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I hate to defend mcdonalds, but a dude died 20 years after eating exclusively mcdonalds for a month.
Yeah, no.
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And during that documentary (which no one was able to replicate) he was essentially an alcoholic, which is the real reason his liver enzymes were elevated and is statistically a much greater contributor to poor health than McDonalds.
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Only took 20 years!
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He ate McDonald's for 30 days. He was vegetarian and into fitness the rest of his life.
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He was a raging alcoholic who hid his illness from the medical professionals who examined him as part of his Super Size Me "experiment." A lifetime of booze did way more damage than 30 days of McDs possibly could.
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And a whole lot of alcohol.
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They tried to give him a tv show. The premise was having people from opposite backgrounds swap lives. I watched one episode. It was shit.
He had one good (gimmicky) idea. The findings were shaky. It was still entertaining. Cancer is a son of a bitch.
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See also: the documentary starting Mr Spurlock titled, Super Size Me
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“That is the joke” -McBain
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No one was able to replicate the level of health complications from the movie. Apparently he was a raging alcoholic.
Alcohol kills. McDonalds is just sorta bad.
Yup
As someone who also struggled with alcoholism, I wish I quit way sooner than I did.
This September will mark 6 years sober.
It's the longest I've ever been sober in my entire life.
That’s true. He died of pancreatic cancer. Heavy alcohol use can lead to conditions such as chronic pancreatitis, which is known to increase pancreatic cancer risk. The largest associated cause of pancreatic cancer is food that is cooked until charred or blackened, which you won’t find much of at McDonald’s.
With that being said, don’t eat at McDonald’s. It’s terribly malnutritious, laden with chemical treatments, and sourced by forced prison slave labor.
Who would actually try this? They said that McDonalds stopped the super-size shortly after wards, so it would have been hard to replicate anyway.
His method wasn't specifically about eating super-size, it was just that he ate nothing but McDonald's for a month (and probably a lot of booze according to various sources).
I believe a school tested it with some volunteers, someone also challenged the original movie by eating a healthy amount of calories of just McDonald's food.
TIL source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/complicated-legacy-morgan-spurlock-super-193308722.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK6_h64dM1XB5-l8jg1Hqw03M3z2qBDWLUhQeP-5zsfRsz3o2876r3D3JDnoKpuhDWYPJTDkYnfIEDm5gfOyyLVMwJG7irmj7fFO7iC3-uEiRY3UynyLYh_vPTSbubS9KiU-MgVudtzkLVvtyGg7TOvvC4xzmIhPG-V2UBT_baca