"... though only temporarily; today, McDonald’s has 42,000 locations worldwide, its stock is near an all-time high, and 36 percent of Americans eat fast food on any given day.... By making himself a part of the story, Mr. Spurlock could be considered a forerunner of TikTok influencers and citizen-journalist YouTubers. And even after the backlash against fast food subsided, 'Super Size Me' remained a staple in high school health classes.... Some people pointed out that Mr. Spurlock refused to release the daily logs tracking his food intake.... And in 2017, he admitted that he had not been sober for more than a week at a time in 30 years — meaning that, in addition to his 'McDonald’s only' diet, he was drinking, a fact that he concealed from his doctors and the audience, and that most likely skewed his results.
The admission came in a statement in which he also revealed multiple incidents of sexual misconduct, including an encounter... that he described as rape.... His decision to discuss his sexual past, which came at the height of the #Metoo movement, was met with a mix of praise and criticism.... 'Career death,'
The Washington Post declared it in 2022, noting that the once-ubiquitous Mr. Spurlock had largely disappeared."
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"Morgan Spurlock, Documentarian Known for ‘Super Size Me,’ Dies at 53/His 2004 film followed Mr. Spurlock as he ate nothing but McDonald’s for a month. It was nominated for an Oscar, but it later came in for criticism" (NYT).
Career death, and now real death. He had cancer. From drink? From McDonald's? We don't know. McDonald's goes on, undying.
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They use that to food-shame kids and we wonder why so many are anorexic. There is no such thing as “bad foods”.
I don’t know that he’s the forerunner of TikTok influencers given that his style was clearly imitating Michael Moore. It figures the “documentary” was taught in schools considering what manipulative garbage it was. He himself admitted in an interview that at one point he was complaining to his brother about how sick his McDonald’s diet was making him and his brother cut him off with the observation that a month is nothing. Millions of people eat like this every day of their lives so quit being a baby.
We also know some of the scenes (like Spurlock throwing up in a parking lot) were staged, so I’m not surprised that he lied to the audience and his doctors about his actual diet and health state.
Ah, this is why we can't have nice things.
People are weird in their persistence
His life (and death) is his testimony.
People will believe what they want to believe. It takes a whole lot of medicine for some people to get through life, and some of those people are good with words and building narratives, while also being expert at keeping secrets about their real life.
We are all God's children, and we will all answer to Him. RIP.
His "documentary" was widely recognized as junk "science" from the start because one of his "rules" was always accepting the then current offer to super-size any McDonald's meal.
I wouldn't have a problem with showing it in schools so long as reasonable lessons are drawn from it. As rrsaftey notes, it's not that certain foods are bad per se.
Don't let other people make your food choices.
Food is fuel, not emotional support or a way to have fun.
Observe your body. If you feel uncomfortable, make different choices.
Alas, his life was mcburgled from him.
Tom Naughton is not as well-regarded as Spurlock was- Redditors seem allergic to mentioning his name- but then life is a marathon, not a sprint. So it goes.
Any number of health advocates, celebrities, and professional athletes are going to be added to the "taken too soon" category since 2021. Some of us know why, some of you will be unpleasantly surprised. Cancer deaths around 50 are not normal.
Food is fuel. It's just so happens that much of the food that we eat fuels a complicated specialty chemical manufacturing system. When that system is fed the wrong type of fuel instead of producing health sustaining chemicals used by every cell and every organ in the body, that fuel creates poisons.
But yeah go ahead and keep eating junk food because food is just calories in and calories out that's the only equation you need to understand. Because deep down biology is very simple kind of like those old historic tractor motors that you see at county fairs.
Reading his obituary it appears likely that alcohol did him in. If, 40 years ago, he switched his drug of choice over to cannabis like Narr, he would likely still be alive today.
But what I know I'm just a stupid libtard so keep guzzling the alcohol that breaks down into aldehydes and feeds the poisonous bacteria that thrive deep within your gut slowly rotting you from the inside out.
Hmmm...probably not going to be missed I take it.
Fast food shaming, that needs to be discouraged. After all, there are poor people in this country who can't afford to eat anywhere else. Actually they can't afford to eat at McDonalds anymore either. So...problem solved!
