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October 27, 2008
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Contact:
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Gwendolyn Driscoll
310-794-0930
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
gdriscoll@ucla.edu
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Do fast food restaurants suppress demand for fruits and vegetables?
New data from the authors of Designed for Disease, the influential report that contributed to the Los Angeles fast-food moratorium, illustrates the health challenges associated with a high prevalence of fast food restaurants in neighborhoods. The results will be discussed at the following APHA presentation:
Monday, October 27, 2008
Local food environment associated with diet and obesity among California adults
Time: 9:15 a.m. Abstract # 178816
Venue: San Diego Convention Center, Meeting Room 7B |
Among the findings:
- Fast food restaurants may suppress demand for healthy fare: Fruit and vegetable consumption is lower when there are more fast food restaurants than grocery stores in a neighborhood. People living in such neighborhoods are 15% less likely to get five servings of fruits and vegetables per day than adults living in neighborhoods with fewer fast food restaurants.
- More fast food = greater likelihood of obesity: People living in neighborhoods with more fast food restaurants than grocery stores are 18% more likely to be obese.
- Rich or poor, the trend is the same: Regardless of income or race, a high prevalence of fast food restaurants in a neighborhood was linked to obesity in that neighborhood's population.
Visit our booth # 1519 to learn more.