A new national study of eating out and income shows that fast-food dining becomes more common as earnings increase from low to middle incomes, weakening the popular notion that fast food should be blamed for higher rates of obesity among the poor.Another "truth" debunked.
"There is a correlation between obesity and lower income, but it cannot be solely attributed to restaurant choice," said J. Paul Leigh, professor of public health sciences at UC Davis and senior author of the study, which is published online in Population Health Management. "Fast-food dining is most popular among the middle class, who are less likely to be obese."
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Study Challenges Assumed Links Between Poverty, Fast Food And Obesity
Poverty does not cause obesity, but obesity causes poverty.
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