• @[email protected]
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    1397 months ago

    No one was able to replicate the level of health complications from the movie. Apparently he was a raging alcoholic.

    Alcohol kills. McDonalds is just sorta bad.

    • @[email protected]
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      447 months ago

      Yup

      Spurlock also admitted to struggling with alcoholism. While reflecting on his sobriety journey, Spurlock told ABC News he had to start with himself, adding, “I wished I’d done it 10 years ago.”

      • Gormadt
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        587 months ago

        As someone who also struggled with alcoholism, I wish I quit way sooner than I did.

        This September will mark 6 years sober.

        It’s the longest I’ve ever been sober in my entire life.

        • @Tylerdurdon
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          187 months ago

          I’ve lost a brother and highschool friend to it. You’re doing great, man. Stay with it.

          • Gormadt
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            167 months ago

            I’ve lost quite a few people to various addictions over the years. Only 1 to drinking.

            Storytime if you're curious

            That one still haunts me oftentimes (though not as much as it used to) about a decade later. They were my long-term boyfriend at the time and after our mutual long-term girlfriend passed away suddenly we both fell off the wagon hard.

            I made it out the other side of the path of self destruction, they didn’t.

            And when they passed I fell even harder into alcoholism.

            My wakeup call was when my doctor asked how many drinks I had per week and when I told him he had me go through the math right there for how I calculated it. It was over 300.

            I was there because of some health issues that turned out to be liver problems.

            I got sober a few months later.

            Sobriety can be a real bitch to maintain at first but it gets easier the longer you’re sober. Especially if you utilize the new found clarity of mind to address the causes of your addiction.

            I’ll never drink again.

        • @[email protected]
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          77 months ago

          Nice! I’m not even at a full year and I’m like, damn if I’d known the dry life would be so much better I would’ve never started drinking. Physically/mentally/emotionally/(sexually) everything has just got better. Even things like singing and dancing (which I could barely bring myself to do after a full night of boozing) are better sober.

          • Gormadt
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            77 months ago

            Thank you

            It wasn’t easy but I’d recommend it to everyone for sure

    • @disguy_ovahea
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      7 months ago

      That’s true. He died of pancreatic cancer. Heavy alcohol use can lead to conditions such as chronic pancreatitis, which is known to increase pancreatic cancer risk. The largest associated cause of pancreatic cancer is food that is cooked until charred or blackened, which you won’t find much of at McDonald’s.

      With that being said, don’t eat at McDonald’s. It’s terribly malnutritious, laden with chemical treatments, and sourced by forced prison slave labor.