 John Alleman visited the Heart Attack Grill so often, the restaurant designed an entire line of clothing featuring a cartoon of its beloved "Patient Joe," and placed his face front and center on their menu. Now the restaurant reports via its Facebook page that its most loyal patron has passed away at age 52, from a heart attack. The nighttime construction site security guard was never officially on the restaurant's payroll, but he was such a fixture at the Downtown Las Vegas restaurant, encouraging passersby to come in, he came to be known as its unofficial spokesman. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Alleman suffered a heart attack while waiting for a bus in front of the restaurant, which boasts highly caloric menu items such as the 9,982 calorie Quadruple Bypass Burger, Butterfat Milkshakes and Coronary Dogs. Alleman remained at Sunrise Hospital until his brother Paul, his only surviving relative, made the decision to remove him from life support on Monday. Alleman passed away soon after. "Dr. Jon" refers to Heart Attack Grill's owner Jon Basso. He is neither a medical professional nor a stranger to controversy - or loss of his most avid fans. The restaurant's previous 575-pound spokesman, 29-year-old Blair River, died in March 2011 at the age of 29. In February 2012, the restaurant made headlines when another patron suffered a heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass Burger. Heart Attack Grill is perhaps best known for actively courting fans and nayayers alike with slogans like "Taste worth dying for!" and "Cash only, because you might die before the check clears." Menu items like lard-fried "Flatliner Fries," highly caloric "Butterfat Shakes" and unfiltered cigarettes abound, scantily clad female servers dressed as nurses take orders as "prescriptions," and a house policy allows diners weighing over 350 pounds to eat for free. Basso told the Las Vegas Sun that he currently has no plans to alter the Grill's menu, though it will remain closed the day of Alleman's funeral. Previously - Man suffers heart attack while eating "Triple Bypass" burger at Heart Attack Grill |
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So BSBK, what does that mean 'not liable as a taxpayer'? By law hospitals must take critical patients. The taxpayer is not paying. Those that use that same particular hospital are paying. Those that are paying the same insurer are paying. I AM tired of paying for someone else's hospital bill! You want to be a great American? Then stop eating yourself to death – literally. I am in the OR when they take all the goddamn plaque from carotid artery surgery. People are literally eating , drinking, and smoking themselves to death. It is pure ignorance and, although there is no law against it, it hurts everyone of us. Those that are close to the patient, those that must assume the responsibility or financial liability to care for the recovering patient -IF they can even fully recover, and the rest of our country that has to pay for people that have no self control, no respect for their own body or life, and what looks like to be no capacity to think properly for themselves. They may be a dumb ass but it costs YOU as well as ME. Be a GREAT AMERICAN and take care of your body–that will reduce health costs in America!!!
This story , to me, is a cautious example of the need to explore the variables of a "healthy diet". For example, the amount of "calories" is focal point of the discussion. However, does this fully explain the danger of a restaurant like this? What is it, in the meal, that is dangerous? Is it the fatty-meat or is it the bun, french fries and soda? Granted, most people that ate here, wouldn't throw out their bun or drink diet soda (I don't think diet is even offered), but the question, again, is what part of the meal it the actual bad part. I think it's harmful to assume that the entire meal is dangerous. Talk to people that have had success with low-carb diet and you'll see that they've dramatically increased their fat intake, while improving their lipid profiles.
Also, even though I'm not from America, one has to question the freedom and responsibility of the individual to make decisions. What's to stop this restaurant from being banned, like the large sodas in NY?
Matt,
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when you're eating 3,000 calorie meals laden with pure lard that it's bad for you. If you put a stick of butter in a milkshake and drink it on a regular basis, you're going to clog your arteries with cholesterol. It's just simple biology.
Really? Shouldn't be in biz is number 2? I thought american's believed in freedom. WTF! Why is it that when someone doesn't like something they say there aught to be a law prohibiting it?
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...over 350 lbs eats free? A restaurant that tells you from the outside sign that it's a death trap.
I dunno, I bet it would be ok if you went just once.
If I'm ever in Vegas or if they open another, I'm goin!
Anyone who eats regular at ths place obviously has mental health issues.
It's not healthy behaviour, and we may laugh about it, but behind it all are people who's only enoyment in life is the food they eat. They may stand behind a thinly veilied disguise of indifference the Heart Attack Grill affords them, but in end it's really just an act of suicide, albeit a tastey one at that. At least they find some pleasure and the empowerment to fulfill their destiny.Thanks to the HAG.
Hey Dave, go pizz up a rope. You have no business to place judgement on someone else when what they do doesn't impact your life. And don't give me crap about health insurance costs. Health insurance costs are determined the the insurance companies and the only thing they care about is screwing everyone.
David is right , you just can't accept it. these people have given up , they have accepted their plight and given in to their addictions. So they figure, let me go out the way I want and be happy but they are not happy, they have just convinced themselves that where they are in life is their only option. It's sad but he's absolutely right.
Spot on.
If I were visiting the area I would go...just to say I had been. I love a good burger. But eat there all the time??? My heart and health says "No". I eat mostly vegetarian (no I'm not...it's just the way my diet plays out) but a once-in-a-while indulgenece is ok. The problem is...people don't view it that way. That kind of eating is a lifestyle to a lot of people. Couldn't do it.
The food at HAG Vegas was quite good, and the atmosphere is fun and silly- great place.
One with a history background would be better able to say 'no' or 'yes' to this: Is not one of the hallmarks of a declining civilization decadence? Is what the 'Heart Attack Grill's message conveys is that of decadence?
Sorry he died but the name of the restaurant says it all. This is not health fare and if you regularly eat this kind of food, your chances of being healthy (and alive) are slim.
I imagine if this was a black guy at Popeye's
Well, at least their marketing is truthful....
I'm sure some fatty died of a heart attack after eating Pizza Hut or McDonalds yesterday. That didn't make the news....
Mama said that life is like a box of greasy covered chocolate flavored cholesterol filled cheese dipped saute'ed hamburger bun topped fried dead animal meat luggin' BURGER!
I sure love mama.
LOVE your name! LOL
RIP. I bet someone died jogging or choking on a carrot the same day.
If you think those things are equivalent to actually causing your own heart attack, you failed logic 101.
There's a t-shirt that says: "Eat right. Exercise. Die Anyway."
Another one says: "Eat right. Exercise. Die later."
Talking about shutting down that restaurant is crazy.
They have a perfectly regular sized cheeseburger on the menu, but that won't make the headlines (and it's delicious). It's a themed restaurant, the 9,000 calorie is the biggest burger on the menu (it's like 5 burgers in one). It's what they are known for but I doubt they sell too many a day.
Favorite theme of the day on this thread: The people who like to spout off the only partially true "I/we pay for his medical bills blah blah blah." Do you even know how medical billing works? What pays for what? If he had his own private insurance that is not your company, and it doesn't increase your rates, would you be less angry? Are you equally angry at the skinny person who goes to the ER once a month for non-emergent conditions? Are you upset that medicaid only pays 15% on average of a medical bill, thereby also making the rest of us who pay out of pocket pay more to help hospitals recoup the loss?
But nope, its just this fat guy's fault
Most of you are just uptight to the fact that you don't like his behavior, and you can't control it. You seriously want to close down this business because of one moron's lack of self control? Using that logic, we should close down car dealerships, because a lot of people don't adhere to the speed limit, which can lead to accidents and deaths.
Take down your imagined alleged Purported Psychic Power degree VladT for you so don't know what anyone is thinking. If that is not true then perhaps you can tell all what his thoughts were 24/7/365 not to mention moments before he stepped into his grave!
I didn't realize I was a member of the "PPP," since it is all capitalized one must assume it is an awesome club. As being psychic, no....I just read a lot of posts of people stating asinine statements about how obese people ruin the medical bills of us "normal folk," when it is obvious they do not have a clear understanding of how medical billing works
Assumptions and the obvious...well, there it is. About this delay in response...any assumptions or applicable ideas of things obvious? Feel free.
He only weighed 180 lbs.
what happened to both of his parents dying of heart attacks in their 50"s?
oh yeah...
that would make him(and you) an idiot on top of everything else.
He knew he had a genetic issue and still ate a "heart unhealthy" diet.
That is like having both parents die of colon cancer and scoffing at a colonoscopy.
Or knowing you are a diabetic and still drinking a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew everyday.
Haha....never was defending his intelligence
Sorry Vlad, you are flat wrong. I do know how it all works, and I have been involved in the negotiations to procure a medium sized group plan. I live in a town of Constitutionalist, TeaParty Hogs, and because so many people are morbidly obese, have Type II Diabetes, and have had major health claims related to diseases that people choose to get because of gluttony, my skinny vegan family has to pay premiums of $1100 per month. If we had a healthier group, our premuims would be about $700/mo. So basically, my family pays an extra $400 per month because of the fat lady in the office next to me. I rightly blame her, and her fat ilk.
Once a guy gets so fat he can't even work anymore, he gets medicare, and we all pay for it.
Health costs of people with Type II Diabetes run on everage $6000/year more than everyone else.
Oh, and we cannot discriminate against morbidly obese people in any employment decisions.
My solution: Make all products that are linked to social costs taxed to the degree of their expense, so that only people who choose to partake in unhealthy lifestyle choices pay for the cost of healthcare related to those choices. If you have one Big Mac a year you aren't doing much damage and will pay a very small health care premium, But if you have two thousand calories in fast food every day, you should be paying about $5.00 a day toward your future medical fund.
Actually, not flat wrong. I work in medical compensation...good try though. Also, rather then keep it neutral, you turned into the ultra-liberal extremist espousing your hatred for all meat lovers who may or may not be republican re: "tea party hogs." I must have missed the memo where all vegans never die of heart attacks. But yes.....many, many, and yes, repeat many different factors affecting medical payment and compensations. I decided to repeat becuase its possible your brain may not be getting enough natural protein ( shaped tofu into with beef flavoring doesn't count ). Perhaps it is your lack of protein that is making you so ornery.
You know, your skinny, twig boy, non-showering hippy vegan trash.
For the record, a proud moderate who doesn't believe that, but I despise people like you who can't discuss anything without demonstrating your partisan hatred for the other side. Perfect demonstration of what is truly wrong with this country. Enjoy your wheat germ
I second Robin's suggestion to allow for any such food but tax it according to the societal cost. Eat all you want – but not on my bill.
Well, every time it takes 3 extra people to move a patient, the other patients wait. Every time a healthcare worker goes out on disability from injuries sustained lifting / moving/ scanning obese patients, all workers pay. When hospitals have to buy specialized equipment produced solely for 450+ lb patients, every insured patient pays.
Obese patients simply take more resources, and *most* (not all) of them arrived at that condition voluntarily. It's not surprising that marketing this lifestyle is offensive to some.
I might ask for a meal from there...if I was on death row!
This is sad news. On the other hand, I don't see how people can keep a straight face at his funeral.
I am really NOT surprised at all. I do love me a burger, but not a 2000 calories in a sitting burger. I love a grass-fed/finished burger with grilled veggies. Not a corn fed burger with fried onion rings, french fries, bacon, cheese, and oh so much more!
I bet that was the most delicious death ever. I would try that place, and enjoy the most fattening meal I've ever had. Might as well.
I can go to McDonald's and eat 100 hamburgers and milkshakes and kill myself overnight too, just because this restaurant has condensed it all into a single meal doesnt mean you are any less responsible for eating it. This isnt poison, it's food. You can overinduldge in almost anything. To me the food sounds disgusting, but if someone told me I have to try a butter milkshake before I die, I'd gladly take them up on it, because I KNOW MY LIMITS. Someone this fat was going to die from obesity one way or the other, eating at this restaurant had little to do with it.
He only weighed 180 lbs.
Believe it or not, there are actually skinny fat people. He may have only weighted 180 pounds, but if he had a body fat percentage north of 30, he would most certainly be fat, if not obease. I know because I'm 5'10" and 138 pounds...but my bodyfat % is 24. If you look at me, you'd think, boy, she is skinny. You just can't see my fat because it is hiding around my organs. And before anyone gets after me about sharing this, I AM doing something about this situation. I have started going to the gym 4 times a week and have cut out sugar and refined carbs. Wish me luck.
Another dumb redneck bites the big burger... the GOP loses another vote.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the medical pathologist who willfully helped dozens of terminally ill people end their lives, same thing here knowing and willingly administering a lethal dose to someone. Heart attack grill should be shut down. there are crazy people eating there.
what kevorkian was doing was illegal, although i did not find it particularly immoral. what the heart attack grill is doing is not illegal. it should be shut down, but not by authorities of any kind, but by people refusing to eat their garbage.
Shut them down? Oh please. If people are stupid enough not to make regular, GOOD choices about food, that is their problem. I love a good hamburger with fries but I have sense enough to know that if I eat bad food all the time it's going to affect my health. People need to stop blaming other people for THEIR bad choices. Personal responsibility!
Well; with a name like "heart attack grill," you sort of know what you're getting going into it all :) Still, I don't think governments should be shutting down restaurants, and frankly, I believe in individual reponsibility. These are grown adults who can make their own choices; these are NOT children! And yes, anything can happen to anybody (I'm a schoolteacher; look at what happened in Newtown, which is less than an hour from where I live! There are also people who get ALS without any family history of anything; look at all the people that got leukemia after hiroshima, or lung cancer after 9/11; I knew someone who was perfectly healthy, and now he's in recovery from a stroke at 47, and he's a doctor no less), but a lot of people seem to use that as an excuse to neglect their bodies in some cases (which is why places like heart attack grill exist in the first place) , and I cannot help but think that some of these people WANT to die (I know quite a few of them personally). Some have even told me they can't wait to go "up the chimney..."
I try not to think that way, but to each one's own, I guess. We DO all have a date with the reaper. If you want to meet him sooner, go ahead. It's your life.
You Liberals are such Hypocrites its pathetic, your probably the same ones that whine that its our body and the government shouldnt tell us what to do with our body, then when something you dont like comes you want the government to control what people do with their bodies! DAMN YOU LIBERALS ARE SUCH HYPOCRITES ITS PATHETIC!
Careful there crazyrant, you might have a heart attack!
lol and you're probably a typical republican "stay out my business, but please enter my womb".
nothing like a sweeping generalization, eh laughing?
741am says: Weighing in on the scale in this corner, the overweight Elephant (think kinda like a Shrek-like image) tipping those scales and lumbering along, but representing the Right (wrong) and in the other corner, representing the left, comes along so slowly (not! just more cautious), the Donkey (think like an animal image of a, well, donkey slowly walking along a fiscal cliff, or any cliff, neither in front, or behind, an elephant trying to do the same) and well, there's those images. I so know this invites a touche' so feel free, and creative, like a hella crazy built heart busting burger. Excuse the latter for I, I, so couldn't help myself (not!).
The US needs bars where they can take all the dope they want, as long as they don't drive, or take any dope home. Sleep it off in their own juices. I expect a few loyal Thinkers freqeunting these bars to OD, a whole bunch to attempt to drive, flaunting the law, and of course, dope would found in every orifice of those leaving. Oh, and most of them will be overweight patrons.
Haven't you ever seen Law and Order? Dope fiends are skin and bones.
On the bright side, beats starving to death as a child on the plains of Ethiopia. Just a matter of perspective I guess.
If people want to eat themselves to an early grave then what can anyone do but let them. As long as Im not billed. I cant fault a business for providing the food. Its a persons choice to buy the food and eat it.....
We should franchise it and put one in every city. The more middle-age coronaries, the fewer who will use their medicare and Social Security. The country is overpopulated with idiots and the herd needs to be thinned out.
Frankly, I agree with out 100%
...as you text and drive.
The way food is used in our (American) culture like this restaurant, hot dog & pie eating contests, etc. Just disgusting.
I totally agree. When one meal, or the calories consumed, could feed a whole family in need it disgusts me. That "man vs food" show was so wrong on so many levels. I only caught it once and after that was surprised that guy didn't keel over!
You Liberals are such Hypocrites its pathetic, your probably the same ones that whine that its our body and the government shouldnt tell us what to do with our body, then when something you dont like comes you want the government to control what people do with their bodies! DAMN YOU LIBERALS ARE SUCH HYPOCRITES ITS PATHETIC!
Apparently there are no conservative hypocrites, just liberal hypocrites. When somone as bright as you is laughing at them, do liberals have anything to worry about?
Not unless someone tells them there is.
If someone wants to eat themselves to death, so be it. Just don't ask the tax payer or the insurance company to pay for their stupidity. Frankly, with so many stupid people in the world I wish there was a Heart Attach Grill on every corner.
HA HA
TOTALLY AGREE:)
why limit it to eating? why not smoking, or drinking, or sitting on your a$$ and not getting any exercise?
You are what you eat.
AMEN:)
Black people steal.
What does this inane comment have to do with the story?
It proves that Billy-Bobs are generally inbred
Dude, does he have to put "Troll " in his handle or what ? Being a troll is fun, and it's actually more productive than you might think. For example; all the folks that think they are really smart and contributing positive input to the dialog are really just spinning their wheels. However, we trolls, through simply spreading a little hate, tossing some bad bait, or otherwise screwing with folks, are actually having an impact. We help people to have a crappy day.
Black people steal.
Billy! Is that any way to talk about your mother?
Billy didn't have a mother; he had a bad gene donor.
I love watching idiots voluntarily remove themselves from the gene pool. Natural selection at work.
BEST comment so far!!!!!
HAHAHA
I have never been to the heart attack grill, but if I was in LV and came across it, I might go in there just for the hell of it and have a meal. One horribly excessive meal now and then does not make it out to be a life time of indulgence. The poor fellow that died obviously ate there alot, and who know if his meals there killed him or a faulty heart valve, etc. This country would be a whole lot better place if people would worry about their own lives and leave others to their own business. For those who slam overweight people, there are alot of people out there that are their size because of medical issues, after effects from injury, thyroid, heredity, etc. Not everyone who is overweight just pulls up a chair to a buffet with a knife and fork. For example, I am 6'5" and a big guy, I had my knee destroyed in a car accident and am not able to be active as I used to be and have put on more weight from being less active, being literally every step I take is pain. Does that mean I make poor choices and should be stigmatized? No. Sorry to have ranted, just tired of seeing people who throw stones at others for no other reason to just throw the stones.
