to lose 20 kg - I have no idea how much 20 kg is. Readers?).

The blog's name is MinimizeMe, a takeoff on Morgan Spurlock's SuperSize Me movie, where he ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month and ruined his health (though I have serious problems with the way he did it). Max Restaurants are actually known for trying to get people to eat healthier.

[via The Grinder]

Per Se can't be super-sized

Posted Mar 31st 2007 3:02PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Snacks, East Coast, Restaurants, On the Blogs, America, Fast Food

You know him as the Super-Size Me guy. Morgan Spurlock is the guy who ate nothing but McDonald's for 30 days and lived to tell about it in a movie. New York Magazine's food blog, Grub Street, followed the director, now several years later (after a full-recovery?) and looking a little scruffier, for a few days to see how the man eats. He hasn't eaten a Big Mac since the movie, but in the past week, he did dine at Thomas Keller's Per Se, which sounds just as belly-busting as 30 days of fast food.

Burger King and other charbroilers may be singed by carcinogen suits

Posted Sep 12th 2006 5:04PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, West Coast, Beef, Broiling, Health & Medical, Fast Food

Unless you've been off the grid for the past few years, you know that fast food has been taken to task for it's being, gasp, horrible for one's health. Those laying the blame have included most notably writer Eric Schlosser in his scathing book that indicts Mickey D's et. al. and filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.

Now a lawsuit in California against Burger King Holdings and CKE Restaurants, which operates more than 1,000 Carl's Junior Restaurants, may spell trouble for operators that flame-broil their burgers.

The suit alleges that the companies violated the state's Proposition 65 by not alerting their customers that charbroiled hamburgers could contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which have been implicated as potential carcinogens. The plaintiff says that if the court rules in its favor it may sue other restaurants. If the case succeeds, the restaurants will either post warnings or install cooking devices designed to remove PAHs from food.

PAHs are created by incompletely burning organic substances. Long-term exposure to PAHs has been linked to cancer in humans. Not to make light of cancer but I'm not terribly worried about this carcinogen. Here's why: PAHs are created whenever any meat is grilled. How could something as good as a strip steak possibly be bad for you?

The Monkey Chow Diaries

Posted Jun 6th 2006 10:08AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: On the Blogs, Super Size Me, Health & Medical

What do you get when you cross Super Size Me with a Purina Dog Food commercial? You get The Monkey Chow Diaries.

For one week (it started this past Saturday), this guy is going to eat nothing but ZuPreem Diet Primate Food. And he's keeping a blog of it, of course! Check in every day to see if he's still alive, if he's suffering from cravings, and if he's turned into a monkey or something.

One week? Come on, even Spurlock did McDonald's for a month!

[thanks to Brian for the tip]

Guardian to include free Super Size Me DVD

Posted Apr 17th 2006 4:01PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: British Isles, Business, Newspapers, On the Blogs, America

According to the Guardian's News Blog, next Saturday's edition of the paper will come with a DVD copy of Morgan Spurlock's fast-food-bashing documentary Super Size Me. The DVD giveaway was also mentioned in a recent Guardian article about Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and the alleged "crisis management" responses from McDonald's concerning Schlosser's upcoming children's book Chew On This and a film adaptation of Fast Food Nation. The Guardian blog post asks readers to send in their recommendations healthy fast food options in Britain.

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Swedish man loses weight with Max Restaurants

Per Se can't be super-sized

Burger King and other charbroilers may be singed by carcinogen suits

The Monkey Chow Diaries

Guardian to include free Super Size Me DVD

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