It is now almost commonly accepted fact that eating the wrong food, especially so-called fast food, causes obesity. The stats on obesity are worrying, especially amongst children.
In a piece on AlterNet dealing with fast food, these stats - which relate to the US but would equally apply to many countries around the world - should be a wake-call to curb the insidious growth of sales in fast food as the demand for it grows correspondingly. We are all going to pay, one way or another, for the scourge of obesity.
"Fast-food chains are being blamed for the 30 percent national obesity rate, and they know it. They're being blamed especially for a national childhood obesity rate that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control breaks down by race and gender: 32 percent of white males and 30 percent of white females; 31 percent of African American males and 39 percent of African American females; 41 percent of Hispanic males and 35 percent of Hispanic females. (According to the CDC, California's obesity rate is 24.8 percent. Mississippi's is 34.4 percent."
In a piece on AlterNet dealing with fast food, these stats - which relate to the US but would equally apply to many countries around the world - should be a wake-call to curb the insidious growth of sales in fast food as the demand for it grows correspondingly. We are all going to pay, one way or another, for the scourge of obesity.
"Fast-food chains are being blamed for the 30 percent national obesity rate, and they know it. They're being blamed especially for a national childhood obesity rate that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control breaks down by race and gender: 32 percent of white males and 30 percent of white females; 31 percent of African American males and 39 percent of African American females; 41 percent of Hispanic males and 35 percent of Hispanic females. (According to the CDC, California's obesity rate is 24.8 percent. Mississippi's is 34.4 percent."
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