A new study has found that neighbourhoods with more fast food outlets are also neighbourhoods with more heart disease and death, and, it has nothing to do with how rich or poor a neighbourhood might be.
The relationship between fast food and adverse outcomes was the same.
The research by the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES), looked at food chains in one province, Ontario.
ICES scientist, Dr. David Alter, says the findings are a wake-up call for everyone at a time when obesity rates in adults and children are rising rapidly across the nation.
Neighbourhoods with more fast food outlets are also neighbourhoods with more heart disease
