Supersize Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is dead to me

Oh shit, he’s dead.

He was a huge alkie. I bet the form of cancer he died from is one of the ones caused by long term alcohol abuse.

Was it the long term effects of the Big Mac?

Those McNuggets finally caught up with him.

He was kind of cute, but he couldn't live forever

Vaxxed?

I blame McDonald’s

"I sit around watching hero after hero, man after man, fall at the realization of their past indiscretions, I don’t sit by and wonder ‘who will be next?’ I wonder, ‘when will they come for me?’”

And this is the reason American men vote for Trump. They think their fellow rapist will protect them. He's their only weapon against the #metoo ladies coming for them.

Wow, I didn’t see that one coming.

Probably got cancer from all that McDonald's beef and fried crap in God knows what cancer inducing shitty oil.

But that's show biz.

If you read about him, his documentary was a huge fraud. So not a surprise since he was a major alcoholic.

How was his documentary a “huge fraud” R11. I only remember thinking it was pointless stunt.

I think “orbiting fame” can be dangerous, with layers of scrutiny and a pressure to manage perceptions of your work and life. He did cobble together a career in nonfiction media, and that’s impressive. It looks like he tried to get ahead of some negative exposure and sort of cancelled himself. I remember reading about that with only a passing interest at the time.

I’m sorry he is gone so young. I feel sorry for his family.

Something never spoken… yes, eating only McDonald’s is unhealthy, but he was also abusing alcohol and drugs at the time. Something else that is unhealthy. But that came out years later.

[quote]I feel sorry for his family.

Me too.

[quote]Spurlock is survived by two sons, Laken and Kallen

His doc was not peer-reviewed study, so it was an anecdotal story of his experience with fast food. It's going to feel like fraud to some people as a result, but I think it was a net positive as the food is genuinely nasty. Western culture needs to let go of the burger and fries as the centrepiece fast food meal.

[QUOTE]If you read about him, his documentary was a huge fraud. So not a surprise since he was a major alcoholic.

I didn't know about the alcoholism. It explains why his liver levels were so messed up. I remember at the time when watching being suspicious that a month (or however long) of McDonald's eating could so throw his liver out of whack. I can't remember what the doctor said exactly when he delivered the news but he made it sound very grim., like "you really need to do something about this."

How was the drug and alcohol abuse revealed? The chef girlfriend?

Western culture? You mean American culture?

Oh shit. I’m sorry Mawma!

I always thought he was hot. I'm a pushover for redheaded men with beards.

R17 yes, he was an alcoholic and drinking all the time while making that Doc. That’s why his liver was fucked. Not the fast food. There are others who tried what he did and didn’t have nearly the reaction he did. Of course all our bodies are different but since then it’s come out he was on the bottle heavy. His doc was a sham.

McDonalds is trash but the doc was dumb. Obviously if you eat fast food excessively it'll impact your health (although he was a heavy drinker which he fraudulently didn't admit in the doc).

But others did the same experiment, ate McDonald's in moderation and exercised, and they actually lost weight.

Wait, how do you know he was an alcoholic, r21?

He died of cancer complications, according to CNN.

Classic Lizsha OP, well done.

He was a handsome guy.

Maybe he drank because he was in the closet?

There's nothing on his Wiki page about Supersize Me and any controversy. But it is fraudulent to present poor liver function as the result of a McDonald's diet instead of the real culprit .

But there is this, consistent with alcohol abuse:

[QUOTE]In December 2017, Spurlock wrote a blog post admitting to what he called a history of sexual misconduct and saying that he was "part of the problem".[43][7] In the post he said that he was accused of sexual assault while in college.[7] After publishing his blog post, he stepped down from his position with Warrior Poets, a company he had founded in 2004.[44] The move subsequently ended his career as a documentary film-maker.[7]

They love McDonald's outside America as well.

There is a McDonald's at the Spanish steps in Rome and one across from the Pantheon.

An Italian friend likes their ice cream. And he's got all the insanely good gelato available around him.

We know he was an alcoholic because he admitted it. When he confessed to sexual harassment a few years ago, he said he'd been "consistently been drinking since the age of 13" and that he hadn't "been sober for more than a week in 30 years."

He was really cute, back in the day.

R16- You sound like a FRAU

McDonald's and fast food SLOP in general is NOT tasty.

R20 I have the same taste. I always thought he was gorgeous.

