USA TODAY: Kids consume 12% of their calories from fast food, a new study contends.
USA TODAY: Kids consume 12% of their calories from fast food, a new study contends.
A third of kids eat fast food on any given day, according to the report made public Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report found that children eat the equivalent of a small hamburger — such as the kind found in a McDonald’s Happy Meal — every day, said Kristi King, a senior clinical dietitian with Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, who wasn’t involved in the new study.
