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These facts? Uh, Not So Fun. |
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Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food
restaurant |
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In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we
spend more than 110 billion |
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McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than
the entire population of Spain |
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French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America |
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You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a
Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac |
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In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour |
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60 % of all Americans are either overweight or obese |
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One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop
diabetes in their lifetime |
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Left unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading
cause of preventable death in America |
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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 |
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The average child sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year |
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Only seven items on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar |
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Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald - he was fired for
being too fat |
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McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us |
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Diabetes will cut 17-27 years off your life |
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McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more
dangerous than unprocessed foods" |
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The World Health Organization has declared obesity a global
epidemic |
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Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health |
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McDonald's calls people who eat a lot of their food "Heavy
Users" |
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McDonald's operates more than 30,000 restaurants in more then
100 countries on 6 continents |
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Before most children can speak they can recognize McDonald's |
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Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major
contributor to the obesity epidemic" |
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Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once
a month |
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40% of American meals are eaten outside the home |
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McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market |
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