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Just to get started- interesting facts


You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big MacMcDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour 60 percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke, Gall Bladder Disease, Osteoarthritis, Sleep Apnea, Respiratory Problems, Endometrial, Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers, Dyslipidemia, steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, breathlessness, Asthma, Hyperuricaemia, reproductive hormone abnormalities, polycystic ovarian syndrome, impaired fertility and lower back pain The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods" The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "heavy users" McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then 100 countries on 6 continents Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald's Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic" Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month 40 percent of American meals are eaten outside the home McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food markethttp://www.vivavegie.org/101book/text/nolink/social/supersizeme.htm

Here are a few other sites to check out:
http://www.acaloriecounter.com/fast-food.php (LOOK at Dairy Queen's regular french fries!!!  730 CALORIES!!!)

Compare different fastfoods here (pretty neat).

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