Then again, doctors have made it clear that genetic and medical problems related to weight control can be overcome if the will is there to do so. And I'm sorry about your knee. Have you tried alternate workout methods? I'm not contradicting you when you say that we should stop applying stigma to overweight people, but I think using these things as excuses would set the example that you don't have to work if you think you have a good enough reason. That's a big enough problem in America as it is,
I've never made an excuse in my life and don't get me wrong, I am not implying you were saying I was. Not that the masses care, but to satisfy your curiousity being you asked, I still try to walk as much as possible, basically I was rear-ended on a freeway offramp that I was stopped in traffic on, and my knee slammed into the dash at the impact, the menisucus was shredded and most of it had to be removed via surgery. The ortho stated that due to the removal it is wearing unevenly and eventually will be bone on bone and have to have the knee replaced. Unfortunately the general rule is that they won't do the replacement until it is bone on bone which could be years. The part above and beyond that is salt on the wound per se is that I have reaction to NSAID's which are anti-imflamatories, Advil, Ibuprofen, Celebrex, etc and can't take them, so its tolerate the pain by day so I can work and function being I refuse to just sit on a couch and collect disability, etc. and then its a narcotic prescription at night if the pain gets to the point I can't tolerate it. So basically I'm in a lose lose situation. I am sure I am not the only one who has to deal with issues like this. I used to play basketball, volleyball, walk all over the place, used to take cruises and if anyone has ever taken a cruise, they know you walk all over the place and then some being the ship is nearly 1000ft long not to mention when you are off the ship. I agree with you that is a big problem in the USA, it just needs to be addressed as the medical issue that it is and not as a stigma from those who have never had to deal with it personally.
Michael, I'm a tall guy and I have had a couple of major injuries. I decided not to listen to the doctors and am looking after myself. I keep my weight down and my body responds. There are exercises, other than walking, that will keep you in shape, and there are food related things you can do to keep your weight in check. Combining those will make things a lot easier on your knee. You can't just accept what doctors tell you. They are always presenting worst case scenarios so you won't sue them for giving them too positive an outlook.
Well, the name definitely isn't hyperbole or false advertising...
Honestly, eating something like that every now and then isn't bad for you. It's just that the guy ate it all the time. If you eat nothing but broccoli day in and day out, it's probably not good for you either.
Isn't this assisted suicide?
Natural selection at work.
What irony, what Pynchon novel is this from.
Ignoring the facts on health will lead to death. Laughing won't change that, just like denying climate change won't change what's in store for all of us.
Witness Chris Christie and the very unfunny eating of doughnuts on Letterman. Republicans just want to do what feels good in the moment with no concern for consequences, be it cutting taxes with no concern for the deficit, flooding the country with guns with no concern for the victims of gun crimes, pumping pollutants with no concern for the air we breathe or the water we drink or the food we eat, or pandering to religious extremists with no concern for the human rights being violated and the pain being caused.
Bravo.
What in the world does your political ranting have to do with this story?
Nothing at all but, like a number of my liberal friends,it makes him feel better.
Wow! Srereotype much....or did you just have a bad day? I'm so glad that we conservatives have you liberals to take care of us. We're all way too stupid to make personal decisions on our own.
Actually, yes, you are.
Second best way to go.
"Okay, then why do we have seatbelt laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws? Why don't we have "overeating-until-we-give-ourselves-heart-attack" laws?"
One should be free to do whatever they want to themselves. You lose these rights when it comes to the safety of others. Drinking and driving is killing other people it doesnt matter if you kill yourself, but you are more likely to kill someone else. Seatbelt laws are the same, even tho you are more likely to kill yourself by not wearing one, you can kill other people by not wearing one.(think about hitting a bump and getting knocked out of your seat and causing your vehicle to flip over, this has happened....). Helmet laws im against, i personally would choose to wear one if i drove a motorcycle, but this should be a choice((bicycle helmets are just stupid).
Obesity laws are completely unjust. If you want to eat a heart attack burger, go for it! However i do not want to pay for your stupidity. Charging you more for health insurance is perfectly fine, if you choose to be a fat dumbass, then you should pay for it. But there should be no laws stopping you from being a fat ass if you want to.
Its always funny when you see some fat ass with 6 burgers in one hand and a diet coke in the other.... That diet crap with the cancer causing fake surgers isnt going to save you from your fat ass diet.
Why has so few people made comments about the irony. This guy had a heart attack in front of the The Heart Attack Grill.
Because that's not ironic, it's a coincidence. Now if John Alleman had gone in to Heart Attack Grill to tell the owners "Thanks for all the memories but I'm goin' legit, gonna eat healthy and exercise but I'll always have my fond recollections of eatin' here." Then he steps outside and has a heart attack, now that would have been Ironic!
Because it's to obvious.
Because it's the absolute opposite of irony.
It isn't irony. It is cause and effect. Irony would be a vegan protester outside having a heart attack when he went in to use the bathroom. Or, having been taken to the hospital with chest pains, being found to have a previously undiagnosed but highly correctable congenital valve problem (eating there having prevented a heart attack.) A real life irony was that the promoter of jogging, who took it up to battle heart disease, had his fatal heart attack while jogging (though it is arguable, since he lived ten years longer than his cardiologist predicted prejogging). Or that Euwall Gibbons, who promoted living off the plants in the wild, died choking on a twig he was chewing. While that is also cause-and-effect, the ironic element is that the thing he promoted for delaying death triggered his. Irony is getting the direct opposite effect than the action was designed to create. Thus, Achilles' mother's efforts to make her son invulnerable were ironic because it was her technique that rendered him mortal.
Euwell Gibbons actually died of an aortic aneurism but it had nothing to due with his diet – he had a genetic disorder called Marfan Syndrom.
I'm "fed up" with stupid entrepreneurs that appeal to our lowest instincts whether they're selling sex or unhealthy food.
There should be regulations on unhealthy food service as there are on other unhealthy practices such as smoking and consuming alcohol. People can whine about Obamacare and the "food police" all they want, but obese people should pay higher taxes because fat people consciously run up health care costs for everyone.
Like those brave climbers who die climbing their mountains or skydivers who die jumping out of planes, John Alleman risked his life doing what he loved. You are an inspiration to all of us. RIP John.
Except extreme sports don't kill that many people. Extreme obesity kills most of its victims and its a lot. Their past spokesman died at 29! How could that be an inspiration? Do you really look up to the people who have to use scooters at Walmart because they are unable to walk through the store?
Actually Pete if you take the people who climb Mount Everest you have a high mortality rate. If climbing that mountain were not only for the rich (those who can afford to take a month or more off of work), you would get a much larger group of people doing it and in turn a much larger group dying. So high risk takers like Mr. Alleman are in the same category as other high risk takers like climbers, lava rafters, condomless prostitute users etc. and many people like that die doing the thing that drives their passion. Bravo Mr. Alleman, Bravo. Not everyone is brave enough to live and to die for what they are passionate about.
Except many risk takers pay for their own risk. This man did not. He is no longer alive to pay for his hospital bill...but we are so would you care to pay up? Care to pay my share of someone else's bill? You think prostitutes sell their bodies because they are passionate? They may be messed up, on drugs, desperate to feed their children, enslaved at the hands of a man but don't lump that in with a life's passion.
'merica.....F*** yea
Right on Brutha! (Ha ha ha!)
I hope I live to see 100. I exercise, eat right and have low stress. But then again, what does it really matter? None of us are going to see 300, or even a buck fifty for that matter. We are programmed to die regardless of how well we take care of our bodies. My grandmother lived to be 102 and she was certainly NOT the poster child for healthy living. Go figure, huh? And therein lies the dichotomy. Eat "right", exercise regularly, take supplements, reduce your stress level and you might live to be all of a century old, but it's certainly not likely. 100 years, and the earth has been spinning for 3.5 billion. Not the heartiest life forms in the galaxy are we?
I agree for the most part, but there are always exceptions. I know people who have extended their life because of pro active measures. Take care of your teeth live in moderation and you will fully enjoy your later years.
i have worked out for the past 30 years, usually 2 times per day. very vigorously training in weights, cardio, mms, sports, etc. i only ever ate chicken and fish and lots of vegetables. rarely ever drank. no stress to speak of. and now have stage iv cancer. anything can happen to anyone.
Bless you man!
Some people want to argue it's his life, and he's free to do what he wants, BUT don't think his actions don't affect you! How much do you think the medical costs he incurred amounted to? How much of those bills do you think he paid in full? Who will pay the bills for his final stay in the hospital? Don't be ignorant healthcare. People want to say there is a right to healthcare. This sense of entitlement needs to be revamped! Healthcare is a limited resource and if you choose to abuse your body and the medical system why should tax payers pay for your blatant disregard for your body?
Yea, but quality of life is another factor. I'd rather not depend on a cocktail of medication and machines to keep me going when I hit 60. There are always exceptions to everything, but I'd rather play the numbers and stay healthy.
I lived in rural Georgia in the late sixties and there was a centagenarian birthday celebrated on the radio. The old man was asked to what he credited his long life and he said starting each day with a shot of Red Eye and ending each night with a stogie. I might consider leading a vegan life with no alcohol or chocolate or other 'sin' foods/ beverages if they said it would make my twenties last well into my sixties but tell me it will take my death day from seventy (three score and ten) to a hundred and you can just keep those years. Your taste buds die, your sense of smell goes, your hearing goes, you move like molasses in January and you sleep through your televised birthday party – not my idea of a fun time in the old town tonight.[ For the Bible munchers who might respond, please remember that letters are both quantifiers and approximaters in Hebrew and Aramaic and that forty is a goodly number (longer than a moon,) four hundred is very many and 900 is beyond numbering, not actual numbers.] Meanwhile, I'll eat my chocolate, drink my wine, munch my cheeseburger and shake my commodious bootie.
for those who complain about this man's life choices, every lifestyle has risks, including overly active lifestyles. For those who say this type of restaraunt should be banned because it is unhealthly, where is the outcry against 1.000 calorie meals at fast food restauraunts, which are responsible for much more deatha nd disease in this country than this one restaurant I promise. You say you don't want to pay thier medical bills, but such is the choice of socialism, to carry the unhealthy and unproductive with the healthy and productive..
Well, we can certainly mitigate the disease factor by avoiding fatty foods, but I'm pretty sure there's no cure for death yet...
I totally agree with you 100%
BORING
Why is there no option for "Yes" in the poll? The question asks, "Would you eat there?"
Yes, I'd go there once out of sheer curiosity.
Scooter is right, cutting caloric intake is essentially for running our bodies properly, though the less calories you take in the more nutrient value they need to have to properly sustain you. but if you get to the point where you eat 300 calories per meal you'll notice the buzz you get from eating and the noticeable increase in energy.
Many Americans take better care of their vehicles than they do their bodies, especially when it comes to what goes in them. Who fills their car up with bad fuel or cruddy oil, over and over again, when there is good fuel and oil available? The guy in the story should get a Darwin Award.
"The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions circa 1985. They recognize individuals who have contributed to human evolution by self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization due to their own (unnecessarily foolish) actions. " (Wikipedia)
Ironic that you speak of Darwin as you mock the life of a friendly, cordial human that enjoyed cheeseburgers. Who's the one that truly needs to evolve?
Populations evolve, individuals do not. Basic biology.
Uh, look up the definition and try again.
This
Only if he hasn't already bred, surely.
you can't fix stupid
This thread is a good example of that.
Best comment so far!
1500 calories a day should be fine for the average adult. If you are a farm worker, steal worker, person who has a high degree of physical activity then 2000 would be fine. However most of us do not have that kind of a career. The labels we have that say we need a 2000 calories daily diet need to be changed. Also the older you get the less food you need too. I cut my calories down to about 1200, I work in an office environment, and I found that food tastes better, and its more stimulating. When you eat too much its like watch too much TV, it just gets boring andis too easy to do.
What is a Steal worker? Do they go around stealing cars or what?
Of course, let's single out a single unsubstantial error in an otherwise thoughtful and accurate comment. Doing anything else would be way too intelligent.
Well no one can accuse the compnay of false advertising!
nonsense like this is another big part of why our healthcare system is so expensive. 10% of the patients in the healthcare system account of 75% percent of all the medical bills. Diabetes, heart disease, cancers, stroke, all go way up for people who are obese. The obese are a bi-product of a nation where people are constantly told to consume more and more and more. More steak, more chicken, more pizza, more pasta, fries, burgers, etc. The grocery departments in stores are taken up primarily with hi calorie non-food in boxes and bags. The produce isles are small and filled with food that has been chemically gassed to make it yellow, or red. It is not enough to say just don't over eat when you are submerged in a culture that practically commands that you DO over eat. The exchange students that attend our highschool are the canaries in the coal mine. They show up from France, or Germany, or Italy, slim and fit. By the time they go home they have ballooned 10 or 20 pounds. They are not used to massively high calorie count foods we take for granted. We utterly fail to realize that our eating habits are completely bizzare. Most upper middle class European families have a small fridge that does not rise above the counter top. We would call that a mini fridge, the type we have in our man-caves. We have gone from being a trim and fit nation to being a fat obese nation, and we like it. Yet we cannot understand why we spend so much on healthcare. We blame the insurance company.
TD;DR Do you always just make up stats to fit your postings? Cite, or it isn't true.
Have you ever eaten an English big breakfast? Death on a plate!
I saw something called a Death Muffin on US of Bacon last night. It was an english muffin with a bacon wrapped sausage patty that was stuffed with bacon tooped off with a poached egg and blackberry jam. xxxooo
ahhh freddom in america.. Eat as much as you want and see your life go down the tubes.. Such is the case with every obession..With stress and just daily life most turn to food. Food makes you feel better gives you energy and it is something you need. That is dangerous if you do not know how to control your urges and emotions as obese people obviously have a very hard time doing other wise they wouldn't eat soo much. The problem I see with this restaurant is they glorify being overweight. They want you to be as unhealthy as possible. Even our nutritional facts are based on a 2000 calorie a day diet when in fact if you have a desk job and don't workout you should only be at or around 1500.. that 25% is HUGE... that means that in a month and you are on a 2000 calorie a day diet and you are gaining weight or maintaining an unhealthy weight you should realize you just ate about 8 more days of food per month than you should have. 8 days worth of food.. to put that in an even larger perspective it means you ate about 3 months more food per year than you should. Now do you see why America has such an obesity problem? the obsession of a 2000 calorie a day diet when we need about 1100-1200 a day just to survive and 1500-1600 to be healthy if you are very active. How many obese people do you know that are very active?
Sumo wrestlers, for one.
i am all for freedom of choice. men and women have died to protect our choices. but you shouldn't demand care when your health goes to crap. that guy never should have been put on life support. i mean, why should medicare/medicaid pay for this, or hospitals be stuck with the costs of this?
do what you want as long as it does not hurt others; so long as others don't have to pay for the consequences.
Everybody's health goes to crap eventually. Are you suggesting we euthanize the elderly or kids that have cancer?
I think what "Yum Yum" meant was this individual controlled his destiny and he chose poorly. We should not have to pay for his poor judgment. Last time I checked, children don't can cancer from eating 9,000 calorie burgers and the elderly made it that far for a reason....again, not eating 9000 calorie burgers.
Stop playing devil’s advocate….he made a good point
No he didn't.
uh...
elderly with chronic conditions that land them in an icu critically ill with prolonged courses account for a significant amount of health care expense.
children with cancer are heart-breaking, and their potential to live long, productive lives is improved with aggresive healthcare. those with terminal cancer should be kept comfortable in their parents arms.
the fat guy who chooses to eat this crap day after day should be allowed to die when critically ill, as should anyone who constantly engages in unhealthy lifestyles.
otherwise, COWTASTESGOOD can foot the bill.
He was only 180 lbs. And I can afford it.
Only the kids with cancer who won't stop talking on their cell phones.
This is just a stupid way to die. I just turned 48 and enjoy life. But I learned to actually like good healthy clean food. How short-sighted to put all your pleasure into the minutes (or hours) you spend eating terrible food, and become a sick slow sluggish overweight person who has a heart attack while waiting for a bus? No thanks. I hope that I am not dead in 3 years.....I hope that I'll still be feeling like 20-something and running 7-8 miles or more at a time, wake-boarding, hiking and weightlifting.....even cleaning my own house. Geez. This is a total disregard for life.
Living and eating healthy is obviously desirable for how it makes you feel. Just remember however that you're not going to live to see 300, or even a buck fifty for that matter. That's the rub. Your physical body is finite. All that healthy eating and exercise isn't going to buy you a microsecond longer than your genetics will allow you to live. We are programmed to die. My grandmother lived to be 102. She has a high fat diet, was sedentary and overweight most of her life. Explain that one to me...
Genetics...unfortunately we are not all within the same gene pool. This argument that we won't live to 150 or 300 years is moot. The point is to make the best of your years. Not everyone can play the odds your grandmother did. You are fortunate to have her genes. The vast majority of Americans do not and therefore their diet will play a crucial roll in whether they get to 100+, see their grandchildren grow, see the next greatest invention- or have a hand in it, or a long life with their soul mate
Why do you automatically assume that he wasn't paying for his own hospitalization? Just because you live on the government teat doesn't mean everyone does. And those of us that don't are sick of the government telling us what we can eat or drink.
Did you read another article somewhere else saying that the man was on Medicare and Medicaid? Very presumptuous of you to just assume that he didn't have health insurance either through his job or privately. If he paid into his own health insurance than you have no right to judge him or how he lived his life. There are still people in this world who would rather live their lives on their own terms, even if that means living a shorter life. To each his own. Saying that someone shouldn't have been allowed to even be on life support is a damn cold thing to say.
Like the guy sitting next to me in a bar on his sixth manhattan and that he had had a liver transplant two months before. That we all paid for!
"A quadruple bypass burger".....How DISGUSTING we are as a nation that we not only think eating that much meat is OK but also that not only are we killing animals in mass numbers but then also we are dying of heart disease, strokes, and other related illnesses DIRECTLY related to eating meat.
You will never get the true stats on how bad meat is for you.....the meat industry is the biggest most powerful source of lobbyist money out there.....but it is still a choice everyone has...
If everyone chose to stop eating meat.....they would value life more.....an animals and their OWN!
Are those little violins I hear playing?
Your name sucks and so do you.
