Obesity fast food

• A separate study from Dartmouth found greater awareness of fast-food commercials among children is linked to obesity.
(WBOC)
• There is a long-held concern that youths who eat a lot of fast food are at risk for becoming overweight.
(medicalxpress.com)
• Obesity causes decreased work productivity in addition to for everyone in our nation to consider as they drive up to the window of their favorite fast food joint.
(YAHOO!)
• A study found a strong association between familiarity with fast-food restaurant TV advertising and obesity in a group of young Americans. Those who recognised many de-branded adverts were more than twice as likely to be obese as those who recognised just a few.
(Google)
• Lead researcher Dr Auden McClure, from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre in New Hampshire, US, said: 'We know that children and adolescents are highly exposed to fast-food restaurant advertising, particularly on television.
(Daily Mail)
• They criticised sponsorship of the Olympics by fast food firms as sending the wrong message. The Department of Health said it was taking action to combat obesity.
(BBC News)
• television advertising and the unhealthy fare sold in many fast-food outlets and supermarkets.
(New York Daily News)