Thanks R29

R31 - you need to read r16 again. 😂 The Dollar Tree 🌳 has reading glasses of varying magnification levels for $1.25.🤓

It was the Vaxx! I knowed it! I seen it on my tele vision!

53 year olds don't die every day!

R26 the world doesn’t revolve are your sexuality. And there are MANY reasons someone could become an alcoholic, the main one being genetics. Just because your entire personality and world revolves around you being gay doesn’t mean that is the case for everyone. And not every time a person is a druggie or drunk is because of their sexuality. We all have different issues we are dealing with. You live in a warped bubble of falsities and delusions. You don’t even have a job. Maybe it’s time to experience the world and get off your ugly lazy fucking ass.

Revolve around*

R36, calm your rage. That was way out of proportion.

R28 McDonald’s outside of the USA isn’t the same. At least educate yourself before saying things.

R33 a simple google search was able to find me sources about him admitting he’s an alcoholic. Why was it so hard for you?

There’s no doubt that fast food is generally very unhealthy. The wild card in all this is genetics. Some people have excellent genetics and eat what they want. Others have terrible genetics and can’t eat what they want. There are people who have excellent genetics and take care of themselves—those people live ling, healthy lives generally. My friend’s mother is like that. Great genetics and ate very healthy, only started slowing down at age 91.

Some people take care of themselves and eat healthy and still develop all types of shit. Genetics play a large role in all things.

R29 thanks for posting that article. He did a good job in addressing the sexual harassment claims. I’m sure he did so because he was outed or about to be outed for his actions. Still, one of the better me too apologies.

I watched the documentary when it first came out and I was deeply skeptical of his claims that 1-month of McDonalds damaged him so badly. I certainly understood why it made him feel lousy but healthy livers are very resilient. He should have disclosed he was a heavy drinker or not included the doctor who warned him that his liver was in jeopardy.

Anyway, it still was a good film. And moved the needle a bit on raising awareness about dangers of fast food.

McDonalds breakfasts are actually some of the healthiest in the fast food game and even health nuts say the Egg McMuffin isn’t bad.

I'm not r36, but you can go fuck yourself with the tone policing. R38.

R38, that guy loses his shit all the time. lol His anger is always way over the top so you can tell it’s him even tho it’s anonymous.

Genetics play a far larger role than we like to think - my grandparents ate a typical red meat American diet, had ice cream every night and my grandfather was a heavy smoker for 70 years - they both lived past 90. Their daughter was a health food / jogger type and died of cancer at 46, but my mom and my other aunt have always ate whatever and are both going strong in their late 80s. It’s all a crap shoot.

In my experience, you do feel better overall when you eat better, but it may not really make much difference in terms of longevity.

R47 100%. My stepfather smoked since he was 9. Yes. You read that right. He started smoking at 9. He’s still around today and healthy as fuck. But my paternal grandfather died in his 40s from lung cancer and barely smoked.

I’m of the opinion that drinking and smoking and eating junk in moderation prolongs some people’s lives because it decreases stress. Key is moderation. A cocktail every evening will relax you, three cocktails every evening will do some damage.

A cocktail every evening is bad for you. That isn’t moderation if it’s now daily.

R50 my great grandmother who lived to her 90s would disagree. Btw, a cocktail has one shot —1-1.5oz—of hard liquor in it. Anymore tips it into a two drink level.

R51 yes, just because that worked for her doesn’t mean it would work for someone else. Idiot.

[quote] Genetics play a far larger role than we like to think - my grandparents ate a typical red meat American diet, had ice cream every night and my grandfather was a heavy smoker for 70 years - they both lived past 90

But how much red meat and ice cream did they eat R47? The problem with people is how much of each they consume. I rarely see fat old people, and old Americans never seem to eat fast food on the regular like younger generations in America do.

The baby boom generation seems to differ though, in that a lot of them did drugs that their parents didn’t

R52 you sound bitter about your bad genetics, loser. You’re probably ugly too.

[quote] I only remember thinking it was pointless stunt.

There was a stunt-like quality to Supersize Me. I realize it wasn't a scientific documentary, but I think he could have eaten McDonald's for dinner (one meal, not every meal) every day -- then check his numbers after 2 months or so. Most people with shit diets probably eat fast food 1X per day, not 24/7. So, that would've been more interesting, IMO. Of course, you are going to feel like shit eating McD's 24/7.

