• In 2002, a USDA survey showed that consumption of sugar averaged 170 pounds, per person in the United States of America
• One out of six American children (about 50 million) suffers from obesity. Six to seven million are morbidly obese (more than 100 pounds overweight). 
• Obese children normally eat at least a meal a day in a fast-food restaurant.  Moreover, if they do not buy it there, they get it for lunch at school.
• Forty-three percent of our elementary schools, 74% of our middle schools and 98% of our high schools have soda machines or snack bars that serve junk food (last week, the soda industry agreed to end nearly all soda sales in public schools); 19,000 public schools (one out of five in the U.S.) sell brand-name fast foods.
• In 2005, Americans spent $134 billion on fast food, more than on college education, personal computers or even new cars