I bet you smell like an onion and don't landscape.
but only an idiot would consume it.
I totally agree! Not only is eating meat bad for you but also the mass consumption of so much food at a joint like this. How iswhat this guy did (by eating at this place so often) much different than an alcoholic who drinks himself to death.....or a drug addict who overdoses??? Everyone has an accountability to take care of their own body....no one else will do it for you!
Careful not to fall off your podium.
No Kat, the biggest, fattest lobby out there is the entire Democrat party – and they are lobbying to make this nation into a Socialist Welfare State, where the Government can make all your decisions for you – including what you are allowed or not allowed to eat. And, I guess you'd probably wish we could go back and stop all those cave men from eating meat – and maybe the animals should have been stopped from eating each other too, eh? After all, it couldn't be good for a lion to gorge himself on a wildebeest and then go to sleep! Think of all the shortened lives of lions and tigers and such because they ate meat! Such a shame!
You are an idiot. There is a process called "evolution" MORON that allowed us as a human race to EVOLVE in our thinking and develop better, healthier ways to get nutrition. Are you still comparing us to the "CAVE MAN AGE".....what? Do you still carry around a club and hit women over the head......and drag them back to a cave"
A lobbyist is a lobbyist.....and they can buy off anyone they want.....don't be an idiot. and as far as comapring the need to eat meat like wild animals.....wild animals don't mass consume and torture lives like we do... there is NO comparison
You have no point" Archie"
Tourture lives? Ha. Besides, it's just a freaking cow, pig, chicken, fish, etc. I'd eat a dog if it was cooked right.
The tragedy is that our technology outpaced evolution of the modern brain. And for all its goods, those who have the healthiest diets include a balance of vegetables, meat and fruit and stay away from sodium and starches...bottom line. Meat may be murder, but life is life and vegetables and fruits are just as much alive, just because they don't have faces doesn't mean you are not ending life when you consume them.
Hey "cowtastesgood"....
I bet you taste like a pile of poop:)......I hope someday all you are bites you in the ass and you suffer horriibly before you die.
If it happens...."smile" and remember all those animals you ate....
This is response to a 'life is a life"......TOTALLY disagree Harbinger......go and witness a fish when caught flopping around gasping for air or a chicken that actually follows you around because it has gotten attached to human contact.
If it bleeds Harbinger.....it is a LIFE......plants are alive but do not have a thought process or have a heart that beats....
The sooner you stop thinking eating another being's flesh is OK....the sooner life will be respected and evolve into something much different than the planet we have today and what if happening to it.
PERIOD>
Funny, Republicans have historically been working on chipping at the US Constitution, personal freedoms and passing laws that limit lifestyle choices. In short, Republicans are making the US a Socialist Corporatocracy.
Do you folks get a daily list of anti-liberal/democrat talking points to spew? I hope they pay you enough to spread your ridiculous exagerations like manure. In case you hadn't figured it out we're all Americans and slapping labels on people is just ignorant. On both sides.
I can't wait to go there. I wouldn't eat there everyday, but a special occasion to dine on a big greasy bacon cheesburger and milkshake sounds divine. Everything in moderation.
mmm...are you getting off your high horse to sell it to the burger place?
Hopefully no one is wanting pity for this guy. As a long time nurse who has seen countless people kill debilitate themselves by eating glutonous amounts of food and ending up with diabetes and heart disease, I'm fairly sick of those who then expect anyone to save them after the fact. There's enough good health information out there that anyone who'd eat at a place called "Heart Attack Grill" deserves what they get.
You should find a new profession because you sound like a heartless beech.
Actually "COWTASTEGOOD" you have replies and comments all over this article....
Think you should simply stop eating meat because it is making you stupid.
And you should shower. Might help you get laid and maybe be not so presumptious and self-conscious. You too, veggie.
Well said. AMEN!
He died for what he believed in , truly a BIG MAN
I could only eat in a place like this if I got free refills on the Diet Coke.
We'll miss him at our restaurants too. We need more people like him who love quantity over quality and don't know pink slime from shinola.
I don't care for smokey places, so, no, I wouldn't eat there. But the menu sure sounds tasty!
Me too, I would never go there, the food is good but the smoke kills. Smoking causes cancer and all the bad stuff. I wish it was non smoking restaurant
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ACM and dike, have you NOT followed the general conversation? DIET KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, smoke still kills but eating garbage advertised by companies that hire Ivy League psych majors to figure out what makes your mind tic so they can subvert rational thinking with clever jingles and supported by lobby groups that have tilted the tables of the federal guidelines to favor poor diets has basically declared war on Americans – for a healthy profit.
If you die while doing what you love.. It's all good.
"Heart Attack Grill"...You Americans are so funny in the way you embrace your poor taste, lack of refinement and general slob nature. You would never find a place like this in more refined Europe.
You mean a refined Europe that harbors pedophiles?
yes, we could always be more classy and eat snails as a delicacy
We also have Hooters and Twin Peaks.
We have more than our share of lazy fat-asses but at least the food here tastes good. Euro food is awful. You people ever hear of seasoning?
You non-Amricans are so funny Jeanne the way you lump all Americans together over one singular cafe. So droll.
Pardon, I meant Jeann not Jeanne. You non-Americans are so funny the way you can't spell given names properly. I'm grateful we Americans are never guilty of that.
I agree, but not all Americans are like that.
I just got back from Bucharest. Our rats wouldn't even live there.
Yup Jeann,
Like refined Fish and chips and British Liver and Onions!! Blech!!!!
No response from Jeann?...guess she gave up...must be French.
I know why you have your nose in the air... cause I'm leaning down to fart in your face!
I suppose in Europe you'd keep a place like this hidden – like you do with soap.
OMG I totally LOL – that was way too good... and dead on. Ohhhhhhhhh thank you.
Don't forget they put mayonaise on their fries and their Royale with Cheese.
Thank you...this totally cracked me up!
If the people of America are so unrefined and not up to your standards then we should have let Hitler and the Kaiser destroy it and when will Europe pay back all of the money owed to the US for rebuilding it. Europe is good at criticizing and putting down cultures other than their own but you ought to look at your own morbid past.
Lack of freedom is nothing to brag about and neither is snobbery. God bless the USA!
And all of the Euro Trash will be right behind us!
Ahh, Jeanne,
You've discovered the very raison d'etre for the Heart Attack Grill... To offend people whose delicate sensibilities find "European culture" (as though there's a homogenous strain of refinement running through Europe...) preferable to our loutish 'Murkan culture. Enjoy! The rest of us louts will wallow here in our unrefined freedom. :)
youre right. dont forget however, that on more than one occasion, these lazy self indulgent slobs bailed youre sorry pig- farming continent out of a couple little scuffles. perhaps youve read of them in history, they were called WWI and WWII. then you guys still couldnt play nicely with each other, so now we have to play babysitter and give you our used weapons. Btw, greasy cheeseburgers taste good, better than occupations leftovers im sure;)
Five years in Europe eating at your fine dining locations. Came back to the states with coronary artery disease. Your food is fried in animal fat. Sausages and such. Served with gravies and sauces and mayonnaise. It is heavy on salt. There are plenty of over-weight people in Europe. Please, after 5 years of traveling from Sicily to Norway and the UK, I know better.
Spent three childhood years in Europe. Dad used to say that the French devloped sauces to cover up that the meat was spoiled. Lots of courses of small portions so you don't get enough bites to really taste what's in it. The English have traditionally eaten high fat foods (full English breakfast, chips (fries) dipped in butter.) I loved German food – simple, clean, pickled or gingered, beet sugar) but the sausages aren't heart friendly, nor are the portions. Jean lumps all European cuisine into one (there are at least three major cuisines in France alone.) Oh! And the French eat horse, the Italians eat donkey. The horsemeat presently showing up in English frozen food and labeled as 'beef' is from Romania. If Europeans made the best, healthiest 'fast food', it wouldn't be Star$ and Mickey D's in Bejing and Bangkok and Nairobi and Paris. We make tasty fast food, menus include 'healthy' items few order. In India, a Big Mac contains no beef. They don't sell the MacRib in Tel Aviv. The pizza in the Pizza Hut in Bangkok has chicken instead of pepperoni. You can eat mock-American anywhere these days.
Me, I blame the 'obesity epidemic' on the change in work (from heavily manual to heavily sedantary) and the proliferation of substitutes (high fructose sweeteners, aspartame, reduced fat mayo, margarine, methylcellulose and other 'dough conditioners' in bread, salt substitutes (sodium nitrate instead of sodium chloride is still salt, folks.)) That and I remember when an elementary school lunchbox contained a sandwich composed of two slices of bread, a tablespoon of Miracle Whip and one slice of cheese along with an orange the size of a regulation baseball, a pair of Hostess cupcakes and a small bag of chips. None of us were fat but we all took PE every morning and had two recesses where we played hard. Now we dope up our kids so they can sit still for a mind numbing seven and a half hours of preparing for standardized tests. Bring back PE, playing outside, riding your bike to school, get rid of the fifty pound backpack that makes it impossible to move well and our kids won't build the brown fat that will make adult life a torture of chasing a livable diet. Brown fat actually triggers appetite, reduces the effectiveness of insulin and almost insures obesity. President Kennedy made exercising at school a national prioroty. Bring it back.
We have a saying here in the U.S. Jeann...."Dont' knock it till you try it. " Ever had a burger and fries? Texas BBQ ribs? No? Then STFU and eat your horse meat stew. To your defense, I've been to Europe and the food was amazing. However, don't adhere to the typical French sterotype and continue to be a total snob with an inflated sense of taste and refinement and make unsubstantiated and justified claims on food you've never eaten. B/c that makes you look like more of a moron than you already do.
You Europeans are so funny in the way you embrace your boring bourgoisie tastes, your haughty pretense of refinement, and your general snob nature.
Too bad for you euro trash bastards then here in America we have food you'd actually want to eat not snails and what other crap you eat in europe
Amy's Winehouse? That sounds awesome!
Excellent trolling. Also, I take it you've never been to Sicily.
oh and who can forget switzerland where prostitution is legal at age 16...and so is screwing your cousin as long as you don't have any children from it.
I would try it but I wouldnt get one of their gimmick things, just give me a regular double cheeseburger I can actually eat and afford.
Nothing wrong with bad food like this unless you are a "loyal customer." Your body can easily handle something like this without negative consequences, the problems come from when you eat it so often that your body can no longer process it normally.
I personally don't care what they eat, but they should be held to pay up at higher rates just like smokers for health insurance, and don't give me the nonsense they hurt noone else, ever tried to care for an unconscious vent dependant patient,? one of the reasons the medical facilities pay such high workers comp rates. It affects us all, and they should pay for their choices just like smokers are going to have to do.
I personally don't care what Debbie thinks. Who are you to tell people what they should do! That's why this is the USA. Freedom of Choice. You don't like it, don't go! I personally think it would be fun to try something there
Tom who are you to tell me what I can say or can't, you double talking nut. If you read what I said, I never said they couldn't, they just need to pay for their extra cost like smokers are going to have to do. And guess what? Obesity cost us all more in health care cost than smokers ever did, and that's not an opinion, it's a fact!
Ok, how would you feel about charging women higher premiums because their health costs considerably more than men's, especially young men?
Well Derp, unless a person has a sex change, being a woman or a man is not a "choice" and that health care cost evens out as men age. Eating excessively on a regular basis, (and it says he's a regular) is a CHOICE, so there's your answer.
I'd never eat at such a place! Free people, though, can do whatever they want with themselves. If they want to increase their risk of heart attack/stroke/cancer/diabetes, that's their business...
It's known as free will. Not very intelligent, but free will
As with anything, moderation is the key. It won't hurt to eat there once. But make it a habit, and well, there ya go.
Exactly! Moderation is the key.
I only shoot heroin bimonthly. Some fools do it all the time, and that's just bad for your health. As I told my dealer, "everything in moderation". If only the rest of you could see things like Josh and I do!
I wouldn't eat there because I don't eat that type of food, but I don't think it's a bad place nor are they responsible for this man eating himself to death. Eat at McDonalds every day and the same thing is likely to happen, just because they mock and don't hide the result of what will happen doesn't mean they are a bad business.
52 is far too young. He probably shaved at least 20 years off his lifespan. I hope the lifestyle was worth it. Condolences to the family.
Probably not. The guy only weighed 180 lbs and both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50's.
well that makes him an idiot on top of everything else.
He knew he had a genetic issue and still ate a "heart unhealthy" diet.
That is like having both parents die of colon cancer and scoffing at a colonoscopy.
Or knowing you are a diabetic and still drinking a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew everyday.
Good answer!!!!!!!!!
It's sad that 25% of people who voted think the restaurant "shouldn't even be in business." Are you that unsure of your ability to eat in moderation that you want to control everyone?
I'm 5'2" 110lbs with excellent cholesterol levels and I voted that I'd go there. An occasional high calorie splurge in my otherwise ideal diet isn't going to hurt me. But then again, I believe in education and trust myself to make my own decisions.
Agree 100-percent. I'm in pretty good shape and take care of myself, but eating junk food like that every once in a while is fine just as long as you don't make it a habit. And I doubt most of the patrons of this place eat there regularly, nor do they eat the very worst things on the menu.
unfortunately the people who have no self control are always the ones who want to deprive everybody else of things, and there are a whole lot of them out there
yeah, those jerks who can't handle thier sex, drugs and alcohol have trying to force me to live by their weak standards for years. Grow a pair and make sure YOU make the right choices, don't assume that because YOU are a weakling so is everyone else.
Just so pathetic, those morally obnoxious a $ $ wipes.
I'm not unsure of MY ability to eat in moderation. I'm unsure of other people's ability to. Why should I care? It's their choice?
Yeah, but obesity and the health costs associated with it affect us all.
Same here, although I'm a guy and a lot bigger. Actually right now I'm overweight not from eating, but from working very long hours (65-76 per week).
I would not eat it now, but when I am working a lighter schedule and have time to get back into shape, I would definitely love to try it out occasionally. Spending your life avoiding food you might enjoy and things that might be fun in life to add a few extra years to an infirm life is not a life worth living imo. Staying fit into your 70s is a far better move if it happens than avoiding food and still being sedentary in your 30s.
I would never personally go there myself, however, I wouldn't go so far as to say they shouldn't be allowed to be in business. They make it very clear their food is NOT healthy, and if someone chooses to partake and suffer the consequences, then that is his/her choice.
Life is short. Don't let the government tell you what you should or should not eat! Yes, i will have fries with my order!
That's fine by me as long as you can cover all your medical bills and I don't have to watch you eat.
That's fine with me as long as you can......shut your tofuhole.
I will have Obamacare. Thanks to Americans!
Is anyone so foolish as to think the occasional junk food meal is really going to determine one's entire life history?
...with chili and cheese.
I try to stay off the Darwin Award list whenever I get the chance, so I'll pass.
We have a candidate for this year's Darwin Award.
Right behind those who'll drive a Prius on the freeway.
Funny comment – about the Prius. However, I wish Toyota had gotten the name spelled correctly. It's actually supposed to be spelled "Pryus" – as in, "after we had ridden 25 miles in it, they had to 'pry us' out of it."
Right, because it's so dumb to actually want to stop using up all of our limited fossil fuel supplies and make a difference in the amount of pollution we put into the atmosphere. Let me take a wild guess and say that you also want to reduce the deficit for future generations. Unfortunately, they'll all be dying off, but they'll have money! No if only they had a viable planet to spend it on.
It rare to see such honesty in advertising.
All that beef has a ton of iron. Like eating a rusted can with every meal.
Ryan – now under Obamacare when you overeat you directly affect everyone else. The insurance rates of all others must pay to support your unhealthy habits, mandated by government.
Not sure how Obamacare is the cause... This is a decades old issue which has resulted in the Gov't having to do something in an attempt to reign in the ever increasing healthcare premium.
Obamacare prohibits charging higher insurance premiums to individuals with preexisting conditions or medical problems, including obesity. Since insurance companies can't charge these individuals a higher rate, they have to increase everyone's rate. As a result, everyone has higher insurance premiums. We're forced to subsidize the choices of people to wreck their health, instead of holding them responsible for the consequences.
This is simply not true. We have government mandated health insurance, but have not gone to a single provider system. Also, that's the way all insurance works. A large group od consumers pay small indivdual premiums that are pooled together to cover possible catostrophic losses in the future.
Something most Americans don't seem to realize is that we were paying for peoples poor lifestyle choices even before obamacare. Those that lived long enough, or those who went on disabilty, would eventually fall into the Medicare system and would rack up more medical bills than those who took good care of themselves. This is another reason our "for profit" medical system needs to go away and be completly government controlled. It's not just those who lived poorly that rack up more Medicare debt, its also those who simply couldn't afford to get any sort of preventative care early on. Another reason our life expectancy is so dismally low compared to other civilized nations. And if you want to brand me "Socialist" for thinking the government should pay for medical care of it's citizens then I brand you Socialist for thinking they should pay for the police and fire departments. The medical industry is the number one contributor to our GNP so is it any wonder the media is so bent on convincing us that wanting free or at least affordable care is evil???
This is not an Obamacare issue. Insurance companies have always profited hugely by charging fees based on averaging the needs of healthy and unhealthy customers – mandated healthcare has nothing to do with it. Even if this cretin wasn't insured, he would still receive hospital care. Who do you think pays for that? Everyone else with increased healthcare costs! So either way, pre- or post-Obamacare, the public loses.
Seriously CNN?? Just watched your interview with the guy who owns this restaurant. WHO CARES!!!!! It's sad someone chose to eat there every day and died, it's sad to lose any human being. But ask the owner if he feels responsible??? REALLY????? I can't believe you are airing this crap, not to mention giving the pompous owner so much free publicity!! REALLY????? If an adult....an adult, chooses to eat there, that is his choice. The restaurant isn't responsible to turn away a customer.....hello, it's a business! If a kid was brought there daily by someone, and the child died, it would be the parents faulty....still not the restaurant. Come on!! Ohhhhh, this just angered me to no end. I am getting close to turning you guys off and just listen to our local news. Geez!! Cindy Smith
Sad how? He didn't eat there everyday and according to other articles was a very friendly and happy person.
Yet, you not only watched it on CNN – you also went to the story here on their site – then you take time to leave a long comment... seems like YOU care. CNN wins cuz you took a lot of time out of your day to them.
