We're eating less fast food -- but not by much Younger adults
tend to eat more fast food than seniors Americans are eating
less fast food daily than they used to, according to a new
report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But
it's not much less. Using data from 2007 to 2010, the CDC's
National Center for Health Statistics determined adults eat, on
average, 11.3 percent of their daily calories from fast food.
That number was 12.8 percent in 2006 -- a one-and-half point
difference. As you would expect, younger adults tend to eat more
fast food than seniors. People older than 60 eat approximately 6
percent of their daily calories from fast food. Among the
younger age groups, non-Hispanic black adults eat the most fast
food -- using more than one-fifth of their daily calories at
fast food establishments. The CDC did not see a significant
difference in fast food consumption based on income, according
to the report. Only in the 20-to-39 age group did fast food
consumption drop as income increase