Happy Meals

by Will Wilkinson on April 14, 2009

Fast food makes kids fat… and happy!

  • Childhood obesity is a major public health issue worldwide. It is well accepted that unhealthy eating patterns are partly responsible for the increase in childhood obesity. However, very little is known about the relationship between fast food and soft drink consumption and children’s happiness.
  • wheelie
    This redirects to latimes site..i can't find any intersting.. but one thing is true kids love fastfood restaurants..On this point, they are obviously correct..keep posting in this topic..
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  • > Hmmburgers and french fries are the worst food tandem.

    Not taste-wise!
  • Fast food definitely makes fat but fast food is really tasty thing i love to eat fast food. Not only fast food even non-vegetarian also makes very fat, we need to eat vegetables for healthy body.

    Thanks
  • You are what you eat. Not only kids who love fast food, adults love it too. If you can not leave fast food, because you're happy with that, just don't get it too much. Exercise will make the balance.
  • Yes that is correct fast food makes kids fat but lot of people will love only fast foods.
    For healthy life have enough breakfast and take medium lunch and have light dinner then you will not become too fat.
  • Yeah, but fast food is terrible for your health. And I think it tastes really bad.

    However, to each their own.
  • Yeah, absolutely yes... Kids love fastfood restaurants, and fastfood restaurants love kids because they earning a lot ofmoney because of kids..
  • Was a good read. I'll be back for more.
  • You got it right, it's indeed a good read, I liked reading it. Thanks for posting it.

    Debra
  • Paul O'Pinion
    "I'd imagine that diets tend to make people unhappy while exercise makes people happy."

    Thehova said it right. Take the fast food away from the fat people and they are sad. Put them on a restrictive diet and they are depressed. What is really depressing is to go to any beach and "whale watch". What is amazing is that if you observe any of the fat folks at the mall or the beach, they are constantly stuffing their faces.
    Some modicum of excercise will allow us to eat 'til we're full and have an occasional desert. Moderation is not an American trait and I guess as other countries "westernize", they go overboard on the chow too.
  • I like the un-PC implication of the study... but really, this is kind of a no-brainer. The food fascists' whole point is that fatty, sugary foods have short-run benefits and long-run costs. On this point, they are obviously correct. So I'm sure their response will be, "Of course they're happy now. The question is how they'll feel later in life."
  • thehova
    Didn't a study recently come out that salt is an antidepressant.

    I'd imagine that diets tend to make people unhappy while exercise makes people happy.
  • uknowbetter
    We just have to start them early with the anorexic mantra: Food doesn't taste as good as skinny makes me feel.
  • Matt
    Gary Taubes' book 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' discusses a number of dietary studies that have shown a correlation between low fat diets and depression. Perhaps there's a connection?
  • huadpe
    I've seen Megan McArdle rant on this a few times. Basically, food today is much, much tastier than it used to be, and thus we eat more of it. And we're happy...and fat.
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