Fast Food
Policies that restrict fast-food outlets may reduce childhood obesity in deprived areas
Policies to reduce childhood obesity that restrict new fast-food outlets in local deprived areas with a high concentration of outlets may help to reduce childhood overweight and obesity, according to findings published in Obesity.
Top in cardiology: Cannabis use, heat exposure associated with higher stroke risk
Data from a cross-sectional study showed that U.S. adults who reported cannabis use had a higher risk for coronary heart disease, MI and stroke compared with nonusers.
Living near three or more bars, fast-food restaurants could raise heart failure risk
Living in areas with a high density of pubs, bars and fast-food restaurants was associated with increased risk for incident HF, according to findings published in Circulation: Heart Failure.
Study: High ultra-processed food diets linked with CKD progression, mortality
Eating more ultra-processed foods may be associated with chronic kidney disease progression and higher risk for all-cause mortality in adults with CKD, data show.
Top in allergy/asthma: What to know about wildfires; lower lung function near fast food
As wildfires rage in Canada, raising new air quality concerns in the eastern United States, Healio has compiled a list of recent articles detailing the impacts of wildfires on allergy, asthma and beyond.
Children with asthma who live near fast-food restaurants have lower lung function changes
WASHINGTON — Children with asthma who lived within 500 meters of a fast-food restaurant had smaller changes in lung function during an intervention, according to data presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.
Areas with less access to healthy foods have higher obesity-related cancer mortality rates
Obesity-related cancer mortality rates tended to be higher in counties with limited access to grocery stores or greater access to fast food, according to data published in JAMA Oncology.
Fast food intake ‘significantly more deleterious’ among adults with obesity, diabetes
Consuming at least 20% of daily calories from fast food correlated with an increased risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, with more damaging effects among individuals with underlying metabolic comorbidities.
Ultra-processed foods increase risk for all-cause, CVD mortality in preexisting CVD
A diet rich in ultra-processed food was found to be associated with increased hazards of all-cause and CVD mortality among patients with preexisting CVD, according to data published in European Heart Journal.
Q&A: Phthalates, plasticizers are understudied yet 'widespread' in fast food
Phthalates and replacement plasticizers, chemicals used in food packaging and processing, were commonly found in fast-food items, according to a study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology Qualitative.