Study: Fast-food Location No Impact on Child Obesity
The RAND Corporation interviewed 13,000 California children, comparing each child’s diet and weight to the kinds of food available in the neighborhood. The study found no link between what the youngsters ate and how close they lived to fast food restaurants or supermarkets.
That finding, published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine, contradicts the widely held belief that the local food environment plays a key role in the diet and healthy weight of children.
Researchers say transportation makes a difference; if it is easy enough to get to a supply of healthy food, the fast food restaurants in the neighborhood do not matter as much.
The National Institute on Child Health and Human Development was among the organizations that helped support the study.
From the March 9, 2012, Prepared Foods' Daily News.
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