I did not understand the point of highlighting this particular establishment and story...I dont see CNN bringing McDonalds, Burger King or Wendys and yet people eat there daily as well. Wouldn't the time spent on this story be better spent on bringing on someone to talk about healt and nutrition - Highliting a single establishment does not resolve the problem it just initated free marketing for the establishment
irony – I mean he had a heart attack right in front of the heart attack grill and he was their #1 customer. That drips with irony just like their burgers drip with grease.
That's not irony. Irony would be if a healthy vegan died of a heart attack in front of the restaurant. Irony = the exact opposite of what you would expect of a situation. This one is right where you'd expect it.
Love how CNN leaves out the part about the guy only weighing 180 lbs. and that both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50's. God forbid letting the sheeple think for themselves and realize it was genetics not food as the reason for this guys heart attack.
Genetics. That's funny.
Ignorance. That's funny.
Yep. Looks like you have both your bases covered.
Yep. Looks like you have your head covered with your a$$.
Cool, so you can enlighten us how genetics specifically cause heart attacks? No, I didnt think so.
And you can enlighten us on how they don't? Exactly.
Yep, multitudes of research on the small LDL particles (not the large LDL particles) adhere to the endothelial cells of the arteries and start the buildup of plaque. Your turn. Oh wait, you still cant.
This whole dialog is hilarious.
And mutitudes of research also shows that those that are more prone to this buildup are 85-95% more likely to have a parent or grandparent with the same issue. Try again.
Not even close to being right. Yes, genetics does play an important part, but so does diet. If you're continually stuffing your body with saturated fats and your blood cholesterol levels are high as a result, it makes it much easier for blockages to form in your cornorary arteries.
Does eating fatty foods guarantee that you're going to die prematurely from a heart attack? No, it doesn't. But the fact that standing out in the middle of the freeway at rush hour doesn't guarantee that you'll get hit by a car doesn't mean that you're not an idiot for doing it.
Heart Disease is actually reversable by changing your nutrition through diet and nutritional supplements. We are wasting billion of dollars a year un unnecessary coranary heart by pass surgery, Surgery is ineffective becasue it does not chagne the root cause of the problem, Inflammation. I agree with the owner that the American Medical Assocaition has done nothing to prevent the obesity epidemic and the epidemic of diabetis and heart disease in this country. And the cost of un necessary medical care for these preventable illness is bankrupting our country.If we just shut down 80 percent of our hospitals we could let these people die off sooner and not bankrupt the country.
Sooo, if genetics "plays an important part" how was I not even close to being right?
Hey Cowtastesgood.......genetics in our society simply means....he was in the" same family that ate the same way"......there are no conclusive studies that people are BORN with bad arteries......but they sure do develop the same patterns.....and that includes.....bad diet.....lack of exercise and bad habits!!!!
(or am I talking too fast for you??)
Is this story supposed to be funny, sad or both? I can't decide.
More like "ironic!"
not ironic!
I'm a liberal but I'm entirely on the "personal responsibility" side for eating food. Unlike things such as smoking, guns, etc., eating unhealthy food ONLY HURTS YOU. If you don't work and you put yourself in poverty, you're hurting your kids too and I support welfare for the sake of the kids. If you smoke in a building, you're hurting others with your second-hand smoke and that should be regulated to protect the people who didn't choose to smoke. But if you eat junk food, you're only hurting yourself, and everyone should have the right to hurt themselves.
I hear you Ryan... However, on the flip side... Obesity patients consume a whole lot of health care $$$$. So in away, it does affect all of us in higher health care premiums. Just sayin
Feel free to opt out.
Opt out of what? Society? Cows actually do taste delicious but this troll is an idiot who should think a little before spouting off.
Yeah...cowstastegood...it's not worth it to pay for your psychiatric help
Dear Ryan. The tax supported free medical care for the obese is bankrupting our country. WE could be spending more money on pollution controls, sewerage treatment, clean energy, infrastructure and so on. Cut out the free medical care and let these people die early.
I eat at this place everytime I'm in Vegas. Afterwards I cropdust as many vegetarians I can find.
I am picturing what you look like and it is not pretty....
WOW....what is it like to be on your planet?? I think you eat animals because they are defintitely SMARTER than you and you feel threatened.....
I can only imagine it goes like this....."Look....what is that on the road....looks like a chicken........I am going to EAT it."
I don't see any harm in splurging once in a while, but you have to set limits for yourself. Being a regular customer of a restaurant that serves ridiculously high fat and calorie laden entrees is just asking for trouble. Most people wouldn't consider going home every night after work, and then frying a pound of bacon for their dinner. Dinner for one, that is. I see nothing wrong with this restaurant, as long as the customers who dine there realize that it is what it is, and that is a once-in-a-while indulgence.
That all depends on what the definition of "is" is.
I'd go to this place for laughs and when the waiter asked me what I wanted I'd ask him for the lo-calorie specials.
The low cal special is only 1500 calories.
i would go to the place with a recording of a tuba, and play it every time one of the extra large folks walk by
I am going to open a store where you can pay 1000 bucks to get shot in the face. I will instantly be a millionaire because of all the contrarian conservative dumbasses who will jump on board because "this is merica", and take them out of the gene pool all at once. Win-Win!
Why don't you just open your mouth, insert shotgun, squeeze trigger and raise the IQ of your neighborhood by 10 or 15 points?
LOL
they would not do that, because it would mean that they actually had to go meet jeebus
I'm going to start a Whack a Lib chain.
Bet ya I retire before you do.
You will certainly become a retard before I do
Reading the link in the article, a guy had a heart attack almost exactly one year ago (2/15/12). Averaging one a year isnt going to cure the obesity problem.
Isn't that just the people that had a heart attack while AT the restaurant?
I guess when it comes to "Food for Thought", this guy was a regular Einstein.
Perhaps, instead of trying to regulate our way out of this sort of abomination, we could educate people about the facts surrounding food and any other activities considered 'bad'? If everyone shunned this sort of all-American display of outrageous excess, they wouldn't be open. Don't make it illegal, don't label it immoral, just make sure everyone knows how absolutely disgusting it is. Have we not learned that banning things only makes them more tantalizing?
Educating has been failing miserably. These people know they are unhealthy, and at risk, but they continue anyway.
Sad, but true, I'm afraid. I'm not saying food is necessarily bad per se, just that this degree of excess is ludicrous. There are billions without food on this planet and we stuff ourselves with enough food in one sitting to feed a small village. Then we wonder why the rest of the world has this love/hate relationship with us.
I agree with educating instead of banning and dictating, but I disagree that any food is "bad." One meal at this restaurant is not going to kill someone who lives an otherwise healthy and moderate lifestyle.
Wow. This topic is just crazy, some are people are just trying to be funny and laugh this off and others are truly affected by this issue. First off, obesity is an issue – it must be thought of in line with Alcoholism and the public needs to be better educated about the dangers of not only eating badly but overeating. However, that being said, we do live in a capitalistic and free society and it's anyone's right to not only to create an irresponsible restaurant but to eat there as well... that's our freedom of choice. And I for one am not against that.
The only thing I have an issue with is letting anyone that weighs more than 350lbs eat for free – it's a mean gimmick designed to hurt those that may have a problem. Even bars have restrictions on them, if they see that a patron comes in inebriated or is drinking way too much, they have to "cut them off". It's like a bar having a policy to give Alcoholics free drinks! It must be thought like that because the situations are very similar, they are both compulsory, genetic and addictive issues.
So keep doing what you're doing Heart Attack Grill, but just have a heart (pun intended) and regulate what you serve to who from time to time and PLEASE get rid of your Eat for Free if over a certain weight – it's not cool. Thanks.
Yeah, I agree with that. Get rid of that stupid schtick – even McDonald's wouldn't do that... and I'm sure they're run by Satan.
Ok...first of all...
Being obese is a choice...if you choose to eat junk...you will get fat. Plain and simple. I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that make the wrong choices in life.
2nd of all...the Heart Attack Grill loves this stuff...they make a product that you will end up with clogged arteries from..so for someone to die of a heart attack at the Heart Attack Grill...trust me...the company loves this stuff.
Being a rude, unsympathetic jerk is also a choice. You choose every day to be a judgmental person who thinks he is above everyone else. I have zero sympathy for you.
Well..since I don't care what you think...I take pride in being a jerk.
Isn't claiming he's being judgemental mean you're judging as well? Hypocritical much? All the pots and kettles in here.....all the same color, yet trying to point out that one is blacker than the other. It's hysterical!
The last stronghold of American freedom. Just don't elect the idiot Bloomberg in Vegas. Doing what we decide we want to do is the American way (that's going fast).
I agree. They can serve whatever the heck they want and market it any way they like. No one is being forced to eat there. It's not like they hide the fact that it's unhealthy.
"Doing what we decide we want to do is the American way." That is the exact same strategy used by Wall St., and looked what happened in 2008-2009. The developed world has learned that setting limits and regulations is best, and is what Bloomberg did in NY. If you are a parent, then you will understand about setting limits for your kids – unless you want your kids to be complete terrors.
Only Americans think what Bloomberg did recently is a knock against freedom. All he did was limit how much you can drink at one time, he didn't stop you from drinking or going back for refills. The world pretty much rolled their eyes and laughed at all Americans that complained about it.
Implementing something like that in this case is also necessary. With obesity on the rise, someone will have to pay for all the insurance and medial expenses incurred, and it will fall onto the average citizen. Sorry, obesity isn't free.
excellent marketing! I think casinos should use down and out gambling addicts who commit suicide as unofficial mascots, too!
achepotle wins the internet!
That is just plain gross. Having a heart attack just waiting for a bus is no way to die at 52. And the guy dying at 29 is just sad.
They probably shouldn't have ate so much. (of course, you can't tell anyone they're fat anymore)
Riiiiiiiight, because if you didn't tell them, they'd never know,right? Everyone who is fat knows it. It's also none of your business. The problem is that jerks don't know they're jerks. They walk around thinking they are normal people and have no idea how much the people around them dislike them. However, if you try to tell them they're jerks, they get upset. That's the real problem. You probably really don't know, do you?
what got crammed up your whole?
Do what you want, but pay the price. Hospital bills, search and rescue etc. If a mountain climber needs to be rescued, they should pay the bill. If a recreational boater needs to be rescued, the Coast Guard should be reimbursed. People should be required to take out insurance policies that would cover rescue operations for dangerous VOLUNTARY activities. They should be charged higher premiums for higher risk (such as obesity, smoking, excessive drinking) as well.
I think he did what he wanted and he paid the price.
The business model is all wrong. They're losing money. Skinny people should eat free. Anyone overweight should have to pay.
Problem with all of the people on this board who are oh so aghast that a place like this ispermitted to be in business is you believe there is no personal responsibility and that there should be no consequences for the choices people make. This is America, anyone is free to start a business if they have the money and the ability and everyone else is free to buy from that business, or not. This man made his choice, unfortunately he has to "live" with the choices he made. If there were no one willing to go to this grill it would be out of business – that's how the free market works.
I see no wrong with a place like this existing. But people should have the personal responsibility to know it's not a place to go eat at often. It's in Vegas, after all. Most people go there for a vacation, would eat there once while there for the novelty of it, and never go again. Nothing wrong with that.
If you live there, however, you should be responsible enough to know better.
i kinda wish the people at both extremes of the 'dietary habits spectrum' would settle down on their extremism. we need vegetables, a limited amount of meat, carbs, dairy, cholesterol, fat, etc... and we also need to splurge once in a while. why is this compromise, which is not hard to live out, such a touchy issue? yeah, every adult has the right to eat however they want. they also have the right to eat in a balanced way. afterward, it's a question of choice, I understand, but we're responsible for maintaining our own health. exercising rights without fulfilling our responsibilities is totally out of balance.
Can I quote you re: gun control?
FYI we are all going to die at some point. The fat tub 'o lard and the self-important vegan.....both will die one day.
thats why the restaurant is in Las Vegan!
The reason others should not INDULGE is because WE ALL GET TO PAY FOR THEIR HOSPITALIZATION. Yes, we do.
A mortuary next door to this eatery is probably funny too, or a hospital.
Saw this guy on Man vs Food when they passed through this place. This is just like Dr. Kevorkian and assisted suicide. The guy ate there free EVERYDAY!!!
Other: I would protest anyone going to this joint if their way to make money is to feed you a death burger.
Why? People are voluntarily eating it
then stand outside and protest it
Live by the burger, die by the burger! All hail the sovereign bovine!
I think it's awesome that someone can do as he chooses even if it may cause HIS OWN demise. We all make choices.
The ability to make your own choices: good or bad. That is what freedom is. The Health and Safety Nazis don't care about this man as much as they care about their "duty" to control him and the rest of us.
So Wall St. doing what they wanted that caused the 2008-2009 economic collapse, is called freedom? Ah, gotcha.
Sorry, all humans need limits – every parent knows this.
This is horrible And I believe that the Cafe is making fun of obese people. Why would you endorse morbidly obese people come and eat free? YOU KILLED THIS MAN!
Lighten up, Frances.
ahahahahaha....good one
To be honest, the fatties and hippos should all be made to go and eat and eat until they drop dead. These chubbies are ruining our insurance and health care system . Some are even allowed to make bad cheesy movies!
Don't talk about Michael Moore that way.
I think she was talking about John Candy.
nah they are not making fun, seems like they are celebrating
No one killed this man but himself and his poor habits.
We need more of these! Imagine the fat people we can kill off early! Lol awesome.
It's not only obese people that die from heart attacks...you know....
Betcha he died with a smile on his face!
Betcha he didn't....
Betcha he did
yes, i am sure heart attacks are so peaceful
I always tell my kids that if they find me dead with chocolate in my mouth, I died happy.
I really hope your kids are adults... otherwise, that's just disturbing...
The great thing about the free market is that business owners are free to conduct their business while patrons are free to patronize. Nothing to see here folks. Move on.
I agree that a business should be allowed to serve what it please and people allowed to eat what they please. But this place sounds like more of a novelty and I feel the restaurant should have exercised a little bit of responsibility by not encouraging him to eat there everyday. I wouldn't eat a fried butterball from the state fair everyday. I know, it's a free country and it was his choice...I'm conflicted.
the product is legal. the restaurant was not denying that their product was dangerous. the restaurant bears no responsibility for this guy dying from eating too much of their legal product
We must ban Heart Attack Grill and regulate other burger joints. Biden should head the joint task force
I hope you are being sarcastic, John.
Talk about your death panels!
I'm all for the freedom to choose to be an idiot, but no one should be allowed to serve a dish with 10 000 calories. There's a reason why the U.S. has an obesity epidemic and stuff like this definitely doesn't help.
No. One meal doesn't create obesity. A daily habit of eating too many calories does.
and yet this restaurant contirbuted to a few dozen deaths, whereas mcdonalds has contributed to hundreds of thousands...where is the outcry against serving even a 1,000 calorie meal? Do you the servers in there are astonished when I only order a sandwhich with no fries and no cola, as if sucking back 700 empty calories on top of a mildly at best nutritious burger is the norm, because it is..and there is an outcry against assault weapons which killed about 300 people in this country last year, heart disease killed about 300000..
"but no one should be allowed to serve a dish with 10 000 calories"
why?
Are you kidding? This is part of Obama's new health care plan! It's called the Early Death Burger!
No insurance, you're on your own, eat, drink, and smoke all you want. Sounds like a conservative stance to me.
If only burgers had been illegal, he would still be alive.
Right cause a 400lbs man wasn't going to die of a heart attack. :rolls eyes:
I have a suggestion, how about you loose some weight and I dunno exercise!
Lipid theory is false. It is the flour, sugar, white rice, and french fries that are the deadly sins there not the burger patties, cheese, or bacon. Refined carbohydrates kill. The diseases of civilization are caused by them.
The hormones and antibiotics they feed livestock mean they have their own problems as human food, beyond the lipid issue. Livestock was not meant to eat corn and in order to raise them on it they require more medication than otherwise necessary. Their milk contains blood and pus... Take a look at CAFO – the book on feedlot meat raising and you'll see
animal muscle protein has it's own issues. When cows ate grass they also contained vitamins etc. that were beneficial to humans, like K2 which directs calcium in the body into bones and out of heart valves, which are not synthesized from corn feed.
also, apart from the health issue of the meat itself, we are likely not meant to be eating as much of it as we do
I would never say rice is a killer (especially having healthy asian diets heavily based on it for thousands of years) but processed foods like white sugar, many bread products, and dairy can have pretty adverse effects. I like the idea of a paleo diet, just don't know if I could pull it off.
I am an American,Veteran,Fat,Sarcastic,food induing nympho maniac,gun whore, and loving every minute of it !! God Bless America!!!!!
This place is definitly not my cup of tea. However, I'll take a fat person anyday over a self-rightous skinny one.
Self-righteous or smart, as opposed to either ignorant or in denial?
Self rightous as in people who stand on soap boxes proclaiming they're superiority for eating organic rabbit food. Good for you, now shut-up.
Good point, Ryan. I feel the same way.
I wish there was a "thumbs up" button here cause I'd give you two!!!
Right there with you Ryan.
Sounds like they just make you feel guilty because of your own eating choices.
as long as I'm not compelled to pay for even 1 red cent of the blimpy's health insurance costs, I'm all for the Darwinian death by over-eating scheme. Better to die at 52 than to cost us all $$$$$$$ over the long run. It is your choice, just like having an abortion, but I don't want to pay for it – the bottom line.
I'd prefer an intelligent person who knows how to take care of themselves to some gross, debilitated person with non self-control who's overburdening the health care and insurance systems for the rest of us. I wonder how many men here complaining about the "self-righteous" would prefer an obese woman over a skinny one.
I’m not a perfect eater by any stretch. I don’t smoke and I rarely drink, but I do have a weakness for junk food. I used to run and lift weights a few times a week but I’ve fallen off a bit over the last few months and have put on a little weight. I don’t pretend to be perfect. I think a lot of the self-rightous flock to articles like this to thumb their noses at one guy's extremely poor choices in regards to eating in order to feel better about, and, or, validate their own failings in other avenues of life. It’s the same reason people like to watch shows like ‘Hoarders’. No one is perfect, some of us are just more honest about it, even on the internet.
