CDC finds Young Adult African Americans are the highest consumers of fast food

[Serious]

What percentage of calories consumed by adults comes from fast food?

During 2007–2010, adults consumed an average 11.3% of their total daily calories from fast food (Figure 1), a decrease from 12.8% for 2003–2006 (data not shown). The percentage of calories consumed from fast food did not differ significantly between men (11.8%) and women (10.9%). The percentage of calories consumed from fast food decreased with age, with adults aged 60 and over (6.0%) consuming the lowest percentage of their daily calories from fast foods. This decrease with age was found among both men and women.

( Young adults consume more fast food than adults (blah blah blah) )

Does the percentage of calories consumed from fast food differ by race and ethnicity?

No significant differences were found between non-Hispanic white and Hispanic adults in the percentage of calories consumed from fast food. The lack of difference, in the percentage of calories consumed from fast food, between non-Hispanic white and Hispanic adults was observed among all age groups. However, among adults aged 20 and over, consumption of calories from fast food was higher among non-Hispanic black adults than non-Hispanic white and Hispanic adults (Figure 2). This disparity was found for young adults aged 20–39, where non-Hispanic black adults consumed more than one-fifth of their percentage of calories from fast food. Among middle-aged adults in the 40–59 age group, the pattern was similar, but the difference between non-Hispanic black and Hispanic persons did not reach statistical significance. No race or ethnic differences were found among adults aged 60 and over.

( Yes Young AA's 20-39 are the largest consumers of fast foods)

Does the percentage of calories consumed from fast food differ by income?

Overall, no difference was observed by income status in the percentage of calories consumed from fast food (Figure 3). However, in the youngest age group, 20–39, the percentage of calories consumed from fast food significantly decreased with increasing income level.

Not really

Does the percentage of calories consumed from fast food differ by weight status?

Among adults, the percentage of calories consumed from fast food varied by weight status (Figure 4). The percentage of total daily calories from fast food increased as weight status increased. For each age group, obese adults consumed the highest percentage of their calories from fast food.

( Overweight people consume more fast food. Interestingly enough, while the American public, has slowly moved towards becoming more health conscience, overweight individuals, remain constant, in their fixation with fast food. ) ()

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We got to do better

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[88m3]

I gotta get my five guys fix (no homo)




I just baked a chicken and made soup with tomato, tomatillos, onions, habaneros, and jalapenos.

 

[OneManGang]

I wonder how much money was wasted in the process of them coming to these conclusions.
No shyt! Poor neighborhoods, highest concentration of shytty, unhealthy eating, African American youth usually in these circumstances.

 

[Donald J Trump]

Black women not cookin shyt :hanes:

 

[88m3]

I wonder how much money was wasted in the process of them coming to these conclusions.
No shyt! Poor neighborhoods, highest concentration of shytty, unhealthy eating, African American youth usually in these circumstances.

Perhaps they thought there would be a shift to the white upper class...


I heard they they got their numbers from Flatbush.

 

[Mowgli]

A woman who cant or doesnt cook is an abomination.

 

[Serious]

I gotta get my five guys fix (no homo)




I just baked a chicken and made soup with tomato, tomatillos, onions, habaneros, and jalapenos.

and nobody says you can't. Moderation is the key.

Heck i eat a whole box of pizza, every other week, but I make sure I consume vegetables daily.

I wonder how much money was wasted in the process of them coming to these conclusions.
No shyt! Poor neighborhoods, highest concentration of shytty, unhealthy eating, African American youth usually in these circumstances.

Well the study wasn't focused on AA's. I just concluded that after seeing the results. ( )

The study is on the American Population as a whole...

Supposedly, the big news revolves around fast food calories being down 2.1% for people who aren't obese. Meanwhile individuals who are obese, still consume fast food at a constant rate, if not more.



Look like they left Asians / Indians ( @Kool G Trap ) out of the study

 

[88m3]

and nobody says you can't. Moderation is the key.

Heck i eat a whole box of pizza, every other week, but I make sure I consume vegetables daily.

I'm all for moderation except in my pawg intake


I forgot about pizza

 

[The Real]

A woman who cant or doesnt cook is an abomination.

The real abominations are grocery stores refusing to open locations in the hood, corner stores getting the worst, near-expired products, fast food chains concentrating on flooding poor neighborhoods and generational poverty that drives fast food culture.

 

[Piff Perkins]

My mom used to always say my dad would have been dead years ago if she wasn't cooking - if left to his own devices, he always wants to get some type of fast food. I don't get it, as black men we grow up around women who can cook up a storm. Yet on our own a lot of us don't want to make anything.

Now...I'm no master chef but I lived with black women enough to know how to cook some basic shyt. Potatoes, pasta dishes, boneless chicken breasts, veggies, etc; I've had friends of different nationalities teach me how to whip up some of their dishes too, like ziti. Cooking for yourself saves way more money than buying McDonalds and pizza brehs. Every time I eat that stuff I feel ugly a few hours later, and the next day I'm like "sheeit, might as well order something real quick..."

We gotta do better my nikkas. Ain't nothing wrong with some fast food every now and then, but getting into the habit of cooking your own food is in your best interest financially and health wise. Even if you gotta drive out of the city to find a grocery, it's worth it

 

[Mowgli]

The real abominations are grocery stores refusing to open locations in the hood, corner stores getting the worst, near-expired products, fast food chains concentrating on flooding poor neighborhoods and generational poverty that drives fast food culture.

Well i guess we should look to these so called black businessman to open grocery stores since these large cac owned business chains arent doing it. The mexicans did it in los angeles with a chain called Valarta but you know nikkas, waiting on the white man to feed them. fukkin sad.

Everything you're saying is an excuse though because plenty of the older generation of black women cook. Its just the new generation of women, do not because the mother is lazy.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Black women not cookin shyt :hanes:

Black women are taking the blame for everything from global warming to this shyt Yall wild

 

[The Real]

Everything you're saying is an excuse though because plenty of the older generation of black women cook. Its just the new generation of women, do not because the mother is lazy.

It doesn't matter whether you can or are willing to cook or not if you don't have access to groceries. You can google that info yourself, bruh, it's clear as day- people in the hood most often do not have access, same way they often don't have access to doctors or hospitals (which is another factor here.) As for modern Black women being lazy as the cause, as opposed to the massive changes in social variables pertaining to urban Black communities in the last 50 years, that's just

talk.

 

[Marvel]

Not surprising. Single mothers don't have time to cook. Most black women with children are single mothers. Most black people were raised by single mothers. Its very much related. Think about it. If a women is married to a man...he is going to demand and expect her to cook. My pops played no games...he is an arrogant Naija man he expected food on the table EVERY NIGHT unless they were going to dinner somewhere. My mom cooked damn near everyday. We ate fast food every once in a while.

 

[Serious]

The real abominations are grocery stores refusing to open locations in the hood, corner stores getting the worst, near-expired products, fast food chains concentrating on flooding poor neighborhoods and generational poverty that drives fast food culture.

While I don't disagree with this notion, another atrocity kind of going unnoticed or being sweep under the rug, are all companies "reforming" their products in a more "healthier" limelight by using pretentious terms like "low-fat", reduced fat etc...

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