17 million Americans are estimated to have type 2, or 'at risk" diabetes - which is mostly preventable. More than 61 percent of adults are overweight, and 27 percent of them–50 million people– are obese, according to a U.S. surgeon general. The percentage of 6 to 11-year-olds who are overweight has doubled over the last 2 decades. Government and private health care payers spent close to $100 billion on direct and indirect costs related to diabetes.

The portion sizes that these fast food restaurants offer have literally tripled since the fifties. The fast food industry spends millions a year marketing to children in the hopes of getting them hooked on a diet that will literally kill them.

Fast food companies regularly hire child psychologists - specialists who understand how kids think. And what do they usually think? That bigger is better, especially when you throw in a completely useless toy.

It's no wonder that some Americans are now suing these death-peddling restaurants. Sure, these must be the same idiots who thought that hacking up a lung every morning after smoking a pack of Pall Malls was normal and blamed it on the tobacco industry, but the facts are plain to see.

An ad that pushes the idea that eating the first McDonald's French Fry is some sort of touching milestone in one's life is literally "stomach-churning". The ad also asks "where" - a reminder that these folks can be found everywhere - even in Norway, where one can purchase the "McAfrika burger" - a fattening sandwich named for a continent in which millions are faced with starvation. Talk about insensitive marketing! Hey how about a 100% beef quadruple patty burger wrapped in cowhide called the "McHindu Special"!