If only the heart attacks occurred before the age of reproduction, this would be a great way to improve the average intelligence of Americans. Alas, they do not.
You were reading my mind on this one, well said.
Ha. I wish. Happy belated birthday btw! ;]
Stereotype much, Darwin?
This isnt funny. We have an entire country that has become morbidly obese and this cost all of us huge amounts of money annually in increased health care costs. My ex-husband has heart problems and is doing everything he can to keep the situation from getting worse such as exercise and diet and losing weight, my daughter could lose her father prematurely. Is it funny then to promote something thats so dangerous as if it's a cute little joke?
Yes, it is funny. The restaurant is funny, the fact that the guy went there all the time then croaked is funny.
Regarding your ex with heart troubles. Ok, perhaps he should exercise more, and eat healthier.
I also recommend he not eat out at restaurants, which generally serve high calorie diets.
Are you new to America? Have you ever heard of places such as McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell etc...
Ok, have you ever heard of 'beer'? It also makes people fat.
Just because you wonder how people get fat doesn't mean we close all the restaurants in America and prevent people from eating ...
Yup!
So now the "whole" county is morbidly obese. Hyperbole much??
Sounds like dumping your shrill self was the best life-style choice your ex ever made.
Well said :)
At least they aren't trying to pretend that their food can be healthy, like fast food restaurants do these days.
I see some people talking about rights here...
Rights go hand in hand with responsibilities. You certainly have a right to eat, drink and be merry on anything you want and whenever you want to.
You also have a responsibility to be sensible. Someones lack of responsiblity always costs me. My lack of responsibility can and probably will cost someone else.
If people honestly feel that they can do whatever they want, whenever they want without consequence then I think you should be able to. But I also think you should be refused medical treatment if your fat because, lets face it, fat people are fat through no one elses fault but their own.
The people with "glandular problems" do exist... but they are rare. 99% of obese people get their through poor choices they are free to make.
We, the taxpayers and insurance premium payers, suffer beause of these peoples self righteous lack of accountability. And we know who you are, the entire south...
Right on!
Thank you! Funny how "indidual" rights folks always manage to forget that. You can do anything you want as long as it doesn't impose on others or cost others money. If you want to eat until you die, and you pay every dime of your FULL medical bill – no insurance – go for it.
Mostly because their definition of 'liberty' is a lot closer to 'anarchy'. That's why they're fine with limiting some folks' rights and screaming when it's one of 'their' precious rights. They only truly care when it affects them directly.
Oh go blow it out your !#$. This country would be a whole lot better without little fascists like you.
Mind your own damn business.
And - no - what grown-ups eat is NOT any of your business.
not the entire south, but at 6'0 and 190 you can expect I am the skinniest person here...
5 foot 10 1/2 inches 158 pound Texan
The 10 fatest states in America are:
all in the south with the exception of Michigan...this man has a point, but to be fair the margin between these states and the rest of the country is a few percentage points, and being that the south is generally less populated than the northeast and west, more fat people are in those places anyway, we just have more to a head. Not all of us in the south are fat, most are average, and some are downright hot,
South louisiana still has the best looking women in the country, period.
Today's "hot" southern girls are probably tomorrow's fat mommas. It all depends what you put in your mouth that later ends up on your ass, and southern food sure isn't part of Weight Watchers diet.
have to give them credit. at least they are honest.
Typical fat loving Americans. this establishment has a great business model and will continue to do well.
Commonsense is gone in America today. We mock knowledge and commonsense and then wonder why we are so messed up. Amazing. http://www.forksoverknives.com
Well said. I totally agree.
No it isn't. Quit being so dramatic.
How can we mock commonsense if it's gone?
Not gone....they are just in denial.
Exactly. See the first 5 minutes of the Mike Juge movie "Idiocracy"......its prophetic.
Love FoK! Totally agree!
its common sense, two words. And common sense has nothing to do with it. It is down to bone idleness and lack of self control of any kind. You're looking at the american dream come true.
Could the tr oll posting as "cowstastegood" be afiliated with this restaurant? I suspect so.
Me too.
Nope, I just enjoy schooling presumptious,self-concious idiots.
must be from the internet
that self consciouness thing is pretty bad – who really wants to aware?
By being judgemental and presumptious yourself....oh the irony.
Sometimes I really enjoy getting drunk and watching butterflies. I really feel fat people are disgusting. Shows celebrate fatties... look at The Biggest Loser. How about cheering the healthy, thin folks who have self control and are not fat. Durrrrr. BLAH!
Are you kidding? Healthy, thin and cheerful people ARE celebrated in our society. Any magazine or commercial will tell you that. The Biggest loser doesn't praise overweight people: it tells them that if you keep this up, you'll be dead soon, work your ass off, and BECOME a healthy, thin, cheerful person.
When skinny vegan pain-in-the-arrse professional jogger Jim Fixx dropped dead of a heart attack at the ripe old age of 52 I laughed and laughed.
Then I had a bacon cheeseburger and laughed some more.
Jim Fixx was a junk food junkie who regulary feasted on burgers, donuts, and milkshakes. That's what clooged his arteries. A low-fat vegan diet would have saved his life.
Whoever writes your polling question sucks and they're obviously trying to push responses a certain direction.
The question is "WOULD you eat at Heart Attack Grill?" and the only way to answer in the affirmative is if you can enthusiastically say that you already have, and loved it. WTF??
NO ONE WAS EVEN ASKING IF YOU HAD ALREADY EATEN AT HEART ATTACK GRILL.
Would you eat at Heart Attack Grill?
"No, but I want to..."
So, that means that you WOULD NOT eat at the restaurant... but you want to. Great.
My answer is "Yes, I would."
Not "Maybe, if I were in the area..."
I'd just like to try their food at some point, if that's ok with you, AND YOUR MORONIC POLL QUESTION!!!!!!!!
... my condolences to that man's family for their loss.
You're a moron. A poll should account for every possible answer that a person could possibly think up? It's not that hard, it's a simple yes or no. Would you ever eat there? Me: no. Never
Sounds like euthanasia on a commercial scale. Was Jack Kovorkian an original investor?
What Jack did cannot even relate to this situation.
Perfect example of the dumbing of America.
Pot, meet kettle.
Ooh, so clever!
The kettle is black. Wake up America and quit being so utterly stupid.
Or just enjoy yourselves and don't worry about what presumptious, self conscious people think.
Hi Pot.
Sounds like a good way to get rid of fat, dumb people. Let's open up a resturant in every city in the South.
Just as many fat, dumb people up North. More actually.
Actually, @cowstastegood – you're wrong... The majority of larger Americans live in the South. https://www.willclower.com/programs/index.php?section=theproblem
I know what I've seen with my own eyes traveling to major cities in the North and South. If there is a difference, it's not a big one.
your anecdotal evidence is worthless, child. An adult would know that, and not assume that your incredibly narrow viewpoint is representative of anything.
I'm from Texas and have been all over the country. Trust me when I say the South has the majority of the fattest people in the country.
Oh geez. Bigoted much?
Well they probably practice truth in advertising.
This not much different than smoking while all those warnings on the label tell you this will kill you. Willful dumbness for sure.
Lets face it, this restaurant is all about fun.
It is fun to go to a place with such a crazy name and eat something off the charts – once or twice in a lifetime that is.
A visit to Vegas or many other places in the country, eating a whooping burger can happen in many restaurants.
This is just one that make "fun" of it by name, and people can say they got to go there.
The problem is the patron, not the restaurant. If they did not eat it there, they would find something else somewhere else that would cause the same damage. Carl's Jr is a good next bet.
It is sad for all in the end, but ultimately people are most responsible for themselves, what they eat, and the consequences thereof.
Unfortunately, blaming others is the easy route when it all goes wrong.
Well said and true.
Offering free meals to those over 350 lbs does not help either. How about blame for all those participating in something so against intelligence.
yeah, your right. That free meal to an over 350lb guy is not helping out the situation, nor putting the restaurant in a better light. I disagree with that policy too.
Well said, Mike. People do have to accept responsibility for their own actions. I won't say I would never go to this restaurant, just for the novelty. I might even have something off the menu, but it would be one of the smaller items. Just the picture of the quadruple by-pass burger is disgusting to me. Notice I said "to me". It's a matter of choice. As Voltaire once said, I may not agree with what you have to say (or eat), but I will defend to the death your right to say (eat) it.
Like the warning on a pack of cigarettes, the restaurant should have pictures and short descriptions of these dead champions who died in denial that the food they were eating actually was shortnening their lives. That is so current and future patrons have full disclosure of what they are exposing themselves to and can plan accordingly. Other than that, chow down, babe!
How about people just take responsibility for their own actions and stupidity
You can't argue with personal responsibility. It would be nice if we felt a little more responsible or loving to the people around us though... instead of treating them like a dollar sign, indiscriminately selling them guns so they can go on bloody rampage's, make a market out of feeding people insanely unhealthy food so their children can watch them die a slow, miserable death, learn from example and become "Heart Attck Grills" next target consumer. Makes you wonder if were already in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, we just don't realize it.
I personally don't care to own a gun but it is clear that people kill people. Guns are just a tool like a fork being used to deliver unhealthy food to the mouth. Not the forks fault either. Face it, we the people are to blame for what we the people do.
The dude weighed 180 lbs and both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50's. His death had nothing to do with food and everything to do with genetics.
Genetics has nothing to do with obesity in 98% of cases. His parents were gluttons and so was he. Simple reality.
Neither he nor his parents were obese, doofus.
So true!!! Genetics in this country is a very simple dumb term meaning you were diagnosed along with a family member.....what it REALLY is ....is you ALL have the same bad habits passed on from generation to generation....
BOOM......"GENETICS"
Genetics is only part of the puzzle. Just because a person looks healthy on the outside doesn't mean they are healthy on the inside, and a terrible diet certainly doesn't do anything to help the cause.
What denial? The place is called Heart Attack Grill, only a complete idiot would not know what they are eating. You think the restaurant needs to make more of an effort to warn people what they are getting into than the extremely obvious name itself? On a side note I will have to try the place out next time I am in the area, it looks good, but the name alone tells me it should not be a frequent place to eat.
Let me guess you need warning signs not to climb over the zoo fence into the lion cage. The reason why there are so many stupid people is that we spend tons of money and effort to protect them from themselves. Save the money, let Darwinism thin the herd. That's how species survive in nature, only the best survive to old age. Humanity is doing the opposite, by overly protecting the stupid we are making society as a whole stupid.
Frank are you actually implying that people have to be shown pictures of other dead people to understand tht smoking/eating like crap are bad for you? If you are you are a perfect example of what is wrong in this country, it is people like you that award million dollar settlements to people who need to be told that coffee is hot. You are pathetic.
This makes me ashamed to be human.
Will the next step in feeding depravity be factory-farm themed? Patrons could be herded through chutes, encouraged with "mild" cattle prods, into grate-bottomed pens crowded with other eager patrons waiting (under warming lights!) for their delicious meals. When the theme-named ("Pretty Porker, "Tanks a Lot") calorie-packed, macerated slop sluices into the troughs, patrons can experience the joy of competing with their fellow diners for their portion. After dinner, servers dressed in rubber aprons will appear with a hih-power hose to wash the happy diners down.
Good times.
Get over yourself.
No.....actually get "INTO" yourself!!!
Even more frightening is that your scenario is actually possible today because God forbid someone touches our "freedoms" or interferes with us killing eachother in more and more gruesome ways.
Let me guess Adam.... You are a humanities major at a private school. As you prepare for a career in either the bike messenger or fast food coffee industries, you are gunning up (pun intended) your angy, aloof attitude earned by reading blogs, and philosophy text books? Keep sporting the wool cap and Clark Kent glasses Chief.
Nothing wrong with being human if you are responsible and use commonsense. Those who don't exercise commonsense or self-control will eventually eliminate themselves and the rest of us in stupid acts of foolishness.
I imagine that there would be so many patrons so excited about finally being able to eat out of a trough that the humiliation of the experience would go over their heads.
Hey Fiona! How are you? I am guessing you are the humorless, 'rustic' looking hippy girl handing out pamphlets for the Vegan Church on the DC Metro today!?
It's OK America to take a concept to the extreme and find a way to normalize it to make it seem like a mainstream thing. Why is it ok? Cuz there's a sucker born every minute.
And you're obviously one of them.
Run along lad. and pick your jaw up off the floor.
It landed on your purse.
Yup, just like our fascination with guns!
I would eat there if they had something vegetarian to offer, but for some reason I highly doubt that.
Mustard packs
Yeah, but nobody wants to see chicks with hairy pits and smell patchouli while they are trying to eat.
Didn't you say something about stereotyping like, 2 minutes ago
WOW.....what are you threatened by "Cowtastesgood"
I think EVERYTHING that you don't understand or is new to you.....you are so sad:(
They hate our freedom...
He or anyone can eat whatever they want. HOWEVER, people tend to forget why our federal budget has problems. Health care costs are out of hand. Many Americans don't have health insurance even if they can afford it. If you have health insurance, it is often backed by TAXPAYER dollars and/or higher rates on business and individuals who have it.
So, if you want to eat, drink and smoke until you kill yourself that is fine. Just sign a legal waiver of any health care coverage you can't pay focompletelyly byourselflf.
Funny how "individual" or "states" rights people complain about government involvement, but forget they are getting lots of handouts.
Actually, individual and states rights people like me want people to pay for their own insurance or get none... then, the government doesn't hand me anything and I reep the benefits or the ills of every decision I make. That is a real system!
And then disabled folks like me–who cannot buy insurance–can then simply die, and thus degrease the surplus population.
Arguments like this that imply that the government has a financial interest in my lifestyle are exactly why I was and still am against the so called Affordable Health Care Act. This will be used to restrict choices to those that are approved by people like Sue.
Agreed. Go ahead and have those daily burgers; just do me and everyone else a favor and pay for your own quadruple bypass surgery if you don't want to pay for health insurance.
I'm pretty sure this guy saved the government a lot of money since he will not need his Social Security, Medicare or any other benefits program.
Well you obviously have no idea where the real costs in healthcare are. The most healthcare dollars are spent on keeping the elderly alive and cared for.
So following your logic we should require anyone who wants to live beyond 60 or 65 to sign off from all healthcare so as to not pass the costs on to others.
if you dont eat there every day what is the problem..once a month or every few months would not do harm,and dont be fat and keep cramming food in your face...
The guy weighed 180 lbs and both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50's. He could've been one of those communist vegans or vegetarians and it wouldn't have mattered. Say it with me people..genetics.
Those darned commies and their healthy diets
Right, his diet had nothing to do with it. Say it with me, "suicide by food".
LOl! the diet just sped up the process!
Genes eh? You're seem to not be aware of the mountains of scientific evidence that prove that eating increasing amounts of animal meat causes increasing rates of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and thus, heart attacks.
Fat = flavor, there is no denying that. The problem with some people is that they don't seem to understand moderation. Eat this stuff once in awhile, and it's a delicious treat. Eat it every day, and you are choosing to significantly increase risk to your health. But it's the choice of the person eating. Nothing wrong with the restaurant.
LIve by the fat, die fat. Freedom of choice. If you donr know it is unhealthy to eat like that all the time, you are too stoopid to live that long anyway. If you are aware and make ur choice, so be it!! It is all a numbers game, calories in and calories out. Hi carb, low carb, high protein...blaa blaa bllaaaa. Enjoy life but be sensible. Now it is time for bacon and eggs cooked in the bacon grease!!!!!!!!!!!
Establishments like this cull the herd ............
If I was the #1 patron of the Heart Attack Grill that's the way I would have wanted to go out.
It takes a real man to throw down on a 6,000 calorie burger.
I think you left out the word "fat" between "real" and "man".
Epic reply.
HaHa Ha!!!!
A REAL FAT MAN:)
Moderation!! Everything in moderation! :)
Even moderation.
fatty fatty 2 x 4
Thank goodness they (the irresponsible obese population) are killing themselves off! Good job! :o)
cant get through the bathroom door.
This is a right to choose what we eat and how much we eat without fear of government intervention. It doesn't necessarily mean you eat it all the time but the choice should remain yours to make and yours alone, just as medical advice can be followed or disregarded by a patient, it is their choice t make.
I disagree. Similar to mandatory seatbelts, if one person's actions have a negative economic impact on others, those actions can be legislated against. In each case (intentional obesity and not wearing a seatbelt) insurance rates rise on everyone, due to the actions of a few. The government should be permitted to curtail that behavior.
Nice comment, and very true.
It is your right to "believe" this way, however, if you want to truly live this way, go live where there is socialized medicine or even better, in a communist country where you are told how to think, live, etc. Our government right now has too many laws they cannot or will not enforce. What are they going to do, arrest someone for over eating? The calorie police? Be real. I have known people that eat low cal diets that cannot lose weight and still have cardiac issues, then I have known people that can eat all day low the fattiest foods there are and their veins are as clean as a newborn. Make some sense!
If I were obese, why would this not make perfect sense? Being fat should not affect your IQ.
Is it that the obese are deaf to those of us who are affected with the higher insurance costs ?
I too wonder how do the obese expalin away the costs to the rest of us who try to stay healthy.
I'am sorry they have extreme weight issue's, but that is not my responsibility to cover the bills.
This is just plain common sense, why would (could) anyone argue that?
The Affordable Heatlh Care Act would do well to address getting these obese patients in plans, and programs that are mandatory, still there will always be those who cannot put the fork down, and those on the Right who will cry out "Nanny" Govt., passing laws into my personal life.
Well if your personal life choices add debt to my income, your personal life is now my business, and it needs to be addessed with laws that keep my income protected from those who cannot even control their own weight.
Rest in Peach, boy. Restaurants depend on loyal customers. But if you die doing what you love, it cant be all bad. Not at all. Rest in Peace!
They should open one of these up in Washington or Colorado with the legalized pot.
#winning
My body is ready...
This place is in Las Vegas. I would imagine their target market is tourists looking to indulge themselves on vacation. While it does not seem to be the most responsible business, I can't see where it is much worse than a fried food buffet. The real issue with this restaurant is that they flaunt the facts that most restaurants try to hide. If you can, look up the calories for some of the more obviously fattening entrees at your favorite restaurant. You may be surprised.
Excellent observation!
