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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Fat Head is a 2009 documentary, created as a reply to the documentary Super Size Me.In Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock ate at McDonald's three times a day, taking in five thousand calories per day and gaining weight as a result. Since eating five thousand calories a day of anything would make someone fat, comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton began wondering if it was possible to lose weight on a fast food diet. To this end, Naughton crafted a diet with three main points: He has a functioning brain. He may only eat fast food for thirty days (cut short to 28 due to his doctor's schedule). He would consume two thousand calories a day or less and avoid going over a hundred grams of carbs a day as much as possible.While it parodies and takes shots at Super Size Me in a few places, Fat Head largely goes in its own direction. The film looks at the science behind what makes a healthy diet, the political background to creating "certified healthy" foods, and the social stigma associated with those who are overweight.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The movie is available for free on YouTube, as are Naughton's talks Big Fat Fiasco, which delves deeper into how obesity became so rampant and Science for Smart People, which goes into detail about good science versus junk science.
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 Ambiguously Jewish: Tom explicitly says that he is not Jewish, but he may have family members that are because he had gone to a Passover dinner.
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 Ambulance Chaser: When discussing the lawyers who want to hold fast food companies legally liable for possible weight problems, Tom insinuates that the main reason these lawyers target fast food companies is because they have lots of money, and that the arguments they use to support fast food companies being responsible are designed to justify their greed.
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