More Than One-Third of U.S. Adults Consume Fast Food Each Day
October 6th, 2018Via: Newsweek:
On a given day, 36.6 percent of American adults will consume fast food, and that percentage only rises with higher income brackets.
Researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics studied the fast food consumption of adults in the United States. Released Wednesday, the report compares the percentage of fast-food eating adults for demographic characteristics such as age, race and income level between the years 2013 and 2016.
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They also reported that as American adults aged, the percentage of daily fast food consumption lessened. Only 24.1 percent of adults aged 60 and older consumed fast food, while 37.7 percent of adults ages 40 to 59 and 44.9 percent of adults aged 20 to 39 did.