52, dead of a heart attack... top patron at a diner called "Heart attack grill"
what's the surprise here? It's like being shocked that a smoker dies of lung cancer.
Dude had it coming.
We all have it coming. Might as well enjoy it.
Correction "YOU" might have it coming.....
keep eating meat!
I myself am going to live a long healthy veggie life......cheers!!!!!!
how does the radical right get all worked up over certain types of RESPONSIBILITY but then just throws all sense out the window when it comes to health RESPONSIBILITY
thanks for raising ALL of our insurance and health care costs
The same way Ted Kennedy used to put the health of his female companions first by driving his car into the water and then conveniently getting amnesia and leaving them to drown. NOW DROP and GIVE ME 1,000 SOLDIER... then go shovel out your latrine with your spoon. That ought to keep you off the blogs for a while.
Basically because these folks make their own decisions and live or die by them. A fetus doesn't decide to abort itself.
Sure it does. It's called a miscarriage. Some kids look at the parents they're about to be born to and say "Screw this'.
LOL that's funny.
"Radical right"??? Huh? What does this have to do with anyone "right wing" or "conservative" or whatever else you're delusional about. It's about a relatively young, very overweight guy who most likely didn't take care of his body at all and most likely ate a lot of junk. So, what does this have to do with "radical" right?? Man, get a life.
He weighed 180 lbs.
Oh... and if anything he lowered your health bill. Folks that die suddenly and young don't rack up long term/high cost bills. His heart attack probably saved at least one hip replacement, a couple of angioplasties, and a more then just a couple of months of hospice care. You on the other hand will probably demand all of those things when its time under the fashionable "I paid into the system, I deserve that plus more" mantra.
To bad you have not clue what your talking about.
By dying of a heart attack at age 52 he will actually have far less lifetime healthcare costs than someone who lives to old age since the vast majority of the money spent is keeping the etremely elderly alive.
The right has alienated pretty much every other constituency so they figure they need to hang on to at least one group of voters. If they crusade against fat people they would pretty much be universally disliked. Have you seen the south? It isn't the trimmest.
This is why America is such a great place. People have the right to go to the gym 7 days a week or to eat heart attack burgers and die at 52..Sweet! Do what you want with no regard for the consequences, no problem..just don't expect anyone else to pay for your healthcare or funeral bills.....
but we DO pay their bills............
Agreed. Same goes for those who skydive, mountain climb, rock climb, and mountain bike.
The Heart Attack Grill is just a novelty to make money. I'm sure they're not thinking that people would go there all the time. The people with the problems are the ones who eat like that whether they go to the Heart Attack Grill or not. Moreover, I'm sure the Heart Attack Grill has some patrons who are older and have healthy arteries.
Really? This only happens in America?
you can't regulate your way out of stooooopid but no this place shouldn't exist and wouldn't if people took RESPONSIBILITY for their health.
thanks for raising ALL of our insurance and health care costs you selfish...........
Gotta love Liberals. It's not the person's fault, it's the businesses fault. Nothing is ever the person's fault. That's just not possible!
Finally, someone made a place where people who care nothing about their health can go to die off.
This place kills people regardless of political affiliation. Many liberals employ Darwinian logic, and this is just another result of natural selection. Be fair and blame both parties. You really think guns have nothing to do with one person's ability to slaughter 28 children in an afternoon? I'm pretty sure he couldn't have done the same feat with a bow and arrow. You think being able to purchase a 9,000+ calorie burger had nothing to do with this patron's early death? Extremists on both sides can be so ridiculously inflexible that you'll pick one side just to spite the other.
Newsflash: Guess what? It's both people and their tools that cause deaths.
Does stereotyping "libs" (any person who practices any form of liberalism) make you feel more superior to them? I hope your high horse hits an inordinately tall hurdle.
Liberals have a right to FREE SPEECH. Or is it only Righties that have that right?
Oh grow up! Yes, it should exist. Likely, you and I wouldn't eat there (I love cheeseburgers, but not in such large size and not too often), but geez, this one restaurant and the very, very few like this guy who don't take care of themselves at all...that's not going to raise our insurance. Now, Obamacare........
Actually – you are wrong – this kind of thing absolutely raises your insurance bill; the cost of emergency and high level lifesaving efforts are folded into everyone's premiums. Now if he'd just dropped dead that would have been different. The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) will lower most folks' insurance premiums. Now, as for the restaurant – they seem to be more transparent as to the nutritional quality of their menu items than most. If you eat there, you KNOW what you're getting yourself into. Other restaurants may have nutritional info available, but you have to dig to find it. It's not the restaurant's fault this guy or any other regular patron suffers the consequences of eating high fat, high sodium, high cholesterol food on a regular basis. Just like ice cream, this should be a once in a while treat. I do hope he didn't suffer too long, though.
Can somebody please show me ANYONE whose insurance rates have gone down since Obamacare??? I am not one to jump on the FOX news bandwagon, but my insurance rates have gone up 6-10% EVERY YEAR, and will be going up again almost 10% this year. Not one single thing has changed for the better since Obamacare was forced on us.
Do I think rates would have gone down without it? no, but please stop saying they will go down WITH Obamacare. I'll believe that when I see it. All that is happened is ates have gone up and choice of doctore who take my plan have gone down.
Jup, Obamacare hasn't totally gone into effect. Come back in late 2014 and then make a comment.
I assume that all the people here worried about everyone else's health do not smoke or drink alcohol.
That's correct. I don't smoke or drink.
not at all my smug friend
When you get run over by a bus I will laugh and laugh.
Then have a bacon cheeseburger and a beer and laugh some more.
You do understand that no one gives a siht what a LCpl thinks or says?
Right on, never smoked in my life, and the only alcohol I have ever ingested is in cough syrup. Seeya!
Or skydive, engage in irresponsible sexual behavior, rock climb, mountain bike (which, BTW, has a high injury rate), drive over the speed limit, work in a stressful occupation, wear helmets when bicycling or riding a motorcycle, and on and on . . .
Be careful before you try to nanny others' behaviors.
I don't smoke or drink, and......I do not give two dams about anyone else's health habits at all. Not one bit. At least 7 billion of our species sitting on this rock. Easily, 1/2 to 3/4 of those are malfunctioning parasites that just make life interesting for the rest of us. Do what you will, just make sure you film it so I can at least get a good laugh since I have to put up with you and most probably pay for you.
I NEVER smoked and my alcohol use is about once a month in small amounts. Would be equal to eating a single burger (not one of the triple or quads o the menu) per month. In fact, I rarely eat more than one single burger a month.
this makes me sad for several reasons.
Aubrie – it is nice to see some humanity in these posts; after all '....each mans death diminshes me, for I am part of mankind; so do not send to find for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee..'
I was once told by a bio-dynamic farmer that you could eat anything you want and remain healthy as long as you eat 1 organic carrot per day. That has been my credo ever since, I eat eggs with bacon and sausage every morning, and all the meat, cheeses, pastry, sweets, ice cream etc. that I desire. I don't eat anything green. I eat 1 organic carrot per day. I'm just over 400 lbs., and I'll be 98 years old next week. Do the math. :)
Stop acting like a 9 year old posting BS.
sounds like your a big fatty
Hmm... I'm trying to calculate this in my head, but 1+3+7=... Oh, a liar.
So you managed to live well past the average for the morbidly obese. But can you imagine how great you'd feel if you weren't so large? Your joints must ache and you probably have sleep apnea and snoring problems. I don't think being 400 pounds is something to brag about...
I did the math. You're only 49 in 200lb years,
Nice story you made up there. There is no way it is correct. Did you get a big thrill writing it?
You're also invisible, named Harvey, and once made a movie with Jimmy Stewart, right?
Oh great. This is going to send the health nazis into a frenzy
Stupid is as stupid does. Hope the family can pay the medical bills so my rates don't tick up again. Guess they should start a wall with a tribute to their dead customers. Motto "Now it's your turn."
Have no fear. The insurance executives at your company will still receive their bonuses this year...
Perhaps they should set up a graveyard in their parking lot.
Best free advertising ever! Get a good "unofficial" spokes person to die of a heart attack every year and make national headlines. I am wondering if anyone has ever actually looked into these cases to see if the person(s) they speak of actually existed or if they even died?
Don't judge the guy or the diner because they "sin" differently than you do.
Went once when they were in Chandler, AZ. Kitschy place. Wear hospital gowns, hottie "nurses", good burger (only got the single bypass) and mexican real sugar coke in an icy bottle. Not an everyday thing, but it was great for a splurge. Everything in moderation folks....
In case you are interested, Costco sometimes carries the Mexican sugar coke in 24 pack bottles.
You live by the Heart Attack Grill, you die by the Heart Attack.
Cholestrol is a silent killer.
Ninja's are silent killers. Cholesterol, at least, makes you grab your chest and cry out "FACK!! MY HORT!!"
Best. Comment. EVER!!!
Dietary cholesterol has not much to do with plasma cholesterol.
It is a little disingenuous to say a hamburger killed him. It didn't help, but I suspect he was in pretty bad shape before ever eating there. His diet and behavior over the past 20 or 30 years, along with genetics, are what made him sick.
Their previous spokesman, who died last, was 575 pounds. Can't blame all those pounds on Heart Attack Grill.
Ho ho ho ... now this is a funny story!
This will be Gov Christie next .
Have another burger fat boy!
At least we'll save a whole lot of money in health care costs, so this is a good thing.
Whatever intern created this poll needs a basic lesson in logic. :) A for effort.
Article made me hungry
I know it is the individual's fault but the FDA should shut them down because they should not sale something that will kill an individual.
Why not? Maybe he wanted to go out that way. What's it to you? No one's making you eat there ya freakin Nazi.
I'm sorry but that is just a stupid statement. You could say the same thing about anything. Hell, anyone that has ever eaten a pickle has died! Should we have the FDA ban pickles?
Yea. Pickles are deadly. Ever get one stuck in your eye socket. Boy, does that hurt.
They definitely should not "sale something"....
So, shut down all bars, liquor stores, Friendlly Ice cream stores? Get real. It's about personal responsibility. He made his choices. And perhaps they killed him. Too bad. But to shut down a business because someone refused to exercise restraint and repsonsible behavior is folly.
Who are we to say shut the place down. Should we shut McDonalds, Burger King, or Carls Junior Down? Go check out the calorie counts on their burgers and fries it might suprise you. The FDA needs to stick to other things rather than the heart attack grill. People goto Vegas for a show and that's what they get when they eat there. It's a slippery slope to go down if the government were to start acting on places like this...
You say this, yet cigarettes and alcohol are sold legally. Personal responsibility is what it comes down to. People commit suicide by jumping off bridges...you can't make bridges illegal too?
There are in-your-face signs all over the building entrance and menu warning them of the hazards. All customers there have read them and made their decision AFTER the warnings were read. So once again, personal responsibility. I've read them myself, and decided to eat at the little bar/restaurant right across from it.
The government should shut them down because some people can't be responsible for their own bad decisions? .
The FDA hasn't shut them down because there's nothing illegal about selling food. It's a personal choice as to where someone eats; and since just about every thing imaginable (and in many cases unimaginable) has caused someone to die at some point in history your statement is ridiculous. And by the way, use the proper spelling of your words ("sale" should have been "sell") in their proper context.
If this section of the world wants to murder its citizens with coronary disease without the government interrupting them, let them. This guy is a success story. He made the news.
Besides, everyone knows that this food can kill you... especially the children. They study the effects of cholesterol in 2nd grade, don't they? I don't see how someone might end up getting attached to this stuff, right? It's not me paying for the plus-sized custom coffins anyway.
A quote from an Irish member of Parliament in the 1600s:
"The only way to stop this suicide wave is to make it a capital offense punishable by death."
I think this does the trick nicely.
Actually, scientists and health professionals still don't know the definite effects of cholesterol. They have been debating it for years and still can't understand why some people have high cholesterol despite healthy dis and others with unhealthy diets might have lower cholesterol. Furthermore there is no specific link between high cholesterol and heart disease or heart attacks, despite the seeminglyobvious connection.
So , no – 2nd graders don't know about cholesterol anymore than you and I do. BTW my daughter is in 2nd grade gifted program and she never heard of cholesterol.
Why not shut down liquor stores? Drunk drivers seem to kill everyone but themselves.
Worst poll ever! Where is simply "yes, I would eat there." The answer, "no, but I would" seems to be an answer to the question "HAVE you eaten at heart attack grill?" But that ain't the futzing question.
575er drops dead from pounding the Triple Bypass Burger. Their response? We need to makes the Quad Bypass Burger!! Haha, I love these guys. Go check out their website, pack of Lucky Strikes next to the 10k calorie burger. They are telling you up front, "we WILL kill you". Hahahahaha
Finally! Truth in advertising!
I went to that restaurant a few years ago and had the Infarction Tapas. After my third helping, the waitress/nurse was kind enough to administer CPR, and she earned herself a big tip!
He died doing what he loved. That's all that matters.
yep, and now joe taxpayer gets to pick up your unpaid medical bills, you stupid lardass POS fat slob
Whatever, Joseph T. Taxpayer is already picking up the bill for half the country anyway. Personally I found this far more entertaining than the usual meth/alcohol/police shooting deaths that usually follow the people I get to pay for.
I didn't read the part where it says he didn't have insurance. Could you point out where you read that .
No he can't.
I think I'd rather pay for his bills than your bills. There is no indication that he was a schmuk.
Waiting for a bus?
Jake: you're brilliant man. You made my day.
I have a hard enought time keeping weight off when I eat good-for-you food.
Short and simple, but my favorite comment here.
I'm curious about health care mathematics. If a person dies early like this fellow (age 52), doesn't that save the public money since he paid in for social security and medicare but didn't get to claim it (as far as I know) since he was still pre-retirement? Everyone is writing here about how "they don't care what this guy does to himself but why should the public have to pay for his bad habits." Are you sure that's the case? Maybe he costs us LESS than the average person since he dropped dead earlier. Same for smokers.
My guess is that people who have these type of diseases cost us less if they die early and quickly, but way more if they linger and die later in life.
There is a curve on that. Particularly true for many heavy smokers, who arguably, contribute more and get less out of the healthcare system than anybody. They may cash a couple social security checks, have a couple visits to the pulmonologist on cobra health insurance they must pay for until Medicare kicks in and one night they just go to bed and they're dead the next morning – no muss, no fuss, no years of expensive medical care. Then there are those who retire early for health reasons and end up taxing the healthcare system for much of their life before they check out.
Swimmer – it's fairly complex. In this guy's case, he was a low wage earner, thus a low contributor to Social Security. His private sector economic impact had he lived would still be minimal, and he died fairly quickly from an acute event. That's a fairly extreme case. The guy was also single, no kids, only one living relative, so he was pretty much on the fringe of typical economic and social demographics. The more common situation is an individual with greater economic productivity (not only wages, but their contribution) and early onset of chronic medical conditions that kill slowly, or are extremely expensive to treat – e.g. diabetes, emphysema, COPD, many cancers.
There's no clear answer from a strictly utilitarian point of view when you look at society as whole – the only clear answers either way are from cherry picked data that supports the desired answer.
E=mC2 But it didn't until it was figured out.
Perhaps this particular individuals untimely death saved the taxpayer money (although emergency care like he received can run tens of thousands). However, I think the uproar is more pointed at a systemic problem of obesity in our society, especially at the low end of the wage spectrum. A similar person to Mr. Alleman who, since he was utilizing public transport we will assume to be a low earner, earns less and by design contributes less to the public system. Had he not died from the heart attack (many people are saved, often a matter of luck) he would have been a strain on the healthcare system. Likewise a smoker is more likely to suffer long bouts of illnesses like COPD, lung cancer, oral cancers, etc. which canrack up tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of medical bills before they die.
Mr. Alleman ate at this establishment very often, thus clearly putting himself at significant risk, just like most smokers who, despite overwhelming evidence, choose to continue their habit. Anyone who smokes should be immediately banned from receiving publicly funded health care.
I would eat there out of curiousity. I love a good burger. I'd never be a regular patron though – that's just too many calories. I don't really care what other people do it's a free country, for now at least.
He's going to increase to change the 350 minimum in a few years because the way our country is going he won't have any paying customers.
You should move to Michigan. GM, Chryslerband their suppliers are hiring thousands.
That's hilarious!! l
I'd throw away more than I ate. It would be a total waste of money.
This is why it's important to have a salad before your 9,000 calorie burger.
You are what you eat; in his case, an ex-customer!
Well, I don't care if someone wants to eat themselves to death, or drink or smoke or whatever to death. I DO start to care when people require my tax $$ because they have intentionally destroyed the body to the point where they cant take care of themselves or cover their advanced medical expenses. So I was at a popular home improvement store to get some stuff a few weeks ago and there is an employee riding around in an electric "buggy" thing which is typically available for customers, He had to have weighed 400 lbs minimum, doing nothing but riding around. WTH?
you don't think maybe he had a medical condition and he needed that to get around and do his job? Judge much?
he did have a medical problem. a big fat medical problem.
my wife showed me something posted on facebook about how the fatties shouldn't get the scooters or handicaped parking.... they should have to park the furthest away and have to run and do jumping jacks all the way into the establishment. i agree 100%
How many Weight Watchers points is that Quadruple Bypass Burger? We may have a record
fyi – 249 under the old point system. that's a weeks worth of my points.
Anyone who actually stuffs this garbage into their arteries deserves to have a heart attack! We all know better!!
Well, if we truly are what we eat, then I guess that makes me a PU$$Y!
Genie waves wand... (bling), your a pu$$y.
*you're
I want to hear more about the nurses!!!
My condolences to his brother and friends. It is just a restaurant that found a niche. People make their own decisions on how to treat their bodies (Bloomberg take note). I would try one of their milkshakes given a chance (not been to Vegas since I was 9 in the 1970's). It is sad, now move on.
I love these "I have the right to be as stupid as I want to be with my own body" posts. The dumbest political theory I've ever heard. Tell you what - you're going to be that stupid, the state should have the right to take your kids, and nobody should help pay for your healthcare, nor should you be entitled to disability rights. Go be stupid on your own time.
Crawl back under your fascist rock, Amy.
My healthcare costs are through the roof from paying to take care of slobs like this. 70% of this nation is causing the rest to go broke because they have no self control.
