Some 60% of 2-to-5-year-olds in California eat fast food at least once a week.
December 2/New York/Huffington Post -- Some 60% of 2-to-5-year-olds in California eat fast food at least once a week, and one in 10 eats fast food at least three times a week, according to a policy brief recently published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The majority of children also fall short of the recommended daily serving of five fresh fruits or vegetables. The numbers for both fast food and produce consumption hold steady from 2007-09, the last two times the information was collected via a telephone survey with the child's main caregiver (most often a parent).
For lead researcher Sue Holtby, M.P.H., of the Public Health Institute, the fast food consumption numbers are troubling because of "what it indicates for the rest of the family."