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Children's fast food still fatty and unhealthy
Seattle Post Intelligencer -
Kids and their parents can't find many healthy meals at fast-food restaurants, with most children's menu options packed with too many calories, ...
AssociatedPress
Fast Food Restaurants Serve Up Unhealthy Choices For Kids dBTechno
Fast food kid's meals coming under fire WHAS 11.com (subscription)
Xinhua - Crain's New York Business
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Of food and arrogance
Victorville Daily Press, CA -
... on new fast-food restaurants over a 32-square-mile area with about 500000 residents in South Los Angeles, all in the name of combating obesity. ...
Do you want poppycock with that? Los Angeles Times
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Kids Revolt Against the Fast Food Nation with Launch of 'Jr. Chefs ...
MarketWatch -
As the percentage of childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming rate where one out of three kids is considered overweight, Jr. Chefs of America (JCOA) ...

Los Angeles Times
California Central Valley fights obesity epidemic
Los Angeles Times, CA -
A recent UCLA study said that the highest obesity rates are in lower-income areas in which convenience stores and fast-food outlets predominate. ...

Daily Mail
Exercise and good eating habits a family affair
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA -
They exercise regularly, reduce unhealthy snacks and minimize fast food. Their small, incremental steps are building a foundation for a healthier lifestyle, ...
Kids skipping breakfast prone to obesity Times of India
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Banning fast food in poor neighborhoods.
Slate - Jul 31, 2008
... the significance of the obesity epidemic in the United States and the scientific evidence and legal basis supporting the zoning of fast food outlets, ...
Fast-food moratorium is meddling Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles City Council passes fast-food ban Reuters
Food & Public Policy: Beyond trans fats Seattle Post Intelligencer
Atlantic Online - Telegraph.co.uk
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Editorial: Deep-fried trouble
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI -
We do not agree with the kind of sweeping moratorium against fast-food restaurants offered in Los Angeles, concerned about obesity rates in its poor ...
Short Stack: Food for thought, quick and over easy
Greensboro News Record, NC -
The ban targets the poorest parts of the city, where few options exist beyond fast-food outlets and where obesity is especially rampant. ...
Be well: To road to fitness starts at home
Stamford Advocate, CT -
Sadly, fast foods seem to be taking over as their own food group in the daily diet of a lot of our children. Obesity has emerged as a serious health threat ...
Los Angeles goes too far in latest crusade
MyWestTexas.com, TX -
The City Council, carrying its zoning sword in hand, is tackling obesity by delivering a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a part of the city where ...
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Epidemic obesity in the United States: are fast foods and television viewing contributing? -
RW Jeffery - American Journal of Public Health, 1998 - Am Public Health Assoc
... CONCLUSIONS: Secular increases in fast food availability and access to televised
entertainment may contribute to increasing obesity rates in the United States. ...

Effects of Fast-Food Consumption on Energy Intake and Diet Quality Among Children in a National … -
SA Bowman, SL Gortmaker, CB Ebbeling, MA Pereira, … - Pediatrics, 2004 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... plausibly could increase risk for obesity. Key Words: fast food ? obesity ?
dietary composition ? diet quality ? energy intake. ...

Fast foods, energy density and obesity: a possible mechanistic link -
AM Prentice, SA Jebb - Obesity Reviews, 2003 - Blackwell Synergy
... of the compelling temporal and geographical associations between the origins and
globalization of fast food outlets and worldwide trends in obesity (6). However ...

Fast food restaurant use among women in the Pound of Prevention study: dietary, behavioral and … -
SA French, L Harnack, RW Jeffery - International Journal of Obesity, 2000 - nature.com
... population. International Journal of Obesity (2000) 24, 1353-1359. Keywords.
obesity; fast food; dietary intake; weight gain. Introduction. ...

The Relationship Between Obesity and the Prevalence of Fast Food Restaurants: State-Level Analysis -
J Maddock - American Journal of Health Promotion, 2004 - apt.allenpress.com
... to this epidemic. This study examined the relationship between fast food
restaurants and obesity on a state-wide basis. Design. ...

Fast food restaurant use among adolescents: associations with nutrient intake, food choices and … -
SA French, M Story, D Neumark-Sztainer, JA … - International Journal of Obesity, 2001 - nature.com
... In the present study, no association was observed between FFFRU and obesity, even
though fast food restaurant use was significantly positively associated with ...

Fast-food habits, weight gain, and insulin resistance (the CARDIA study): 15-year prospective … -
MA Pereira, AI Kartashov, CB Ebbeling, L Van Horn, … - The Lancet, 2005 - Elsevier
... three decades. However, the effect of fast food on risk of obesity and
type 2 diabetes has received little attention. We aimed to ...

Fast food, race/ethnicity, and income A geographic analysis -
JP Block, RA Scribner, KB DeSalvo - American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
... Despite these relationships between income, race/ethnicity, obesity, and fast food,
limited research to date has examined such associations on an ecologic level ...

[BOOK] Fast food nation -
E Schlosser - 2002 - spiritouch.com
... In other cases (such as the rise of franchising and the spread of obesity),
fast food has played a central role. Hundreds of millions ...

Changes in childhood food consumption patterns: a cause for concern in light of increasing body … -
MP St-Onge, KL Keller, SB Heymsfield - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2003 - Am Soc Nutrition
... Key Words: Children ? overweight ? fast food ? soft drinks ? diabetes ?
obesity. This article has been cited by other articles: ...

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Fast food link to obesity confirmed

Young adults who eat frequently at fast-food restaurants gain more weight and have a greater increase in insulin resistance in early middle age, according to a large multi-center study published in the January 1 issue of The Lancet.

 
After 15 years, those who ate at fast-food restaurants more than twice each week compared to less than once a week had gained an extra ten pounds and had a two-fold greater increase in insulin resistance, a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease.

Obesity and diabetes are on the rise around the world and the study highlights the value of healthy eating habits.

"It's extremely difficult to eat in a healthy way at a fast-food restaurant. Despite some of their recent healthful offerings, the menus still tend to include foods high in fat, sugar and calories and low in fibre and nutrients," said lead author Mark Pereira, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota.

People need to evaluate how often they eat meals at fast-food restaurants and think about cutting back, according to Pereira.

One reason for the weight gain may be that a single meal from one of these restaurants often contains enough calories to satisfy a person's caloric requirement for an entire day.

Participants were asked during the physical examinations given as part of the study how often they ate breakfast, lunch or dinner at fast-food restaurants. Researchers found that the adverse impact on participants' weight and insulin resistance was seen in both blacks and whites who ate frequently at fast-food restaurants, even after adjustment for other lifestyle habits.

Study participants included 3,031 young black and white adults who were between the ages of 18 and 30 in 1985-1986. The participants, who were part of the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, received dietary assessments over a 15-year period.

According to the study, men visited fast-food restaurants more frequently than women and blacks more frequently than whites. Black men reported an average frequency of 2.3 visits per week in 2000-01. White women had the lowest frequency, at an average of 1.3 visits per week in 2000-01.

 
 
 
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