:33:01
And I made myself
the official taster.
:33:03
I had to approve everything,
in my mind.
:33:06
And I loved it.
What kid wouldn't?
:33:08
I literally
had unlimited ice cream.
:33:11
I ate ice cream for breakfast.
:33:13
But I was sick a lot.
:33:15
And I wasn't very athletic.
:33:17
I was really ill.
:33:19
And I didn't feel good.
:33:21
So I would kind of appease that
by eating more ice cream.
:33:24
You can see how the vicious
cycle would take place.
:33:26
One of the triggering factors
for me was my uncle,
:33:29
Burt Baskin, my dad's partner
and brother-in-law,
:33:31
co-founder of the company --
died of a heart attack.
:33:34
I think he was 51.
:33:35
Now, my uncle weighed
about 240 pounds --
:33:39
heavyset fellow.
:33:40
And when he died,
as a young man, I asked my dad,
:33:43
"Do you think
there could be a connection
:33:46
between his fatal heart attack
:33:48
and the amount
of ice cream he would eat?"
:33:50
My father said,
"No, his ticker just got tired
:33:52
and stopped working."
:33:54
By this time,
he had sold more ice cream
:33:56
than any human being that had
ever lived on this planet.
:33:59
He didn't want to think that
the product was hurting anybody,
:34:02
that it had contributed
to the death
:34:04
of his brother-in-law, partner,
and, in many ways, best friend.
:34:06
No way.
:34:08
Ben Cohen,
the Ben of "Ben and Jerry's",
:34:10
a couple years ago,
had a quintuple bypass procedure
:34:13
at the age of 49.
:34:16
My uncle,
Burt Baskin of Baskin-Robbins,
:34:18
dies at the age of 51
of a heart attack.
:34:20
My father, Irv Robbins, the
other founder of the company,
:34:23
ended up
with very serious diabetes.
:34:26
You can't deny these links.
:34:29
You just can't.
:34:30
Yeah, could I get
the two-cheeseburger meal?
:34:34
Okay, super sized.
:34:36
Second time.
:34:38
Thank you, sir.
:34:40
Thanks, man.
:34:41
After five days
on the McDonald's diet,
:34:44
what I did was I ran three days'
worth of food analysis.
:34:48
the needs for you to maintain
weight at the 185
:34:51
that you were at
when you came in -- 186 pounds
:34:54
was approximately
2,500 calories.
:34:56
Right now you're getting
almost 5,000 calories a day,