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Fast-Food Consumption: Its Association with Food Prices and Dietary Quality

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Diet Quality

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As the fast-food (FF) industry continues to increase in many countries worldwide, to study the impact of fast-food consumption (FF-C) on dietary intakes and the risks for obesity and other health outcomes is critical. Related efforts are needed to address the public health implications of such scientific findings and the growing FF industry. In recent years, due to concerns on the growing obesity epidemic in the United States and worldwide and research linking FF-C and obesity risk, it is advocated to increase the prices of unhealthy food including FF as a way to fight the epidemic.

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Abbreviations

ACCRA:

American chamber of commerce researchers association

Add Health Study:

National longitudinal study of adolescent health

aMED:

Alternative Mediterranean diet score

BMI:

Body Mass Index

CSFII:

Continuing survey of food intakes by individuals

DRIs:

Dietary reference intakes

ECLS-K:

Early childhood longitudinal study kindergarten cohort

FF:

Fast food

FF-C:

Fast food consumption

FFPI:

Fast Food Price Index

FPL:

Federal poverty line

FV:

Fruit and vegetable

FVPI:

Fruits and Vegetables Price Index

HEI:

Healthy Eating Index

MDS:

Mediterranean diet score

PIR:

Poverty income ratio

SES:

Socio-economic status

SSB:

Sugar-sweetened beverage

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported in part by research grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR, 1U54 HD070725-01) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK, R01DK81335-01A1). Special thanks to Dr. May Beydoun for providing her unpublished results in Fig. 10.3.

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  1. Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Youfa Wang & Yang Wu

  2. School of Community and Environmental Health, Old Dominion University, College of Health Sciences Building, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Qi Zhang

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  3. Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6UW, United Kingdom

    Vinood B. Patel

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Wang, Y., Wu, Y., Zhang, Q. (2013). Fast-Food Consumption: Its Association with Food Prices and Dietary Quality. In: Preedy, V., Hunter, LA., Patel, V. (eds) Diet Quality. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7315-2_10

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