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Fast Food Portions Are Getting Larger...as Are the People Who Eat It

Fast food advertisers are encouraging an epidemic in obesity. Windhause and Marlene from Louisiana State University studied fast food ads from the last 25 years on Saturday morning TV, the prime spor for targetting children. The portions on the films have apparently doubled or tripled. These results were presented to the American Heart Association in Honolulu.
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4th May 2002

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