Consumption of calories from fast food among US adults is about 11.3 percent between 2007 to 2010, according to a report.
Fast Food Fad: A Global Mania
Fast food, like fast life, will put us on the fast track to ill health. Teaching young children to make sensible dietary choices will ensure that they enjoy a ‘slow’, but safe future.
Fast food, like fast life, will put us on the fast track to ill health. Teaching young children to make sensible dietary choices will ensure that they enjoy a ‘slow’, but safe future.
However, the 2007 to 2010 fast food-calorie statistics are lower than the levels reported from 2003 to 2006, when the American diet was about 13 percent fast food, it said.
Researchers cited that eating fast food frequently has been linked to weight gain.
The CDC report revealed that more than one-third of U.S. adults are obese and that obese people had the highest percentage of fast food making up their diet.
Non-Hispanic black adults ate more fast food in their diet than non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic adults. Non-Hispanic blacks have the highest rates of obesity at 49.5 percent, according to the CDC.
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Fighting Obesity While Sticking to Fast Food - Is It Possible?
Eating fast food is no longer a fashion. It is now a necessity. But fast-food is also known to contribute to the obesity epidemic. What is the way out then?
Eating fast food is no longer a fashion. It is now a necessity. But fast-food is also known to contribute to the obesity epidemic. What is the way out then?
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Fast Foods
Fast foods contain as much as 500 calories per serve which is even higher than the calories that a lunch or dinner should provide. Majority of Indians have a flawed perception of healthy food options.
Fast foods contain as much as 500 calories per serve which is even higher than the calories that a lunch or dinner should provide. Majority of Indians have a flawed perception of healthy food options.
