About a third of the calories kids eat at school, at fast food restaurants and from grocery stores are "empty calories" that should be targeted for reduction, according to a new study.
"Although fast foods are generally recognized as less healthful, our study found that foods consumed by U.S. children from grocery stores and schools were similar in empty calorie content to fast foods," author Jennifer M. Poti said.
Poti is a doctoral candidate in nutritional epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_142733.html
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