"Loaded" hamburger is representative of high-caloric food. We don't know what the man ate at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas that may or may not have been the reason he had a medical emergency.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Washington, D.C.-based anti-meat advocacy group is asking the owner of a Las Vegas restaurant that prides itself on unhealthy meals to shut down after a customer suffered a medical episode and was hospitalized.
Officials for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said Thursday they sent a letter to Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso, asking him to "declare moral bankruptcy" and close the restaurant.
Susan Levin, the group's director of nutrition education, says the incident should be a wake-up call that bypass operations aren't funny.
Basso says he doesn't plan to close. He said other restaurants have had similar incidents without making national news and that high obesity rates show doctors have failed the American public.
He has expressed sorrow for the victim, an unidentified man in his 40s.
The Associated Press