FAST FOOD DEATHS
May 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIETHE MORE fast food restaurants there are in a community, the higher the rate of heart disease and death, so says a recent study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. However illness is not the result of eating junk food alone but the lifestyle associated with it, it says."Fast-food outlets are a symbol for a society where everyone is looking for instant gratification," Dr David Alter, from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), told Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper."We've become a very lazy, sedentary society where ...
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