Morgan Spurlock should have filmed a behind-the-scenes documentary at the same time and called it "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Drunk."
Trolling shouldn't make me thoughtful, but it does. Partly because there's a pathology behind it, of course, but partly because insightful people make you think. Even when they want to be dullards.
I didn't know Morgan Spurlock had an alcohol problem, but then it usually doesn't kill you with pancreatic or liver cancer before 60. In fact, 90% of pancreatic cancer cases occur after 55. I suspect what's actually responsible is the same thing that made Damar Hamlin have an MI on field during an NFL game. But you won't get a lot of information on that unless you're already looking for his name. This is a bit of a rabbit hole, but then most oncologists don't just say "cancer" as a cause of death.
A very mysterious situation, and when you start pulling on the thread the whole sweater unravels.
I have watched it some time ago, and was suspicious about it when he vomited, from what I recall, just a few days into the social experiment. Lacking any other context took it at face value - eating poor quality (sic) food the same thing day in day out is not good for you.
Really it’s a datapoint that people fail to take control of their own lives - witness all the current complaints that fast food is extremely expensive. There’s a rather obvious solution yet people would rather waste space on the internet complaining about it and not changing the things they are in control of.
I like a Big Mac large fries and chocolate shake now and again, but I ain’t gonna lament the loss should that happen (unlikely).
Fast food is poison that makes ya fat.
But it's so tempting because it's right there when you need it.
That said - Fast Food prices under Arabella Biden, have skyrocketed.
It's Trump's fault.
His tv show "30 Days" was more interesting. It was him and mostly other people he picked doing stuff for 30 days like living on minimum wage or in jail etc.
i eat at McD's frequently while on the road..
I get a McDouble and a Large diet Coke
this comes to 400 calories* (and 35 grams of carbohydrates)
The Problem With This Meal, is that thanx to resident Biden; it costs nearly $5.
Mr Supersize always got a large fries AND a large regular coke (plus beers and beers and beers)
Please pay attention to WHERE the calories are.
400 calories* IF you ate it for EVERY meal, daily calories would be 1200; trying gaining weight on THAT!
Spurlock throwing up in a parking lot
which makes PERFECT SENSE once you realize he was hungover (or, STILL drunk)
I found Super Size Me amusing and entertaining all the while knowing it was playing fast and loose with the facts, Michael Moore style.
Who was surprised by his later revelations of alcoholism and predatory sexuality? There's something about the genre that attracts these emotionally unstable types. Almost like writers. So many giants, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hunter Thompson were alcoholics with impulsive sex drives.
On one extreme of the food spectrum, there are McD, BK, Wendy, CFA, ad nauseam.
On the other extreme there is find food in nature, harvest it or kill it, prepare it with whatever is readily at hand, and eat it (hoping that a wandering tiger does not interfere).
I'm definitely in the middle, as are most of us, but people who hew to either extreme will not do as well as those of us who moderate our quality and quantity of food.
It is unfortunate that this requires discussion; homo is not as sapient as he believes.
I will bet Spurlock has had every single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Howard suggests that if Spurlock had switched to cannabis 40 years ago he'd likely be alive today.
But that would have meant starting cannabis at 13. I don't recommend pot for kids, any more than I recommend booze for kids. I drank heavily from ages 17 - 31 and mostly smoked pot on the side after having my first toke in HS (age 17).
I never saw any of his movies, or Michael Moore's for that matter.
The fraud content of his movie was probably higher than the cholesterol level in a Big Mac. No matter. He got away with it and made a lot of money from the film. He made millions from the movie. You can fairly claim that Big Macs or anyway the movie he made about them vastly improved the quality of his life. The heavy drinking probably had far more to do with his health problems than the Big Macs.... You enjoy food not for its nutritional value but because it tastes good. You enjoy a movie not because of its educational value but because it's entertaining. His movie was entertaining.....I can understand how fast food tastes better than healthy food, but what's really worrisome is how it tastes better than even exquisitely prepared food in expensive restaurants......I recently had brunch in a good restaurant. I had that trendy avocado toast thing. It was okay, but right across the street there was a pizza place. I glumly thought that for a quarter of the price I could be eating something that tasted twice as good. I don't get what the big deal is with avocado toast. Someone should make a movie exposing how overrated avocado toast is. It's probably not all that healthy either.
