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2. Diet and obesity - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Criticism of fast food - Wikipedia

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   Also, western fast food was preferred by children of all ages because they associated western fast food with high quality food. [ 36 ] "The McLawsuit" was a group of overweight children that filed a class action lawsuit against McDonald's seeking compensation for obesity related reasons.

4. Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia

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   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, [42] 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 ...

5. Does Eating Fast Food Lead to Childhood Obesity? - AOL

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   Among children consuming fast foods, overall dietary pattern, rather Not necessarily, say researchers from the University of North Carolina. In fact, the problem may be closer to home than you think.

6. Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - The Huffington Post

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   Developing countries with higher wages for women have lower obesity rates, and lives are transformed when healthy food is made cheaper. A pilot program in Massachusetts that gave food stamp recipients an extra 30 cents for every $1 they spent on healthy food increased fruit and vegetable consumption by 26 percent. Policies like this are ...

7. FDA chief defends work on obesity, food to US Senate as ... - AOL

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   U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf defended the agency's role in addressing the country's obesity epidemic as he was grilled by senators over FDA regulation of the food ...

8. 3 Foods That Make It Ridiculously Hard to Lose Belly Fat ...

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   "There is not one single food that causes or that eliminates belly fat," says Dr. Shiara Ortiz-Pujols, MD, an obesity medicine doctor at Staten Island University Hospital. "In general, foods that ...

9. Obesity and the environment - Wikipedia

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   In the short term, the residents of these communities are making an economically rational decision when purchasing fast food as it is easily accessible and inexpensive. The alternative would be purchasing low quality groceries at a high cost. [27] In the long-term, however, studies show that the consumption of fast food hurts overall health ...