{"id":2174,"date":"2004-01-25T05:42:50","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/25\/the-joys-of-mcdonalds\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:24:09","slug":"the-joys-of-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/25\/the-joys-of-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of McDonalds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11922,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com\\\/entertainment\\\/16393.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com\\\/entertainment\\\/16393.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mcdonalds.com\\\/app_controller.nutrition.item.10010.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070702100115\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.mcdonalds.com:80\\\/app_controller.nutrition.item.10010.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:29:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:29:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11921,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081011021744\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org.\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:29:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 20:29:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/entertainment\/16393.htm\" title=\"ARCH ENEMY\">Eeeewwwww<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  LAST February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig.<\/p>\n<p>  His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald&#8217;s and document the impact on his health.<\/p>\n<p>  Scores of cheeseburgers, hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate shakes later, the formerly strapping 6-foot-2 New Yorker &#8211; who started out at a healthy 185 pounds &#8211; had packed on 25 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>  But his supersized shape was the least of his problems.<\/p>\n<p>  Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock&#8217;s entire body deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p>  His liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.<\/p>\n<p>  Over the course of the &#91;month&#93;, Spurlock &#91;was&#93; regularly examined by a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist and SoHo-based general practitioner Dr.\u00a0Daryl Isaacs.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;He was an extremely healthy person who got very sick eating this McDonald&#8217;s diet,&#8221; Dr.\u00a0Isaacs told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;None of us imagined he could deteriorate this badly &#8211; he looked terrible. The liver test was the most shocking thing &#8211; it became very, very abnormal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Spurlock, who says he ate at McDonald&#8217;s only sporadically before his total immersion in the Mickey D&#8217;s menu, says he even began craving fat and sugar fixes between meals.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;I got desperately ill,&#8221; he says. \\&#8221;My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I&#8217;ve never had in my life.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;My knees started to hurt from the extra weight coming on so quickly. It was amazing &#8211; and really frightening.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;ve got a sudden craving for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/app_controller.nutrition.item.10010.html\" title=\"McDonalds Nutrition Information\">Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese<\/a>. ;)<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/index.html\" title=\"kottke.org\">Kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Get Off My Land&#8221; by Operatica from the album <em>O Vol. 1<\/em> (2000, 5:05).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald&#8217;s and document the impact on his health. Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock&#8217;s entire body deteriorated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}