In the near future fat people will be shunned like smokers and drunk drivers, and I cannot wait for that day!
Yeah, tough guy! Yeah! Because fat people aren't already shamed every day of their lives for daring to go out in public. That'll teach them!
Unfortunately, much of our health care costs are going to unnecessary administrators and "middle men." They contribute nothing, but take their piece of the pie. That one cent aspirin costs a dollar because a CEO somewhere in the middle of the chain needs his/her cut. I hope we get universal health care and eliminate most of the leeches.
good riddance
You are going to have to point the finger at others also, not just this diner. American food is full of chemicals and hormones, even the so called healthy food. Did you see the special on BVO? It's absolutely disgusting that an American company would knowingly put toxic chemicals in a drink that is so readily available to kids, not to mention the adults. Yes its a free country and we are all free to eat and drink what ever we want, but even the good choices are bad. Spinach has pesticides and toxic chemical fertilizer in its leaf matter because the plant absorbed into it's system so even eating a good thing like spinach is bad for you. Meat and dairy has so many hormones in it that girls are going through puberty way too early and is giving boys man-b00bs. No one seems to notice that the antibiotics used in the meat and dairy industry are making everyone antibiotic resistant. Steroids and hormones given to cattle feed tumors and cause cancer.
All this is sure to affect mood, temprament as well as health. So when you talk about wasting tax dollars, look to everything, not just the obvious.
So then.....what do YOU eat???
I strongly believe in the right to build any legitimate business, and the right of people to choose which business they will patronize, but offering a 9,982 calorie "Quadruple ByPass Burger", "Butterfat Milkshake" or "Coronary Dog" should be as against the law as producing or selling drugs. The fact they lost their most loyal patron at the age of 52 from a heart attack is proof that the Heart Attack Grill is a lethal killing machine that needs to have its operating license pulled by a responsible city government. They may as well have been offering strychnine, arsenic or other lethal poisons to their patrons.
I will contend that it is bad business to kill off your most loyal customers. This event is not good PR for the Heart Attack Grill. Hopefully, it will be a warning to others not to suffer the same fate as that of John Alleman.
I have to disagree. No one dragged the customer (if they even could) to patronize this eatery. He had a choice. Just like he had a choice to become huge and I'm sure he was warned of the consequences by more than one person. As far as being bad for business, I doubt it. Some people may even see it as a challenge or a scare dare.
You could, order one of these and split it up with a bunch of people. You can get a large pizza, but you don't have to eat it all yourself in one serving. You shouldn't ban stuff just because it is unhealthy when abused. If you are going to eat a 4 lbs burger by yourself, than you are abusing the food. If you are going to split it up, than while it may not be the most healthy thing you can eat, it isn't as bad.
Sure Wes, Let government regulate this also.... I need the government to protect me from me. Whats wrong with the USA.....? GOVERNMENT REGULATION!!!!!
or INTENTIONAL FATTIES!!!!
A lot of people can't avoid temptation when it's right in front of them. Providing such high calorie "food" really tempts overeaters to indulge and risk their health. What a disservice to the community! They should feel a responsibility to the community to provide healthy food that keeps their patrons healthy, alive, and returning for more food in the future. Soon all their customers are going to suffer heart attacks and won't return to buy more menu items. What kind of business plan is that?
It's in Vegas, their main customer base is tourists, it doesn't matter if they die, a new batch will be getting off the airplane tomorrow.
Tourists won't die from eating this food. It's the REGULARS who accumulate the fat in the arteries over time that are done in. Every single person in the news who's death has been attributed to this restaurant was a regular customer, which is just dumb.
If you make everything against the law that is bad for you then you need to stop selling alcohol and tobacco as well. Both of these things have been proven to kill people so if you are going to make it against the law to serve this kind of food you have to make all things that can kill you against the law. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to give the government that kind of control over your life? Next they would have to ban salt and sugar as well because they contribute to high blood pressure and diabetes. It is a slippery slope.
This company and Cox cable: the only two businesses I know that completely live up to their names.
Good place to do health (or ill health) studies.
Most people would try it. Just not eat there frequently. Looking at this web poll shows me one thing is clear. Most people are either lying to themselves or simply do not think of food in a rational manner like they do when clicking on a web poll.
With all of the back and forth about why this place should or should not be in business or if folks should or should not eat there. No one has said if the place has good tasting food or not. Many times you have these places the food is made in large volumes but not actually good.
Fat and stupid...a lethal combination. Truly.
Ha Ha.
The concern here is the cost to society. I'm not even talking about the cost in loss of life, time worked, etc... I'm talking about the amount of money spent on healthcare.
Since healthcare is (generally) a pooled risk (e.g. the man wasn't paying hospital bills compeltely out of pocket), we collectively bear the cost of that risk. If someone or something is consistently increasing that risk, then we actually pay more out-of-pocket to address that risk. I'm sure everyone likes the idea of "freedom", but no one likes the idea of "cost."
Unfortunately, the things (such as this) that are the worst for you tend to be the cheapest (per calorie). Thus, the system incentivizes bad eating habits. One solution would be to increase the cost of things that are "bad for you" to offset the risk. This would still allow their consumption without having others bear the brunt of the risk.
That's bull, and if you do your own shopping you know it. It's all about will power. I can get a big box of oatmeal for $2.50, a dozen eggs for $1.50, 2lbs. of apples for $2, 2lbs of cabbage for $1, a pound of onions, peppers, and potatoes all cost less than $1 each, and I've seen all of them under 50 cents per pound. That right there is less than $10 and I could easily eat for a week on that, if you need meat, you can get most cuts of chicken for under $2 per lb. and even strip steaks can be found for around $7 per pound. Most grocery stores also have an area where they have meat and vegetables at reduced prices for quick sale.
And the first step in that has to be to end farm subsidies that enable certain food products to be mass-produced at way below their actual cost.
Just like blaming guns for violence, you can't blame the spoon for making people fat. Time to buck up and start taking responsibility for your actions, people.
I agree you make yourself fat but must you nutbags turn everything into a gun right issue. Obama did it or maybe Hillary.
By the same token, you cannot blame the heroine pusher for giving your 8 year old child heroine. After all, it was your kid's choice to actually take it!
Your argument is pathetic! That restaurant should have been denied a health permit on its name alone! Business owners DO have an obligation to their patrons and the community whose taxes pay for hospitalization for those it injures.
Not to go off topic, but just for your info: Mature, consenting ADULTS should indeed have the right to decide for themselves what should go into their bodies, including something like heroine. An 8yr old, is a bit young to be making that sort of decision, don't you think?
One last thing: Our society has been cooking/frying foods in lard for centuries. Red meat was the only thing consumed in the winter, and low fat foods didn't happen. Consumption of cream, butter and whole milk was abundant. THis was all before heart attacks and obesity even came onto the scene.
Gluttony may have more to do with this then actual substance.
What a lame analogy. Too bad that big guns don't more frequently kill the person holding them, like a spoon will. It's the good people not holding the gun we're concerned about you dolt.
This is great, you can't buy this kind of AD work!
Who cares. It's one less phat phuck tea party patriot the way I see it. I wonder who's going to get the Barca-lounger ?
Couldn't have said it better ............
Well, actually, Democrats tend to be fatter than Republicans; and, doesn't Michelle Obama like to shove french fries into her gaping mouth like they are going out of style? Since she enjoys 2,300 calorie hamburger lunches in fancy DC eateries, I'd bet this is just the place for her.
Um...The fattest people are in the south. They are red states. Try again.
Yeah where did you come up with those statistics. Have you seen pictures of tea party rallies? you are an idiot.
Boy, these last two federal elections really got under your racist skin, didn't they? Just think – you have four more years to rant and rave about Obama, and then you get to start all over on Clinton again! Ain't life grand?
Don't know where you got those statistics. For general health, republicans are healthier than democrats. As for states that have more republicans than democrats, they tend to have a higher obesity rate than blue states.
My fiancees mother refused to take care of herself or get medical insurance. When she finally got sick she pleaded with us for help with hospital bills. All our hard work and savings went up in a poof of smoke. Then on her deathbed she pleaded for us to finish raising her baby girls. So now our lives are on hold because of this womans life choices. My story is just one example of the untold consequences of people who refuse to take care of themselves. People say it is their life and their choice, but there is always other people who suffer because of it.
You could have just said no.
Yes, she could have. Very easy to say, though. Less easy to do. Try some perspective taking for a moment. What if it was your in-law and your wife/husband wasn't willing to just let his mother fend for her self?
That really isn't an option if you are marrying the woman's daughter.
Yeah, you could just dump your nieces and nephews into the foster system. If you're heartless..
And what a tool you are. She was supposed to abandon the little girls? Schmuck.
The children should've been removed from her care long before she died.
Your mother should have had an abortion.
Maybe two, just to be sure no squalling little fascist was going to crawl out and start making a complete arrse of itself.
Las Vegas is the suicide capital of the U.S. It was a clever marketing bet that some would prefer eating a burger to eating a gun.
Moderation, people. Yeah, you've heard it a million times, but the responses below blaming the restaurant astounds me. Remember, "Kelso" ate too much fruit. You know, that natural stuff full of vitamins, and it nearly killed him. Now, not encouraging this as part of a healthy diet by any means, but even once a month would probably be ok here, as long as one ate healthy and exercised.
For those who thinks this guy raises our health insurance rates, that is the true ignorance. There are so many x-factors, i.e. profit margins, poor health choices, tax laws, personal responsibility (i.e. why do people go to an ER for colds nowadays? See it all the time....when I was a kid and had the flu, I stayed home and had chicken soup, not rushed to the ER with all of the other "emergency" earaches ), and numerous other factors.
Does this restaurant also serve red herring?
Jon Basso is running a fun, indulgent eatery. If people aren't smart enough to know it isn't good to eat there frequently, maybe they deserve what they have coming. That's called survival of the fittest.
Even if you order a quadruple bypass burger, no one is forcing you to eat it all in one sitting or even order it in the first place. At the end of the day, a lack of discipline is what is responsible for these deaths – not the restaurant and not "Dr." Jon.
The same logic can be made for "Smoke Shops" and tobacco growers and cigarette manufactures in general. As long as they make an effort to remind people that their product kills, then they have done their due diligence. After that, its up to the rest of us to be responsible for our actions. But again, their bad choices cost everyone else $$ if we have to pay for their interment while they die a slow death of lung cancer. What about extreme sports? When someone gets stuck on a mountain top in the winter, we still agree to rescuing that person; even if their choice was a bad one to go onto the mountain top. Often times with these cases, we send those people a rescue bill and ask them to pick up the tab.
My response is a HUGE Belly Laugh. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
There is nothing more pleasing than seeing complete morons get what's coming to them. I will read this story daily for the next week and laugh with joy at the exit of two more moron strains from the gene pool. Look at that – I am laughing again!!!!
Damnit! You just about make me choke on my strawberry, banana smoothie! Now I can't stop laughing either!
You are probably a skinny geek that will die of aids soon.
now i'm laughing even more. i just showed your comment to my hot wife and my family doctor... they're laughing too fat ass!
You just can't make stuff like this up.....coming soon ......Heart Attack Grille....The Movie
Places like this have to stay open, they are good for weeding out the incredibly stupid. I would eat their once a yeaar maybe, but if you want to go their all the time, then go for it. You get what you deserve.
I agree Brad. You can't blame the restaurant. They're selling a product that people are buying. Each individual needs to take responsibility for their own actions.
Yep, just like smoking. Tabacco companies don't force you to buy cigarettes, but people do and die of lung cancer and other bad things. You are what you eat!
Only in America do we celebrate such bold faced gluttony that affects our health. All of this adds to the huge medical issues in this country. Whats next Cancer Cafe where the feed you stuff that WILL give you cancer? Why is it smoking cigarettes and stuffing your face is no big deal until the day the doctor tells you you're dying of cancer and you go through chemotherapy why bother wasting the money on people that are still smoking and eating like pigs give it to the people that need it, cant afford it and dont smoke and eat like pigs.
Not just American, sadly, stupid exist world wide. In muslim countries supid blow themselves up, in others, they eat themselves to death.
".....If you resolve to give up Smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually Live longer;
It just seems longer....." Sir Clement Freud (Sigmund Freud's Grandson)
Read about Monsanto and where 90% of the food America eats comes from. Don't worry, we are actually all currently eating food that gives us cancer.
Yeah, because so many people are being diagnosed recently that don't have family histories or other risk factors for cancer. I know I hear about those non-smoking, non-tanning, non-HIV positive vegetarians being diagnosed with cancer ALL the time.
As a heart attack survivor, it never ceases to amaze me that there will always be some who disregard their health with gluttony combined with stupidity. I am very sorry for this family's loss. Unfortunately, Mr. Alleman's death was all too foreseeable. I can't even talk about the restaurant and its owner.
Maybe he died of a broken heart? RIP
Well, there really is no cure for "stupid" is there? What do these monstrously fat people EXPECT will happen??????
The guy was not monstrously fat, as you say. Clearly, stupid is as stupid does, though.
I heard they also have a spectator gallery where sophisticated people can drink expensive water and feel superior.
If they aren't eating there, they are superior in intelligence.
The fare seems to be really gross. The fact that the place is still in business speaks volumes about the intelligence of the average consumer.
Not crazy about this but does Dr Jon also have a penis enlargement grill somewhere?
I live in vegas and I ate there 3 times since it opened over year ago and theres no debate,its the most delicious, most incredible burger ever in the entire history of mankind. Having said that, theres a reason why I only ate there 3 times,its very unhealthy for you. Though unlike most people in this country (liberals obviously) I was born with common sense and the ability to use logic. If you go to the gym and have a normal diet like humans were meant to have then every now and then you can have this incredible 9,000 calorie monster of pure greatness. Or you can be a complete jerk and eat this stuff all the time while never going to the gym and die of a hard attack. Its should be every americans right to have the choice if they want to eat there or not and choose if they want to be healthy or be a pig and die early so its so sad for me to see so many people (mostly idiot liberals obviously) saying this place should be shut down. so for everyone who feels that way do this country a favor and move to cuba so you can get a reality check in your uptight life!
Good sense is ignorant of politics. I'm a liberal, and I've got the good sense not to eat at a joint like that even once. A fast-food meal is one thing. But I'm not stuffing myself with a 9,000 calorie hamburger regardless of how good it's supposed to taste. That's just gluttonous.
I'm a lib too...and no I wouldn't eat there like the dead dude did....maybe once. I was also in Vegas recently and passed it right by.
I'm also a proud progressive liberal and I'd never eat at such a place. When it comes right down to it, all we have really is our health. I intend to live a long life. My hubby and I both love to cook and we can make food better than most restaurants without the valve clogging , heart stopping fat and calories. My only vice is pistachio/almond ice cream. The Heart Attack grill is not a good business plan when your food kills and your concept is morbid – eventually all your clients will be dead. Kinda like tobacco companies.
Robin, I always knew there had to be ONE non-smoker in North Carolina.
wow...it is amazing the stupidity that some have displayed with their comments. Really, you bring politics into this? Did you read the article? Wait, maybe you didnt understand the article. So let me explain it to you. This place makes a great burger you said so yourself. It took you three times to go there to realize it was unhealthy. So if a patient goes to a DR and the DR over medicates them and they die is that shame on the DR. IF a Customer goes into this establishment and eats food that is being made and knowingly being made very unhealthy then it is the customers fault. Dont get me wrong.. it is process of elimination the customers know this is unhealthy however so does the owner. FOr the love of Pete, his own PR person died from this crap.. but it cant all be just the customers fault.
how does this owner lay his head down on his pillow and sleep at night knowing he is killing individuals with his food. This entire thing is ridiculous and the anti liberal guy can take his politics and shove them. Trust me that is healthier than the three times you have eaten at the establishment.
Took you three trips figure that the food wasn't good for you, huh? I knew when I first heard about this place that it was definitely a place to stay away from. I would doubt this poor fellow was in great health before he started going to this restaurant, but it sure didn't help.
Woo-hoo! More Social Security for me!
An American-made product that works as advertised. What's all the whining about?
REAL men eat at heart attack grill! Those of you who say it shouldn't be open are PUSSIES!
God gave man free will not Congress. Therefore it's not the right of Congress to take free will away. Why do we let them do it? Free enterprise also has free will. It's their choice to utilize this campaign to promote their facility just as it is every patron's right to choose to eat there. Bless the family of the individual who passed, but you can't blame the restaurtant because the man chose to eat there, and apparently chose not to exercise to keep his body healthy.
If you actually took some time to really think about it, you would quickly realize that free will is simply an illusion. Everything we say and do is based on our past experiences. That is all our "decisions" are, the result of interactions between our genetic inheritance and our life experiences.
In this case, over eating for this man is simply something he was unable to control. Most likely due to emotional trauma or self-esteem issues. It is sad really.
Finally, if you want to over eat and get fat, then you must take responsibility for that and not expect the rest of society to pay for your bloated health-care cost.
Can't tell that to someone who believes in god...especially since if there were a god, he put the person there without asking in the first place. So much for free will.
Do you know if this man did not have health insurance? I am assuming that because he was overweight he was on the public dole?
MURDER on a plate your oversized insane meals killed this man and your slowing killing others to.
It's called personal responsibility
That's what I keep telling this moms who get mad cause I sell crack at the playground, but they just weren't feeling it. And the parents of that 13 year old girl....oh man....they just couldn't understand the concept of personal responsibility, you know, if there's grass on the field, they're old enough to play ball.
Is it fun to be r3tard3d?
Que basura
no papelas con caca in la basura!!!
Good riddance. I agree with several other posters that this oaf's reckless behavior has a negative rippling effect on all of our health insurance costs. Same thing goes for riding motorcycles without helmets. You should relinquish your right to do whatever you want when I and others like be have to pay to keep your worthless body on life support or a lifetime of rehab.
in a free country each has the right!
in obama's country he wants to take away that right
therefore, you sir, are a first class dolt!
AWWWWWWWWWWW SHADDUP............... FOOL
They need a new spokesperson? Gov. Christie, are you listening?
I would be ok with dying there as long as one of those sexy nurse waitresses held my hand.
