Heart Attack Grill is Suing Heart Attack Shack

Because they want to be the only restaurant that promises to kill people. How much responsibility do they hold for contributing to the deaths of their customers?

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Here it is, the gigantic Heart Attack Burger, and this is not even the biggest one they serve, which can have up to a whopping 10,000 calories!

The American Heart Association recently released the following statistics on Heart Disease (quoted verbatim from the source) -- Source

Heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death in the US.
Coronary heart disease accounts for 1 in 7 deaths in the US, killing over 360,000 people each year.
About 790,000 people in the US have heart attacks each year. Of those, about 114,000 will die.
The estimated annual incidence of heart attack in the US is 580,000 new attacks and 210,000 recurrent attacks. Average age at the first heart attack is 65.3 years for males and 71.8 years for females.
Approximately every 40 seconds, an American will have a heart attack.
From 2004 to 2014, the annual death rate attributable to coronary heart disease declined 35.5 percent – but the burden and risk factors remain alarmingly high.
The estimated direct and indirect cost of heart disease in 2012 to 2013 (average annual) was $199.6 billion.
Heart attacks ($11.5 billion) and Coronary Heart Disease ($10.4 billion) were 2 of the 10 most expensive hospital principal discharge diagnoses.
Between 2013 and 2030, medical costs of Coronary Heart Disease are projected to increase by about 100 percent.

These stats are SCARY!

These two men died from heart attacks supposedly caused from eating at the Heart Attack Grill, and supposedly others have too.

John Alleman

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta did a VERY INTERESTING piece for CNN on this. Here's the video.

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Now, there is another such restaurant like the Heart Attack Grill (Las Vegas) called the Heart Attack Shack (Chattanooga, TN).
The Heart Attack Grill has filed a lawsuit against the Heart Attack Shack, citing that the restaurant is intentionally misleading customers into thinking that the two restaurants are the same thing.

Questions: Should both restaurants be sued for killing people and even advertising that their food will kill? Or, should people have 100% of the responsibility for choosing to eat this dangerously unhealthy food?

What do you think?

Source Article: "Heart Attack Grill is Suing Another Death-by-Food Restaurant"

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But, really though, this is not a laughing matter. Heart disease is a serious problem and eating food like this contributes to it. I'm not sure about how I feel about restaurants being held responsible though. I'll have to think about that more. After all, people make their own choices and to go in there and buy that food and eat it is a choice, just as it is to eat unhealthy foods period.

But, as you can see in the video, this restaurant actually claims that it will kill you and mocks the seriousness of heart disease. I think there should be some liability for actually making it all seem like a big joke. One could argue that they're baiting tactics lead people to come in and eat their unhealthy food as well as eat that way outside the restaurant.

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