You may have noticed an invitation from Juicy encouraging you to eat healthier.  For the month of October, Juicy and I have vowed to eat a healthier diet while avoiding fast foods--this is particularly difficult when you have younger children, I know, but the payoff is worth it. 

Consider:

Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visits a fast food restaurant.

French fries are the most eaten vegetable in America.

60 percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese.

One in every three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime.

Surgeon General David Satcher: "Fast food is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic."

Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month.
 
40 percent of American meals are eaten outside the home.
 
McDonald's represents 43% of total U.S. fast food market.
Source: http://www.vivavegie.org/101book/text/nolink/social/supersizeme.htm

What do you think?  Can you make it a month without french fries and a large coke?  Stop back and let us know how you're doing...