5/24/2004 at 1:03pm monday . . . some links for today: bush falling off a mountain bike...dude come on What to do when you and your sister are worth billions, on the brink of adulthood, and then your brand new movie flops? 5/20/2004 at 10:10am thursday i think i'm gonna have to go super size 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 % 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 Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald - he was fired for being too fat McDonald's distributes more toys per year than Toys-R-Us 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% of American meals are eaten outside the home McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market i think i will just drink water today... go see this film! the director, morgan spurlock, also keeps a blog 5/19/2004 at 5:11pm wednesday so i walk around slo town, and i see these little suns painted on boxes, trash cans and walls. little painted suns. different sizes. different colors. random. different. this last one does not have a painted sun in it. i just like the bright colors. it is a pest control building. shouldn't have told you there was no little sun...you would have been staring for hours. 5/18/2004 at 11:27am tuesday we'll float on good news is on the way . . . some links for today: Bank fined $25 million in terrorism probe Film deal for Baghdad blogger

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