The man who at nothing but McDonalds for a month - Dead at 53

[Ms. Toad]

10. That's certainly the headline - but like a lot of headlines it is misleading.

At the end of the month, he was 25 pounds heavier, depressed, puffy-faced and experiencing liver dysfunction.

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But the film also came in for subsequent criticism. Some people pointed out that Mr. Spurlock refused to release the daily logs tracking his food intake. Health researchers were unable to replicate his results in controlled studies.

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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.

Pretty well documented that alcohol abuse is tied to liver disease, among other things.

But . . . it's trendier to blame McDonalds.