Don’t ask me why I’m posting this, but I am. For 40 years now, our asses have gotten bigger. We’ve chowed down on an over-sized sandwich, filled with what we believe to be a meaty-substance. The Economist has actually created a currency-evaluation index based on a sandwich with 540 calories, 45% of your daily fat intake, and 1,040 mg of sodium.

Yes, today the Big Mac turns 40.

Along the way, more people in more 100 countries have given in to Big Mac attacks, according to Oak Brook-based McDonald’s Corp.

“The Big Mac is certainly one of our most popular sandwiches,” said spokeswoman Danya Proud. “There is only one Big Mac and there will only ever be one Big Mac.”

McDonald’s estimates 550 million Big Macs are sold each year in the U.S. alone. Do the math and that’s about 17 per second. Weighing in at nearly a half-pound, with 540 calories and 29 grams of fat each, that’s enough to make nutritionists cringe.

“When it was eaten once in a while there wasn’t anything wrong with it,” said Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. “It was just fast food, something fun once in a while. But then it became everyday fare.”

Sounds very unhealthy. I think I’ll pick one up for dinner.

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