Junk Food Intake Among Adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is no consensus on how to define "junk food." In 2016, Chile implemented the most comprehensive set of obesity-preventive regulations in the world, including criteria to define unhealthy foods.

Objectives

The objective of this study was to examine the amount of energy, sodium, sugar, and saturated fat consumed by US adults defined as junk food using the Chilean criteria.

Methods

We used 2 nationally representative surveys of food intake in 10,001 US adults: NHANES 2015-2016 and NHANES 2017-2018. The main outcome measures were the contributions of energy, total sugars, saturated fat, and sodium deriving from junk food sources. Mean intake and proportion of energy, sugar, saturated fat, and sodium for junk food overall and each food category were calcul

SUBMITTER: Dunford EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826924 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature