Facts about FAST FOOD

• Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant
• In 1972, we spent 3 billion a year on fast food - today we spend more than $110 billion
• 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
• You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac
• 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
• Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month
• Eating fast food may be dangerous to your health
• McDonald's: "Any processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed foods"
• McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us