I just ran a marathon in Vegas in December. Had this place been closer to the finish line, I'd have gotten my post-race Victory Burger from there...thus nullifying the thousands of calories I burned during the race. Instead, I ended up getting an animal-style double-double at In n' Out burger. Good times! No disrespect to the deceased, but it just makes more sense to "earn" massively caloric foods...rather than just piling them on and killing yourself with them.
We see doofs like you in the Doc's office all the time. You think exercise means you can eat any old crap and you confuse calories with cholesterol. When the Doc prescribes a triple bypass, you scream denial, then practically faint. "But I'm thin!" you cry. Thin, maybe – smart? not so much.
Don't worry. I ate some broccoli earlier in the week. I'm all set.
Anyone interested in a shooting range where you get to shoot at each other? I could make some cash and provide a public service at the same time.
aka "combat" aka "war"
There goes our health insurance, up, up, up. Due to establishments like this. They should have their own health insurance for it's customers.
The liberals will try and shut this place down. After all, we need to government to protect us from eating food that isnt healthy right? Big Brother good, cheeseburger bad...
Sorry GOP fanboy, zealot, I voted for Obama and could care less if this place helps kills off people stupid enough to want to eat there. You do know the definition of Liberal right? Of course not. Oh, and I have guns and support the death penalty too. Any other misconceptions about democrats you want to discuss.
Why is this person a GOP zealot but a Dem is not? Your so called misconceptions can just as easily be attributed to how a liberal person thinks of republicans. For instance i vote republican but i back pro-choice. I belive in God but i think that God will handle the masses and doesnt neee my help. See how this works? you cant put everyone into a catagory, it just doesnt work. Now while Franks comments may not be exactly accurate i dont think it makes him a crazy zealot.
'Why is this person a GOP zealot but a Dem is not?'
Because he was the one making the sweeping statement about liberals, big brother and such. Notice that LoL only made his statement about Frank and was calling that individual a GOP zealot.
That is the difference there.
What an odd opinion! I know "liberal" is associated with many things, but when did eating habits become politicized?
Another liberal here that could care less about what people eat, who they marry, or if they choose not to believe in God.
Oh, I suppose those last 2 are not on your list. I suggest you throw your bible at the owners of this restaurant as their patrons are not being good and faithful stewards of their bodies.
This liberal is not calling for them to shut this place down. For crying out loud, it's in Nevada, one of the most liberal states in the Union in terms of what you can and cannot do. As someone else mentioned, the place has to be drawing customers because it's still in business. Sad the man died of a heart attack, but I'm curious to know what people would think if he dropped dead living a healthy lifestyle.
I just want to know why every time I open an opium den it gets shut down in like a week, and this guy has been able to stay in business for a year, what does it matter how people choose to kill themselves? As long as they end up dead right?
"The restaurant's previous 575-pound spokesman, 29-year-old Blair River, died in March 2011 at the age of 29."
Genius!
For those who tend to eat in such an establishment: "Stupid is as stupid does."
What a great point! Very insightful. You're so clever, I bet you're a blast to be around.
I thought he summed it up pretty well.
I love seeing how much Americans will put the blame on everyone esle for their horrible eating habits and promoting obesity. NO ONE held a gun to your head saying go eat here and the owner is well aware of what he is doing by playing off of our nations weight problem and I find it highly entertaining to see people complain but, yet his business keeps growing. I do agree with insurance should be based off of your current health and clothes prices should be adjusted accordingly, a medium should not cost the same as a XXL. It's is your choice to live the life you want but be responsible and pay for it, its shown you will die quickly anyway so get the ball rolling.
No one is mentioning that this triple heart bypass burger could feed a family of 4 for a few days. Or that the amount of calories in these meals could save the lives of countless malnourished children and older people here in the US and in the rest of the world. You have a right to kill yourself overeating but maybe the motto maybe the $$$ amount of the food eaten by these 350 pounders should be sent to a nutrition program for the poor.
US poorest are the fattest!
And yet collegemom is here, whining about all those poor poor starving wittle chilruns rather than getting off her computer, getting off her arrse and actually doing something about them.
FOAD collegemom. In a house fire.
Ummm, they forgot to metion the HOT waitress/nurses....... Come on CNN, you need to stay consistently inconsistent with your stories.....
First argument from the Prosecutor will be: Can a bar advertise "Drink yourself to Death" or "Go Get S-faced Drunk tonight". Negative. If any family sues the Grill, this restaurant is toast.
...toast with lotsa lotsa butter
Is that true? What law would be broken? I don't think anyone would deny that it's in poor taste, but I can't think of a law that applies. But then again, I'm working on 3 hours of sleep.
Some places have laws requiring bars to cut off "excessively drunk" customers, so advertising excessive drunkenness would seem to be illegal in those places.
(Not that I agree with the original comment that it has anything to do with this story, but just thinking about your question.)
I think the difference is,if someone serves a visibly intoxicated person,they could go out and kill someone via drunk driving. If someone overeats,the most they could do is...sit on someone,or fart a lot and blame it on the dog,lol
The thing is, it's not about a broken law, broken laws are handled in criminal court and nobody is suing anybody in criminal court. Suing refers to civil court, all that needs to be done there to sue in criminal court is prove negligence, is it negligent to sell a 9,000 calories burger? Is it negligent to repeatedly sell a 9,000 calorie burger repeatedly, day after day to a customer with obvious dyslipidemia? Not to mention the whole fact that he calls himself Dr. and refers to his customers as patients, how obvious to the patrons is the sarcasm of it all? Then there's the fact that if the nutritional information isn't clearly posted, sure the customer knew the food was unhealthy, but did he have any way of actually knowing how unhealthy it was? In other words, to get sued does not require a law to be broken in the slightest, and you could see how much fun a lawyer could have trying to convince 12 people that negligence was involved at least in part.
Shame on the owner for providing endless junk food free of charge to food addicts over 350 lbs...heart attacks waiting to happen. Here you go sucker, have another one on the house. Your miserable life is almost over! Dispicable!
How does the argument "obese people become a burden to the healthcare system and should therefore be taxed" make any sense? If a person who has been contributing to medicaire their whole lives gets cancer, its going to cost more to care for them. But thats ok, because everyone including them has been contributing and not all of us are so unlucky as to get cancer and need more expensive care (or else the system would be unsustainable) The point of these systems is to care for people affected by conditions, how about people born with Thyroid issues? Yes its a small portion of the populous but singling out any ones person health condition and being a burden to our healthcare system is never ok. Can you force cigarette smokers to pay more for healthcare? Maybe indirectly by taxing squares then re-directing the profits, but not directly and the same applies to this, you could tax being fat or eating fat foods all you want but it will not get to the source of the problem which is the individuals education on the subject.
They do force cigarette smokers to pay more into the system by adding a lot of tax to tobacco products. I'm a smoker (and I dip) and I have no problem with that.
The greatest economic burden on the American healthcare system is the corporate insurance industry that controls it and adds 30+% to the cost.
Well...most people I know don't go out of their way to get cancer,and some/most people take steps to avoid it,if possible.
But I have a hunch that you gotta really put some effort in to attain 575 lbs...
I see your point jillian but allow me to counter your concerns: I would say in circumstances like (most) cancers and conditions like Thyroid issues are ones from factors directly out of our control while issues like obesity and lung cancer from smoking are directly preventable. It would be along the lines of paying the same for car insurance for a regular soccer mom and a professional Indy race driver. Both drive cars.. however and accident with the soccer mom is far less predictable than say an Indy car driver.. yet the soccer mom would be paying the same as the racecar driver. Again, the issue is for diseases and conditions that are not directly preventable insurance should cover but for issues that are directly preventable by following common sense guidelines – and then abusing them – should not get covered in my opinion. If someone obese or that smokes gets a condition that came not directly from eating or smoking, say, a broken bone or whatever, yes, it then should be covered.
Actually my 30+ pound sister-in-law, who eats McDonald's morning noon and night with a side of Dunkin Donuts did break a bone. Rather she shattered the bones in her forearm when she fell in a parking lot after a business meeting. This was a direct result of her poor eating and a sedentary lifestyle. In her 30's she had the bones of a 70 year old. Now at 48 she has had heart surgery and many health issues. I am the same age and 108 lbs, run marathons, lift weights, and eat clean. My Doctor wishes he had my numbers in blood work.
Adults have the right to eat whatever they want. As for me, and my house, we'll pass thank you.
You are right. Everyone has the choice to eat wherever and whatever they want. Thank you
As long as they have health insurance to cover their reckless lifestayle. Otherwise, the hospital should refuse their admittance and dump them in a mass grave
Does that apply to people who ride "donor" cycles? Or climb mountains? Or surf in shark-infested waters? Or have a history of speeding tickets?
The scary thing is that you need customers to support a business and apparently they have plenty of them.
I thought of that too,and their sign advertising "Over 350 lbs Eat Free!"
(shudder)...that dining room -has- to resemble the walrus tank at the zoo!
All of you complainers should take note that this restaurant is located in Vegas. The whole point of going there is to overindulge and do the wrong thing. If its not eating mass amounts of bad food its alcohol, gambling, and prostitution. The heart attack grill is hardly the worst thing in town.
Maybe he'll open a Suicide Shooting Range next to allow customers to kill themselves quicker. On second thought, they're killing themselves slowly at his restaurant, so maybe he can open a Cancer Cigarette Lounge where people are fed 100 cigarettes at a time....
Those already exist–they're called hookah bars.
I just think it's revolting, but that's certainly no reason it can't be in business. Certainly not up to me to tell others what they can and can't do. Sorry the guy died, but I can't believe it's national news, considering every other suicide story isn't. =/
I would try it, on occasion I feel the need to stuff as much food down my gullet as possible.
Otherwise so long as people control themselves, or are ok with what they do with/to themselves I see no problem with the place.
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Sounds like truth in advertising to me.
HAAAA-ha!
Heart Attack Grill. Not to be confused with the Coronary Cafe or the Blockage Bistro.
It's morally wrong to run a business like this. Does he have a right to glorify the process of eating oneself to death? Sure. But it's a bloody awful shame that this guy is making a living while slowly killing his patrons. About as much as cigarette makers, only this guy's victims die a lot more quickly and with less pain.
he is offering people food. they can choose to go there or not. this is no more wrong than many restaurants that serve garbage fare
Someone goes there once in a while vs. someone who hauls their kids to McDs 5 times a week?
No, it's not. It would be morally wrong if he, or the cigarette companies, were deceiving customers. But everybody knows that cigarettes and excessive eating are bad for your health. Anyone going into that place knows what they're in for, and no one's forcing it down their throat. Calling it morally wrong is equivalent to calling automobile manufacturers morally wrong for making cars, knowing that some of their customers will get into deadly collisions.
"It's morally wrong to run a business like this."
Let his customers decide.
As some have said... It's food. There's nothing stopping his customers from ordering one of his burgers, taking it home, and eating a playing card desk-sized portion every day for a week with the compliment of fresh vegetables and fruit. People make the conscious choice to sit at those tables and eat 9,000+ calories in one sitting and accept the consequences.
Hopefully this article gives the rest of us a reason not to do the same.
"taking it home, and eating a playing card desk-sized portion"
that is quite a large portion size you eat every day..... :)
This guy is being honest and up-front about his food, unlike most all other established restaurants.
Should you eat a 9KCal burger every day? No, but this is a free country and you as a human being have the ability to make rational choices based on available data, which this man clearly provides. Eat it or Don't.
Where's the "like" button? Good comment.
Morally wrong? I dont think so. Is a liquor store morally wrong because they sell to alcoholics? What about a pharmacy that sells to those addicted to pain meds? Or the corner market that sells cigarettes to the guy who ends up with lung cancer? Morals have nothing to do with it. The deceased (RIP) ate there of his own free will and had he made a different chance, odds are he would be alive. It was not the owners morals but the customer's choice that caused he death.
Different strokes for different folks. The only constant, no matter how health or unhealthy we eat – we are all going to die – it is just a personal matter of when
Wow! Did you just make that up? You're so smart.
wow... "Different STROKES".... the unintended irony of including stroke is awesome.
Heart Attack Grill.....isn't that down the street from the Herpes Saloon?
It's a bias poll. where is the "yes, I would try it" option
The only bias is your inability to comprehend what you read. Try again, nutjob.
He is actually right:
Would you eat at the Heart Attack Grill?
I have and I love it!
I have and it wasn't for me
No, but I want to
Maybe if I were nearby
No way!
It shouldn't even be in business
Other (please share below)
You can say you have eaten there. You can say you won't eat there even though you want to, but there is no option to say you would eat there. You would have to use the 'other' option. The poll is biased, even if unintentionally so.
What part of, "No, but I want to" is so tough to understand?
I don't understand why people are making "eating until you die" part of heir business model. When are we going to start being smarter as a nation, as a species???? Sure, every business person needs some gimmick, something catchy to draw customers. BUT, there is a limit to what should be allowable. You're going to have people out there saying "we should be able to do anything we want, eat what we want", and the assumption is we're not hurting anyone else, so leave us alone.
Okay, then why do we have seatbelt laws, helmet laws, drinking and driving laws? Why don't we have "overeating-until-we-give-ourselves-heart-attack" laws? I'm all about taking care of our frail, elderly, homeless, kids, etc, WITHIN REASON and when they've been responsible contributing citizes (the adults) and now are in need of care because of age or disease. But when we overindulge to the point it makes us sick, diseased, or otherwise unable to take care of ourselves, then those people shouldn't be allowed to become burdens to society. (This particular man died, so there is no "care" needed, but many overeaters, indulge to the point of obesity and then need health care or hospital care because of diabetes or other health problems). I don't see anyone raising their hands to care for alcoholics or drug addicts. Sure it happens, but it's not a preferred system, and all of those people are looked down upon. Why are we glorifying overeating and indulging in our society?
We should be glorifying people who take care of themselves, are responsible, healthy (not obsessively so, but still...). I'm so f**king sick of our arrogant, overindulging nation...you just don't see this type of thing on a regular basis in other countries...
The sad part is that if people stop over indulge companies would lose $$$, so it's not going to happen. From pop to chips to fast food , it's all about the bottom line. You can't fight the big companies and expect to win, I do wish they have cheaper health care and benefits for fit people instead, I play tennis 2-3 times a week hit the gym 1x ,surf and eat healthy I really wish I had benefits for staying in good health.
This country is run on $$$ and no pride , sorry it's a no win situation . Just worry about yourself.
Seriously? What planet are you from? Snack food companies operate on the thinnest of profit margins. The real money-makers in the food world are those selling health foods of all kinds – organic produce and meat, trendy small-farm produce, supplements and the lot all command a huge markup in comparison to potato chips or whoppers. All you need do is note that Whole Foods – which capitalizes on this model – is one of the fastest growing, most profitable corporations in the country, with staggering markups compared to more mainstream grocers.
Eating healthy is for the rich, and is ultimately unsustainable.
Then leave. Please. In other words, f**k off.
You assume his eating was the cause of his heart attack.. and this customer could easily have eaten the same amount at home...
It is funny you mention helmet laws.....I am so against them. I didn't have to dress up like a hockey goalie when I rode my bike as a kid, and I came out alive. But, let's pass more laws in the "better safe then sorry" category so that "Health nut" feels better about himself
The name of the place is meant to be amusing. And FYI the guy that dies weighed only a 180lbs.
I would like to go there once just to say I had been there and done that. But I would probably not make a habit out of it.
Its sad that even a huge sign in bright neon lights clearly explaining the danger of eating at the restaurant one is still compelled to eat there. Then the person dies of a heart attack by eating regularly at where else "The Heart Attack Grill". If anything this should add to already large amount of evidence on how important a healthy diet is to preventing disease specifically a heart attack. Obviously, people going to this establishment do not care about drastically increasing their chances of dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease, but hopefully it will encourage hose who want to live a healthy and relatively long and disease free life not to repeat their mistakes. Long term health is more important than a temporary sense indulgence which will eventually cost you your life.
should be illegal to eat that crap as often as that guy did
but we live in a free society where this is allowed, sadly most don't perish from heart attacks straight away but just get extremely obese and go on disability
it's sad that Nazis were and still are ahead of us in food safety, physical fitness, and nicotine awareness.
why should it be illegal?
Because of the externalities. We all are required to pay for healthcare now, and people that treat their bodies like garbage dumps cost more to care for. That raises the costs for everyone else. Maybe we need a FAT TAX instead of a FLAT TAX.
We need to not pay for everyone else. We don't need a government micromanaging every decision to determine what is and isn't healthy. Even if it isn't a matter of core philosophy, it makes people directly aware of the costs of their decision. By adding a layer of government action, people are insulated from the true costs of their choices. The fat tax might come nowhere near the true costs of their poor choices.
TJ....same could be said for excessive smoking and drinking. Should they be illegal, also? How about sedentary lifestyles?
It shouldn't be illegal because of one thing... The name of the restaurant says it all and if you choose to go there, it is your problem.
They clearly tell you that their food may (and most likely will) give you a heart attack, so really they are letting you make the choice.
"The nazis are ahead of us in nicotine awareness" could be the funniest headline ever. You should write for The Onion.
Sounds like SPW is mostly upset that we're not run by Nazis.
And yet they lost the war.
Nazi's also loved pets more than Jews.
Some of their plates of food probably weigh more than I do.
Everyone has the right to do what ever they want. I can care less if they want to eat until they die.
Most don't die, but instead are unable to work due to their poor health and go on disability
so yeah, maybe you should care a little bit
There a lot things people can do for their poor health, I'm not their mom and for sure don't have the time to bother to care. I make my choices the same way they make theirs , You should worry about yourself before you care for others.
No they dont. Thats anarchy. We live in a democractic republic, under a social contract. Thats called "Liberty". Living in a land of Liberty does not equate with "freedom" and "you can do whatever you want". When sick if uneducated people who think the United States is the land of "I can do whatever I want". No such land ever existed or will exist
That said, the Grill has every right to be open and Fatty Corpseman has every right to kill himself slowly
OK...These dudes are exorcising their constitutional right to waste my tax dollars for their medical bills! Right on!
It's funny how you bemoan his "freedom" because it costs you something. Perhaps you should consider that the remedy isn't to further limit his freedom, we should expand yours and not make you liable as a taxpayer for his decisions.
The devil makes them do it.
I wouldn't eat there just because I can't eat that much and wouldn't enjoy it.
But if others like it, that's cool and they should have the opportunity to indulge.