R54 the point is genetics are what is most important in ALL things. From the way we eat to addictions to diseases. Some of us have higher risks. Why? Because of our genetics. That’s life.

[QUOTE]A cocktail every evening is bad for you. That isn’t moderation if it’s now daily.

R50 - This sounds like an opinion rather than verified empiricism. Could you provide some backing for your claim?

R57 yeah. Look up what moderation means. Retard.

R53 - They did eat in moderation - grandpa also usually had one drink a day - (which I think for the WWII Generation was moderation), but he smoked like a chimney - over a pack a day. Both were short Italians — grandpa was stocky (in retrospect he was a fairly mesomorphic guy) and grandma was built like Aunt Bee - she always used to complain / joke “I have no waist.”

The weren’t at all fat by todays standards, but as grandma said “I’m no Cover Goil.” They were Brooklyn before Brooklyn was cool.

[QUOTE][R57] yeah. Look up what moderation means. Retard

Whoa, you're called out for your lack of intellectual rigor and "Retard" is the best you've got? Why couldn't you have highlighted "empiricism" to get a Google definition before shitting in your own mouth and making a fool of yourself? Dang.

Twitter is apoplectic right now about his death. Everyone is trying to attach their conspiracy theories and political agendas onto it. What a shitshow.

I'd really like to know what cancer he had. He was pretty young.

Almond milk and Kale are deadly. - McDonalds.

[quote]A cocktail every evening is bad for you. That isn’t moderation if it’s now daily.

Queen Elizabeth had several cocktails daily. Until doctors made her stop at age 95. And then she died.

I'm not saying McDonald's is the pinnacle of nutrition, but if it really does so much damage in one month, how the hell is Trump still alive?

Never saw the movie, but wasn't he just eating junk food for a short period of time? Wasn't that the whole premise of the film? And that was 20 years ago. How in the hell could that be the reason for his death?

Always the health nuts that seem to drop dead way before their time. Meanwhile, KFC eating Big Mac hogs live way past their expected expiration date.

I have known several people that were really strict with their diets, no sugar, low salt, organic everything, and what goes into their bodies all their life. They all died very fast usually of cancer around the 50 year old. Others who should be dead living off highly processed food, takeout, drinking, smoking without any moderation live into their 80's and even 90's. They tend to die of heart attacks, but live a go 20 or 30 years longer.

My hunch is we really don't know enough about foods to be eliminating them from their diets. In the 80's a health conscious person would avoid fat at all costs. No red meat, No butter, lots of Margarine instead. No egg yolks, just the whites, pasta and other carbs were considered good for energy, fruit juices with loads of natural sugar were considered healthy alternatives to soda. Now all those things have been proven to be bad choices.

But how much damage did all that do to their body before for all those decades before they were proven wrong? I know Boomers who still stick to their 1980 knowledge of what is considered a good diet.

R67 I suspect our ethnic backgrounds plays a big part in what we should and shouldn’t eat. How else can you explain that carbs—rice— make up a good portion of the average Asian person’s diet, and yet high carbs leads to diabetes in black and Hispanics? And certain Europeans as well.

Where as Asians cant handle a lot of dairy or red meat yet your average German eats it daily

Well yes, ethnicity does play a roll, but it's the the be all end all to it. For example, I know a lot of people point to how Asians have better diet than westerners. But that fact is not entirely true. Before WW2 they didn't not eat a lot of meat because it was scarce. After the war when food like that become more abundant, the average height of kids born into that era grew on average 4 inches taller. So they were lacking all that time in some very specific things in their diet.

R67 were those healthy eaters you knew city dwellers? Did they do drugs, take meds, drink a lot? I ask only because big cities are known for high rates of pollutants, so the cancer could be from environment as opposed to food. Or if they damaged their bodies in other ways.

No R70, those healthy eaters were not drug users or drinkers. Some were city and some were rural or suburbs. Living out of a big city is no grantee of being free of cancer carcinogens. That's were a lot of those toxic things are dumped nu-noticed from the big cities, cancer pops up in a random small town 30 years later. Toxic stuff gets into the ground water even if you are miles from where it's dumped. Well water can actually be very toxic.

[quote]There's nothing on his Wiki page about Supersize Me and any controversy.

