It seems on just about every corner there is at least one fast food restaurant. Now, along with them, are lawsuits.
More people these days seem to be hungry for litigation, literally. People are filing lawsuits, claiming fast food restaurants have caused them to be obese, and as a result, they have the health problems associated with obesity.
The movie Super Size Me helped bring the issue of fast food obesity to a mass audience. In it, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate solely at McDonald's for a month straight. If asked if he wanted to Super Size the meal, he had to say yes.
Supersizeme.com lists some facts about fast food:
 | | 1 in 4 Americans will eat fast food each day |
| | If you had a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac, it would take you walking for seven straight hours to burn it off |
| | McDonald's serves 46 million a day - that is more than the population of Spain |
| | Most children can recognize McDonald's before they can speak |
| | More than 90 percent of American children will eat at McDonald's this month |
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Fast food backlash
Many parents are beginning to worry about the dangers of children eating too much fast food.
 
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In 2002, Caesar Barber attempted to sue McDonald's, Wendy's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King, claiming he was addicted to their foods, causing him to have health problems. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, and parents have filed a lawsuit against Viacom and Kellogg, in hopes to have them stop marketing junk food to young children.
