re: Bic Mac dude turns 70 and downs his 34,000th Big Mac. “People said I’d be dead by now”

On the opposite end of that spectrum is my Pops.

He once got snowed/iced in at work along with an almost complete crew of coworkers. That ice lingered for several days, and the plant roads were a skating rink. There was a McDonald's around a quarter mile from the gate. At the time there were only a couple options and McDonald's was the only one open. The company fed them Big Macs and fries three times a day.

Pops never touched another Big Mac, and I don't recall ever seeing him eat McDonald's period, for the rest of his life.

I guess it is notable, though, that he didn't make 70 years old. So, maybe there really is something to a Big Mac diet.