Fast food accounts for 10% of food ingestion by US schoolchildren vs 2% thirty years ago

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"[F]ast food consumption now accounts for 10% of food ingestion by [U.S.] schoolchildren, compared with 2% three decades ago," notes to a paper from Dr. Ashish Sinha from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. REFERENCE

Sinha A, Kling S. A review of adolescent obesity: Prevalence, etiology, and treatment. Obes Surg. 2008 Aug 30.

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