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A 2005 study conducted in Chicago found that Black neighborhoods had 14 fast food restaurants per 100,000 neighborhood residents, while White neighborhoods had 9.4 fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents. Fast food restaurants offer inexpensive, calorie-dense food that is nutrient-poor and unhealthy with high levels of sugar, fat, and sodium.
Percent of obese adults and number of fast food restaurants in each state, 2011. On average, nearly one-third of U.S. children aged 4 to 19 eat fast food every day. Over the course of a year this is likely to result in a child gaining six extra pounds in weight. [21]
A fast-food restaurant in the ... Fast food is commonly blamed for the obesity epidemic in the United States today. ... the advertised fast-food restaurant can cause ...
Does eating fast food lead to childhood obesity? Not necessarily, say researchers from the University of North Carolina. In fact, the problem may be closer to home than you think. Among children ...
Kennedy called seed oils “one of the driving causes of the obesity epidemic.” ... this began to drastically rise around the same time fast food restaurants switched from beef tallow to seed ...
Americans eat an abundance of fast food. 36.6% of adults consume fast food on a given day, which is slightly more than 1 out of every 3 people, [40] and 2 out of 3 people consume fast food at least once a week. While the negative effects of fast food, such as lack of nutritional value and high amounts of calories, are widely known, fast food ...
Fast food gets a bad rap for being unhealthy, but there are healthy fast food options at chains like McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and Sonic. Dietitians explain. These Are the Healthiest Fast Food ...
The portion size of many prepackage and restaurant foods has increased in both the United States and Denmark since the 1970s. [7] Fast food servings, for example, are 2 to 5 times larger than they were in the 1980s. Evidence has shown that larger portions of energy-dense foods lead to greater energy intake and thus to greater rates of obesity ...