Calorie-Filled Food Outside Home Gobbled Up by Clueless Kids
by Rudolph Yap in Nutrition on Aug 01, 2011
Researchers from the University of North Carolina presented that an increasing trend with kids in bringing takeout food home and eating out still are the roots of the obesity epidemic.
According to experts, a lot of the food taken in by kids outside the house is from ready-to-eat meals bought in fast food restaurants, convenience stores, and supermarkets.
The researchers noted that that kind of food are usually high in calories and sugar which corresponds to kids getting more calories than what are expected.
Moreover, researchers pointed that this trend has been rapidly growing since 1994, reflecting the accessibility of foods prepared in fast food restaurants, supermarkets and other food shops.
Figures show that between the years 1977 and 2006, calories from food outside the house had increased to 33.9% from 23.4%.
The author from Gillings School of Global Public Health, Jennifer Poti explained that kids’ habit of eating outside the home is in fact stimulating the increased energy intake for kids. She further added that they have discovered a comparatively sustainable level of calories at home, however additionally kids also take in increased rate of calories outside home.
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