Data from a nationally representative survey show that in the mid-1990s, one in four U.S. residents was patronizing a fast-food restaurant on any given day. In a similar survey 5 years earlier, the figure was just one in six. The new study also found that people consumed, on average, 200 more calories on any day that they eat fast food.
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