I thought the whole stunt was ridiculous, and I don't even like MacDonalds. I had a co-worker drag me to Macdonalds a couple times a week, and I usually just ordered their french fries and OJ.
Of course, if you eat the worst things on the menu 3x a day without regard for calories, you'll get fat. What if you went to starbucks 3x a day and drank/ate nothing but their crap? You'd be a overly caffinated blimp in 3 months.
"Today, McDonald’s has 42,000 locations worldwide, its stock is near an all-time high, and 36 percent of Americans eat fast food on any given day.... "
And we wonder why 40 percent of Americans are obese.
I was just at starbucks and their "bacon cheese breakfast sandwich" is just a slighter better "Egg McMuffin". Their chocolate crossiant is thinly disguised candy bar. And dont get me started on their sugary "drinks"
"He had cancer. From drink? From McDonald's? We don't know."
He got the jab. We know that, he bragged about it. A lot of people who got the jab are dying young from cancer.
From an insidious condition that coexists in all of us from conception to death. The question is why his immune system failed to mitigate its progress that led to his premature passing.
"Super Size Me" was pure propaganda. The movie that rebutted it quite well was "Fat Head", where a guy ate nothing but what was served at a fast food joint and got healthier.
Another liberal idiot bites the dust.
I'll save my tears for something else.
Putting aside all the actual evidence the whole thing was bogus, even at release it simply reeked of bogocity. First person social science with about the same controls as the rest, just a different PR attack.
It's vaguely possible that his exposure as propo may have lent to the expanding numbers of exposed research papers and the closing of some publishing firms. So maybe a tiny kudos is appropriate.
Did he take the Covid shot? Nobody talks about “turbo cancer” taking out relatively young people.
could he have lived longer on regualar size me? or even dollar smaller size me?
'could he have lived longer on regualar size me? or even dollar smaller size me?'
Dollar menus have gone the way of the buggy whip.
Thanks, Joe!
At McDonald's yesterday, they asked me if I wanted to "make that a meal", and I absentmindedly said yes. The meal cost 10 dollars, which was startling. The fries added a lot of unnecessary calories, but they sure tasted good.
He was a mini Michael Moore. There is no honor in being a documentary filmmaker if your films are propaganda.
'He was a mini Michael Moore.'
Everyone is mini compared to Moore...
at the risk of sounding like a recovering diabetic..
(last A1C was 5.2, this morning's weight was 258lbs; thank you!)
The True Villain at McD's (and EVERYWHERE) is the Large Fries and the Large regular Cokes..
Fries and Cokes represent More Than half cost of the "meals"
Fries and Cokes represent More Than half calories of the "meals"
Fries and Cokes represent MOST of the carbs of the "meals"
In the Olden Days you could get "regular" fries (Only way to get them at McD's now is in the kids meal)
So.. Skip the Fries, skip the cokes; save over 50% of the cost, over the 50% of the calories..
And MOST of the carbs (which you might not care about, but *i* do)
"Did he take the Covid shot? Nobody talks about 'turbo cancer' taking out relatively young people."
Probably because it isn't a thing.
Joe Biden, or whoever is running him, is taking down the "fast food industry" by pricing it out of reach of the poor who are its most loyal customers.
So Spurlock's show was Spurious? Shocked said I.
For McDonald's, just buying a couple of cheeseburgers does the job of being tasty and filling. Also easy to eat in the car if you are on a long run.
Vengeance is a dish best served cold, LOL.
I lost forty five pounds in 2013. One of my tactics was lunch at McDonalds or Burger King. It matters WHAT you eat, not WHERE you eat.
It has been revealed that Spur lock was a raging alcoholic. Yet, he claims he did not drink during his "research." Also, he kept no logs of his total eating. Who knows the truth?
gilbar:
(last A1C was 5.2, this morning's weight was 258lbs; thank you!)
Grats.
Ditto on the grats, gilbar and everyone else who has vanquished fat. I'm starting to gain back --been slacking on the walking cure.
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