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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 ...
Obesity isn’t just a matter of food and exercise — it may be in your genetic code, according to new research. “Obesity’s causes are very complex and in the majority of cases, the ...
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.
The fall 2013 issue of Ms. promotes the need for higher fast food worker wages.. Criticism of fast food includes claims of negative health effects, animal cruelty, cases of worker exploitation, children-targeted marketing and claims of cultural degradation via shifts in people's eating patterns away from traditional foods.
A new study finds that higher ultra-processed food (UPF) intake is associated with an increased body mass index (BMI). The link between UPFs and higher BMI was most pronounced for soda consumption.
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 ...
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 ...
Obesity and the environment aims to look at the different environmental factors that researchers worldwide have determined cause and perpetuate obesity. Obesity is a condition in which a person's weight is higher than what is considered healthy for their height, and is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.