date:Feb 22, 2013
n's risk for heart disease and diabetes.
In the national survey, people were asked to recall the source of all the food they'd eaten in the past 24 hours. The response restaurant fast food/pizza was coded as fast food.
Racial/ethnic differences also surfaced in the results.
Although there was no difference between non-Hispanic white and Hispanic adults, we did find the percent of calories from fast food was higher among non-Hispanic black adults, Fryar noted.
Also, the more a person weighed,