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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Diabetes and obesity rates in inner cities can be linked to the number of fast-food outlets near people’s homes, a study has found.
Scientists based their conclusion on a study of 10,000 people in the UK. They found there were twice as many fast-food outlets within 500 metres of homes in non-white and socially deprived neighbourhoods.
The lead researcher, Prof Kamlesh Khunti from the University of Leicester, said: “The results are quite alarming and have major implications for public health interventions to limit the number of fast-food outlets in more deprived areas.”
Writing in the journal Public Health Nutrition, the researchers said that every additional two outlets per neighbourhood led to the expectation of one additional case of diabetes. This was assuming a causal relationship between the two.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/11/diabetes-obesity-fast-food-outlets-study
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/11/diabetes-obesity-fast-food-outlets-study
Scientists based their conclusion on a study of 10,000 people in the UK. They found there were twice as many fast-food outlets within 500 metres of homes in non-white and socially deprived neighbourhoods.
The lead researcher, Prof Kamlesh Khunti from the University of Leicester, said: “The results are quite alarming and have major implications for public health interventions to limit the number of fast-food outlets in more deprived areas.”
Writing in the journal Public Health Nutrition, the researchers said that every additional two outlets per neighbourhood led to the expectation of one additional case of diabetes. This was assuming a causal relationship between the two.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/11/diabetes-obesity-fast-food-outlets-study
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/11/diabetes-obesity-fast-food-outlets-study