Eating a rugby player’s bulking diet for a week? It defeated me

Super Size Me was an award-winning 2004 documentary in which an American film-maker ate solely McDonald’s, three times a day, for a month. The now deceased Morgan Spurlock gobbled down 5,000kcal a day during the experiment, which led to the then-32-year-old gaining 11.1kg, high cholesterol, a fatty liver, mood swings, and sexual dysfunction.