Fast Food Billboard Ads Making Us Fat?

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, have found that we are more overweight and obese in areas where there is more outside fast food billboard ads.

"Obesity is a significant health problem, so we need to know the factors that contribute to the overeating of processed food," Dr. Lenard Lesser, who conducted the study while he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar in the UCLA Department of Family Medicine, said in a university news release. "Previous research has found that fast-food ads are more prevalent in low-income, minority areas, and laboratory studies have shown that marketing gets people to eat more."


For the study, published online Jan. 10 in the journal BMC Public Health, areas of Los Angelos and New Orleans were studied and both had low and high income individuals.

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