date:Nov 08, 2012
when kids ate out as compared to days they did not. They used data from the three waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for the years between 2003 and 2008, which included 4,717 children ages 211 and 4,699 adolescents ages 1219.
The researchers found that at restaurants youths consumed higher amounts of sugar, total fat, saturated fat, and sodium. Take-out fared better in one regardthe researchers found adolescents consumed twice as much soda when eating in the restaura