Well there's this:

Over the course of filming he gained 25 pounds (11 kg), became quite puffy, and suffered liver dysfunction and depression by the end. Spurlock's supervising physicians noted the effects caused by his high-calorie diet—once even comparing it to a case of severe binge alcoholism. Following Spurlock's December 2017 assertion that he hadn't been "sober for more than a week" in three decades, the claims of his liver dysfunction being caused by eating McDonald's food solely for 30 days have been called into question. Spurlock also did not release a diet log documenting his diet during filming of the documentary to the public.

[quote]I'm not saying McDonald's is the pinnacle of nutrition, but if it really does so much damage in one month, how the hell is Trump still alive?

That's the question we've all been asking ourselves for years.

He was kinda cute in a basic straight guy way, but I'm a sucker for that West Virginia, hillbilly-adjacent type.

I got a bi vibe from him, so I'm guessing ass cancer from HPV.

[quote]Always the health nuts that seem to drop dead way before their time. Meanwhile, KFC eating Big Mac hogs live way past their expected expiration date.

Yep. A fat, fast food consuming,, raving cokehead like Donald Trump somehow lives on.

Looks like Bill Mahr.

Alright.

[quote] Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi feels body is 'broken,' retires due to health issues

Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi, the six-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion, has announced his retirement from the sport due to rising health concerns.

"I’ve decided to retire from competitive eating. It’s all I've done for the last 20 years," Kobayashi, 46, announced in Netflix's "Hack Your Health - The Secrets of Your Gut," a documentary film that explores how food, the digestive system and gut health relates to overall well-being.

Kobayashi said decades of overeating for sport has left him with no appetite or no sensation of fullness, which his wife Maggie James said has caused Kobayashi to go days without eating anything at all.

James said her husband feels his body is "broken."

"I hear people say they’re hungry, and they look very happy after they’ve eaten. I’m jealous of those people because I no longer feel hunger," Kobayashi said in the documentary. "I hope to live a long and healthy life."

Read the thread, R66.

He was only in his 30s or so when the film was made. I think his high numbers were probably due to other factors like drinking.

Read the thread, r81.

What type of cancer?

He did a "30 Days" episode with a cute military guy (who preached anti-gay Bible verses) who went to live with a San Fran gay man.

Oprah had them on her show but I cant' find anything on YT about that either. This is all that came up =

[quote] R20 I have the same taste. I always thought he was gorgeous.

That's because you were raised right.

Nobody cares about his admitted sexual assault? Not even to blame?

^ Judge Judy

[quote] Nobody cares about his admitted sexual assault? Not even to blame?

He didn't really admit to a sexual assault. He is still saying that, in his mind, it was consensual. He admitted that in the woman's mind, it was not consensual.

[QUOTE]Looks like Bill Mahr

Exactly. Except Bill Maher is such a self-involved seeker. He'd forget who he's shilling mid-speech to stop and ask for redirection from his handlers.

[quote] A cocktail every evening is bad for you

What absolute bullshit. I have a cocktail every evening around 7pm and have for 45 years. My health checkups come back excellent every year.

I would like to have his build, 6’2” tall, 185 lbs. He was pretty fortunate genetically but looks to have struggled with impulse control with drinking. Alcohol is not your friend. I have lost some friends early in their lives to “liver cancer”, and suspect that may be a coded way of saying liver failure from chronic alcoholism. In fairness, it could happen to anyone.

Heavy alcohol and fast food diet are not kind to your liver.

[quote] What absolute bullshit. I have a cocktail every evening around 7pm and have for 45 years. My health checkups come back excellent every year.

That's a hasty generalization. Why should your personal experience prove universally true for everyone else?

He probably had a nice ass, but it couldn’t live forever.

shucks. why did I miss this? I sort of liked his stuff. he seemed to have skeletons but so do many. RIP

one year younger than I am for the record

Apparently eating McDonalds food exclusively for 30 days should have been the least of his health concerns.

I always thought he had a fairytale warlock name.

he did a show about uncovering the way things really are, one was about the elder care industry. he had his own grandmother featured in it, "tootie" was her name as I recall. she needed up dying some time near filming. it felt equal parts enlightenment and trashy exploitation. His memory will be checkered for sure

He paved the way for stunt vloggers who do life-threatening experiments for clicks. RIP

He paved the way for “fast casual” dining which is ubiquitous now

MacDonald's used to be tasty. How I loved a good Big Mac, french fries and the milk shakes where a large was huge. This was years ago. It's just as well now that it is tasteless. It's like we used to have great pastry shops but the properties became too expensive. Now we don't have any. They were fresh and delicious but it is to my health benefit. No more temptation.