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oh great now you got me hungry for pickled liver

is there like foie gras but instead of fat goose iiver it's like alcoholic goose liver

I had it in my head that he had cancer. And blamed that on McDonald's.

RIP

Not to defend him, but in the documentary he said that he would say yes every time a McDonald's employee asked him if he wanted a supersize portion.

So at least he was showing how much McDonald's wanted you to eat as much as possible. This lead to McDonald's removing their supersize portions.

As someone from the long long ago, it's funny seeing this post. For my generation, this has the same vibe as "of course smoking is bad for you", meanwhile the generation before mine was saturated in tobacco smoke and normalized tobacco culture. Sure, there was always an undercurrent that it was bad, but there wasn't the vehement rejection of it like today.

You could go back further again and do it with something like not wearing seatbelts. The value of seatbelts is obvious now, but it wasn't always part of the zeitgeist.

The same goes for fast food. We knew it wasn't great, but healthy eating awareness was hardly a thing back then, especially compared to what it is today. It is precisely because of things like Supersize Me raising awareness, (even ham-fistedly in retrospect) and changing the culture, that we get to call out that shit as obvious today.

You had to be there. You're welcome.

I think one of the reasons he did it was an executive from McDonald's had stated that their food was healthy and someone could eat it everyday for a month without health consequences. His goal was to prove this was an obvious lie. Secondly how many low income people are stuck in a system where this is the only food that is conveniently available and how that is making generations of low-income households sick.

Not sure about the alcoholism - but this wasn't a strict scientific trial so...

It's like all those times people try and claim that Coca-Cola can dissolve teeth and is therefore really bad. Ok, then let's do a control test where you do the same thing with other drinks, including freshly squeezed orange juice, milk, and gin.

Because the thing is I know for a fact that the tooth will dissolve in the orange juice and the milk but not in the gin. So I guess gin is good for you then.

Stupid experiment, stupid conclusion

Getting people to understand something in concept is pretty easy. I can presently berate you about like 15 things you’re currently doing poorly, but that won’t cause you to drink in my meaning and improve. The US is full of fatties who are draining the healthcare system’s available time.

Putting the onus on people to change, and shaming fast food companies for providing meals that actively detract from the quality of life of everyone in the US, that was the purpose.

But making healthy foods more accessible and easier would have been my pick.

What, eating vast quantities of fast food every day is bad for you? Of course it is, are you fucking retarded?

FTFY

McDonald's isn't good food, nor is it good for you, byt being disingenuous in what is supposed to be a documentary is also not good. Calling out a liar doesn't mean you're a shill for the one who's being lied about.

The fries don't decompose.

Not disinformation. A 2006 study explicitly studied and showers that while a heavy diet fast food diet is not good for your liver, it cannot explain the extremely poor liver conditions Morgan presented in the documentary.

10 years later, Morgan admitted that he was a heavy alcoholic during filming.

Fast-food-based hyper-alimentation can induce rapid and profound elevation of serum alanine aminotransferase in healthy subjects - PMC - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2565580/

A Big Mac Attack, or a False Alarm? - WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-big-mac-attack-or-a-false-alarm-1527114255

I don’t know if Morgan was an alcoholic or not

he was. and he kept it a secret during the documentary. There's even a moment in it where the doc basically said "I only see values like this in alcoholics" This alone basically completey invalidates anything in the documentary. regardless of any health problems fastfood might cause.

In 2017, Spurlock – who previously told his doctors he did not drink – admitted to copious amounts of alcohol consumption during the making of the film. Documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer questioned whether this may better account for Spurlock's liver issues and other health problems, since it is uncertain whether he changed his alcohol intake during the experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me#Counter-claims

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-big-mac-attack-or-a-false-alarm-1527114255

There are not millions of Americans eating the largest possible McDonalds meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That has never been reality.

If for no other reason, that's like $20-40 of spending every day ($600-$1,200 in a 30-day month), and most Americans don't have that much money for food.

It's a lie, but it fits my narrative so free pass. Got it 👌.