The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was able to formulate these numbers through the help of data taken from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between the year 2011 to 2012, TIME Magazine adds.
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“It’s obvious that your weight reap crops up conveniently, and weight and size loss can easily be a tad more tasking”.
Fast food is known to have a lot of calories, thus a portion of French fries, a burger and a can of soda could account for more than half the calorie intake that a person should have each day.
“Your human body boutiques each of these calories as bad fats”. And it’s not just adults- millions of children are eating fast food on a very regular basis.
“It is certainly a significant amount and it would be more concerning if someone were not astonished by that number”. The report found that children eat the equivalent of a small hamburger such as the kind found in a McDonald’s Happy Meal every day, said Kristi King, a senior clinical dietitian with Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, who wasn’t involved in the new study. This makes the rateof childhood obesity for the past 10 years a reasonable one- by up to 17 percent.
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There is a popular belief that poor people eat more fast food than others, but it’s not true. The obesity rate among adolescents more than quadrupled, growing from 5% to almost 21% over the same period, according to the CDC. President Sandra Hassink of the American Academy of Pediatrics believes savvy marketing is also another reason why families are drawn to fast food restaurants, like the inclusion of freebies and pairing meals with cartoon characters.
