Sitophobia (sy-tuh-FO-bee-uh)
noun meaning:
Morbid aversion to food. 
You
would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized
Coke, fry and Big Mac 
One
in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop type 2
diabetes in their lifetime
McDonald's distributes
more toys per year than Toys-R-Us!
Left
unabated, obesity will surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable
death in America
The average child
sees 10,000 TV advertisements per year
In
1972, $3 billion a year was spent on fast food - today it's more than
$110 billion
McDonald's feeds
more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population
of Spain!
Only seven items
on McDonald's entire menu contain no sugar
Willard
Scott was the first Ronald McDonald - he was fired for being too fat!
McDonald's: "Any
processing our foods undergo make them more dangerous than unprocessed
foods"
The
World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic
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
Most
nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month!
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