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‘Super Size Me’ Director Passes Away At 53

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Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker best known for his McDonald's documentary “Super Size Me,” has passed away due to complications of cancer.

He was 53.

“It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” his brother Craig Spurlock said in a statement, according to Fox News.

“Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and generosity. Today the world has lost a true creative genius and a special man. I am so proud to have worked together with him,” he added.

“'Super Size Me' filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died at the age of 53 from complications of cancer. Spurlock released a documentary in 2004 where he ate McDonalds every day for 30 days. At the end of the experiment, Spurlock's cholesterol shot up 65 points and he gained a whopping 24.5 pounds,” Collin Rugg wrote.

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Per Fox News:

A native West Virginian, Spurlock made waves in 2004 with “Super Size Me,” when he ate nothing but McDonald's for a month. The documentary, innovative and jarring, showed how Spurlock's physical and mental health changed over the course of 30 days.

It took Spurlock 14 months to lose the weight he had gained during the experiment.

His next big project was in 2008, with “Where In the World is Osama bin Laden?” Throughout the documentary, Spurlock tries to locate the now-deceased terrorist.

Additional projects include “One Direction: This Is Us” and the reality television show “30 Days,” which he executive produced and starred in.

From Variety:

Spurlock rose to prominence for “Super Size Me,” in which he conducted an experiment involving consuming only food from McDonald’s for a 30-day stretch. The rules also included the stipulation that Spurlock could not refuse the “super-size” option if prompted during the transaction. The filmmaker also exercised less to match the average American’s physical activity. By the end of the experiment, Spurlock claimed that he gained 25 pounds and suffered from depression and liver dysfunction.

“Super Size Me” captured the zeitgeist when it released in 2004, grossing $22 million at the global box office and sparking a conversation about how the fast food industry encourage poor nutrition among the general public. McDonald’s discontinued its “super-size” option in the time following its release. Though the doc is still utilized as an educational aide in some school health classes, it has also sparked debate over its accuracy in the years since, with some criticism citing Spurlock refusing to publicly share his diet log from filming. Spurlock later disclosed that he struggled with alcohol abuse — a factor that some consider would’ve been a likely influence on the doc’s conclusions regarding liver dysfunction.

“Morgan Spurlock, of supersize me, who I knew,, was fully vaccinated to the hilt. Pushed the vaccine on others, and said it was the real science. Now he’s dead of cancer at barely 53,” Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News said.

“Vaccinate New York. I got vaccinated!” a sticker Spurlock posted to social media in 2021 said.

“And so should you,” the caption read.

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