{"id":523,"date":"2004-01-29T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T09:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=523"},"modified":"2004-01-29T09:28:20","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T09:28:20","slug":"story-idea-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/story-idea-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Story idea of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

A filmmaker went on an all-McDonald’s diet<\/a> and it made him sick as a dog.<\/p>\n

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’s entire body deteriorated.
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\n“It was really crazy – my body basically fell apart over the course of 30 days,” Spurlock told The Post.
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\nHis liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he got some doctors to go along with it:<\/p>\n

Over the course of the film, Spurlock is regularly examined by a gastroenterologist, a cardiologist and SoHo-based general practitioner Dr. Daryl Isaacs.
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\n“He was an extremely healthy person who got very sick eating this McDonald’s diet,” Dr. Isaacs told The Post.
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\n“None of us imagined he could deteriorate this badly – he looked terrible. The liver test was the most shocking thing – it became very, very abnormal.”
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\nSpurlock has since returned to normal health. “The treatment was to just stop doing what he was doing,” Dr. Isaacs says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update: the filmmaker was named best director<\/a> in Sundance’s documentary category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A filmmaker went on an all-McDonald’s diet and it made him sick as a dog. 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…<\/p>\n

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