Study: The Middle Class Consumes More Fast Food Than Lower-Income Folks

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • November 10, 2011
Surely after headlines about fast food bans in lower-income neighborhoods, you've heard the argument that poorer people consume the most fast food and are more likely to become obese. Correlations have been made that rates of obesity go up when...
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