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[Helen Steel] The World Health
Organization have been saying that people should cut down on the fat in
their diet and eat more fibre and so on in order to cut down on their
risk of getting heart disease and cancer. And if bodies such as
they are making those statements, then we should be able to say it.
[Helen Steel] Whether or not you can
call some top expert to, you know, prove it conclusively, is irrelevant.
[Eric Schlosser, Author of "Fast Food
Nation"] I think worldwide, if you look at the rise in fast-food
consumption, it is very closely linked to the rise in obesity.
Throughout the Western world life expectancy is probably going to
decline because of the obesity epidemic. You can point to many
causes, complex causes of obesity, but I think there is no question that
the amount of fast food and soda that people are consuming is a major
cause of obesity. Everywhere that the American fast-food diet
goes, people get bigger.
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