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Anon watches Super Size Me (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

WKUK unintentionally nailed it lol

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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