When a family, living in a low income area has fast food restaurants in close proximity, they will not take the extra time and money to go to a supermarket to buy more expensive food for their family. ... In another study in the Public Health Reports (2011) there was an examination of between the proportion of people in a county living at/below 130% of the federal poverty and three types of restaurants (fast food, chain full service and independent full service) and the link it had to the Body Mass Index (BMI) in those individuals. ... The results were significant: with an increase to the prop...

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