Interesting Facts

According to Epidemiologists at Cambridge University the greater the access someone has to takeaway food, the higher the BMI (body mass index) and their odds of becoming obese are nearly doubled. (Several local authorities in the UK have already introduced restrictions on fast-food outlets, around schools or in places where there are already lots of takeaways, but now UK researchers are calling on a restriction on the number of fast-food outlets around offices and homes to help combat the obesity epidemic in the UK. How about fast food salads and fruit? Fruit is pretty fast food.)

550 of the world's top medics have written an open letter to McDonald's to say that Ronald McDonald and Happy Meals must be axed to save kids' health. (They say that its gimmicks fuel obesity, and that Happy Meals, which come with a free toy, get kids hooked on junk food. Of course they're speaking to the converted when it comes to me, but as a coulrophobic I would love to see the demise of that scary clown.) Source

A Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) survey found that 25% of English streets are littered with fast food rubbish. (This is up from 16% in 2002. The worst culprits were Britain's biggest fast food chain MacDonald's who accounted for 29% of the rubbish, with unbranded wrappings from local fish and chip or kebab shops in second place at 21%. Greggs the bakery accounted for 18%, KFC 8% and Subway/Coffee shops 5%. KBT wants retailers to make it easier to dispose of litter responsibly, but I think it's more of a reflection of the kind of people who eat the stuff, if they don't care what they put in their stomaches, they certainly don't care about where they put their rubbish, they just don't give a ....)