I guess everyone saw this „documentary” at school ;)
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He also made a documentary 'Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?'.
He, I shit you not, correctly guessed that he was hiding in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
If only he wasn't a raging alcoholic. Kinda fucks up the whole 'health conscious' vibe here — even if he was absolutely correct that fast food is just fucking bad for you.
It might have something to do with me being European, but I don't even specifically remember the liver damage, and I've watched it a lot. Mostly the shock of the sizes in general and how unhealthy he looked while on the diet - the oily skin and the belly that formed.
Of course, this doesn't take away from the fact he should have been more honest about intake in a documentary, but also, you know, alcoholism. Lying about how much you drink is kind of a part of it for most people.
I had it in my head that he had cancer. And blamed that on McDonald's.
Morgan died of cancer a couple years ago. Probably nothing to do with the raging alcoholism and the mcbinge
TIL
when the doctor tells him he's pickling his liver, then abruptly refuses to appear on camera again, that should have been a pretty serious giveaway.
I haven't even clicked the link yet and I'm already laughing at "I bet I can jump down all these stairs and land on my side!"
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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
there's the ortolan bunting, a small bird similar to a finch or sparrow, which in France is caught wild, fattened, drowned and marinated in brandy, plucked, roasted, and eaten whole, liver (and bones, and everything except the beak) included
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We had to watch the first part of it several times over in school and I don't really understand what the point was. Usually got started in the lesson and then the lesson ended but it would never get finished later.
What, eating vast quantities of fast food every day is bad for you? Of course it is, are you fucking retarded?
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
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.
People fought drunk driving measures, antilock brakes, seatbelts and airbags.
This was exactly my thought; feels similar to people's response to PSAs regarding forest fires: "you had to be told to put out camp fires or check they're fully put out?"
Clearly, history indicates that concepts don't stick unless drilled into "common cultural sense".
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.
My takeaway when I watched it was that it's the fries and drink that are bad for you. He interviewed the eccentric guy who ate Big Macs every day and was skinny/healthy, probably because he never ate fries or drank the sugary drinks.
As opposed to restaurants which still do just drop 2500 calories on the plate and call it a day?
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...
Not buying the low income excuse, when I was on low income I would have loved to have enough money to be able to afford fast food every day. If I had been doing that I wouldn't have been able to afford rent.
I don't go to mcdonalds but just looked up their prices. A single "big arch" (wtf is that? first thing on the menu) for £10, about the same as a weeks worth of food with the sort of things I was getting poverty shopping.
You may not know this but when it was made McDonald's was vastly cheaper than it is today. Double cheeseburgers were just a single dollar. It's somewhat difficult to achieve a multi ingredient hot meal for that price with groceries and it requires doing meal prep and reheating. Today's McDonald's is way more expensive which completely invalidates the case for eating it at all outside the breakfast menu (actual eggs).
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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.
The US is full of fatties who are draining the healthcare system’s available time.
That's mean.
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I think he died tho
Huh, so he did, of cancer in May 2024.
The McDonalds is INSIDE THE HOUSE!
Meanwhile, Super High Me is still 100% solid gold cinema.
A misinformation/propaganda greentext from 4chan? Say it ain't so.
I don't know if Morgan was an alcoholic or not, it's unfortunate if he was, but if you are eating a combined high fat and high sugar (particularly high fructose, as found in soda) diet like he was, you are going to fuck with your liver for sure, regardless. Especially if there is no exercise as well. Quickest way to fatty-liver disease.
But sure, do a favor for the sugar lobby and blame it all on one guy's alleged alcoholism. It's not like he's around to clarify things anymore, or anything.
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
Again about this? McD shills have nothing better to do than infiltrate 4Chan now?
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.
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This shit did tons of damage in the food education areas. So many morons, included here, screeching at McDonald's.
It's a cheap salty burger. Nothing more, nothing less.
The fries don't decompose.
Neither does anything else that is salted to all hell. Salted meat and brine-pickled stuff were some of the earliest ways to make things last for months. And I guarantee that in the right conditions, the fries will decompose just fine.
It's not even really salt. It's just dryness.
McDonald's food can be kept from decomposition when laid out flat to be dried out from the ambient low humidity air. But that is true of any other burger or fries of the same size.
And when kept in a moist/humid environment, the McDonald's food will mold and rot, just like any other similar food in that environment.
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yeah fast food is disgusting. that's about right
Still really fun to watch lol
Thats exactly the lifestyle of millions of USAmericans tho, so it carries value regardless.
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