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As Americans have gotten noticeably fatter in recent years, many cite the proliferation of fast food joints as a likely culprit. But the true picture may be more complicated than that.
A recent analysis of sales suggests that the nation’s fatties don’t live in the states where fast food is most popular. James Binkley, an agricultural economist at Purdue University, found that “states that have a lot of fast food sales aren’t the states that the Centers for Disease Control says have weight problems.”
Binkley said that perhaps exercise patterns have more to do with the nation’s weight gain than dining habits.
“It may be couch potatoes, not french fries, at the heart of the problem,” he said.
