The News
More fast food meals mean more excess weight
Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:34pm ET
By Anne Harding - Reuters Health

NEW YORK - A new study provides the best evidence to date that eating fast food makes you fat. Among nearly 3,400 young adults participating in a long-term study, every additional fast food meal they consumed each week correlated with a substantial increase in body mass index (BMI), Dr. Barry M. Popkin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and colleagues found.

The Research
Read the research behind this story in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition