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http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20040615/fast-food-leads-teens-to-overeat


 * 1) Fast food consumption in the U.S. has risen by 500% during the last three decades, while the number of children who are obese has tripled.
 * 2) Researchers found that all teens tended to overeat when served a typical "extra-large" fast food meal, but normal-weight teenagers were more likely than overweight teens to make up for the overindulgence by eating less later on.
 * 3) Overweight teens averaged a whopping 400 extra calories on days when they ate one meal at a fast food restaurant, says researcher Cara B. Ebbelin
 * 4) //[Super Size Me],// Fast food industry spokespeople charge that the experiment was far from scientific, and they say they are offering a wider variety of healthy food options than ever before.
 * 5) a third of the children in the U.S. eat fast food, and that the additional calories could account for an extra 6 pounds of weight gain per year.
 * 6) In the first study 26 overweight teens and 27 normal-weight teens were taken to a food court and served a super-sized McDonald's
 * 7) Researchers found that both groups overate during the meal, taking in an average of 1,652 calories, or 61% of their total daily calorie requirements just from this one meal. The overweight teens ate approximately 400 more calories than the lean teens did.
 * 8) This indicates that the overweight teens were less likely to compensate for the calories they ate from fast foods.
 * 9) people will chose healthier foods if offered. McDonald's recently introduced salads, and announced that fries and colas would no longer be super-sized.
 * 10) "They discovered a long time ago that if they made things sweeter, fattier, and saltier, and made the portions huge, people would buy more of them."
 * 11) While the increasing variety of foods offered is encouraging, Nestle says portion size is still a big problem in the restaurant industry in general.