Having a fast food restaurant within 0.1 miles of a school would result in 5.2 per cent increase in child obesity rates

The nearer you live to fast food restaurants, whether as an adult or a child, the more likely you are to have obesity. One study from 2010 looked at the weight outcomes of living near a fast food restaurant for three million children, and three million pregnant women in the US, The researchers, led by Janet Currie of Columbia University, found that having a fast food restaurant within 0.1 miles of a school would result in 5.2 per cent increase in child obesity rates.

B. Wilson, The way we eat now (2019), 223