One could be forgiven for assuming poorer families lean more heavily on fast food to get through meal times. Fast food is cheap and, well, fast. And time and money are perpetually scarce in cash-strapped households.
Perhaps the most efficient way of overturning that logic is by taking a look at this bar graph that the CDC released last week [above.]
You’ll notice that in both age brackets — younger kids and adolescents — the children from the poorest households consume the fewest calories from fast food, 8 and 16 percent of their diets, respectively. Even so, these differences are too small to be considered significant:
“There were no differences by poverty status among either younger children (aged 2-11) or adolescents (aged 12-19),” the CDC report points out, drawing on data from the 2011-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Nor did being overweight or obese make much of a difference. “There was no significant difference by weight status for children aged 2-11 or for adolescents aged 12-19,” the report finds.
[For more of this story, written by Ryan White, go to http://www.reportingonhealth.o...-mine-probably-wrong]
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