By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
Defending McD's against Super-Size Me for the little fat people
AP’s Valerie Bauman comes to the defense of embattled, defenseless entrepreneur McDonald’s, finding a documentary that’s the anti-Super Size Me, one that advocates eating only the fast food chain’s products in order to lose weight. 
The credulous Bauman writes that after seeing Morgan Spurlock‘s documentary, “Merab Morgan decided to give a fast-food-only diet a try. The construction worker and mother of two ate only at McDonald’s for 90 days— and dropped 37 pounds in the process… Morgan, of Henderson, N.C., thought the documentary had unfairly targeted the world’s largest restaurant company, implying that the obese were victims of a careless corporate giant. People are responsible for what they eat, she said, not restaurants…. “I thought it’s two birds with one stone — to lose weight and to prove a point for the little fat people…” Continuing to speak a bizarre lingo we don’t quite recognize, Morgan [non-Spurlock division] is quoted as saying, “Just because they accidentally put an apple pie in my bag instead of my apple dippers doesn’t mean I’m going to say, ‘Oh, I can eat the apple pie.'” … One person went so far as to make her own independent film about dieting at McDonald’s. “Me and Mickey D” follows Soso Whaley of Kensington, N.H., as she spends three 30-day periods on the diet. She dropped from 175 to 139 pounds, eating 2,000 calories a day at McDonald’s. “I had to think about what I was eating,” Whaley said… Walt Riker, the company’s vice president of corporate communications, said the Oak Brook, Ill.-based company is pleased–but not surprised–that some customers have lost weight eating only at the fast-food giant.” [Photo: Ray Pride]
