Morgan Spurlock Insight

Sprinkled across the blog I’m sure I’ve hinted at this concept before. It’s nothing I’m really going to go into great detail with because there’s really no need. That’s why I’ll keep today short.

Depending on what your diet consists of, it can have a massive effect on your entire state of being. Aside from the fact that if you eat unhealthy you’ll gain weight and have less energy (the 2 obvious ones) a crappy diet can make a laundry list of other problems for you.

I actually wanted to put this video up to demonstrate an extreme example of this concept. In the documentary film “Super Size Me” Morgan Spurlock eats McDonald’s for 30 days straight (and doesn’t die).

As you can see it was a really bad idea. Whether you’ve seen the movie or not I’d recommend it if your trying to understand dieting health better.

Morgan was under close and careful medical supervision the entire time he was doing this experiment. What I recall most clearly in the entire movie was one of the scenes where he is being evaluated by one of the physicians that was watching him.

I don’t think Morgan told the doctor that he was eating fast food and exclusively McDonald’s becuase the doctor said something that stood out to me.

He said something like “Your cholesterol levels and these other levels are off the charts, literally. I would suggest getting of your high fat diet immediately. You could have kidney or liver failure and seriously ruin some of your vital working organs”.

Aside from the fact that he was told that he could die from the experiment, that’s not what stood out to me.

The doctor said “high fat”.

And its true when you think about it. Fast food is essentially eating high fat foods and accepting that very fact.

But that’s not the main point I’m getting at here.

Here’s a simple tip or rule that you can go by from now on that will help you judge your eating habits better. Along with judging if this meal is fatty or unhealthy, think about how it will make you feel. Food often times translates to ones mood.

Like sugar gives you an energy high for a brief period, and then you crash. Greasy fried food makes you tired and lethargic directly after you eat it. Fruits and vegetables help me breath and make me feel awake (just sharing personal interpretation on that one, yours could be different). And Chinese takeout makes you feel bloated for 30 minutes, but then your hungry another 30 minutes later and are craving more of it like a drug.

As you can see from my cheesy examples that its actually quite obvious that food can make us feel differently. Maybe we just don’t pay attention to it becuase we have enough to worry about right.

But my advice would be to do the exact opposite of neglecting something that is such a huge proponent of healthy living and start thinking about this a little more from now on.

Don’t go crazy with it and think because you ate a piece of tiramisu that your going to break out into a cold sweat and succumb to heart failure. It’ll probably just make you a little sleepy. If you find yourself in a low mood for several days in a row, maybe reevaluate your diet because that might be a huge contributing factor, you just never noticed it until now.

All I’m suggesting is to give it a little extra thought. This will also contribute to better food decisions in general for you. Who knows, with a little research and experimentation, maybe there’s something out there specifically for you that could give you wings (in the metaphorical sense).

And no, I’m not talking about Redbull.