"Give me one red abstraction, two green landscapes and an orange soda -- and super-size it, please."

If passed, the Commonsense Consumption Act would prohibit lawsuits in which plaintiffs say food companies and restaurants have made them overweight or obese, the sponsor, Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, said.

"It is important not to blame poor eating habits on someone else," Senator McConnell said.

"It's certainly not the restaurant's fault if you go back to the buffet bar three times."

Most of us have heard the experts say fast food isn't the healthiest thing in the world for you. But a new study released Wednesday suggests it may be addictive too, making the fast-food lifestyle nearly impossible to change. It even suggests kicking the fast-food habit may be just as difficult as quitting smoking, or even getting off hard drugs like heroine.

"This will cut queues so that, by the time we've taken the order and the customer gets to the till, the food should be waiting and they just have to pay."