Then they know enough to make an educated and informed decision." This is an attempt to tell kids what they're already eating. "This is not an attempt to tell kids what to eat. "The fast-food chains market so heavily to kids, kids should get an alternative point of view," Schlosser said. The study also found children consumed more calories, fat and sugar on fast-food days, potentially adding six pounds of weight gain per year. One of four children ages 4 to 13 eats fast food on a typical day, a percentage that jumps to nearly two of five for teenagers, according to a study of 6,212 children published in Pediatrics in 2004. "This stuff" is his investigative reporting of the fast-food industry in the best-selling 2001 exposé, "Fast Food Nation." Now Schlosser and his "Fast Food" fact-checker, Charles Wilson, target the 9-to-13 crowd with "Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food."įast food is now a childhood staple. When they were little - they're now 13 and 15 - he used to take them to McDonald's, "before I knew any of this stuff." Eric Schlosser's teenage children still get the occasional French fries and milkshake, but not from a national chain.
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