Healthy Food Options In Fast Food Outlets? Nobody's Buying It! Australia

Who could have seen this coming?

A new Australian study shows that while healthier menu options are now on offer at many fast food restaurants, less than three per cent of customers are actually buying them.

Researchers from Griffith University surveyed 1,025 Subway and McDonald's customers on their lunchtime food purchases over a two month period. Only 2.5 per cent of customers who ordered a main meal bought a 'nutritionally-promoted item', such as McDonald's Tick Approved choices or items which met Subway's 'Six grams of fat or less' claim.

There are no "healthy foods."

There is only eating healthily.

This means eating to achieve a BMI of between 18.5 and 24.9, on a population basis.

Overweight/obesity is not the restaurant's fault.

It is the fault of the bronto sapiens.