title: gorafi magazine barack obama  je vous ai déjà dit que jen avais plus rien à battre lâchez moi maintenant   le gorafi
text: fast food combo meals tied to kids overconsumption of highcalorie drinks 
  saturday october   by isabelle z tags fast food  obesity  children naturalnews fast food chains know how to squeeze every last dollar out of their customers from decorating their establishments with appetitestimulating colors to pricing their meals to encourage people to get bigger sizes their every move is perfectly calculated to maximize profits unfortunately these practices are hurting a lot more than just your wallet  they are also affecting the health of your childrena study led by researchers from the nyu langone medical center found that children who ate at any of five fast food chains consumed an average of  more calories when their meals came with soda juice sweetened tea or flavored milk when compared to those who drank unsweetened beverages with their mealsthe researchers also discovered that the children consumed an average of  more drink calories when the drinks were part of bundled meals than when the drinks were bought separately moreover parents who bought a combo meal were  percent more likely to buy a highcalorie drink sweetened with sugarthe study looked at almost  children aged  and younger who ate food from mcdonalds kfc burger king subway or wendys in new york and new jersey between january  and june  seventyfour percent of the combo meals purchased were kids meals half of the drinks were sodas  and  percent of them were juice with flavored milk making up  percent a further  percent was made up of lemonade sweetened tea and hot chocolate nonsugary drinks proved to be quite unpopular with regular milk accounting for just  percent and water a measly  percentdr brian elbel of nyu langone the studys senior investigator said our study strongly suggests that uncoupling sugary drinks from combo meal deals might reduce highcalorie beverage consumption and help to curb childhood obesity rates fueled by these kinds of liquid calories parents need to take responsibility combo meals tend to appeal to big families which can find their bills quickly adding up at fast food restaurants wellmeaning parents who might not normally allow their children to drink sugary beverages sometimes find themselves giving in when the drink is includedalthough the practice on the part of fast food chains of bundling unhealthy foods together to create perceived value encourage unhealthy habits it is ultimately up to the parents to decide which meals to buy for their children parents have the final say and just because that supersized coke comes with your childs meal does not mean that you should let them drink it fast track to diabetes fast food meals are already high in calories which means that the last thing you should be doing is pairing them with highcalorie beverages research published in the journal diabetes care showed that drinking even just one sugary beverage each day raised a persons risk of developing type  diabetes by as much as  percent it also upped the risk of developing metabolic syndrome by  percentwith around  percent of our nations youth believed to be obese there is an urgent need for poor eating habits to be curbed until people start giving up the convenience of the local drivethrough and start making a concerted effort to feed their children clean food  the situation is only likely to get worse and more and more children will end up obese or diabeticso the next time youre thinking of ordering that combo meal keep in mind that any money that you might save on a meal deal is likely to end up costing far more in medical bills down the road sources include