Well, that and the fat. My friend Donna believes that McDonald's is singly responsible for the amount of heart disease in this country and I think she may be right. I bet the boom in fast food chains in the last thirty years can be directly linked to the boom in the size of our citizens. There is no doubt in my mind. Yes, there are other factors like the fact that we don't exercise, but the amount of crap we eat is mind boggling.
Fast food is cheap, easy to find, high in fat and sugars and low in nutritional value.
The discussion quickly becomes similar to those about cigarettes or guns. Every person has the choice to eat or not eat fast food just as they have the choice to smoke or not. What if McDonald's and the others never existed. Surely we would burn more calories chopping carrots or peeling potatoes than we do sitting in the drive-through. It took me a long time to figure out why the Value Meal costs less than ordering smaller items separately.