Originally published October 15 2003
Overweight children especially tempted by junk foods and soft drinks
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
Junk food marketers must be celebrating this finding: the more obese a child, the less they're able to resist stuffing their faces with junk foods and soft drinks. Hence, they get even more obese and their appetite increases even further. It's a soft drink marketing dream come true!
- - Overweight children appear to be especially susceptible to the lure
of fast food, a study found.
- They stuff themselves even more ravenously than other youngsters do
and are less able to compensate by eating sparingly the rest of the day.
- Even though the drive-through window is often blamed for Americans'
big and growing weight problem, its exact role is less clear, since
people overindulge in many ways while getting little exercise.
- "Eat as much or as little as you like, until you have had enough," the
youngsters were told.
- Everyone started out with the equivalent of a supersize value meal of
chicken nuggets, fries, cola and cookies that added up to 2,100
calories.
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