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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.
Yup
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.
I've lost a brother and highschool friend to it. You're doing great, man. Stay with it.
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.
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.
That's still awesome progress. Congratulations.
Thank you
It wasn't easy but I'd recommend it to everyone for sure
This month marks 15 years sober for a friend of mine. Keep up the great work, you can do it.
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.
this one is news to me. how?
https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e
One line in and already sounds like a horrible parody of the states that we'd call too on the nose
It’s unfortunately constitutionally protected to use prisoners as slaves, so this is a nationwide problem.
Still sounds like a dystopian parody.
It certainly does.
holy shit
McDonald's is a perfectly fine, if high calorie meal.
It's burger, salt, and pepper + condiments. It's no worse than burgers at home. Stop making this shit up already.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t keep acrylamide, azodicarbonamide, sodium acid pyrophosphate, dimethylpolysiloxane, or tertiary butylhydroquinone in my kitchen.
https://organicconsumers.org/top-10-toxic-ingredients-used-mcdonalds/
They also continue to use PFAS in their food packaging, expecting to phase them out by the end of next year.
https://retailerreportcard.com/retailer/mcdonalds/
Unless you have a source that lists exact quantities Mcdonalds uses and at what quantity it’s toxic calling anything “toxic” is meaningless.
My digestive, cardiac, and nervous systems don’t seem to care about the law very much. Lol
Toxicologists study human health not law…
Are you citing a toxicological review? Your comment read to me like a case argument.
You know exactly what I said.
“X has toxic chemicals”
How much chemicals? Because toxicity is a result of a dosage.
That’s a good question. You should consider substantiating your dismissal of concern with a verified toxicology report. Until then, my initial claim of being “laden with chemical treatments” stands as accurate, as supported by a credible source.
What an insane take