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A full 99.9% of meals that we eat outside the home aren’t well-balanced or healthy.  Nutritionists at Tufts University just released a dining habit analysis of more than 35,000 American adults surveyed from 2003 through 2016.  They studied both full service and fast food restaurants.

 

Predictably 70 to 75% of the fast food meals consumed were of poor dietary quality. Sit-down restaurants with servers fared only slightly better at 50%.

 

We Americans ingest more than 20% of our daily calories outside our homes.  Far too often, those calories come from fatty and sugary meals.  The remedy: eat more fruits, vegetables, and lean meat, and fish at home where the price is right.

 

Junxiu Liu, Colin D Rehm, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian. Quality of Meals Consumed by US Adults at Full-Service and Fast-Food Restaurants, 2003–2016: Persistent Low Quality and Widening Disparities. The Journal of Nutrition, 2020; DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxz299

 

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