IUPUI Study Finds Fast Food Not a Weighty Problem for Kids
new study by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) researchers contradicts the conventional wisdom that living near a fast food outlet increases weight in children and that living near supermarkets, which sell fresh fruit and vegetables as well as so-called junk food, lowers weight. The IUPUI investigators in economics, pediatrics, geography and urban planning compared children’s weights over time before and after one of these food purveyors moved near the childrens’ residences. Living near a fast food outlet had little effect on weight and living near a supermarket did not lower it. Comment: One more study contradicting a long held belief by many behaviorists.
