Although obesity continues to be a major problem for people in poverty across the United States, a newly released CDC study indicates that low-income families do not consume any more fast food than other Americans. The study challenges conventional wisdom about who eats the most unhealthy fast food.
Time: “[The study] finds that there’s no correlation between fast-food intake and poverty status. Covering 2011 and 2012, the CDC study found that about a third of adolescents and children consumed fast food on a given day. Children in the poorest group, from families earning less than 130% of the federal poverty level (currently about $26,000 for a family of three), get 11.5% of their calories from fast food, compared with about 13% for richer kids.”
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