Study Confirms Supersized Meals Lead to Supersized Bodies
A recent study confirms that people who habitually consume fast food weight significantly more than those who do not. Details below, after the jump.
People who eat several fast-food meals a week are significantly heavier than those who don’t eat fast food very often, according to a new study released Monday.
Each additional fast-food meal packs on pounds, so someone who consumes one fast-food meal a week is on average 1½ pounds heavier than someone who eats no fast food, says Kelley Borradaile, an obesity researcher at Temple University in Philadelphia. She presented her research at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society.
“These results largely confirm commonly held perceptions about the relationship between fast food consumption and body weight,” she says.
Borradaile and colleagues analyzed national survey data on about 4,600 adults who reported their height and weight and eating habits in 2006.