The left is anti-health with the "fat acceptance" movement, which is just a front to make Americans less healthy. We shouldn't bully and harass people for being unhealthy, but we should also realize that these people have a problem — a medical problem that needs serious and immediate attention.

If you eat a bag and a half of candy every single day, you have a problem. It's important to note that this man was, according to the article, 54 years old. It's quite possible many, if not all, of the conditions the article claims he had where pre-existing.

hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, fatal arrhythmias, and renal failure

Hypertension is high blood pressure, and a lot of people have it, especially older folks, which can cause cardiac arrest, Hypokalemia is potassium deficiency, is usually caused by a poor diet, and can cause high blood pressure; Alkalosis often causes a potassium deficiency and can be caused by repeated vomiting; and renal failure is a fancy term for kidney failure, and can be caused by uncontrolled hypertension.

I'm not a doctor, but according to my research this man didn't die from licorice alone. This man died from kidney failure caused by Bulimia. He maintained an unhealthy diet and it killed him. They use all these fancy terms and list out multiple conditions, but in reality they're all caused by bulimia. Bulimia -> Alkalosis -> Potassium deficiency -> high blood pressure -> kidney failure & cardiac arrest.

If he was, indeed, Bulimic this should have been made known, however, doing so would contradict their anti-licorice narrative, because the left believes that it's not the fault of the person, but rather the fault of the means. They blame guns for crime instead of criminals, and this logic carries over to candy — in a rare instance of the left being consistent.

That's just my conclusion. I may be wrong. If a professional could analyze my conclusion and reasoning perhaps we could get to the bottom of this.