Fast food restaurants at children's hospitals influence parents to feed their families unhealthy meals: NewsTarget.com

New research states that at least 59 of the nation's 250 children's hospitals have fast-food restaurants as part of their cafeteria operations, according to a new study. Researchers state this as a troubling phenomenon, particularly given rising obesity rates.

Today about 17 percent of U.S. children are considered obese -- and many doctors think heavy consumption of calorie-laden fatty fast food is partly to blame. Related research was also conducted at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital. That particular hospital has one McDonald's inside and another across the street.

The research concluded that parents of children who got outpatient treatment at Children's Memorial were much more likely to buy McDonald's food on the day their youngsters were treated than the parents of kids treated at Chicago-area hospitals without a McDonald's.

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