With few healthy options, teens eating more junk food

- Excerpt from California Watch, July 29, 2011-

"California teenagers are living and attending schools in junk food wastelands, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA.

Researchers analyzed the number of healthy and unhealthy restaurants and food outlets near teens' schools and homes. The result: For nearly 75 percent of teens, junk food outlets outnumber healthy ones at least 5-to-1.

The study, released Wednesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that daily soda consumption was 17 percent higher among teens in the most junk food saturated environments. Teens were 18 percent more likely to eat fast food at least twice a week in those places."

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