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DOSSIER – This Tuesday, August 26, 2014, in an archive photo, a fast-food restaurant signs a line in Peach Street in Erie, Pennsylvania. A study of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Wednesday, October 3, 2018 reveals that one in three adults eat fast food every day. (Christopher Millette / Erie Times-News via AP) (Associated Press)
NEW YORK – A government study found that 1 in 3 adults in the United States eat fast food on a given day. That's about 85 million people.
This is the first federal study to examine the frequency with which adults eat fast food. An earlier study had revealed that a similar proportion of children and adolescents ate on a given day.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the figures on Wednesday. It is based on a survey of about 10,000 adults over four years.
The study did not find any difference between men and women. However, high-income families ate fast food more often than low-income families and blacks more than other racial or ethnic groups.
Health officials said that too much high-calorie fast food could lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other health problems.
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